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2014-2015 University Catalog

GOVT 631 - Seminar in Comparative Politics and Institutions

Credits: 3 (RT)
Examines theories and practices of governance and development in comparative national settings. Course explores key subsets of the comparative politics literature in depth, including institutional change, regime types and transitions, democracy and authoritarianism, states and state-society relations, revolution, social movements, political cultures, and methods. Course is explicitly conceptual and cross-regional.

Notes: May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credits when topic is different.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0