Emerging Research on the Comparative Politics of Development

2 credits · Graduate

This course provides a forum in which faculty and graduate students work together to incubate research on the comparative politics of development. Research focuses on the Global South, though work involving the Global North that sheds light on key issues in development is welcome. Graduate students or faculty circulate work in progress, and students arrive prepared with comments. An important goal is to promote a constructive scholarly community across Ph.D. cohorts. The emphasis is on learning by doing and on the transfer of not only faculty-to-student but also student-to-student knowledge. Students typically participate in the course across multiple semesters and years. Participation is by approval of the instructor.