PSCI 6105

Comparative Politics I

0.5 credit · Graduate

A research seminar dealing with theories, methods, and problems of comparison.

2025

Readings

present it to the class. Eligible books are indicated by an asterisk in the reading list below. Book reviews must be about 2000 words in length. They are expected to position the book in the
Munck and Richard Snyder, eds. Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (pp.
32-59). Johns Hopkins University Press.
Supplementary readings: Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, eds. 2009. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics.
Oxford University Press.
Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, eds. 2009. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics.
Aristotle. 1997 [ca. 335-323 BC]. The Politics. University of North Carolina Press. Books IV and VI (pp. 163-201, 220-255) Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu. 2001 [1748]. The Spirit of Laws. Batoche
Books. Book 11 (pp. 171-205) Alexis de Tocqueville. 1839. Democracy in America. Geoge Adlard. Volume I, Chapters 13- 16 (pp. 193-287) Supplementary readings:

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