Canadian Urban Politics in Comparative Perspective

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines the politics and governance of Canadian cities from a comparative perspective. More specifically, the course uses comparative method in three ways: it asks what one can learn from comparing Canadian cities with each other (subnational comparisons), what cross-national comparisons of Canadian cities can teach as well as compares Canadian cities implicitly with other cities by applying theories of urban politics and development that have been developed elsewhere to Canadian cities. The objective of this course is to provide advanced political science students with the theoretical, empirical and methodological tools to understand and explain the political development of Canadian cities. PREREQUISITES: POLI 3220.03 or POLI 3232.03 or permission of instructor CROSSLISTED: POLI 5234 03 FORMATS: Seminar