Canadian Urban Politics in Comparative Perspective

3 credits · Graduate

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 to Canadian cities theories of urban politics and development that have been developed elsewhere. 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: Permission of the Instructor CROSSLISTED: POLI 4234 03 FORMATS: Seminar