Thesis Sem: Asian Studies

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course examines the politics of economic inequality, a distributional outcome that has long characterized a host of developing and middle-income countries, and that has grown substantially in recent decades in the United States. Drawing on the disciplines of political science and economics, students will analyze competing definitions of inequality, explore the political and social causes that give rise to it, and trace out its implications for economic opportunity and political participation. Comparative evidence and cases will be drawn from around the globe.