Chinese Politics in Comp Persp

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This graduate seminar situates the study of domestic Chinese politics within the larger field of comparative politics. Throughout the course, students will work on developing answers to the following questions: What insights drawn from comparative politics might be used to help explain the Chinese case? How might the study of Chinese politics enrich the major theoretical and empirical debates in comparative politics? Key themes to be explored include: political parties, elite politics, bureaucratic politics, corruption, civil society, public security, media politics, environmental politics, ethnic politics, and the political economy of development.