CHINESE POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

This course explores the range of theories and empirical research methodologies from comparative political science, political-economy, and Asian studies commonly applied to understanding Chinese politics: political participation, political organizations, collective action and popular protest, political culture, and political institutional change. This course will be a seminar requiring weekly presentations, extensive readings at the graduate level in social science, and an original research paper. There is no prerequisite for this course, but participants are assumed to already possess extensive knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society. Cross-list: ASIA 377 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for POLI 377 if student has credit for ASIA 489/POLI 489.