Comparative Politics in Rich Democracies credit:

3 Hours

Introduction to the comparative politics of advanced industrialized (“rich”) democratic countries. Course focuses on identifying and explaining differences among and across these countries and how they compare to other countries around the world, especially in terms of state capacity, representativeness, belonging, and inequality. To explain these differences, the course considers several factors including culture as well as both electoral and economic institutions. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci Cultural Studies - Western