Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2700H1Y L0101
Foundations and Approaches to Comparative Politics (Core)
Themes
This seminar is intended to introduce students to the major debates in the study of comparative politics. Students will be exposed to a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of comparative politics. Empirical cases span both the developed and developing worlds. In terms of research design, students will be exposed to readings which employ single case studies to small group comparisons to large n projects. Theoretical approaches include rational choice theory to interpretivist/post-positivist traditions.
POL 2700 is designed to prepare graduate students for a subsequent field course in Canadian politics, comparative industrial and/or comparative developing.
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...