Fall/Winter Timetable
SII199H1F L0352
First-Year Seminar
Explaining Political Transitions
Themes
This course explores the dynamics of regime change from a comparative and historical perspective. In particular, it focuses on the factors that facilitate and inhibit radical political change. Varying modes of change are analyzed including social revolution, radical reform, fundamentalist reactions and
restructuring from above. Examples will be drawn largely from the experience of authoritarian and post-authoritarian transitions in the Middle East and the Asia Pacific. The post-1970s global wave of democratizing initiatives will be discussed at length as well as the post-Communist rebuilding of political institutions in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Texts
TBA
Format and Requirements
Essays, seminar presentations, tests.
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May 21, 2020
Congratulations to undergraduate student Cheryl Cheung who has received a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA). Going into her third year majoring in political science, with minors in visual studies...
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Congratulations to all our amazing undergraduate students who picked up one the department’s twenty-three awards and scholarships at our annual undergraduate awards ceremony. In attendance were Dean of Arts &...