Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2104H1S L0101
Core Topic 1: Political Analysis in Canadian and Comparative Politics
(Core Topic 1)
Themes
This course examines the scientific method and its contribution to Canadian and Comparative politics by focusing on key applications, to parallel substantive themes in both fields, from statistics, experimentation, formal modelling, and computing. Topic coverage includes the political behaviour of politicians and citizens, the effects of electoral and other political institutions on politics and decision-making, the assessment of public policies and institutional reforms, and the analyses of political communication, including on social media. Students will have wide latitude to focus their work on relevant data types and substantive themes from their programme of study. Assignments in the course will involve replicating or extending existing work and/or applying formal theories to some area of Canadian or Comparative politics. There are no pre-requisites, but students are encouraged to have completed POL2504 “Statistics for Political Scientists” (or equivalent).
This course is open to all graduate students. Enrolment priority is for PHD students satisfying core course requirements.
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...