Fall/Winter Timetable

POL2701H1S L0101

Core Topic 1: Comparative Institutional Politics: Governance, Parties and Structures of State Power

Themes

This course is designed as the second part of the introduction to the study of comparative politics for Ph.D students. It builds on and complements the material covered in POL 2700. The topics in this course include (but are not limited to) political regimes, state power, social control, state-society relations, state-business relations, clientelism, populism, political economy, interactions between institutional and non-institutional politics, and contentious politics. The main objective of the course is to introduce students to key questions, concepts, debates, explanations, and different approaches in comparative politics on these topics as well as to trace the intellectual evolution of these subfields. Students will be introduced to diverse substantive and methodological approaches in the study of these topics.