Gov 20: Foundations of Comparative Politics
Teaching Fellow: Adrian Scheibler
Sections: Thursdays at 1:30pm and 3pm in Room K108
Office Hours: Thurs 4:20am–6:20pm at CGIS Knafel Fisher Family Commons. Please sign up here.
Contact: Email me at ascheibler@fas.harvard.edu. I will attempt to respond to emails within 24 hours except the day before a paper is due. All emails should have a subject line that begins with “Gov20:”.
Section Syllabus: Please see the secion syllabus here.
Suggestion Box: I welcome suggestions at any point of the semester. Please submit (anonymously) here.
Week 1 — Introduction and Approaches to Comparative Politics
Week 2 — Politics of Economic Development: Modernization Theory and its Alternatives
Week 3 — The Politics of Late Development: State- versus Market-Led Approaches
Week 4 — The State, State-Building, and State Weakness
Week 5 — Democracy and Democratization
Week 6 — Democratization and Democratic Breakdown
Week 7 — Authoritarianism and Populism
Week 8 — Explaining Social Revolution I
Week 9 — Explaining Social Revolution II
Week 10 — Do Institutions Matter?
Week 11 — Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict I
Week 12 — Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict II
Week 13 — Civil Society and Social Capital
Week 14 — The United States in Comparative Perspective