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Studying Democracy and Teaching Classics: What Is Happening in the Field of Comparative Politics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2003

Paulett Kurzer
Paulett Kurzer
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Professor of political science at the University of Arizona in Tucson (kurzer@arizona.edu). She thanks Alice Cooper, Herman Schwartz, Jennifer Hochschild, and two anonymous reviewers for their extremely helpful comments
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In this essay, I assess how comparative politics is taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels and what our approach to teaching says about thestate of the subfield. What do practitioners emphasize in a comparative politics course in light of the enormous global changes of the past decade? Which topics are included and which ignored? What should be included that is now missing, even at the cost of excluding something else?

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 373 - 378
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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Undergraduate Syllabi

Anderson Leslie. University of Florida: Fall 2001 Introduction to Comparative Politics
Bailey John J. Georgetown University: Fall 2002 Comparative Political Systems. Available at www.georgetown.edu/departments/government/faculty/baileyjo/govt121F02.pdf. Accessed 28 October 2002
Beck Linda. Barnard College: Spring 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at www.columbia.edu/~ljb34/comp_polts/comp_syll2002.html. Accessed 4 November 2002
Bleich Erik. Middlebury College: Spring 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at www.middlebury.edu/~ps/Bleich_Syllabi/bleich_ps103_syllabi_S02.htm. Accessed 30 September 2002
Cheibub José Antonio. Yale University: Spring 2001 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at pantheon.yale.edu/~jac236/PSCI116_WebPage.htm. Accessed 27 September 2002
Ferree Karen. University of California, San Diego: Fall 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at weber.ucsd.edu/~keferree/Syllabus_PS11.htm. Accessed 28 October 2002
Gould Andrew. University of Notre Dame: Spring 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at www.nd.edu/~alfac/gould/Intro%20to%20Comparative%20Politics%2002.pdf. Accessed 29 September 2002
Krieckhaus Jonathan. University of Missouri, Columbia: Winter 2001 Comparative Political Systems. Available at www.missouri.edu/~polswww/syllabi/archive/w01150.pdf. Accessed 28 October 2002
Krieger Joel. Wellesley College: n.d. Comparative Politics. Lawson, Chappell, and Jonathan Rodden. MIT: Fall 2001 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at web.mit.edu/17.500/www/. Accessed September 30, 2002.
Mershon Carol. University of Virginia: Spring 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics.
Norris Pippa. Harvard University: Fall 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at www.courses.fas.Harvard.edu/~gov20/. Accessed 30 September 2002.
O'Neil Patrick. University of Puget Sound: Fall 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at www.ups.edu/faculty/poneil/pages/PG102syllabus.pdf. Accessed 28 October 2002.
Rivera Sharon Werning. Hamilton College: Spring 2001 Comparative Politics.
Rogowski Ronald, and Michael Ross. University of California, Los Angeles: Spring 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics.
Scruggs Lyle. University of Connecticut: Spring 2001 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at sp.uconn.edu/~scruggs/syl121.html. Accessed 28 September 2002.
Sodaro Michael. The George Washington University: Fall 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics.
Steinmo Sven. University of Colorado: Fall 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Available at sobek.colorado.edu/~steinmo/2012syllabus.html. Accessed 27 September 2002.
Vig Norman. Carleton University: Spring 2002 Comparative Political Regimes. Available at www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/POSC/classes/Posc120/S02/index.html. Accessed 12 August 2002.
Wiliarty Sarah Elise. Wesleyan University: Fall 2002 An Introduction to Comparative Politics in the Contemporary World. Available at www.wesleyan.edu/gov/g157sw.htm. Accessed 28 October 2002.

Graduate Syllabi

Berman Sheri. Princeton University: Fall 2001 The Study of Comparative Politics.
Crepaz Markus M. L. University of Georgia: Spring 2001 Political Analysis. Available at www.arches.uga.edu/~mcrepaz/pol_6350.html. Accessed 30 November 2002.
Echeverri-Gent John. University of Virginia: Fall 2002 Perspectives in Comparative Politics.
Feigenbaum Harvey B. The George Washington University: Fall 2002 Advanced Theories of Comparative Politics.
Fish Steven. University of California, Berkeley: Spring 2002 Major Themes in Comparative Analysis. Available at www.polisci.berkeley.edu/Courses/syllabi/Spring%202002/200%20Fish.htm. Accessed 27 September 2002.
Hanson Stephen. University of Washington: Winter 2000 Comparative Politics Core Seminar.
Kurtz Marcus. Ohio State University: Winter 2001 Theories of Comparative Politics.
Kurzer Paulette. University of Arizona: Fall 2002 Comparative Politics. Available at www.u.arizona.edu/~kurzer/graduate.html.
Marks Gary, and M. Vachudova. University of North Carolina: Fall 2001 Comparative Political Research and Analysis.
Munck Gerardo. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Spring 2001 Theory of Comparative Politics.
Silvia Stephen J. American University: Fall 2001 Comparative and Regional Studies Proseminar. Available at gurukul.ucc.american.edu/silvia/CRSP01fSY.htm. Accessed 1 October 2002.
Taylor Brian. University of Oklahoma: Spring 2002 Comparative Political Analysis
Widner Jennifer. University of Michigan: Fall 2001 Proseminar in Comparative Politics. Available at www.personal. umich.edu/~jwidner/ps641.html. Accessed 11 November 2002.

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