Insegnamento a.a. 2022-2023

• Voter values.
• Party strategy.
• Party identification.
• Voter knowledge.
• Spatial models of voter behavior.
• Voter turnout.
• Affective polarization.
• Party ideologies.
• Patterns of party competition.
• Social capital.
• Politics of nativism.
• Electoral institutions.

• Summarize, and critically evaluate, major theories and/or empirical findings from political science research in the subfield of comparative political behavior.

• Analyze patterns of mass behavior and explain and predict the consequences of such behavior for electoral outcomes.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Individual assignments

• Guest lecturers are experts in mass political behavior, who will be presenting their current research on those topics.
• Individual assignments consist of two partial exams (for attending students only), or a general comprehensive exam, in which students must demonstrate mastery of the course material.

For attending students, there will an option to complete two (non-comprehensive) partial exams, equally weighted to produce the course grade.

To be considered attending, and thus have the option to take a partial exam, students must have attended (either online or in-person) at least extbf{75% of the classes within the unit covered by the partial exam} (i.e., 9 of the 12 classes from September 6--October 13, and 9 of the 12 classes from October 25--December 1).  A student failing, or not sitting for, either partial exam must take the comprehensive general exam, which will constitute the full course grade.

Each partial exam will test mastery of the course material for the corresponding section of the course.

Non-attending students must complete a comprehensive general exam, which will constitute the full course grade. 

The general exam will test mastery of all the course material.