20270 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS
CLMG - M - IM - MM - AFC - CLAPI - CLEFIN-FINANCE - CLELI - ACME - DES-ESS - EMIT
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
This course examines approaches to the study of comparative politics, institutions and policy from an analytical perspective.
Approaches to Politics
- Rationality
- The arithmetic of majority rule
- Workhorse models (spatial models, bargaining models, principal-agent theory, special interest/collective action models)
Institutions
- Legislatures
- Bureaucracies
- Courts
- Parties
- Coalition governments and government formation
Policy
- Puiblic goods
- Distributive politics
- Regulation
For those attending lectures, there are two requirements.First, you must participate in a team presentation at the end of term and write a 1000 word memorandum on the readings for that presentation due one week after the presentation.Second, a final paper (approximately 5000 words) is due June 1. Paper topics should be discussed with the teaching assistant or instructor by April 15.Grading is weighted as follows:student team presentation (25%), final paper (75%).For those not attending lecture, and therefore not participating in a team presentation, a final paper (approximately 7500 words) is due by June 1 and will comprise 100% of the grade.
Students who have NOT passed the exam yet for the previous year have to prepare the current program. For information please contact prof. Paolo Graziano.
- KEN SHEPSLE, Analyzing Politics, Norton, 2010
- Papers and articles will be available on electronic platforms