Comparative politics and china

Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

This graduate seminar has two main objectives:

What sorts of phenomena are generally studied in Chinese politics, and how are they studied? How could they be better studied? What has Chinese politics contributed to the field of comparative politics, and vice versa? What are the most effective ways to integrate area studies, broader comparative approaches, and theory? This course aims to prepare graduate students for dissertation proposals and subsequent research on China.

Students are assumed to have completed an intro-level course on the history and politics of China (i.e., 17.547 at MIT, Gov. 1280 at Harvard, etc.).

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