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14 results for "comparative politics"

14 results for "comparative politics"

GOV 20: Foundations of Comparative Politics

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Provides an introduction to key concepts and theoretical approaches in comparative politics. Major themes include the causes of democratization, economic development, ethnic conflict, and social revolutions; as well as the role of the state, political...

GOV 1295: Comparative Politics in Latin America

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Examines dynamics of political and economic changes in modern Latin America, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela. Topics include the rise of populism and import-substituting industrialization, revolutions and revolutionary...

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Steven Levitsky (Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His areas of research include political parties and party change, informal institutions and organizations, and...

Gov 1290: Comparative Democratization

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This course seeks to explain why some countries are democratic and others are not. It examines the emergence of liberal democracy in the West, its collapse in Europe in the 1930s and Latin America in the 1960s and 70s, and the extraordinary wave of...

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Curriculum Vitae Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. He is Senior Fellow at the Kettering Foundation and a...