PLS 1300 — Introduction to Comparative Politics
Comparative method as it applies to government authority structures, parliamentary, and presidential democratic systems; authoritarian, totalitarian, hybrid, and democratic regimes; patterns of economic and political development; linkages between economic and political development; comparison of political institutions; political ideologies including liberalism, communism, socialism, anarchism, conservatism, and islamism; civil society and social capital; democratization and regime change.