Department of Politics
Faculty
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Requirements
The graduate program in the Department of Politics leads to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in politics. There is no separate program for a master’s degree. The program is designed to offer broad professional training in political science and to enable students to specialize in any of the main subfields of political science (American politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory), as well as public law and formal and quantitative analysis.
Requirements
Candidates for the Ph.D. in politics are expected to satisfy the following departmental requirements.
Seminars
Each student must complete at least six graded seminars by May of the first year, and a total of at least 12 graded seminars (or 14, if the student opts to take two rather than three of the General Field Examinations as described below) by May of the second year. The required seminars must include at least one in three of the seven regular fields offered by the department. The director of graduate studies must approve all course selections.
Seminars (500-level courses) may be chosen from the 20 to 30 typically offered in the department each year. Students may also take seminars offered in neighboring departments and in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. These may be counted toward the seminar requirement if they have political content. All students taking courses outside the department must complete a comparable writing or examination requirement to politics seminars in order for those courses to be counted toward the seminar requirement.
Students participating in the Program in Political Philosophy may compose a special field made up of courses in one of the other cooperating departments in the program (classics, history, philosophy, and religion). Other departments that have been of interest to students include economics, sociology, psychology, East Asian studies, and Near Eastern studies.
In addition to regularly offered seminars, graduate students may create reading courses under the direction of a faculty member to explore more specialized topics. Reading courses typically include one faculty member and one student, although some include several students.
By departmental rules, each politics seminar (including those cross-listed with other departments) must offer two writing options: (1) a research paper or (2) several short, critical essays. This allows first-year students to choose at least one seminar to satisfy the first-year writing requirement. Introductory seminars may, for pedagogical reasons, offer only a short-essay option. Seminars end on the last regular day of classes (December and April), and students must complete all assigned short essays within one week of that day. Students complete their fall-term research papers by approximately the thirdweek of January, and their spring-term research papers by the third week of May.
Research Seminars
Every year the department offers research seminars in each of the four major fields of political science (political theory, comparative politics/systems and culture, American politics, and international relations). Each enrolled student in residence is required to join one of these seminars each year, attend it regularly, and present his or her research at least once during the year. Students working in fields other than the four main fields affiliate with the seminar that seems most suitable. Research seminars are graded on a pass/fail basis.
Students present forms of work appropriate to their standing in the graduate program. First-year students typically offer seminar papers (sometimes in draft form), usually in the spring. Second-year students usually present their POL 591 paper, described below under “writing requirement.” Third-year students defend their dissertation prospectuses during the first term after the general examination. The department sponsors an informal prospectus development workshopto support students preparing their prospectuses. (If the prospectus defense is judged unsatisfactory, the student will be given an opportunity to defend a second version of the prospectus in the second term.) Fourth- and fifth-year students present dissertation chapters.
Writing Requirement
Each student is required to write at least three research papers in connection with seminars taken in the first two years, at least one of which must be completed in the first year. Each paper counts toward the seminar grade.
In addition, each student is required to take one term of directed research (POL 591) in the fall term of the second year. This project is independent of any seminar. To encourage students to become involved in research and collaboration with faculty as soon as possible, students select their independent work adviser and the general topic of their paper by mid-term in the spring term of the first year. These choices are conveyed to the director of graduate studies in writing. This paper often builds on prior work done in a seminar. Students are required to present the POL 591 paper in the appropriate research seminar during the fall or spring term of the second year.
Students are urged to use these various research and writing experiences to build toward a dissertation. For example, a student with a promising seminar paper might use POL 591 to do more extensive research on the subject and to develop a dissertation proposal based on it.
In order to encourage students to write papers of article length, all research papers are limited to 30 pages. This applies to papers written for seminars and for POL 591.
General Examination
Each student must successfully stand for the general examination and be recommended for continuation in the program before undertaking dissertation research. The purpose of the general examination is to ascertain a student’s knowledge of political science and his or her preparedness for advanced research. The best preparation is extensive seminar work in the department, supplemented as necessary by independent reading and study.
The general examination consists of written examinations in three separate fields, a dissertation proposal, and an oral examination. Students may opt to take written examinations in two rather than three fields on the condition that they complete 14 (rather than the required 12) graded seminars, including a coherent three-course 500-level sequence in a third field (but not including WWS 507b, 508b, or 508c). These courses must be chosen from outside the fields covered by the two written exams.
Normally at least two of a student’s general examination fields are selected from the seven regular examination fields listed below. A student may design a third, “substitute” field to replace the third regular examination field. Substitute fields should cohere with the student’s educational and research interests, and must not substantially overlap with the student’s other fields. A student may propose either a standard exam from another department (for example, political economy in economics), or in unusual circumstances a special examination. Special examinations require the agreement of a sponsoring faculty member in another department and the director of graduate studies. Alternatively, the “substitute” third field may be completed under the two-exam, 14-course option described above.
The politics faculty regularly sets examinations in the following seven fields: political theory, comparative politics, political systems and cultures, American politics, international relations, public law, and formal and quantitative analysis. Students who wish to be examined in political systems and cultures must specify in advance the major nation or group of nations in which they are specializing. The department currently offers examinations on Africa, China, Europe, India, Japan, Latin America, and Russia and the former Soviet Union. Tests on other parts of the world (e.g., the Near East and Southeast Asia) also have been offered.
All written examinations are four hours in length, with an additional hour for preparation. Unless otherwise specified, they are closed-book examinations. The oral examination is conducted by a faculty panel with one member from each field.
Students must stand for the general examination no later than the general examination period immediately following the beginning of the fifth term of enrollment (normally October of the third year). They may opt to take the examination sooner. Students who have completed one or more years of graduate study elsewhere may take the exam as early as May of their first year, if they have completed at least seven graded seminars at Princeton and have been granted sufficient credit for courses taken elsewhere to satisfy the seminar requirement.
M.A. Requirements
All students are admitted as candidates for the Ph.D. There is no separate M.A. program. Students may apply for the award of the M.A. as an incidental degree after passing the general examination or as a terminal degree for those withdrawing from the program after the general exam.
To qualify for the award of the M.A., a student must satisfactorily complete the seminar requirement for the Ph.D. and stand for the general examination. In grading both the written and oral components of the general examination, a distinction will be made between a “Ph.D. pass” and an “M.A. pass.” The standard for the latter will be set intermediate between the lowest passing grade for students continuing for the Ph.D. and a failure. Those who achieve at least an “M.A. pass” will be considered to have satisfied the examination requirement for the award of the M.A.
Teaching Requirement
Each student must lead a minimum of nine undergraduate preceptorials during the five years of enrollment. Students typically teach after passing the general examination. A preceptorial is a discussion section of up to 13 undergraduates, which meets once a week as a supplement to a faculty-taught lecture course. The requirement of nine preceptorials is reduced to six if students obtain approved funding from outside the University, if students work as research assistants for faculty during an academic year or term, and to three if students graduate within four-and-a-half years or begin a tenure-track job or its equivalent within five years. The requirement of nine preceptorials is waived entirely if students graduate within three years or begin a tenure-track job or its equivalent within three and a half years.
Ordinarily students anticipating five years of University support should aim to complete at least three units of precepting by the end of the third year, six by the end of the fourth, and nine by the end of the fifth, unless their research plans dictate a different pattern.
Certain fellowships for which post-generals students may be eligible do not allow teaching during the tenure of the fellowship. These include University honorific fellowships, Prize Fellowships of the University Center for Human Values, and the Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson Society. Students who expect to be candidates for these fellowships are advised to accelerate their teaching so that their teaching obligation will not interfere with their eligibility.
Dissertation and Final Public Oral Examination
The centerpiece of the graduate program in the Department of Politics is the dissertation, which occupies the third through fifth years of study. Its purpose is to show the candidate’s mastery of a field of specialization, a capacity for independent scholarship, and an ability to reach conclusions that add to what has been previously known. Students usually begin to develop ideas for the dissertation in seminars, special reading courses, and research papers. They develop those ideas further in the research seminar of their choice, where they defend the dissertation prospectus in the first term of the third year or earlier. Students then write their dissertation under the direction of at least two advisers. After the department accepts the dissertation, a student stands for the final public oral examination. The examination tests the student’s general knowledge of the field in which the dissertation is written and the student’s preparation for a career in teaching and scholarship.
Advising
All graduate students in the department have at least one faculty adviser of record. First- and second-year students are assigned an academic adviser in their main field of interest. Post- generals students are advised by their dissertation advisers. A student may request a change of adviser at any time.
Students are responsible for remaining in regular contact with their advisers, who are required to provide annual reports each spring on each student’s academic progress. These reports inform the decision whether to re-enroll the student for the following year.
Joint Programs and Research Programs
Students may participate in one of the interdepartmental programs at Princeton, including African studies, African American studies, American studies, East Asian studies, Hellenic studies, Latin American studies, Near Eastern studies, political economy, political philosophy, Russian and Eurasian studies, and women and gender studies. Students may also participate in various research programs and interdisciplinary centers, including the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, the Center for Human Values, the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, the Center for the Study of American Religion, the Committee for European Studies, and the Princeton Environmental Institute. Politics students often take courses in allied departments and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Courses
POL 500 Research Methods
Robert O. Keohane
This is a course in research design. We 'll discuss some issues in the philosophy of science, then analyze questions of conceptualization, proceeding to problems of descriptive inference, objectivity, and causal inference, including the role of causal mechanisms. The seminar will continue with analysis of how to avoid bias, then tackle issues of historical change. Students will present their own research designs and critique those of their colleagues. Emphasis will be on qualitative research, but the argument underlying the seminar is that the same basic principles of inference apply to qualitative and quantitative research.
POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science
Kristopher W. Ramsay
Basic mathematical concepts essential for formal and quantitative analysis in political science research. Course prepares students for advanced courses offered in the Department, e.g., Pol 573-576. Topics will include calculus, linear algebra, and probability theory. Some applications to political science will be introduced. The course is aimed for both students with little exposure to mathematics and those who have taken some but wish to gain a more solid foundation. No prerequisite.
POL 503 Survey Analysis
Martin I. Gilens
A reading course on survey design and analysis and a practicum on analyzing survey data. Each student will write a paper based on his or her analysis of previously collected survey data or on original survey data collected by the student. Course open to Politics seniors by permission. (Does not prepare for the General Exam in Formal and Quantitative Analysis.)
POL 506 Qualitative Methods
Evan S. Lieberman
Introduction to techniques used by political scientists in "small-n" research. Discusses the types of theoretical and empirical questions that are associated with in-depth analysis of a small number of cases. The emphasis is on systematic measurements and inferential startegies, including case selection, periodization, structured comparison, analytic narrative, and the integration of qualitative and statistical methods in research design. The course also includes discussion of the mechanics of qualitative research, including field methods, in-depth interviewing, and archival research. (Doesn't prepare for Gen. Exm. in F&Q.)
POL 512 Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
Paul E. Sigmund
A seminar devoted to an analysis of the political thought of Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and the theorists of the conciliar movement.
POL 513 Modern Political Theory
Sankar Muthu
Selected issues and writers in political theory from Machiavelli to the present. The seminar does not survey this whole period but concentrates instead on a limited number of theorists or problems.
POL 514 American Political Thought
Jonathan G. Allen
Study of selected problems in the development of political ideas and institutions from the Revolutionary era to the present.
POL 517 international Politicial Theory
Charles Beitz
An examination of contemporary controversies in international political philosophy. Topics include the morality of war, internvetion, human rights, global distributive and political justice, and the relationship between sectional and global values.
POL 521 The Study of Comparative Politics
Mark R. Beissinger, Amaney A. Jamal
A general introduction to the field of comparative politics, with an emphasis on principal theoretical approaches and major problems and theories.
POL 522 Politics and Modernization
Atul Kohli
An examination of alternative theoretical approaches to modernization, including interpretations of both the historical transformation of the western states and the efforts under way in the contemporary Third World.
POL 523/WWS 561 The Comparative Political Economy of Development
Atul Kohli
Political change and the operation of political institutions in the development process. The course emphasizes the interaction of political and economic factors. Various definitions and theories of political development are examined and tested against different economic, ethnic, geographic, and social contexts.
POL 524 Ethnic Politics
Evan Lieberman
Course explores the political implications of the ethnic differences embedded within states in the contemporary world and seeks to understand the nature of cultural identities, the driving forces underlying their persistence and change, and their intersection with the nation-state system. Issues discussed include measuring ethnicity, the politics of ethnic mobilization and violence, and various institutional arrangements aimed at managing ethnic conflict.
POL 525 Comparative Bureaucracy
Ezra N. Suleiman
A seminar dealing theoretically and empirically with the role of bureaucracy as an integral part of the political system, with an emphasis on the relation of the governmental bureaucracy to other governmental institutions (political parties, executives, legislatures) and to nongovernmental institutions. All aspects are treated comparatively.
POL 526 State Formation and Political Regimes
Carles Boix
Course surveys major topics and theoretical contributions in the construction of political order, the choice of constitutional regimes and the sources of citizens' compliance and examines: the formation and development of the modern state; democracy; authoritarianism; revolution and political stability; legitimacy and compliance; nationalism; and macro theories of political change. Each session assigns readings from both traditional macrohistorical and qualitative research and more recent analytical models, with the goal of exploring how research in comparative politics should be pursued in the future.
POL 527/WWS 565 State, Society, and Development
Lynn T. White
The relation of development to regime types, authority, culture, and social integration. The syllabus includes recent sources as well as long-standing texts in social theory by authors such as Madison, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Polanyi, Schattschneider, Huntington, Geertz, W. A. Lewis, and Hirschman.
POL 530/WWS 553 The Politics of Growth & Redistribution
Carles Boix
This course is designed to survey and critically discuss contemporary political economy; that is, the set of existing theories that model the impact of political conflict and political institutions on economic performance. The course is structured around the following main issues: the causes of growth; the relationship between openness, political institutions and economic policy-making, the causes and consequences of politically enforced redistribution. The course is analytical in its theoretical perspective and comparative from a methodological point of view.
POL 531 European Political Systems and Cultures
Jean-Toussaint Leca
A comparative examination of the political systems of the major European countries. The seminar discussion deals with specific issues and problems common to France, Britain, Germany, and Italy. Emphasis is placed on the relevance of theory to empirical observations.
POL 532 Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Mark Beissinger
Explores the study of social movements as well as other forms of unconventional collective action aimed at achieving or preventing social and political change (riots, demonstrations, strikes, terrorist movements, etc.). After examining various approaches to the field, issues of abiding concern within the field such as: repertoires, violence, repression, and the transnational dimensions of mobilization are investigated. Empirical applications in the study of revolutions, democratization, and nationalism are also discussed.
POL 535 Chinese Politics
Lynn T. White
A survey of basic interpretative and methodological issues in Chinese politics. The specific focus of the course varies from year to year.
POL 539/NES 551 Middle Eastern Religion-State Relations in Comparative Perspective
Mirjam Künkler
Course examines different models of religion-state constellations in the Middle East of the 20th century; offers an overview over the main models of constitutional religion-state relations (established religion, cooperation , separation of religion and state, regulations of the majority religion, regulation of the minority religions), explores the implications of these models for the stability of political power and examines the use of religious rhetoric, symbolisms and the reference to religious norms by state and non-state actors.
POL 541 Introduction to American Politics: Political Behavior
Staff
This seminar is part of the two-course sequence of the core curriculum in American politics and provides an introductory survey of American political behavior. The course is designed to provide a sample of major theories and methods in the study of citizens’ views and actions regarding politics.
POL 542 Analysis of Political Institutions
Charles M. Cameron
Designed to expose students to substantive and methodological controversies that are currently engaging scholars of American politics, this course integrates theoretical and quantitative skills by focusing on the processes of extracting hypotheses from formal models, stating hypotheses in a manner conducive to tests, collecting data, conducting tests, and making inferences.
POL 543 Party Politics
Larry M. Bartels
A study of political parties as institutions of politics: their emergence as such, organizational forms, activities, and important consequences that proceed from what they do. Attention is given to party politics in both democratic and nondemocratic countries and in developing as well as developed nations.
POL 545 Democratic Theory and Practice
Larry Bartels, Christopher Achen, Stephen Macedo
Normative democratic theorists and democratic idealists inside and outside the academy frequently advance visions of democracy that rest on high hopes for citizen participation and competence. But much empirical work on actual citizens paints a bleak picture of citizens’ dearth of knowledge about and interest in politics. How should we think about the gap between democratic ideals and realities? This seminar takes up this question from normative and empirical standpoints.
POL 546/WWS 531 Congress and Public Policy
Mickey Edwards
The role of Congress in national policy making. The course includes theoretical and empirical analyses of elections, committees, leadership, the party system, and roll-call voting. It also examines the politics of several policy areas.
POL 547 African-American Political Thought
Staff
Politics has played a key role in the African American experience in the United States. Course offers an intensive introduction to black political thought. This course focuses on the various ideologies and strategies, which have informed the African American quest for human fulfillment, self-actualization, and equity in the United States of America. Readings focus on thinkers and activists from the twentieth century.
POL 548 Political Psychology
Tali Mendelberg
This course examines psychological perspectives on politics. Themes include human limitation vs. human capacity, how institutions shape or interact with individual opinion and behavior, discussion and deliberation, and the role of groups. We will also discuss methodological issues.
POL 551 Seminar in International Politics
Andrew Moravcsik, Christina Davis
Introduces the main theoretical debates and traditions of international relations through intensive reading and discussion of contemporary scholarship.
POL 552 Theories of International Politics
Jacob N. Shapiro
Theories of international politics are examined and compared in the light of the evolution of the modern international political system.
POL 554 International Security Studies
Jacob N. Shapiro
Central topics in security studies, including the causes and nature of war, deterrence, alliance formation, military doctrine, civil-military relations, arms competition, and arms control.
POL 555/WWS 545 International Legal Order
Jeffrey L. Dunoff
Characteristics of international law in the contemporary world. The emphasis is on opportunities for and limitations on the use of legal rules and procedures to control the recourse to force in international affairs. The course also emphasizes the relevance of the social and political environment to the development of effective law in the relations between states.
POL 557 International Organization
Christina Davis
Course addresses the role of international institutions, including both informal norms and formal organizations. Why do states establish institutions and what determines their design and evolution? Do these institutions merely reflect underlying power and interests? Course introduces theories of international institutions, evaluates critical perspectives, and examines applications in security, economic, and environmental policy areas.
POL 558 International Cooperation
Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner
The analysis, theoretical and empirical, of the generation, maintenance, and breakdown of international cooperation, and its consequences. Particular attention will be paid to issues of compliance. Policy areas to be studied include trade, arms control, warfare, environmental protection, and creditor-debtor relationships.
POL 559 Problems in International Politics
Helen V. Milner
Selected theoretical problems in international politics.
POL 561 Constitutional Theory
Keith E. Whittington
The specific focus of the course varies from year to year, but the principal concerns revolve around questions of what a constitutional democracy is, why a people should want to live in such a polity, and how political actors can create, maintain, and change such systems.
POL 562 American Law and Theory
Robert P. George
A study of the role of law and legal institutions in the American political system. The seminar considers theoretical perspectives from both legal theory as such and the application of political and social theory to problems of law.
POL 563 Philosophy of Law
Robert P. George
A systematic study of the salient features of legal systems, standards of legal reasoning, and the relation between law and morals.
POL 564 American Constitutional Development
Paul Frymer
Explore questions of order and change in American constitutional doctrine and institutional relations and powers across time. Students will consider diverse theories of constitutional and institutional change, including those drawn from comparative politics. Emphasis will be on the relationship between paths of constitutional development and both conventions of legal and constitutional reasoning, and political, economic, social, and intellectual currents, settlements, and crises.
POL 565 Theories of Judicial Review
Keith E. Whittington
An introduction to the debate over the legitimacy and proper scope of judicial review and the empirical literature or judicial review and judicial politics, with a goal of connecting debates over what the Court should do with an understanding of what the Court can do and has done.
POL 570/HIS 583 Readings in American Political History
Julian E. Zelizer
An introduction to the field of U.S. political history. Readings are divided into four primary areas of scholarship: institutions, public policy, social movements, and political culture. Primary goal of the course is for students to come away with a strong working knowledge of the methodological and substantive trends in the field.
POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I
John B. Londregan
This is a first course in statistics for social scientists. Students will learn to explore data creatively and to conduct straightforward statistical analyses. Basic probability and statistical theory will also be taught. There is no prerequisite except high school mathematics and a willingness to learn elementary calculus.
POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II
Kosuke Imai
This is the second course in the quantitative methods sequence. It will emphasize the flexibility of the maximum likelihood framework in the context of regression models, models that mix qualitiative and continuous endogenous variables, hazard models, and scaling models. Note: this newly renumbered course is a continuation of the level one material that was presented until Spring 2002 as "Politics 572."
POL 573/SOC 595 Quantitative Analysis III
Kosuke Imai
The course builds on the material covered in POL571 and 572 and introduces a variety of statistical techniques including Bayesian methods and causal inference. The goal is to show how to apply these methods to data analysis in political science research. The course is particularly useful, but not exclusively, for students planning to take the Quantitative part of the General Exam in Formal and Quantitative Analysis at Level III. Prerequisite: POL572 or equivalent.
POL 575 Formal Political Analysis I
Adam H. Meirowitz
An introduction to mathematical models of political processes. The course develops the analytical foundations for examining problems in collective choice. The technical development focuses on the logical structure of formal models as well as on their use to develop testable hypotheses. The presentation of technical apparatus is combined with a wide range of applications. Topics include models of majority rule, direct and representative democracy, political competition under various electoral systems, and political economy.
POL 576 Formal Political Analysis II
Adam H. Meirowitz
Further development of the analytical tools used in formal political analysis, with special attention given to the role of information, uncertainty, and dynamics in the design and performance of political institutions. Readings emphasize the current research literature. Typical applications include participation, legislative structure, political campaigns, multiparty government, and the interaction of economics and politics. Prerequisite: 575.
POL 578 Seminar in Quantitative Analysis
Staff
Selected problems in the theory and application of quantitative methods of empirical analysis. Normally its prerequisite is Politics 572 or the equivalent, or by permission of the instructor.
POL 579 Seminar in Formal Theory
Staff
Selected problems in the application of formal theory to the study of politics. Normally its preprequisite is Politics 576 or the equivalent, or by permission of the instructor.
POL 582 Government Decision-Making: Empirical Analysis of Formal Models
Brandice Candes-Wrone
Course explores connections between formal theory and empirical analysis. A major goal is to link the training students receive in methods classes to substantive questions from the literature. Readings include articles and books that attempt these ends. In addition, a few specific topics of government decision-making are considered, readings cover a range of methodological approaches to examining that topic, and how the testing of formal theory does and does not contribute to that literature.
POL 583 The Logic of the West
G. J. Ikenberry
The nature of the Western interstate system that includes the liberal democracies of Western Europe, North America, and Japan. Course explores the proposition that this political system has a distinct logic and character that has been misunderstood by both dominant Realists and Liberal international relations theorists. Course open to Politics seniors by permission.
POL 584/ECO 576 Foundations of Political Economy
Thomas Romer
Course focuses on modeling the interaction of politics and economics, with applications to a variety of substantive areas. Topics include: poltics of taxation and redistribution; governmental structure, political economy of constitutional arrangements, development, and growth. Familiarity with microeconomic theory and POL 575 or the equivalent are prerequisites.
POL 585 International Political Economy
Helen V. Milner
An introduction to the subfield of international political economy, covering basic topics in the politics of both trade and finance. Course will review, for example, several explanations political scientists and economists have advanced for variations across trade and monetary systems since the late nineteenth century. Also examines relevant issues at the nation-state level (e.g., endogenous tariff theory). This course provides some background in the requisite economic theory in the form of a set of required background readings drawn from an advanced undergraduate textbook.
POL 588/ECO 577 Laboratory Experiments in Economics and Political Science
Jens W. Grosser
Introduction to laboratory experimentation in economics and political science for graduate students. Topics include: auctions, markets, bargaining, voting, abstract games, collective action, and decision theory. Students will design an experiment. Prerequisites: ECO 501 and 502 or equivalent.
POL 591 Directed Research
Staff
During the third semester, each student writes a research paper under the direction of a faculty member.
POL 593 Research Seminar
Staff
Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
POL 594 Research Seminar
Staff
Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
POL 595 Research Seminar
Staff
Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
POL 596 Research Seminar
Staff
Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
POL 597 Research Seminars
Staff
Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; fourth-year students for 596; and fifth-year students for 597. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.