Students who choose to work in the areas of Poverty, Violence, and Development will find a wealth of advanced graduate seminars taught by the core faculty in the working group (see below). That coursework complements a rigorous methods sequence, and a range of relevant foundational courses in the fields of Comparative Politics, International Relations, American Politics, and Normative Political Theory. Students are encouraged to address core disciplinary concerns while focusing their research on substantive areas of interest.
Course # | Course Title | Instructor | ||
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17.524 | State, Society, and the Political Behavior of Development | Lily Tsai | Syllabus | |
17.S951 | Elections and Representation in Developing Democracies | F. Daniel Hidalgo | Syllabus | |
17.568 | Comparative Politics and International Relations of the Middle East | Fotini Christia and Richard Nielsen | Syllabus | |
17.582 | Civil War | Fotini Christia | Syllabus | |
17.571 | Engineering Democratic Development in Africa | Evan Lieberman | Syllabus | |
17.572 | African Politics Seminar: Can Democratic Governance Work? | Evan Lieberman | Syllabus | |
17.S950 | Emotions and Politics | Roger Petersen |
Course # | Course Title | Instructor | |
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17.426 | Empirical Models in International Relations (and Comparative Politics) | Richard Nielsen | Syllabus |
17.878 | Qualitative Research: Design and Methods | Regina Bateson | Syllabus |
17.S952 | Empirical Methods in Political Economy | F. Daniel Hidalgo | Syllabus |
For more information on the department's quantitative methods sequence, visit the following site: http://web.mit.edu/dhidalgo/www/meth_seq/quant_seq.html