Comparative Politics

15 credits

Course, Master's level, 2SK128

Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English

Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English For exchange students

Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English

Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English For exchange students

About the course

This course will bring attention to; contemporary conflicts around the world, the political conditions governing post-communist states, what determines the impact of political mobilisation, and the role of international aid efforts in what we can call modernisation processes. We will thoroughly investigate the role of civil society and social movements in different regime types and political contexts, and we will try to understand why, sometimes, democracy and economic growth can be regarded as foes to each other rather than friends. We ask: to what extent are theories of modernisation useful for explaining and understanding democratic and economic development?

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