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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major theories on the relationship between ethnicity and politics. The course is divided into three sections. The first covers general theory and discusses the social construction of ethnicity as well as the limits of construction. The second section discusses ethnicit
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- political science
- political science
- ethinic
- politics
- theories
- ethnicity
- dependent variable
- ethnic identities
- motivating power
- independent variable
- political
- economic
- outcomes
- graduate students
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is designed mainly for political science graduate students conducting or considering conducting research on identity politics. While 17.504 Ethnic Politics I is designed as a primarily theoretical course, Ethnic Politics II switches the focus to methods. It aims to familiarize the student with the current conventional approaches
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- political science
- measurement
- ethnic diversity
- fluidity
- identity
- social identity theory
- mechanisms of group comparison
- memory
- death
- stigma
- prejudice
- contact hypothesis
- cascade models
- identity simulation
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This course surveys the social science literature on civil war. Students will study the origins of civil war, discuss variables that affect the duration of civil war, and examine the termination of conflict. This course is highly interdisciplinary and covers a wide variety of cases.
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- political science
- political science
- social science
- civil war
- origins
- duration
- termination
- conflict
- world bank
- identity
- fear
- greed
- death
- intervention
- peace
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This course centers on mechanisms of civilian control of the military. Relying on the influential texts of Lasswell, Huntington, and Finer, the first classes clarify the basic tensions between the military and civilians. A wide-ranging series of case studies follows. These cases are chosen to create a field of variation that includes states
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- political science
- civil
- military
- relations
- mechanisms
- civilian control
- lasswell
- huntington
- finer
- case studies
- states
- civilian rule
- society
- united states
- soviet union
- great purge
- latin america
- turkey
- pakistan
- japan
- africa
- multiethnic states
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This course continues from the fall semester. The course introduces students to the fundamental theories and methods of modern political science through the study of a small number of major books and articles that have been influential in the field. This semester, the course focuses on American and comparative politics.
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- political science
- american
- foundations
- politics
- political science
- comparative politics
- social division
- identity
- ideology
- beliefs
- participation
- institutions
- outcomes
- system
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This seminar is for students who plan to write a senior thesis in Political Science, and is required of all MIT Political Science majors. Seminar participants will develop their research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame their research questions and arguments, choose an appropriate methodology for analysis, draft the i
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- political science
- political science
- seminar
- senior thesis
- research topics
- scholarship
- research questions
- methodology
- analysis
- prospectus
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