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Perspectives on Politics (2003), 1 : 373-378 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017/S1537592703000318
Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Aug 2003
 
Perspective on Politics (2003), 1:2:373-378 American Political Science Association
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017/S1537592703000318

Review Essay

Studying Democracy and Teaching Classics: What Is Happening in the Field of Comparative Politics?

Paulett Kurzer a1
a1 Professor of political science at the University of Arizona in Tucson (kurzer@arizona.edu). She thanks Alice Cooper, Herman Schwartz, Jennifer Hochschild, and two anonymous reviewers for their extremely helpful comments

In this essay, I assess how comparative politics is taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels and what our approach to teaching says about thestate of the subfield. What do practitioners emphasize in a comparative politics course in light of the enormous global changes of the past decade? Which topics are included and which ignored? What should be included that is now missing, even at the cost of excluding something else?


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