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Lanny W. Martin |
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Department of Political Science • Rice university |
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Teaching |
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Fall 2007 Office Hours: By appointment only (on leave) Location: BB 222A
In teaching my undergraduate courses in comparative politics, I have three objectives in mind:
1) to train students to think about politics in terms of general concepts and theories that can “travel” across different political settings
2) to provide students with descriptive information about the important political actors, institutions, and policy issues in the wide number of countries covered in the course (and more detailed information for a select few of these countries)
3) to teach students how to apply the concepts and theories they have encountered to analyze real-world political behavior and events cross-nationally.
In graduate courses, the main objective is to train students how to begin conducting original research in comparative politics. The emphasis of the comparative group as a whole is on political institutions, particularly legislatures and electoral systems. Methodologically, we emphasize quantitative approaches, including formal theoretic modeling and advanced statistical techniques.
The courses I regularly teach at Rice include:
Undergraduate
POLI 212: Introduction to Comparative Politics POLI 360: Western European Democracies POLI 466: Political Parties and Voting Behavior in Western Democracies
Graduate
POLI 520: Approaches to Comparative Government POLI 566: Parties and Voting Behavior in Western Democracies
In Fall, 2007, I am on leave.
In Spring, 2008, I will be teaching POLI 212 again, as well as POLI 503, Topics in Methods and Data Analysis (aka Linear Regression). |
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