The course covers a wide range of topics, from the classics of political science and sociology to recent comparative historical work.W 9:25am-11:15am, PLSC523a, Mixed Methods Research Elizabeth Nugent, This course is intended as an overview for creating and critiquing sophisticated research designs using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and data. Topics include authoritarianism, representation, local governance, elite politics, censorship, propaganda, protest, and the rule of law.T 9:25am-11:15am, PLSC800a, Introduction to American Politics Jacob Hacker, An introduction to the analysis of U.S. politics. Among the themes discussed are the connections between Enlightenment aspirations and the ideas of modernization, progress, and democracy; the advantages and limitations of periodization in the study of political theory; and teleological conceptions of history. We are attentive to the complicated histories of science and social science when it comes to the study of gender and sexuality and to the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect withother politically relevant categories, identities, and forms of marginalization, such as race, ethnicity, class, and ideological and partisan identification.W 1:30pm-3:20pm, Accessibility at Yale There is flexibility to devote time to concepts and measurement strategies that are of particular relevance to enrolled students dissertations/thesis projects, if not already included on the syllabus.HTBA, PLSC528b, Design-Based Inference for the Social Sciences Peter Aronow, Introduction to design-based statistical approaches to survey sampling and causal inference. It covers foundational concepts and techniques in mathematics that are relevant to quantitative and formal research. The department regularly offers about sixty term courses for graduate students each year. Readings are divided equally between (1) foundational theoretical texts dealing with broad concepts of interest to social scientists with an interest in politics (including but not limited to identity, norms, preferences, responsiveness, and accountability) and (2) recent approaches to measuring these concepts in the fields of political science, psychology, sociology, and economics. Admission to candidacy Students must be admitted to candidacy prior to registration for the fourth year of study. At Yale he has served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Humanities, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies. Concepts employed by game theorists, such as Nash equilibrium, subgame perfect equilibrium, and perfect Bayesian equilibrium. We critically examine the role of political parties in the representation of societal interests, party system evolution, the consequences of electoral law, and challenges facing modern political parties today with a particular focus on the growth of authoritarian and far-right parties around the world. Emphasis is placed on research designs and methods that have succeeded. We draw on evidence from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India to guide our theoretical and empirical inquiry into the following broad questions: What is gender, and what approaches do social scientists use to study gender inequality? Implications for democratic stability in the United States are considered.F 1:30pm-3:20pm, PLSC793a, Governing China Daniel Mattingly, Study of the politics of contemporary China with a focus on recent research. Each student must demonstrate elementary reading competence in one foreign language. Given resources, how should subjects be assigned to conditions? degree in History, rather than an M.A. With roughly 2,000 courses offered every year, it would take more than 200 years to experience the full breadth of the undergraduate curriculum! Steven B. Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Master of Branford College at Yale. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale brings people and ideas together for positive impact around the globe. Approaches given consideration include institutional design and innovation, social capital and civil society, the state, attitudes, ideology, econometrics of elections, rational actors, formal theories of institutions, and transatlantic comparisons. We discuss what is law, why people obey the law, and how societies govern themselves in the absence of strong state legal institutions. Topics include centralization of power, capacity to tax, and contract enforcement.HTBA, PLSC766b, Politics and Markets Peter Swenson, Examination of the interplay between market and political processes in different substantive realms, time periods, and countries. The total number of students in residence at any one time, including students working on their dissertations, is approximately 100, of whom about 40 are taking. Research and Writing is devoted to the preparation of a manuscript based on original research on a topic of the students choice and will count as two of the sixteen credits needed to advance to candidacy. The fall meetings are devoted to discussion of research design as well as individual student projects. Courses are offered in five substantive fieldspolitical theory, international relations, comparative politics, American politics, and political economyand three methods fields: quantitative empirical methods, qualitative and archival methods, and formal theory. Prerequisite: PLSC500, PLSC503, PLSC504, or the equivalent.HTBA, PLSC508b, Causal Inference and Research Design Fredrik Svje, This seminar exposes students to cutting-edge empirical and statistical research across the social and health sciences, with a focus on topics relevant to causal questions in the domain of political science. It provides a rigorous grounding in social-scientific research design, beginning with the specification of estimands or targets of inference. It addresses the major theoretical debates in the field and introduces the chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. Next, the course discusses the research design choices of two award-winning books using mixed methods research; it then evaluates the qualitative and quantitative data in isolation and in combination. Consideration of gaps in global governance and controversies between globalization and state sovereignty, universality, and tradition.HTBA, PLSC662a, Strategy, Technology, and War Paul Bracken, This course deals with the strategic management of technology and innovation in the highly dynamic national security space. To remain in good standing throughout their time in the Ph.D. program, students are expected to actively participate in classes and workshops, produce high-quality written work, and demonstrate regular progress toward completion of the dissertation. The department normally expects students to devote themselves exclusively to course work and comprehensive examinations in their first two years in the Ph.D. program. The courses must include at least six listed in the Political Science department and one each in at least three of the departments substantive fields. It explores the history, findings, and controversies in research about gender andsexuality in American politics and political science, examining work within several subfields of American politics (e.g., political development; public law; political behavior; legislative studies; public policy; interest groupsand social movements), important work from other disciplines, and research that does not fit neatly into traditional disciplinary categories, paying particular attention to the implications of this messiness for the study ofgender, sexuality, and politics. The R computing language and Web data sources are used.HTBA, PLSC540a and PLSC541b, Research and Writing Ian Turner and Sarah Bush, This is a required course for all second-year students. As more new technologies (cyberwar, ASAT, drones, AI, quantum computing, hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons) come into military postures, a major technological arms race has come about. The final assignment builds on the course material to produce a mixed method research design proposal.Th 9:25am-11:15am, PLSC527b, From Concept to Measure: Empirical Inquiry in Social Science Sarah Khan, This course focuses on a specific aspect of the research design process: the operationalization of abstract into concrete measures that can be used for analysis and inference. This term our thematic focus is on the relation between civil society and state institutions, as it has been conceptualized by political philosophy.W 1:30pm-3:20pm, PLSC656a / GLBL579a, Global Governance Staff, Examination of global policy problems, the acceleration of interdependence, and the role, potential, and limits of the institutions of global governance to articulate collective interests and to work out cooperative problem-solving arrangements. Contact the Registrars Office All students are expected to present a research paper of their own at one of these workshops before the end of their fourth year. The level is that of a sophisticated coursein intermediate microeconomics. The aim of the course is to provide students with a host of practical tools that can be used to evaluate and replicate other research, as well as to help students address inferential issues arising in their own work. Alexandre Debs [Sp], Professors Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar (Law), Seyla Benhabib, Paul Bracken (Management), David Cameron, Bryan Garsten, Alan Gerber, Jacob Hacker, Gregory Huber, Isabela Mares, Gerard Padr i Miquel, John Roemer, Frances Rosenbluth, James Scott, Jasjeet Sekhon, Ian Shapiro, Stephen Skowronek, Steven Smith, Milan Svolik, Peter Swenson, John Wargo (School of the Environment), Steven Wilkinson, Elisabeth Wood, Associate Professors Peter Aronow, Katharine Baldwin, Sarah Bush, Ana De La O Torres, Alexandre Debs, Hlne Landemore, Nuno Monteiro, Kelly Rader, Assistant Professors Alexander Coppock, Allison Harris, John Henderson, Joshua Kalla, Sarah Khan, Christina Kinane, Egor Lazarev, Daniel Mattingly, Elizabeth Nugent, Giulia Oskian, Tyler Pratt, Didac Queralt, Fredrik Svje, Emily Sellars, Ian Turner. The Annual Review of Political Science consists of thorough literature review essays in all areas of political science, written by noted scholars. Pocock, Michael Walzer, and Iris Marion Young. How does gender inequality manifest in different social, economic, and political spheres, e.g., the household, the labor market, the electorate, the government? FAQ: English. Topics include real analysis, optimization, and probability theory.HTBA, PLSC530a or b / S&DS530a or b, Data Exploration and Analysis Staff, Survey of statistical methods: plots, transformations, regression, analysis of variance, clustering, principal components, contingency tables, and time series analysis. How effective are different approaches to tackling gender inequality in South Asia? It is assumed that students come with diverse backgrounds. Courses taken must include one each in at least three of the departments substantive fields. All participants carry out a local research project. (4) Students are strongly encouraged to attend one of the required subfield weekly workshops. For fields to be certified by course work, students are required to satisfactorily complete three courses in the field, where courses in the field are determined by the faculty and the DGS, including one in which a research paper is written and presented. Prerequisite: introductory course in American politics or comparative politics. Readings are drawn from, among others, Jonathan Israel, James Tully, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Nicos Poulantzas, Jrgen Habermas, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Anthony Appiah, Nancy Fraser, Carole Pateman, Judith Shklar, Quentin Skinner, J.G.A. We focus attention on four types of cross-border flows and the policies and international institutions that regulate them: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of capital (financial and exchange rate policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), and the flow of people (immigration policy).W 3:30pm-5:20pm, PLSC705a, Introduction to Political Economy John Roemer, An introduction to techniques of microeconomic modeling,as applied to problems in political economy and politicalscience. Topicsinclude preferences, utilityfunctions, Pareto efficiency, competitive economic equilibrium, thefirst theorem of welfare economics,Hotelling-Downs politicalequilibrium, Nash equilibrium, Wittman-Nash political equilibrium, Nashbargaining, Arrows theorem andsocial welfare functions, and topics indistributive justice. Students who successfully complete the Ph.D. in Political Science will often join the faculties of colleges and universities. Also LAW21390.W 1:10pm-3pm, PLSC868b / AMST724b / WGSS724b, Gender and Sexuality in American Politics and Policy Dara Strolovitch, This seminar familiarizes students with foundational work on and approaches to the study of gender and sexuality in American politics and public policy. Meets on the Law School calendar. The DGS will also appoint one additional member of the department to write an additional evaluation. Modern computational approaches to data analysis and visualization are emphasized, with frequent practical application to political science datasets in the statistical programming language R. Topics include regression, classification, measurement, dimension reduction, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, permutation inference, prediction, and Monte Carlo simulation.TTh 9:25am-10:15am, PLSC503b, Quantitative Methods II: Foundations of Statistical Inference Peter Aronow, An intensive introduction to statistical theory for quantitative social inquiry. The course begins with fundamental definitions and assumptions underpinning mixed methods research and then moves on to analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of specific combinations of quantitative tests, case studies, and narrative and interpretive work. (2) Students are strongly encouraged to complete at least one field certification prior to the beginning of their second year. Topics include the economic motives of interest groups and coalitions in the political process.HTBA, PLSC772b, Political Economy of Gender in South Asia Sarah Khan, This course focuses on the political and economic underpinnings and implications of gender inequality in South Asia. 2. The academic requirements for the M.Phil. Open to Ph.D. students in Political Science and to graduate students in other departments and programs by agreement with the instructor. When do governments deserve our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? The emergence of democracy and the forces that led to the unprecedented increase in inequality in the twentieth century. The paper must be submitted to review by the instructor of the course for which the paper was written. A good background would be provided by S&DS542, ECON551, or equivalent, plus some experience with applications and statistical computing. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Director of Graduate Studies Key assignments include a paper critiquing the measurement strategy and developing an alternative measure in response to an existing study, and an original research proposal. Open to undergraduates as space permits, provided they have completed at least three Political Science courses, one of which is PLSC114, PLSC118, or equivalent such as Directed Studies.M 1:30pm-3:20pm, PLSC640a / HIST970a, Advanced Topics in Modern Political Philosophy Giulia Oskian and Isaac Nakhimovsky, This seminar explores key concepts in modern political philosophy at a level appropriate for graduate students (to help prepare for the political theory field exam) and for advanced undergraduates who have completed substantial course work in intellectual history and/or political theory. For more than 300 years, Yale University has inspired the minds that inspire the world. The High Pass average must also be met for graduate courses listed in the Political Science department. At the same time, the course seeks to strengthen students analytical skills in evaluating comparative research and prepare students to take the examination in comparative politics.M 9:25am-11:15am, PLSC778b, Comparative Politics II Elizabeth Nugent, The second part of a two-part sequence designed to introduce graduate students to the fundamentals of comparative politics, including the major debates, topics, and methods.HTBA, PLSC779a / ANTH541a / ENV836a / HIST965a, Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Elisabeth Wood, and Marcela Echeverri Munoz, An interdisciplinary examination of agrarian societies, contemporary and historical, Western and non-Western. Unless explicitly set forth in the applicable Credits section of a lecture, third-party content is not covered under the Creative Commons license. Prerequisite: any introductory statistics course that covers regression at any level of detail.HTBA, PLSC518b, Introduction to Game Theory Milan Svolik, This course offers a rigorous introduction to noncooperative game theory. Courses cannot be counted in more than one field. Such competence is usually demonstrated by taking, or having completed, two years of undergraduate course work or by examination. (For purposes of fulfilling this requirement, students registered for the August exams are assumed to have passed those exams when determining eligibility for enrollment in the third year.) Topics include strategic form games, extensive form games, and Bayesian games, among others. While only seven courses are required, students are normally expected to complete eight courses in the first year to be on track to complete sixteen courses by the end of the second year. Readings and discussions focus on selected methodological topics, such as experimental design, partial identification, design-based inference, network analysis, semiparametric efficiency theory, and qualitative/mixed-methods research. Course work includes reading and writing assignments.HTBA, PLSC810a, Political Preferences and American Political Behavior Joshua Kalla, Introduction to research methods and topics in American political behavior. One of the committee members is designated as chair. The course considers patterns of reform, the political construction of interests and movements, problems of political culture, party building, and state building.HTBA, PLSC837a, Gender Politics Andrea Aldrich, Exploration of theoretical and empirical work in political science to study the relationship between gender and politics in the United States and around the world. The course provides an introduction to some of the most important research themes in comparative politics. Requirements: an annotated bibliography of one of the substantive themes and a take-home final exam.HTBA, PLSC511a / S&DS617a, Applied Machine Learning and Causal Inference Research Seminar Staff, In this seminar we discuss recent advances in machine learning and causal inference. The fields diverse theoretical underpinnings and its place in the context of political science and of the social sciences more generally; theoretical perspectives such as materialism, institutionalism, and cognition/culture/beliefs; interactions between government and the economy in democratic and nondemocratic regimes and in developed and developing countries.HTBA, PLSC714a, Corruption, Economic Development, and Democracy Susan Rose-Ackerman, A seminar on the link between political and bureaucratic institutions, on the one hand, and economic development, on the other. Turn to handbooks, bibliographies, and other reference sources. Previous course work in statistical data analysis is helpful, but not required.HTBA, PLSC777a, Comparative Politics I Isabela Mares, This is the first course in the comparative politics sequence, which is followed by the research-design course (PLSC778). Focus on decision-making from the perspective of ordinary citizens. How do we plan to analyze the resulting data? Yale School of the Environment offers several options for joint or dual masters degrees with schools outside of Yale giving students an opportunity to make connections and build networks across two organizations, while gaining the interdisciplinary skills and framework needed to solve todays global environmental challenges. The department offers exams twice a year, in late August and in early January. It is helpful, although not mandatory, to have taken a course on research design in the social sciences.HTBA, PLSC723b, Political Power and Inequality in Latin America Ana De La O, Overview and analysis of politics in Latin America. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats Privacy policy Email List Subscription You can subscribe to the Leitner Program Interest List and receive weekly email announcements regarding events and yale political science dissertations information related to the Leitner Program at Yale . Students enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Political Science may qualify for the M.A. Most of the lectures and course material within Open Yale Courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. What are the cultural and structural drivers of gender inequality? Workshop participation does not count toward the requirement of sixteen term courses. http://politicalscience.yale.edu The PDF will include all information unique to this page. Applications are drawn from a variety of substantive domains including political science, economics, medicine, and public health. Using this criticism, and under the supervision of the instructors, each student conducts additional research, if necessary, rewrites the paper as required, and prepares a final paper representing the best work of which the student is capable. We focus on the five substantive themes that make up the Yale Initiative: Order, Conflict, and Violence; Representation and Popular Rule; Crafting and Operating Institutions; Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances; and Distributive Politics. Assigned authors include R. Putnam, T. Skocpol, J. Gerring, J. Zaller, D.R. Offered by Yale University. PLSC500a, Quantitative Methods I: Research Design and Data Analysis Fredrik Svje, The first course in the Ph.D.-level sequence in quantitative methods. A student must include in the six courses completed at least two research seminars in the History department. At least five of these courses must be graduate courses in Political Science. All rights reserved. Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. At the discretion of the DGS, students who fail an exam may be granted a one-term extension (to January of the third year) for obtaining certification. 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