POL427H1

American Political Development

This course explores both the substance and the theory of APD, using the second as a lens through which the first can be analyzed and interpreted. We begin by examining the methodologies, mechanisms, and patterns of APD, before turning to synoptic accounts of political development and then working through broad eras of political development. Throughout we will focus on questions of race, democracy, and inclusion/exclusion that both animate the American past and structure its present.