Description: This course is designed as a workshop to help you develop and write a high-quality research paper that will satisfy the requirements of the B.A. in Public Policy. To accomplish that, this course will focus on the process of wiriting your B.A. thesis: developing and refining your research questions, identifying different research methodologies, and writing a plan to assist you in the research and writing process. We will discuss how to write a paper and what it should look like.
Instructor: Christian Ponce de Leon
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INST 29308 International Development (undergraduate course, Spring 2007)
Description:This is a seminar course that surveys some recent issues in the field of international development with special emphasis on the policital development and democratization of developing coutnries. The purpose is to introduce the sutend to the current debate on theories and recent empirical findings on poverty alleviation, human rihts, and political participation, and in particular its relation to politics and international organizations. It addresses general issues such as what is international development, what is political development and democratization, what is poverty and inequality, and what is (and ought to be) the role of the state and international organizations in the process of poverty alleviation and political development. It also deals with more specific questions such as the relation between different political regimes and their impact on poverty alleviation and development, and the effect that institutions, globalization and international aid have on political and economic development. Empirical evidence is drawn from recent experiences in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.
Instructor: Christian Ponce de Leon
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PLSC 20611 Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation (undergraduate course, Winter 2007)
Description: This is a
seminar course that surveys the field of political and economic
development and its relation with poverty alleviation. The
purpose is to introduce the student to the current debate on theories
and recent empirical findings on poverty alleviation and in particular
its relation to politics and political regimes. It addresses
general issues such as what is development, what is poverty and
inequality, and what is (and ought to be) the role of the state in the
process of poverty alleviation. It also deals with more specific
questions such as the relation between different political regimes and
their impact on poverty alleviation and development, and the effect
that institutions, geography, colonial legacy, globalization and
international aid have on political and economic development.
Empirical evidence is drawn from recent experiences in Latin America,
Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.
Instructor: Christian Ponce de Leon
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Description: This course has two fundamental aims. The first is to introduce students to a set of analytical tools and concepts for understanding how political instiutions generate public policy. The second is to apply these tools in examining the major institutions of democracy in the United States.
Instructor: Professor Christopher Berry
Teaching Assistant: Christian Ponce de Leon
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HIST 36202 Comparative Political Foundations of the Ibero-American Independence (graduate course, Spring 2004)
Description:
Instructor: Visiting Tinker Professor Jose C. Chiaramonte
Teaching Assistant: Christian Ponce de Leon
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