2024-2025 College Catalog

POSC 228 Authoritarian Systems

This course explores the similarities and differences among non-democratic systems, examining questions such as how authoritarian states legitimize themselves, how authoritarian institutions function, the different types of state-market relationships in non-democracies, and the way in which political and social change takes place in authoritarian systems. The course will also examine the issues posed by powerful authoritarian states for international cooperation and for American foreign policy.

Credits

3