Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford University


CDDRL Courses


An Introduction to Political Development

Course number(s): POLISCI 244
Offered Winter quarter in the 2010-2011 academic year

Instructors
Francis Fukuyama - Stanford University

Political development concerns the evolution of three categories of institutions: (1) the state itself; (2) the rule of law; and (3) accountable government. Focus on many of the major theories of political development, beginning with some classic social theorists and continuing up through the present.

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Units
5

Department
Department of Political Science
School of Humanities and Sciences