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Politics of Poverty and Prosperity, Spring 2024

This course asks: why are some countries poor while others are prosperous? The course weighs competing explanations for this puzzle, highlighting the role of political factors and political institutions.

AI for Social Science, Spring 2024

This course explores three topics: 1. How deep learning can be used to wrangle unstructured data (e.g. imagery, text) into datasets suitable for social science analysis. 2. Inference with deep learning: prediction, explainable AI, hypothesis-generation 3. Governance of AI, including issues related to bias/fairness and political economy.

Political Economy, Spring 2023

This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the field of political economy, with a special emphasis on exploring examples of the latest designs used by political economists to credibly test theories. 

Rural Politics, Fall 2022

This course examines the critical role that agriculture plays in shaping major phenomena studied by political scientists – from the development of modern nation-states to the emergence of democratic political institutions – taking a comparative as well as historical perspective 

Institutions and Institutional Change in Comparative Perspective, Spring 2021

This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the study of institutions in comparative politics, with a focus on both classic debates and new empirical studies.