Student Learning Outcomes

• Explain ethnic group conflict, and political institutions for managing ethnic group conflict.
• Explain the impact of regional, economic, historical and cultural factors on political institutions and behavior.
• Analyze the role of political parties, interest groups, elections and the mass media in various countries.
• Analyze political systems by using the comparative method.
• Distinguish among regime types and their central features.
• Identify the key features of parliamentary and presidential forms of government and identify their advantages and disadvantages.
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of proportional representation and single member district plurality as electoral methods.
• Identify the role of the state.
• Compare political systems, both in theory and with actual country examples.