Courses and Syllabi
AFR 110 Introduction to Contemporary Africa
PLSC 453 Politics of Developing Systems (Clientelism, Corruption and Capacity)
PLSC 424 Topics in Comparative Institutions and Governance (Good Governance)
PLSC 597 Government Corruption in Comparative Perspective
AFR/PLSC 597 African Politics
Memos and Guidance
Parsing the Pieces of an Academic Study (a.k.a “cat zoomies”)
Norms of Interaction in Political Science
Helpful Links and Sources of Data
- World Bank Data Home
- Penn World Tables
- Freedom House
- PRIO Conflict Database
- Demographic Health Surveys
- International Livestock Research Institute (for maps)
- Afrobarometer
- Latinobarometro
- World Values Survey
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- UCLA Social Sciences Data Archive
- Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development
- Poverty Action Lab
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- IDEAS Economics Research Database