POL 366 Democracy in Elections in France & US

This course will compare the French and American electoral systems. It will address different aspects such as: the number and structure of the political parties, the financing and the ruling of the campaigns, the electoral "stage" and the role and use of the media - TV ads, advertising, debates - in the two countries. In the last part of the course, students will reflect about the notion of "sovereignty of the people" in the two oldest democracies of the Western world.

Credits

3