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Introduction to Political Science - POLS 101

Covers political institutions, political behavior, ideologies, public policy, comparative politics, and basic methods of political analysis.

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8 Integrating Political Analysis

Trace how political behavior, ideas, and institutions shape public policy, and learn how comparative and research methods can help explain political outcomes.
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3 Political Ideologies

Compare nine political ideologies by how they understand liberty, equality, authority, and government, and learn how their principles shape debates over policy.
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7 Public Policy

Learn how public problems reach government agendas, how policies are formulated and adopted, and how implementation and evaluation shape policy outcomes.
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5 Political Behavior and Representation

Learn how elections, parties, organized groups, public opinion, and civic participation connect people to government and shape whose interests are represented.
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4 Political Institutions

Learn how constitutions, legislatures, executives, courts, and bureaucracies divide authority, carry out government, and hold one another accountable.
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6 Comparative Politics

Learn how comparative politics explains variation among political systems by examining regimes, state capacity, institutions, and carefully designed comparisons.
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2 Methods of Political Analysis

Learn how political researchers frame answerable questions, measure concepts, compare evidence, and draw appropriately qualified conclusions about political relationships and causes.
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1 Foundations of Political Science

Learn how political science examines collective decisions, power, legitimacy, states, governments, and the rules that organize political competition.
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Quizzes

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5 Political Behavior and Representation

A medium-difficulty quiz on how elections, political organizations, public opinion, and civic participation shape representation.
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2 Methods of Political Analysis

A quiz on forming research questions, measuring political concepts, evaluating evidence, and reasoning about causation.
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7 Public Policy

A medium-difficulty quiz on public policy, covering agenda setting, formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation through applied scenarios.
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6 Comparative Politics

A medium-difficulty quiz on comparative politics, covering political regimes, state capacity, institutions, and systematic comparison.
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4 Political Institutions

A medium-difficulty quiz on how constitutions, legislatures, executives, courts, and bureaucracies divide responsibilities and hold one another accountable.
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3 Political Ideologies

A medium-difficulty quiz on how political ideologies understand liberty, equality, authority, and government, including how their principles apply to political questions.
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8 Integrating Political Analysis

A 14-question quiz on how political behavior, institutions, ideas, policy outcomes, comparative analysis, and research methods interact.
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1 Foundations of Political Science

A quiz on foundational concepts in political science, including politics, power, authority, legitimacy, states, governments, and regimes.
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4 Political Institutions

Learn how constitutions, legislatures, executives, courts, and bureaucracies divide authority and hold government accountable.
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8 Integrating Political Analysis

Study how political behavior, institutions, and ideas shape public policy, and how comparative and causal methods help analyze political outcomes.
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6 Comparative Politics

Review how political systems differ, how regimes and states function, and how institutions and systematic comparisons shape political outcomes.
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1 Foundations of Political Science

Review core concepts in political science, including power, legitimacy, states, governments, and political regimes.
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5 Political Behavior and Representation

Review how elections, parties, groups, public opinion, and civic participation connect citizens to government and shape representation.
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3 Political Ideologies

Review how major political ideologies understand liberty, equality, authority, and government, and how their principles shape debates over policy.
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2 Methods of Political Analysis

Review how political researchers frame questions, define and measure concepts, compare evidence, and reason carefully about causes.
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7 Public Policy

Learn how public policies reach the agenda, are formulated and adopted, implemented, and evaluated.
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