Essays and Term Papers

These essay topics and readings offer suggestions which spring from the material in Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn. We hope they will be of use to instructors preparing reading lists and to students engaged in independent study. If you are a student taking a taught course, your assignments will of course be set by your instructor. Where a publication is fully referenced in Hague & Harrop, only brief details are provided here .

• 1 Politics and government
• 2 The state
• 3 Democracy
• 4 Authoritarian rule
• 5 The comparative approach
• 6 Political culture
• 7 Political communication
• 8 Political economy
• 9 Political participation
• 10 Elections and voters
• 11 Interest groups
• 12 Political parties
• 13 Constitutions and the legal framework
• 14 Multilevel governance
• 15 Legislatures
• 16 The political executive
• 17 Public management and administration
• 18 Public policy