Essays and Term Papers

These essay topics and readings offer suggestions which spring from the material in Hague & Harrop, 2010 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. Only brief publication details are given here; full references are, in most cases, in Hague & Harrop. A full list of references by chapter is available on the book’s website.

• 1 Political concepts
• 2 Theoretical approaches
• 3 Research strategies
• 4 The state
• 5 Democracy
• 6 Authoritarian rule
• 7 Political culture
• 8 Political communication
• 9 Political participation
• 10 Elections and voters
• 11 Political parties
• 12 Interest groups
• 13 Constitutions and law
• 14 Multilevel governance
• 15 Legislatures
• 16 The political executive
• 17 Public management
• 18 Public policy
• 19 Political economy