Comparative Government
In the Comparative Government subfield, Georgetown has particular strengths in several key cross-regional areas: democracy and civil society (John Bailey, Daniel Brumberg, Marc Howard and Eusebio Mujal-Leon), nationalism and ethnic politics (Charles King, Marc Howard and Yossi Shain), identity politics (C. King, M. Howard and Shain), and the nexus of political science with history (Daniel Nexon) and the other social sciences.
Faculty have a close connection with colleagues in the International Relations subfield, and many have research interests that span the international and domestic arenas, such as regional integration (Jeffrey Anderson, Thomas Banchoff and Kathleen McNamara), the political economy of development (Brumberg and Stephen King), crime and corruption (J. Bailey and Roy Godson), and energy politics (Thane Gustafson). Faculty work in multiple languages and have expertise on several major world regions, especially Europe (Anderson, Banchoff, C. King, Charles Kupchan, Robert Lieber and Mujal-Leon), Russia and Eurasia (Harley Balzer, Gustafson, M. Howard and Angela Stent), Latin America (J. Bailey and Arturo Valenzuela), East Asia (Victor Cha), Africa (S. King, Carol Lancaster, and Lise Howard), and the Middle East (Brumberg, Shain and the annually appointed Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor).
In the department’s graduate program in Comparative Government, there is an emphasis on developing both strong methodological skills and a deep knowledge of one or more world regions..For more information about our Comparative Government Ph.D., please contact the Field Chair or or our Graduate Program Officer.
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