Identity Politics

Catalog description

This course is a graduate seminar intended to introduce Ph.D. students to the study of identity politics within political science. The course is primarily divided into two sections. The first section focuses on identity as a dependent variable. Each week, we read a distinct theoretical approach to the study of when, when, and how certain identities become politically salient. The second section focuses politicized identities as an independent variable. Readings in this section assess how such identities affect a range of outcomes, including policy preferences, intergroup cooperation, patronage, and violence.