MIT MIT-OCW
Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
A graduate-level introduction to comparative politics from MIT OpenCourseWare, combining classic and recent readings with discussion of research design and methods. Topics include political culture, social cleavages, the state, and democratic institutions, with the seminar's emphasis on particular issues shaped partly by student interests. The course site provides the syllabus and reading list used in the actual MIT seminar, giving a sense of how comparative politics is framed as a field of inquiry rather than a fixed set of facts. There are no video lectures, but the materials support independent study of the discipline's core debates and methodological approaches. Free to access through MIT OpenCourseWare, with no certificate offered.