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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 17.905 (Spring 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Forms of Political Participation: Old and New 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Political Science 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Lily Tsai 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 17.905 Forms of Political Participation: Old and New



    Spring 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features a comprehensive reading list.


    Course Description


    How and why do we participate in public life? How do we get drawn into community and political affairs? In this course we examine the associations and networks that connect us to one another and structure our social and political interactions. Readings are drawn from a growing body of research suggesting that the social networks, community norms, and associational activities represented by the concepts of civil society and social capital can have important effects on the functioning of democracy, stability and change in political regimes, the capacity of states to carry out their objectives, and international politics.
     

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