Spring 2027

Non-democracies

Examines formation, endurance, and collapse of non-democratic regimes globally, covering electoral behavior, political violence, and democratization theories.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Steven Brooke4.2/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify key types of non-democratic regimes and their characteristics.

  • Identify why these regimes resist pressures to democratize.

  • Identify the key legacies of non-democratic regimes.

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POLI SCI 120 or 182

POLISCI 339

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Professors

Spring 2027

Steven Brooke

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

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STEVEN BROOKE is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Non-democratic regime types and characteristics
  • Regime formation, endurance, and collapse
  • Electoral behavior, political psychology, violence, mobilization, and democratization

Skills

  • Identifying regime types, resistance to democratization, and legacies

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POLISCI 339 · Spring 2027

Non-Democracies

Recorded 2026-10-14
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