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GOVERNMENT

GOVT-535

Leaders in Comparative Perspective (3)

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

The study of contemporary leaders in Africa; Europe; Latin America; and Asia through the use of biographies as the data base for analysis through political psychology; the cognitive sciences; decision theory; artificial intelligence and game theory. Emphasis is on bottom-up analysis of politics and the role of individual action in history; from a formal; scientific perspective. Usually offered every spring.