Lectures by Chapter

Chapter numbers correspond to those of Cases in Comparative Politics, 6th edition.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.
• Chapter 2: Britain (the UK).
• Chapter 5: Germany.
• Chapter 4: France.
• Chapter 7: Russia.
• How Canadians Govern Themselves: Canada.
• Chapter 11: Mexico.
• Chapter 14: Nigeria.
• Chapter 8: China.

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Links

• Middle Georgia State University homepage.
  • MGA BrightSpace by Desire2Learn (campus learning management system).
  • SWORDS (BANNERWeb).
• Dr. Lawrence's homepage, including calendar and teaching info (syllabi etc.).

Steal These Slides

(The following notes are for other professors or teachers who want to use these slides in their courses.)

These slides are not really tied to a particular textbook; instead, there are bits and pieces from various texts based on my experience teaching Introduction to Comparative Politics since 2014.

As mentioned at the end of each set of slides, these slides are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Anyone may freely use, redistribute, and modify the slides per that license.

A copy of the sources for these slides is now hosted by Github.

My guess is you'll want to re-record the audio yourself. I recommend a high-quality USB microphone like the Blue Yeti, Blue Nessie, or Samson Go Mic. I recorded the audio using a Yeti and a Go Mic with Audacity, although other multitrack recording software should work equally well.

• Presentation framework: Reveal.js by Hakim El Hattab.

• Local hack to make the audio sync with the lecture: narration.js (links narration to slide fragments).

• The audio was then converted to Ogg Opus files using opus-tools, with lower-quality MP3s converted using LAME for legacy devices. Ogg Opus playback is much, much better, and the file sizes are smaller, but it's not as widely supported on mobile browsers.