A young girl holds a sign that reads "Too young to vote, old enough to care" during the 2017 Women's March on Washington. (Courtesy of Liz Lemon on Flickr. This image is in the public domain.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Ariel White
MIT Course Number
17.200
As Taught In
Fall 2016
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This graduate-level course focuses on mass political behavior within the American political system. The goal of this course is to give an introduction to some of the major questions in the study of American political behavior, and how people have gone about answering them. The background goal is to help students practice reading work critically, and thinking through the difficulties of social science research, in preparation for individual research projects. The course examines political ideology, public opinion, voting behavior, media effects, racial attitudes, mass-elite relations, and opinion-policy linkages.