As you know, we did not have time to cover the material in these notes; however, you may still be held responsible for the "basic" points covered in the posted notes. If you have questions, be sure to ask them on the message board. Click here to view (PDF) version of notes.

Notes from this week cover the comparative method. • You can also view and download the two overheads on the Most Similiar Systems design and Most Different Systems design used in class (both files are saved only as GIFS)

Notes from this week cover the Marxist perspective in political science.

These are my actual lecture notes, reproduced as a PDF file. As notes, be advised that they are intentionally written in an informal style. In general, I do not provide citation of sources in my notes, nor to I follow all the conventions of proper writing.

Notes from this week cover the institutionalist perspective in political science.

Basic notes on our lecture covering theory and rational choice are available from a previous section of POLS 203 (Spring Quarter 2003) • Click here to view a collection of web slides • For notes on Rational Choice specifically, click here.

During this week's lecture we examined a number of statistics related to Michael Moore's argument on gun violence in America. For a PDF version of some of the statistics referred to in class, click here • Additional statistics are available on the Bureau of Justice Statistics site, which contains specific data on Homicide Trends in the United States

This PDF file contains the overheads used in today's class