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May 25, 2026
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POL 309 - Protest and PolicingCredits: 3
This course will prepare students to think systematically about contentious politics - processes in which people make conflicting collective claims on each other or on third parties - as they participate in them, police them, observe them, and/or learn about how they are happening elsewhere. We will review theories of political contention and ask why people engage in this form of political advocacy, how they choose their tactics, and why they succeed or fail in achieving their goals. We will also consider contentious episode from the perspective of government actors, exploring when and how law enforcement agencies balance human rights with the maintenance of social order and how the dynamics between protesters and officials lead to various outcomes, In class discussions and original research, we will examine the various forms of contention and government response that have shaped politics in different times and places–from revolutions abroad to boycotts and riots in the US–looking for general patterns as we compare them.
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