GVPT459H

Seminar in Comparative Politics; Political Radicalism: Comparing Communism and Fascism

Prerequisite: GVPT280 or GVPT282. Restriction: Must be in Government and Politics Honors program. Introduction to basic issues of constitutional law in a global and comparative perspective. Topics: constitution making and amending, enforcing, suspending, and reasoning with constitutions. Federalism and separation of powers. Fundamental rights. Constitutionalism outside the West. Constitutions beyond states. In this course the US Constitution will not be discussed.

Sister Courses: GVPT459A, GVPT459B, GVPT459C, GVPT459D, GVPT459E, GVPT459F, GVPT459G, GVPT459I, GVPT459J, GVPT459K, GVPT459L, GVPT459M, GVPT459N, GVPT459O, GVPT459P, GVPT459Q, GVPT459R, GVPT459T, GVPT459V, GVPT459W, GVPT459X, GVPT459Y

Spring 2026

Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Fall 2025

Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Spring 2025

Marcus Johnson

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Past Semesters

Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Jennifer Hadden

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Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Karol Soltan

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Average rating: 4.00

Ernesto Calvo

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Mark Lichbach

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Bartlomiej Kaminski

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.86 between 124 students*

A-: 20.16%

A: 36.29%

A+: 34.68%

B-: 0.81%

B: 3.23%

B+: 3.23%

C+: 0.81%

other: 0.81%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.