Langenbacher is an interesting lecturer to listen to. While he loves to tell stories and interesting peculiarities of different countries' politics, he takes a more quantitative approach to analyzing political systems. He focuses on how elements of political and electoral systems affect how politics is shaped in each country. If you would like to learn how you can analyze a country's political scene from its elections results, this is definitely the class to take. A big part of the final exam is crunching numbers and analyzing it while the final paper is also an in depth study of a country's political and electoral system.
Langenbacher is much more quantitative and has a math approach to CPS. Carnes is really hyped and is objectively a great lecturer but sometimes felt a bit cold. Both are challenging and rewarding professors.
Langenbacher is an interesting lecturer to listen to. While he loves to tell stories and interesting peculiarities of different countries' politics, he takes a more quantitative approach to analyzing political systems. He focuses on how elements of political and electoral systems affect how politics is shaped in each country. If you would like to learn how you can analyze a country's political scene from its elections results, this is definitely the class to take. A big part of the final exam is crunching numbers and analyzing it while the final paper is also an in depth study of a country's political and electoral system.
Langenbacher is much more quantitative and has a math approach to CPS. Carnes is really hyped and is objectively a great lecturer but sometimes felt a bit cold. Both are challenging and rewarding professors.