POL 314 Power, Inequality, and Violence

This course considers how violence is used systematically by organized political and social actors and how the use of violence by such actors responds strategically to competition over power and resources. It considers violence both as an effect of or response to status quo structures in power and economic inequality and also as an attempt the maintain or change the status quo. It approaches these questions using political economy and game theoretic methods, with an emphasize on defining and testing hypotheses about the use of violence.