Comprehensive Exam Archive

Canadian Politics

Spring 2017 — Canadian Politics PhD Exam: Core, Federalism and Regionalism, Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Economy

Spring 2014 — Canadian Politics PhD Exam: Core, Parties, Elections, Public Opinion

Fall 2010 – Spring 2007 — Canadian Political PhD Exam: Core, Parties and Elections, Federalism and Regionalism, Canadian Political Thought, Parliament

Comparative Politics

Spring 2021 — Comparative Politics

Fall 2021 — Comparative Politics

2019 — Comparative Politics Catalogue of Core Comprehensive Exam Questions

Spring 2019 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Latin America

Spring 2019 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Southeast Asia

Spring 2018 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Comparative Parties and Political Institutions

Spring 2018 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Comparative Political Economy

Spring 2016 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, The State, Latin America

Fall 2015 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Public Policy, Comparative Political Economy

Spring 2015 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, The State Comparative Public Policy

Spring 2015 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Public Policy

Spring 2015 — Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Ethnicity and Social Movements

Fall 2014 — Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: ore, Ethnicity and Social Movements

Spring 2014 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Democratization, Chinese Politics

Spring 2014 — Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of Development

Spring 2014 — Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Parties and Political Behaviour

Spring 2014 — Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, China

Spring 2014 — Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Political Economy

International Relations

Spring 2020 — International Relations

Fall 2017 — International Relations PhD Exam: International Security

Spring 2017 — International Relations PhD Exam: International Relations Theory

Spring 2017– International Relations PhD Exam: International Relations Theory, Norms and Legitmacy

Spring-2017 — International Relations PhD Exam: International Organization

Spring 2017 — International Relations PhD Exam: International Security

Spring 2017 — International Relations PhD Exam: International Political Economy

Spring 2016 — International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory and International Political Economy

Fall 2015 — International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, Security

Spring 2014 — International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, International Political Economy, Security

Spring 2014 — Minor, International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, International Political Economy, Security

Fall 2010 – SPring 2007 — International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, International Politics Economy, Security

Political Theory

Note: Copies of previous PT comp reading lists are available for PhD candidates, please contact Chris Fernandez (christopher.fernandez@ubc.ca).

Spring 2022 — Political Theory

Fall 2021 — Political Theory

Spring 2020 — Political Theory 2

Spring 2020, Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Said

Fall 2019, Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Arendt

Fall 2018 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Marx

Fall 2017 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Foucault

Spring 2017 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Ricoeur

Spring 2016 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Aristotle, Demos and Boundary Problems in Democratic Theory

Fall 2015 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Aristotle, Rawls, Judging Compromises in Democracries

Spring 2015 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches,  Hobbes, Tocqueville, Democracy and Violence

Fall 2014 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Arendt, Weber, Ethno-Cultural Diversity Accomodation

Spring 2014 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Foucault, Deliberative Democracy

Fall 2009 — Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Foucault, Kant, Habermas, Arendt, Tocqueville, Mill, Berlin, Marx, Aristotle, Dewey, Montesquieu, Nietzche, de Beauvoir, Locke, Bourdieu, Machiavelli, Freud, Hobbes

Spring 2008 — Political Theory PhD Exams: Tocqueville, Foucault, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Taylor, Berlin, Marx

US Politics

Fall 2015 — US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Public Policy, Political Behaviour

Fall 2015 — US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Political Behaviour

Spring 2014 — US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Political Behaviour, Media

Spring 2007 — US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Foreign Policy, Presidency, Public Management and Bureaucratic Politics, Congress, Public Policy