Advisory: Completion of ENGL-1A. Introduction to the study of comparative politics by analyzing the political systems of select industrialized democracies, current/former communist states, and developing states. Focus on each state's unique ideological, social, economic, and historical factors, and an examination of how these factors impact their governments and politics. In addition to surveying democratic and non-democratic systems of governance, emphasis on the process of democratization. (C-ID POLS 130) Transfer: CSU; UC