FREN 213 Topics in French-American Relationship
This course will compare the French and American electoral systems. It will address different aspects such as: the number and structure of the political parties, the financing and the ruling of the campaigns, the electoral "stage" and the role and use of the media - TV ads, advertising, debates - in the two countries. In the last part of the course, students will reflect about the notion of "sovereignty of the people" in the two oldest democracies of the Western world.