The classification of political systems according to institutional and developmental characteristics. Causes and costs of political stability and instability. Comparison relates to contemporary political institutions and processes in specific countries. (S and N)
The classification of political systems according to institutional and developmental characteristics. Causes and costs of political stability and instability. Comparison relates to contemporary political institutions and processes in specific countries. (S and N)
Comparative analysis of the government and politics of the major Western European countries. Emphasizes party systems and the social bases of politics in industrialized societies. (S and N)
African nationalism, political movements and governments in the African states.
Introductory overview of political patterns and political behavior in Latin America within comparative and developmental perspectives. Emphasizes the social, economic, and political factors shaping contemporary political structures and processes.
Examines women and gender in the politics of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century through the 1990s.
Variable topics in comparative politics; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Variable topics in comparative politics; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Investigates the sources of durable authoritarianism in Asia and around the world and contrasts the survival of dictatorships with successful democratic transitions.
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Introduces the systematic study of communal violence, to the major concepts in conflict studies, to the main approaches to studying conflict and to many of the major episodes of communal violence in contemporary Asia and beyond.
Introduces literature on democratization, including familiarization with important theoretical and conceptual issues and empirical data on major regions of the world.
Introduction to major theoretical and methodological approach to study of comparative politics.
Western European politics with emphasis on Britain, France, Spain, and Scandinavia. Addresses major themes in the politics of these nation-states or sub-regions. Addresses key relevant theories.
Introducing the main approaches to the study of how ethnic and national identities are formed, and how they are activated in politics. Exploration of various forms of ethnic politics: peace, rioting, and the most extreme forms, genocide and secession.
The course is designed as a broad introduction to contemporary issues, actors, theories, debates, and major scholarly traditions in the study of world politics. The course introduces the foundational assumptions, methods, and scope of world politics as defined by a variety of perspectives and approaches. In doing so the course guides the students to core concepts necessary for understanding how the world, although diverse in composition and often, but not always, divided against itself, governs its affairs, and decides whose preferences will win out and whose welfare will be fostered in ways that are viewed as legitimate and authoritative by the contending populations of the world.
Examines philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches to the student of international relations, the interaction of major global actors in the post-World War II and post-Cold War eras, the structure of the global economy and various issues such as arms proliferation and conflict associated with ethnicity and nationalism. (S and N)
The tradition and development of American foreign policy and contemporary foreign policy problems.
Principal problems and issues in the area of international security, considered by examining samples of scholarly literature in the subfield.
Advanced reading and research. Special focus on international norms, regimes, formal intergovernmental and supranational organizations, and global constitutions.
This class provides a college-level introduction to American Federal Government. Students are expected to improve their knowledge necessary for informed civic participation. Each week introduces an important topic in American government to prepare you for further study in upper division Political Science courses.
In this course, students will investigate how the national government is structured and how the American constitutional republic operates. It covers the philosophical and historical foundations of American government, including but not limited to the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and all its Amendments, and the Federalist Papers. The course examines the branches of government and the government’s laws, policies, and programs. It also examines the ways in which citizens participate in their government and ways their government responds to citizens.
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Studies the definition and measurement of political opinion by polls and surveys, and the developmental character of opinions. Includes variables in opinion formation, experiments in opinion measurement and the relation of political opinion to public policy.
Studies and analyzes the Federal Constitution, with study and briefing of leading cases in constitutional law. (WR)
Discusses statutes and court decisions emphasizing First Amendment freedoms, equal protection of the law, due process and rights of defendants, implied rights, and the rights of women, juveniles, students, prisoners and the mentally ill. (WR)
Examines the political behavior of African Americans in the United States. Discusses the civil rights movement, the black power movement, black political thought (conservatism, liberalism and nationalism), blacks and the court system, the role of blacks in political parties, blacks and the presidency and contemporary issues in African American politics.
Identification and evaluation of the political, social and ethical challenges and choices presented by transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital media, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, robotics, quantum computing, augmented reality and virtual reality.
Uses make-believe stories told in popular novels and Hollywood motion pictures to provide insights into the nature of real-life politics in the United States. (WR)
The central role of the American Presidency in the political process. Emphasizes the contemporary institutional nature of that office and the behavior of its occupants.
Introduces the theory and method of contemporary political analysis. Emphasizes alternative analytical frameworks, concepts, research design, variables, measurement, and quantitative analysis of political data.
Provides firsthand, supervised research. Projects may involve inquiry, design, investigation, scholarship, discovery, or application.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in International Relations.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
Overview of tasks and challenges, including strategy, uses of campaign polls, organization, management, communication, and mobilization.
Examining how public bureaucracies in the U.S. relate to one another and their political environments. Topics include the growth of the administrative sector, regulatory federalism, representative bureaucracy, and political control of the bureaucracy.
Overview of development of political science as discipline and pluralistic introduction to epistemological perspectives that characterize field.
Empirical research methodology in political science.
Introduction to quantitative methods and techniques.
Special Topics: Refer to the syllabus for the course description.
Special Topics: Refer to the syllabus for the course description.
Special Topics: Refer to the syllabus for the course description.
Special Topics: Refer to the syllabus for the course description.
Special Topics: Refer to the syllabus for the course description.
Special Topics: Refer to the syllabus for the course description.
Basic principles of political thought. Examines the nature of the state and of the relationship between the individual and the state. Covers topics such as authority, consent, freedom and obligation. (H)
Examines the history of American political thought, including an analysis of Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, the federalist papers and the ideology of Thomas Paine. Also includes African American political thought, feminist political theories, liberalism, and the contribution of Mark Twain.
Close reading of political theorists and themes from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Emphasizes thinkers regarded as central to the development of republicanism, absolutism, liberalism, democracy, conservatism, and feminism.
Framework to understand the formation, adoption, budgeting, implementation and evaluation of public policy. This framework provides a basis for detailed discussions and debates about current policy issues.
General examination of public policy formulation and implementation. Special emphasis upon political and economic determinants and relationship to social theory.