Course Description: Survey of American national government, including the constitutional system, political culture, parties, elections, the presidency, Congress, and the courts.

Course Description: Survey of American national government, including the constitutional system, political culture, parties, elections, the presidency, Congress, and the courts.

Course Description: Introduction to basic concepts in political analysis and application of them in comparative studies of selected countries. Coverage is given to cultural and other informal dimensions of politics as well as to more formal political and governmental structures.

Course Description: International conflict and cooperation, including the Cold War, nuclear weapons, and new techniques for understanding international politics.

Course Description: Analysis of such concepts as the individual, community, liberty, equality, justice, and natural law as developed in the works of the major political philosophers.

Course Description: In-depth treatment of selected problems and issues of American politics, governmental institutions, and policies.

Course Description: Anger, distrust, and political polarization in the United States and abroad with emphasis on causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Democratic stability and democratic backsliding.

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Course Description: Seminar focusing on the political dimensions of American law and institutions. Examines the role of courts in resolving contemporary issues of law and politics including abortion, capital punishment, and civil rights.

Course Description: Introduction to the judicial process and constitutional law. Judicial interpretation, rights litigation, key constitutional amendments, and the sociopolitical forces that have prompted constitutional change.

Course Description: Current election events against backdrop of research-based exploration of factors influencing elections. Candidate nominations, campaign strategy, campaign finance, media coverage, and voter decision-making.

Course Description: Current election events against backdrop of research-based exploration of factors influencing elections. Candidate nominations, campaign strategy, campaign finance, media coverage, and voter decision-making.

Course Description: Analysis of direct participation by citizens in the lawmaking process.

Course Description: Survey of portrayals of politics and policy issues in moving pictures. Analysis of political processes, policy development, social mores, and historical periods as highlighted in Hollywood movies, television, and/or documentary films.

Course Description: Examination of political influence and persuasion.

Course Description: Core issues in American and world politics through the lens of sports and the athletes who play them. Introduction of American civil rights movement, the Cold War, Middle East Tensions, and democratization.

Course Description: Analysis of political institutions' response and adaptation to climate change.

Course Description: Introduction to quantitative data across the social sciences (Communications, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and other disciplines). Transforming data, describing data, producing graphs, visual reasoning, and interpretations.

Course Description: Introduction to the basic principles of the scientific study of politics. Research design and empirical analysis of data with applications to different methodological approaches and different substantive areas in political science.

Course Description: Examines fundamental issues and concepts that shape the study and practice of politics. Students will read, discuss and write about some of the most significant texts in political science in order to develop a foundation for the study of politics.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; lower division standing.

Course Description: Special study for undergraduates.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Politics and government of local communities in the United States, including cities, counties and special districts. Emphasizes sources and varieties of community conflict, legislative and executive patterns, expertise, decision making and the politics of structure. Observation of local governing boards.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Political and economic relationships among central cities, suburbs, and regional, state, and federal governments. Focuses upon policy areas such as poverty, transportation, welfare, and housing, and upon who governs and who benefits from the policies in these areas.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: California political system. Political culture, constitution, elections and parties, direct democracy, legislature, governor, executive branch, courts, finances, state-local relations and policy issues.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Legislative process with emphasis on the United States Congress; legislative organization and procedures, legislative leadership and policy making, legislators and constituents, relations between Congress and other agencies.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: American presidencies origins and development; presidential power and influence as manifest in relationships with Congress, courts, parties, and the public in the formulation and administration of foreign and domestic policy; nominations, campaigns, and elections.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Environment as a political issue in the United States. Development of administrative mechanisms for handling environmental problems. Changing role of Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy and the courts in environmental policy formulation and implementation.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Theoretical rationale for governmental activity, program evaluation, PPBS, positive theories of policy making, the quantitative study of policy determinants, implementation, and proposals for improved decision making.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Processes of formulating public policy, including individual and collective decision making, political exchange, competition, bargaining, coalition formation and the allocation of public goods, resources and opportunities.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to game theory. Explanation of the behavior of individuals in strategic interaction. Rational and behavioral approaches. Applications to political science and other fields.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Major contemporary attempts to reformulate traditional democratic theory, attempts to replace traditional theory by conceptual models derived from modern social science findings.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Origins and nature of American political thought. Principles of American thought as they emerge from the founding period to the present.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Logic and methods of analyzing quantitative political data. Topics covered include central tendency, probability, correlation, and non-parametric statistics. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the use of statistics in political science research.

Prerequisite(s): POL 051 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of the ideas central to medieval political thinking. Emphasis will be upon the thoughts of the major political thinkers of the period, rather than upon political history.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis and evaluation of the seminal works of a major political philosopher or of a major problem in political philosophy.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

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Course Description: Political thought of a specific historical period. Topics may include: Ancient Athens, the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, or 19th-century Germany.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Critical analyses of classical and medieval political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and St. Thomas.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Critical analysis of the works of early modern political philosophers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke and Hume.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Critical analyses of the works of late modern political philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx and Nietzsche.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Contemporary political thought from the end of the 19th century to the present. Emphasis upon an individual philosopher, concept, or philosophical movement; e.g., Nietzsche, Continental political thought, Rawls and critics, theories of distributive justice, feminist theory.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

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Course Description: Major contemporary approaches to the study of international politics, including balance of power, game theory, Marxist-Leninist theory, systems theory, and decision-making analysis.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of political processes involved in the initiation, conduct and termination of modern interstate warfare.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Selected topics in international law; territory, sovereign immunity, responsibility, the peaceful settlement or nonsettlement of international disputes.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: In the past several decades, growing economic interdependence has generated new problems in international relations. Deals with difficulties in managing complex interdependence and its implication on national policies and politics.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of current economic and political international relations resulting from a long standing division of the global system into rich and poor regions.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Compares the claims of the state and ethnic peoples in countries undergoing internal conflicts; e.g., South Africa, Northern Ireland. Analyzes the role of the international community in facilitating the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Intensive examination of one or more special problems in international politics. May be taught abroad.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Broad survey of the development of U.S. foreign policy in 20th century with emphasis on transformation of policy during and after World War II, and the introduction to analytic tools and concepts useful for understanding of current foreign policy issues.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Detailed presentation and examination of the formulation of execution of U.S. foreign policy. Survey of numerous factors influencing policy outcomes and how such determinants vary according to policy issue areas.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Development of national security policies since 1945. Analysis of deterrence and assumptions upon which it is based. Effects of nuclear weapons upon conduct of war, alliance systems, and the international system. Prospects of security and stability through arms control.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Overview of American foreign policy toward Africa. Relationship to global adversaries. Legacies of colonialism. Challenge of national self-determination and white racism. Policies on non-alignment, producer cartels, multinational corporations, continental integration and trade and aid relations.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: International politics of the Middle East as a microcosm of world politics. The Middle East as a regional system. Domestic and International Politics in the Middle East. Changing Political Structures in the Middle East. Superpower involvement in the Middle East.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Causes, course, and implications of Arab-Israeli conflict. Competing Israeli and Arab narratives, politics of force, diplomacy. Domestic politics and A-I conflict, the superpowers and the A-I conflict, A-I conflict and world politics, potential solutions.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of European unity, problems of the Atlantic alliance, Atlantic political economy, East-West relations, communism in Western Europe and the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy. May be taught abroad.

Prerequisite(s): POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Extensive examination of one or more special problems in foreign policy.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Workings of electoral institutions, focusing on systems used to elect presidents and assemblies, pass laws, and generally make decisions. Examples from systems throughout the world, including cases from both the advanced industrial and developing worlds.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Factors shaping political parties and their role in democratic representation.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of legislatures from a comparative perspective.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of factors contributing to the success and failure of political institutions.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Comparative analysis of policy-making in the U.S. and other countries.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Concept and practice of randomized policy experiments. Applications in comparative politics. Practical exercises in cleaning, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting data from experiments.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002; POL 051 recommended.

Course Description: Nature and sequence of political development; its economic and social concomitants; role of elites, military, bureaucracy, and party systems; social stratification and group politics; social mobilization and political participation; instability, violence, and the politics of integration.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Linkages between politics and the distribution of social and economic goods. Impact of civil rights legislation, the politics of welfare states, and the effects of political participation on the distribution of goods.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of conditions promoting democratization and democratic stability.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Issues related to democratic consolidation in Latin America, with a regional focus on South America. Topics include transitions to democracy, the role of the military, political economy, and political behavior.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to the politics of contemporary Mexico. Focus on rise, fall, and aftermath of Mexico's one-party dominant system.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Post-war democratization, state-building and economic reform in East European states.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Democratization, state-building and economic reform; creation of new institutions; impacts of Soviet rule.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to the domestic politics of Israel in comparative perspective, including issues of internal cultural diversity, religion and politics, fragmentation of the political party system, and coalition governance.

Course Description: African politics since the end of the Cold War. Topics include: Strategic Security Approach, Democratization, Human Rights, HIV/AIDS, African Peacekeeping, Terrorism, Religious and Ethnic Conflict, Debt and Stalled Development.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Political and economic development within Sub-Saharan Africa. States and institutions, democracy, party systems, military coups/rule, bureaucracy/corruption, race/ethnicity, national/regional integrations, trade unions, economic development strategies, class formation, and women's roles and ideology.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Evolution, politics, and contemporary problems of selected political systems of Western Europe. May be taught abroad.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Evolution, politics, and contemporary problems of Britain's political system.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Evolution, politics and contemporary problems of France's political system.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Evolution, politics and contemporary problems of Germany's political system.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Evolution of political institutions and political culture in China with emphasis on the post-1949 period. Primary attention to nationalism, modernization and political efficacy.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Japanese politics, with an emphasis on the postwar period. Particular emphasis on political parties, elections, political economy, and social problems.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Evolution of political institutions and economy of selected nations in Southeast Asia. Emphasis on imperialist legacy, nation building in multi-ethnic communities, and contrasts in economic performance.

Prerequisite(s): POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Politics of judicial policy making, issues surrounding constitutional interpretation and decision making, prerequisite for courses on the politics of constitutional law.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Constitutional politics surrounding such issues as the right to free expression, associational rights, the right to free exercise of religious beliefs and the right to privacy.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Constitutional politics of equality in the American political system; issues surrounding constitutional doctrine and judicial policymaking; special attention on racial and sexual equality.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Constitutional politics of the American criminal justice system. Issues surrounding constitutional doctrine and judicial policymaking on issues such as search and seizure. Arrest, trial, incarceration and other issues of due process.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of the nature and functions of law; law as an instrument of social control and the relationship between law and morality.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of the behavior of judges and courts in the political process. Techniques of judicial decision making. Relationships among courts and other decision-making bodies.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of recent issues, political battles, policy, and legal decisions on voting rights in the United States.

Course Description: Analysis of the structured operations of the party system in the United States; party functions and organizations, nomination processes, campaigns and elections, party trends and reforms.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of laws and court cases on the organization and administration of elections in the United States. Topics include campaign finance, redistricting, voting rights, race & representation, and comparisons with other democracies.

Course Description: Analysis of American elections and partisan behavior; political socialization, political participation, partisanship and individual and group determinants of voting.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Groups, institutions and individuals, especially in American politics. Historical and analytical treatment of group theories as applied to interest groups (especially labor, business, agriculture, science, military); to racial, ethnic and sectional groups; to parties, public and legislative groups, bureaucracies.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Nature of public opinion in America as it is supposed to be and as it is. Distribution of opinions among different publics and the significance of that distribution for system stability and institutions. Opinion polling and its problems.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Organization of and decision making within the media; media audiences and the effect of the media on attitudes and behavior; the relationship of the government to the media (censorship, secrecy, freedom of the press, government regulation);the media in election campaigns.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Organization of and decision making within the media; media audiences and the effect of the media on attitudes and behavior; the relationship of the government to the media (censorship, secrecy, freedom of the press, government regulation);the media in election campaigns.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Role of women in American politics. Historical experiences; contemporary organizations and strategies; areas of legislative concern; the impact of differences in social class, race, and ethnicity upon the involvement of women in politics.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Political aspects of Latino life in America; examines the political role of Latinos as it has been historically defined by different groups in society and the responses of Latinos to their political environment.

Course Description: Overview to the growing literature on political psychology. Introduction to how psychological concepts (personality, attitudes, stereotypes, heuristics, affect, identity, group dynamics) help us understand how citizens think about politics.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Nature and performance of political processes for making energy choices at the international, national and state levels. Interaction of energy policy with other political goals and the ability of governmental institutions to overcome constraints on policy innovation.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Systematic analysis of contemporary issues in American political development: historical determinants of political change; the timing and character of institutional development; conditions for successful political action. Democratization, cultural change, party formation, state-building, constitutionalism, race relations.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Political basis of economic policy (taxation, spending and regulation); impact of prices, employment and growth on political demands; elite responses to economic conditions; policy alternatives and the public interest.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of policymaking for science and the use of scientific expertise for making decisions about technology. Topics include funding of basic research, relationship of science to technological development, science and military policy, technological risks, technology assessment and scientists and politics.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Race, racial attitudes and racial policies in the United States with a specific emphasis on African Americans.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Intensive examination of one or more special problems appropriate to comparative politics. Coverage is given to formal and informal political institutions, economically developing and developed countries, and non-democratic, democratic, and democratizing countries.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Role of bureaucracy in a complex society, with emphasis upon changing relationships between government and the economy; consequences of rapid technological and social change for bureaucratic structures and processes; the problems of reconciling expertise and democracy and increasing the responsiveness of public bureaucracy.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 001 or POL 002 recommended.

Course Description: Implications for American public administration of evolving concepts about behavior in organizations.

Prerequisite(s): POL 001 recommended.

Course Description: Historical and critical analysis of the principal theories of organization and management of public agencies in light of such concepts as decision making, bureaucracy, authority and power, communication and control; examination of role of government bureaucracies in the total society.

Prerequisite(s): POL 004 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis and evaluation of substantive issues in contemporary international relations. Readings drawn from current academic and non-academic periodicals. May be taught abroad.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; POL 003 recommended.

Course Description: Supervised internship and study in political, governmental, or related organizations.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor; highest priority assigned to students with Political Science Public Service major; upper division standing required.

Course Description: Supervised internship and study in political, governmental, or related organizations.

Prerequisite(s): POL 192A; consent of instructor; highest priority assigned to students with Political Science-Public Service major; upper division standing.

Course Description: Supervised preparation of an extensive paper relating internship experience to concepts, literature, and theory of political science.

Prerequisite(s): POL 192A; POL 192B; open only to Political Science-Public Service majors, for whom it is required.

Course Description: Core academic component of Washington Program offered every quarter. Topics coordinated with internships. Research draws on resources uniquely available in Washington, DC. Supervised preparation of extensive paper.

Prerequisite(s): WAS 192W (can be concurrent).

Course Description: Directed reading, research and writing culminating in preparation of a senior honors thesis under the direction of faculty advisor.

Prerequisite(s): Major in Politcal Science with upper division standing and a GPA of 3.500 in the major.

Course Description: Directed reading, research and writing culminating in preparation of a senior honors thesis under the direction of faculty advisor.

Prerequisite(s): Major in Political Science with upper division standing and a GPA of 3.500 in the major.

Course Description: Intensive examination of one or more special problems appropriate to American politics.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; upper division standing.

Course Description: Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing in American politics. Topics may include Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, federalism, voting behavior, interest groups, ethnic groups or other topics with a more specialized content than normal course offerings.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division Political Science majors or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing in comparative politics. Topics may include one country or geographical area, political institutions or behavior across countries, political development, or other topics that are more specialized than normal course offerings.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division Political Science majors or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing in international relations including study of international political institutions (UN, EU, or NATO) or interstate relations (war, trade, immigration) and other topics with more specialized content than normal course offerings.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division Political Science majors or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing in political theory. Topics may include study of a single political thinker, a group of related thinkers, development of political concepts, or other topics with more specialized content than normal course offerings.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division Political Science majors or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Intensive reading, discussion, research, and writing in selected topics in Research Methods such as research design, statistics, game theory, etc.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division Political Science majors or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Tutor responsibilities such as attending class, offering a guest lecture on a select topic, assisting in group discussions, hosting consultation or review sessions, or assisting instructor with assignments (though not grading).

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

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Course Description: Directed group study.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; upper division standing.

Course Description: Special study for advanced undergraduates.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor; upper division standing.

Course Description: Survey and analysis of the literature in the field of local government and politics in the United States. Approaches to the study of political reform, local autonomy, community power, representation, expertise, service delivery, policy making and political change.

Course Description: Survey and analysis of the literature in the field of state government, politics, and policy. Approaches to the study of the American states as political systems, including their governing institutions and processes and their role in the Federal system.

Course Description: Thorough overview of the current research on political executives, with particular emphasis on the American presidency. Two principal goals: the development of important and innovative student research programs; and adequate preparation for qualifying examinations.

Course Description: Thorough overview of the current research on Congress, with particular emphasis on political representation. Two principal goals: the development of important and innovative student research programs; and adequate preparation for qualifying examinations.

Course Description: Survey and analysis of the literature in the field of American government with a focus on courts. Emphasis on the development and testing of theories of behavior and processes.

Course Description: Analysis of the interface between the world of academic reflection about ecological and environmental problems and the world of political action. Evaluation of alternative approaches to policy analysis and recommendation. Individual research, including field research, will parallel discussion of the literature.

Course Description: Social science techniques applied to public policy formation and evaluation.

Course Description: Analysis of selected theoretical and empirical issues posed by contemporary research in American government and politics.

Course Description: Introduction to philosophy of science and research design for political science. Topics include: logic of empirical research, overview of research design approaches for political science research.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Introductory seminar on the foundations of probability theory and mathematical statistics that are critical to empirical investigations in political science.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Seminar provides an introduction to the linear regression model. Will obtain a working knowledge of basic regression techniques and problems.

Prerequisite(s): POL 211.

Course Description: More advanced topics in the use of statistical methods, with emphasis on political applications. Topics include: properties of least squares estimates, problems in multiple regression, and advanced topics (probit analysis, simultaneous models, time-series analysis, etc.).

Prerequisite(s): POL 211; POL 212.

Course Description: Research seminar sequence required of all PhD students. Design, execution, and defense of an original piece of research in political science, culminating in a paper of publishable quality.

Prerequisite(s): POL 213.

Course Description: Research seminar sequence required of all PhD students. Design, execution, and defense of an original piece of research in political science, culminating in a paper of publishable quality.

Prerequisite(s): POL 212; POL 214A.

Course Description: Introduction to formal and game theoretic analyses of politics. Students will learn basic game theory and modeling skills. We examine the benefits of modeling, and look at examples of formal analysis in a variety of political science sub-fields.

Prerequisite(s): POL 211; POL 212.

Course Description: Methodology for utilizing theoretically-oriented case studies and controlled comparison of a small number of cases to develop and test theories. Examination of how the case study method compliments experimental, statistical and deductive modes of research.

Course Description: Introduction to social choice theory and formal spatial modeling including Arrows Theorem, the paradox of voting, cycling and agenda control. Focus on mastering modeling techniques as well as interpretation of classic works.

Course Description: Topics vary and may be the work of a single theorist, time period, or political concept, such as justice.

Course Description: Survey of the great works in ancient and medieval political theory including such writers as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Alfarabi and Marsilius. Discussions of various interpretations of these authors.

Course Description: Survey of the great works in early modern to contemporary political theory including such writers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, and Rawls. Discussion of various interpretations of these authors.

Course Description: Survey of important works in contemporary political theory including such writers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Rawls, Nozick, Sandel.

Course Description: Introduction to political theory and current debates over its study. Readings from and textual interpretations of political theory including the Federalist Papers and major works by thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls. Other readings addressing issues of textual interpretation.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: International relations.

Course Description: Contemporary scholarship on issues related to international conflict and political violence, with particular emphasis on how current trends in globalization and governance affect global security.

Prerequisite(s): POL 223; consent of instructor.

Course Description: Analysis of the international system by means of theory formulation and integration; critique of research designs; use of various techniques of data generation and analysis.

Course Description: Research in international political economy. Structure of the global economy, as well as specific dimensions of international economic relations, including trade, capital flows, global production structures, and migration.

Course Description: American foreign policy.

Course Description: Relates U.S. political culture to formulation of foreign policy. Analyzes American ideological preferences in historical perspective, contemporary public opinion, decision making and implementation. Concludes by examining linkages between foreign policy behavior and democratic process.

Course Description: Systematic analysis of selected topics dealing with the political process of communist political systems.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Systematic survey of theories and methods used in the study of comparative politics.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Comparison of institutional changes in countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the period of transition to democracy. Special attention to institutions of mass representation; electoral and party systems and national legislatures.

Course Description: Included in an analysis of policymaking process in Third-World countries are such topics as political resources, institutional resources, decision making, resource allocations, planning, and budgeting, implementation, and distribution of world resources.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Thorough overview of the literature regarding courts as policymaking institutions of government, with emphasis on the formation and implementation of judicial policy. Differences and similarities across the judicial, congressional, and executive branch policy processes.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Survey of selected topics in American and comparative parties.

Course Description: Survey of selected topics in political behavior and public opinion.

Course Description: Politics of economic policy as reflected in taxation, spending and regulation; impact of prices, employment, and growth on political demands; government responses to economic conditions; electoral politics and the political business cycle.

Course Description: Structure of political networks, socio-matrices and affiliation networks; general networks characteristics: density, centralization, polarization, interdependence, dyadic and triadic characteristics: structural and role equivalence; subsets of networks: cliques, blocks and bloc modeling; characteristics of individuals in networks: centrality and prestige.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Methodology seminar introducing Bayesian quantitative methods to issues and problems in political science and other social and behavioral sciences.

Prerequisite(s): POL 212; or equivalent to course.

Course Description: Methodology seminar introducing computing issues in empirical models for political science and other social and behavioral sciences.

Prerequisite(s): POL 213; or equivalent to course.

Course Description: Applications of formal theory to political science. Review of relevant contributions in other social sciences. Consideration of advanced techniques in game theory. Rational and behavioral approaches.

Prerequisite(s): POL 215; or equivalent to course.

Course Description: Organizational behavior as it relates to public sector decision making.

Course Description: Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMS) of networks, game theoretic models of network formation and network dynamics, diffusion processes, shocks and network collapse, percolation, cross-network spillover processes, social and political applications of advanced network models.

Prerequisite(s): POL 211; POL 212; POL 279.

Course Description: Approaches to causal inference using the potential outcomes framework, with political science applications using observational and experimental data. Covers several prominent causal research designs used for studying politics.

Prerequisite(s): POL 211; POL 212; POL 213.

Course Description: Special research seminar on problems and issues in the study of American government and public policy.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Special research seminar on problems and issues in the study of political theory.

Course Description: Special research seminar on select problems and issues in the study of international relations.

Course Description: Contemporary research on judicial politics, judicial institutions, jurisprudence, and judicial behavior.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Political Science or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Special research seminar on selected problems and issues in the study of political parties, politics, and political behavior.

Course Description: Special research seminar on select problems and issues in the study of comparative government and policy.

Course Description: Special research seminar on selected problems and issues in methods in political science.

Prerequisite(s): POL 212.

Course Description: Application and evaluation of theoretical concepts through work experience or systematic observation in public and political agencies.

Prerequisite(s): Open only to persons who have internships or other positions in governmental agencies, political parties, etc.

Course Description: Group study.

Course Description: Research.

Course Description: Research.

Course Description: Methods and problems of teaching political science at the undergraduate level.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Political Science.

Course Description: Teaching assistant training.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.