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Please find below a list of courses offered by each faculty member of the department since the Autumn 2000 quarter.

Danielle Allen

20100. Athenian Democracy and Its Critics (=AncSt 201, ClCiv 301, PolSci 201/304). This course analyzes the workings of Athenian democracy and the criticisms directed at that type of regime by the city's playwrights, orators, and philosophers. We look at institutional history, law court speeches, and tragedy to uncover the ways in which the Athenian democrats understood concepts crucial to their politics: for example, equality, rhetoric, autonomy, anger, gender relations, slavery, law, and reciprocity. We also discuss texts that take positions critical of the democracy's policies and/or of its conceptions of justice (e.g., Thucydides, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato). D.S. Allen. Autumn 2000.

25100. Ancient and Medieval Political Thought (=CLAS 20300/30300). This course will provide an upper level survey of political thought from Homer to Aquinas, with central emphasis falling on the sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Livy, Tacitus, and Augustine. We will investigate, among other topics, these thinkers' accounts of the origins, nature, and problems of human sociality, their diverse theories of justice, their varying efforts to draw connections between ethical and political reasoning or between morality and law (whether mortal or divine), as well as their different stresses on utopian and realist approaches to political thought. D. Allen. Winter 2002.

31600. Ancient and Medieval Political Thought (=CLAS 20300/30300). This course will provide an upper level survey of political thought from Homer to Aquinas, with central emphasis falling on the sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Livy, Tacitus, and Augustine. We will investigate, among other topics, these thinkers' accounts of the origins, nature, and problems of human sociality, their diverse theories of justice, their varying efforts to draw connections between ethical and political reasoning or between morality and law (whether mortal or divine), as well as their different stresses on utopian and realist approaches to political thought. D. Allen. Winter 2002.

44200. Hannah Arendt. In this course we’ll read The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem in order both to learn about the political thought of Hannah Arendt and to think about issues of responsibility and political agency. D. Allen. Spring 2007.

45600. Ralph Ellison (SCTH 41700). This seminar will explore the novels and essays of Ralph Ellison with a view, especially, to their analyses of democracy and democratic citizenship. We will explore the question of the relationship between literature and politics also, and such Ellisonian categories as the tragi-comic and topics like the place of anger, laughter, and public ritual in politics. D. Allen. Spring 2002.

55100. Seminar: Plato Menexenust and other Funeral Orations (=GREK 45100, SCTH 45100). D. Allen. Spring 2002.

Carles Boix

22600. Comparative Political Economy. The course will explore the interplay of politics and economics to answer the following questions: Why do different countries choose different economic strategies? Do these different economic policies affect the economy successfully? Can governments shape the economy according to their political preferences? Or are they constrained by any 'exogenous' forces? Finally, can they pursue economic policies which, satisfactory enough to their electorates, ensure their reelection? This course precisely attempts to address these questions. We begin by discussing the central debates that have surrounded the relationship between markets and states in the last two centuries. We then explore, using a set of theoretical models, the role that parties and politically organized interests, the structure of labor markets and the institutional structure of modern states have on the process of economic policy-making and on economic performance in general. After paying particular attention to developed nations, we then consider the political underpinnings of economic performance in developing areas - comparing Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa and East Asian nations. C. Boix. Spring 2003. Spring 2004.

23610. Comparative Politics: An Analytical Approximation. This course introduces students to current work done in comparative politics (and in political science in general) on the following topics: the formation of the state, democratic transitions and democratic consolidation, electoral representation and political accountability, and the role of constitutional structures in the aggregation of preferences and in policy-making. Here is a sample of the questions we will examine in the course: Why are there states? Under what conditions do countries become democratic? When does corruption take place? Do electoral laws matter for representation? When do parties adopt different ideological platforms? A unifying principle of the course is the assumption that it is possible to develop general theories to explain political phenomena over time and across countries. With this goal in mind, the course relies on analytical (formal-oriented) tools and draws upon cross-national empirical evidence. C. Boix. Winter 2006.

37100. Comparative Political Economy. Enrollment will be limited to 10-12. This course surveys the contemporary theories of political economy, with particular emphasis on the interaction between economic policies, political preferences, domestic institutions, the international economy, and their consequences on the economy. It considers: political business cycles, partisan models, the internal structure of labor markets and its consequences for economic governance, the effects of varying constitutional frameworks for policy-making, the underlying causes of public spending growth and debates over the welfare state, the impact of the international economy on domestic politics, the political and institutional underpinnings of growth and development. The course draws heavily on the comparative politics literature focused on OECD nations, but it also examines key work on the developing world. C. Boix. Winter 2001. Winter 2004. Winter 2006.

37900. European Political Development. A graduate-level course that explores, in a comparative manner, the political development of Europe from modern times. The course examines the formation of European states; the rise of nationalism; the distribution and evolution of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in Europe in the 20th century; the emergence of parties and party systems at the turn of the 20th century and their transformation today; the creation and evolution of welfare states; the process of European integration. Although rooted on historical analysis, the course will put a particular emphasis on the construction of explanatory theories and their applicability to other continents and periods. C. Boix. Winter 2003.

55400. Introduction to Comparative Politics. The purpose of this seminar is to acquaint students with the leading debates having to do with the social and economic bases for political outcomes. Topics include: political development and modernization; democracy, dictatorship and regime change; revolution; political culture and political attitudes; preference formation, social alignments and political parties; interest intermediation; states and markets; and the comparative method. C. Boix. Winter 2001. Autumn 2005.

John Brehm

22400. Public Opinion. What is the relationship between the mass citizenry and government in the U.S.? Does the public meet the conditions for a functioning democratic polity? This course considers the origins of mass opinion about politics and public policy, including the role of core values and beliefs, information, expectations about political actors, the mass media, economic self-interest, and racial attitudes. This course also examines problems of political representation, from the level of political elites communicating with constituents, and from the possibility of aggregate representation. J. Brehm. Winter 2001. Winter 2006.

23500. Political Organizations. This course introduces the study of political organizations and organizational behavior. We examine classic and contemporary writings on organizations, as well as applications of those ideas to political problems. J. Brehm. Spring 2007.

30300. Survey of American Politics. A survey of some of the main themes, topics and approaches in the study of American politics and government. J. Brehm. Winter 2002. Spring 2004.

30700. Introduction to Linear Models. This course will provide an introduction to the linear model, the dominant form of statistical inference in the social sciences. The goals of the course are to teach students the statistical methods needed to pursue independent large-n research projects and to develop the skills necessary to pursue further methods training in the social sciences. Part I of the course reviews the simple linear model (as seen in Stat 220 or its equivalent) with attention to the theory of statistical inference and the derivation of estimators. Basic calculus and linear algebra will be introduced. Part II extends the linear model to the multivariate case. Emphasis will be placed on model selection and specification. Part III examines the consequences of data that is “poorly behaved” and how to cope with the problem. Part IV introduces special topics like systems of simultaneous equations, logit and probit models, time-series methods, etc. The breadth of coverage depends on time. Relatively little prior knowledge of math or statistics is expected, but students are expected to work hard to develop the tools introduced in class. J. Brehm. Spring 2007.

35500. Public Opinion. A close examination of techniques employed, categories utilized and assumptions made by contemporary American students of public opinion. Criticism of these approaches from historical, philosophical and comparative perspectives will be encouraged. The course will make little sense to students without at least a background in Data Analysis (PLSC 30500). J. Brehm. Winter 2004. Winter 2006.

43100. Maximum Likelihood. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the estimation and interpretation of maximum likelihood, a statistical method which permits a close linkage of deductive theory and empirical estimation. Among the problems considered in this course include: models of dichotomous choice, such as turnout and vote choice; models of limited categorical data, such as those for multi-party elections and survey responses; models for counts of uncorrelated events, such as executive orders and bookburnings; models for duration, such as the length of parliamentary coalitions or the tenure of bureaucracies; models for compositional data, such as allocation of time by bureaucrats to task and district vote shares; and models for latent variables, such as for predispositions. The emphasis in this course will be on the extraction of information about political and social phenomena, not upon properties of estimators. J. Brehm. Winter 2003. Autumn 2005.

43200. Political Organizations. This course considers political organizations, such as bureaucracies, firms, parties, and unions, from two perspectives. The first regards organizations as structures, and examines such properties as hierarchy, asymmetric information, principal-agency, and span of control. The second regards organizations as composed of individual decision-makers, and examines such models of decision-making as rational choice, bounded rationality, routine-following, and the garbage can. Exemplars of the former approach include Max Weber and Frederick Taylor. Exemplars of the second approach include Herbert Simon and James March. The course draws from multiple fields, including sociology, psychology, and economics in order to understand the behavior of political organizations. J.Brehm. Winter 2001. Winter 2006.

43300. Political Psychology. This course is about how the human mind can shape our attitudes and behaviors in the realm of politics. Do our personalities matter for our political choices? How much does what we learn from others determine our political beliefs, or is it most given by self- interested status? When we introduce heuristics, or cognitive short- cuts, to our decisions, what biases follow? How much of what we think about politics comes from our sense of identity, or those we feel are most similar to? Can we trust political actors, and under what kinds of conditions? When is a message persuasive, and why? J. Brehm. Autumn 2006.

Cathy Cohen

22100. African American Politics. This course will explore both the historical and contemporary political behavior of African Americans, examining the multitude of ways in which African Americans have engaged in politics and political struggle in the United States. In some cases, the political behavior of black Americans has manifested itself through traditional modes of participation such as voting, the running of black candidates for public office or involvement in political parties. In other cases, African Americans have worked to gain, exercise and maintain the rights guaranteed to all citizens in the U.S. through activities deemed outside "traditional" political participation. To understand such different approaches to the liberation of black people, we must pay special attention to the attitudes, world views and ideologies that structure and influence African-American political behavior. An analysis of difference and stratification in black communities and its resulting impact on political ideologies and mobilization will be a crucial component of this course. We will consistently seek to situate the politics of African Americans in the larger design we call American politics. C. Cohen. Winter 2005.

26000. Race and Politics. Fundamentally, this course is meant to explore how race, both historically and currently, influences politics in the United States. For example, is there something unique about the politics of African Americans? Does the idea and lived experience of whiteness shape one's political behavior? Throughout the quarter, students interrogate the way scholars, primarily in the field of American politics, have ignored, conceptualized, measured, modeled, and sometimes fully engaged the concept of race. We examine the multiple manifestations of race in the political domain, both as it functions alone and as it intersects with other identities such as gender, class, and sexuality. C. Cohen. Winter 2004.

30500. Introduction to Data Analysis. This course is an introduction to the research methods practiced by quantitative political scientists. The first part lays out the enterprise of empirical research: the structure and content of theories, the formulation of testable hypotheses, the logic of empirical tests, and the consideration of competing hypotheses. The second part considers the implementation of empirical research: the potential barriers to valid inferences, the strengths and limitations of research designs, and empirical representations of theoretical constructs. The final part provides hands-on experience with the two kinds of analyses most frequently performed by quantitative political researchers: contingency tables and regression. C. Cohen. Autumn 2003.

35000. Race and Politics. Fundamentally, this course is meant to explore how race, both historically and currently, influences politics in the United States. For example, is there something unique about the politics of African Americans? Does the idea and lived experience of whiteness shape one's political behavior? Throughout the quarter, students interrogate the way scholars, primarily in the field of American politics, have ignored, conceptualized, measured, modeled, and sometimes fully engaged the concept of race. We examine the multiple manifestations of race in the political domain, both as it functions alone and as it intersects with other identities such as gender, class, and sexuality. C. Cohen. Winter 2004. Spring 2006.

38200. Political Socialization: Contemporary Youth Politics. The course will explore the literature on how people develop their politics, paying special attention to the participation of young people, especially those from marginal communities. C. Cohen. Winter 2003.

41400. Race, Gender, and Politics. PQ: PLSC 35000. C. Cohen. Spring 2002.

41700. Social Movements. This course is an introduction to theoretical and empirical research on social movements. In this course we will take social movements to mean national-level collective mobilizations organized for political change. During the quarter we will examine and debate what a range of scholars across disciplines have written about some of the fundamental questions regarding the emergence, evolution and political impact of social movements. For example, what types of collective action qualify as social movements? What factors lead to or shape the development of social movements? What role do social movements play in the working of American democracy? Finally, why have political scientists largely ignored social movements as a topic for extensive and careful study? C. Cohen. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2004.

46500. Power and Politics. This course will explore the literature on power as it has developed largely in American politics. C. Cohen. Spring 2003.

46510. Politics of Deviance. This course will explore the explicit and implicit politics involved in the construction of individuals, groups, and populations as deviant. What is the role of the state in such processes? How do concepts such as power, morality and norms function to create and maintain deviants? How does the label/category of deviant impact the distribution of resources, status and political power? We will begin the course by reading the established literature on deviance and then focus our attention on the politics of deviance in the realms of sex and youth culture. C. Cohen. Spring 2006. (B)

Michael Dawson

22100. African American Politics. This course will focus on how the continuing struggle for black empowerment has helped to shape both the current American political environment as well as the social and economic conditions of the black community. While this course focuses on African-American politics since WWII, some attention is paid to the period before the war in order to lay a firm foundation for the analysis of modern black politics. The unique nature of African-American politics necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject. Consequently, materials and lectures will also show how the study of race relations, psychology, economics, and sociology can inform our understanding of the critical importance of black politics to American politics. After considering such topics as the politics of the Civil Rights and Black Power eras, fiscal retrenchment, and blacks and governmental institutions, this course will end by considering whether a “New Black Politics” has emerged and the impact of the nation’s move toward the political right on African-American politics. M. Dawson. Autumn 2006.

23100. Democracy and the Information Technology Revolution. The revolution in information technologies has serious implications for democratic societies. We concentrate, though not exclusively, on the United States. We look at which populations have the most access to technology-based information sources (the digital divide), and how individual and group identities are being forged online. We ask how is the responsiveness of government being affected, and how representative is the online community. Severe conflict over the tension between national security and individual privacy rights in the U.S., United Kingdom and Ireland will be explored as well. We analyze both modern works (such as those by Turkle and Gilder) and the work of modern democratic theorists (such as Habermas). M. Dawson. Winter 2006.

25600. Hurricane Katrina and American Politics. Hurricane Katrina was not only one of the worse modern disasters in the U.S., but particularly its aftermath provided a lens in many of the fault lines within American society and politics. This course will use the disaster as a lens with which to analyze a wide range of topics in the study of American politics. Topics to be examined in this course using the disaster as a focal point include: the divides in American public opinion; the role of the media in politics; the responses of local, state and federal institutions; the role of political leadership; and, the strength and weakness of civil society in the U.S. M. Dawson, M. Harris-Lacewell. Spring 2006.

29600. Black Political Thought. This course is an intensive introduction to black political thought. The majority of texts considered during the first part of the course will be from key authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and bell hooks. During the second part of the course we will consider selected examples of applications of black political thought to contemporary debates. M. Dawson. Winter 2007.

30300. Survey of American Politics. A survey of some of the main themes, topics and approaches in the study of American politics and government. M. Hansen, M. Dawson. Winter 2006.

45500. Black Political Thought. This course is a very intensive introduction to black political thought. The majority of texts considered during the first part of the course will be from key authors such as the Combahee River Collective, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ida B. Wells. During the second part of the course we will reconsider the status of the "black public sphere"and its connection to other publics and counterpublics. Themes to be considered this year include: What are the core concepts and constellations of concepts historically found in African-American political thought? To what degree has the construction of gender in the African-American community and the interaction between gender and racial oppression shaped African-American political thought? To what degree do different classes and sectors within classes embrace different aspects of African-American political thought? To what degree does Habermas' concept of the "public sphere" help us understand the development of black political ideologies? Are other more modern understandings of publics, public spheres, and counterpublics useful for understanding African American ideological formation and the impact of African American ideologies on politics within the United States? M. Dawson. Spring 2006.

53100. Democracy and the Information Technology Revolution. The revolution in information technologies has serious implications for democratic societies. We concentrate, though not exclusively, on the United States. We look at which populations have the most access to technology-based information sources (the digital divide), and how individual and group identities are being forged online. We ask how is the responsiveness of government being affected, and how representative is the online community. Severe conflict over the tension between national security and individual privacy rights in the U.S., United Kingdom and Ireland will be explored as well. We analyze both modern works (such as those by Turkle and Gilder) and the work of modern democratic theorists (such as Habermas). An emphasis in this course will be the methodologies and research agendas utilized by scholars in this field. M. Dawson. Autumn 2006.

Daniel Drezner

24300. Globalization and Its Discontents. This course examines the political causes and effects of globalization, a term referring to the cluster of political, economic, and technological changes that have greatly reduced barriers to exchange? It starts with attempts to define the globalization phenomenon, looks at the historical build-up to the reduction of international barriers, and then examines the effect of globalization on both the developed and developing world. Specific topics include: the effects of unfettered capital flows on nation-states; the validity of race-to-the-bottom phenomena; the rise of global NGOs; the question of cultural homogenization; and whether globalization is reversible. D. Drezner. Spring Spring 2003.

27900. American Foreign Policy. The study of foreign policy lies on the fault-line between international relations, domestic politics, and policy analysis. In analyzing the foreign affairs of the United States, there is the added tension of pursuing the national interest versus advancing our nation's ideals. This course surveys the contending theories explaining U.S. foreign policy. It then examines significant episodes of the past century to identify the important factors and tradeoffs affecting U.S. policymakers. D. Drezner. Autumn 2001.

28200. U.S. Foreign Economic Policy. This course examines the foundations, assumptions, objectives, dynamics, and methods of U.S. foreign economic policy. What drives U.S. policymakers-national interests or special interests? To what extent is foreign economic policy driven by strategic factors?-How well do existing theories explain important economic policies? These questions are addressed by examining recent and historical episodes of U.S. policy with regard to trade, exchange rates, international finance, regulatory standards, foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and economic sanctions. D. Drezner. Winter 2004.

37700. Global Political Economy. This course introduces graduate students to the concepts, theories, practices, and data used to study the global economy. How much do political factors explain variations in economic outcomes? Does the global political economy affect domestic political structures? Various theoretical approaches are used to analyze separate dimensions of the global economic system: trade, finance, investment, the environment, technology transfer, etc. D. Drezner. Autumn 2001. Winter 2004.

38310. Global Governance. International relations theorists assume a world of anarchy, but there is an ever-thickening layer of international institutions that take on governance functions in world politics. Are these governance structures routinizing international politics? What factors determine the effectiveness and outcome of global governance? The course will also examine the extent to which non-state actors contribute to the phenomenon, the role of international law in buttressing such structures, and whether global governance is compatible with U.S. hegemony. D. Drezner. Autumn 2003.

47600. Classics of International Relations. Most courses in international relations focus on the current literature at the expense of the great works in the field. Without a working knowledge of Thucydides, Kant, or Schelling, graduate students are unable to place theoretical propositions into a historical context. This course surveys the history of international relations theory through a close reading of ten classic works in the field. Among the questions that will be addressed: how far has IR theory developed since Thucydides? How closely do theories of international relations mirror the era in which they were written? In what ways are these widely cited works simplified or misstated in the current literature? D. Drezner. Winter 2002. Autumn 2004.

Robert Gooding-Williams

33800. Nietzsche’s Critique of Modernity. Open to undergraduates with consent. An examination of Nietzsche's mature philosophical thought, with special attention to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morals. R. Gooding-Williams. Spring 2007.

42900. Critical Race Theory. An examination of post-segregation, normative theories of black politics. Readings from the writings of Joy James, Adolph Reed, Paul Gilroy, Tommie Shelby and others. R. Gooding-Williams. Winter 2007.

Jeff Grynaviski

25300. American Political Parties. This course is designed as an introduction to the nature and function of American political parties. We concentrate on two main themes. First, we explore the origins of the American party system. Specific topics include the origin of America's ambivalence toward political parties, the emergence of parties in the U.S., and the institutional foundations of America's two-party system. Second, we investigate the role that political parties play as intermediary institutions between the public and their elected officials. Our studies focus on the role of political parties in the organization of elections and the government. More advanced topics include political realignments, divided government, and the decline of parties hypothesis. J. Grynaviski. Winter 2003. Spring 2004. Spring 2006.

25510. Political Machines. Political machines were the dominant form of partisan organization in the United States for much of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this course, we investigate these organizations through two lenses. First, we track the evolution of political machines, examining why they came about, how they maintained themselves, and why they declined. Second, we examine the performance of machines as agents of representation and governance. J. Grynaviski. Winter 2004.

30700. Introduction to Linear Models. This course will provide an examination of statistical methods employed in political science. We will begin with an introduction to general regression models and their use in subjecting theoretical claims to empirical tests. We will discuss the least squares regression model, the assumptions that underlie it, the problems that arise from violating these assumptions, and ways we can restore the ability to draw valid inferences from least squares models. This course will have a decidedly different approach than typical statistics courses. I intend to emphasize intuitive understanding and practical application of statistical tools and to develop students' ability to choose and employ the appropriate tool for particular research questions. Topics to be covered include: multicollinearity, non-linearity and non-additivity, autocorrelation, heteroskadasticity, logit, probit, experimental methods, simultaneous equations, and structural equations. M. Harris-Lacewell. J. Grynaviski. Spring 2002. Spring 2003. Spring 2004. Spring 2005. Spring 2006.

36300. American Political Parties. This course is designed as an introduction to the nature and function of American political parties. We concentrate on two main themes. First, we explore the origins of the American party system. Specific topics include the origin of America's ambivalence toward political parties, the emergence of parties in the U.S., and the institutional foundations of America's two-party system. Second, we investigate the role that political parties play as intermediary institutions between the public and their elected officials. Our studies focus on the role of political parties in the organization of elections and the government. More advanced topics include political realignments, divided government, and the decline of parties hypothesis. J. Grynaviski. Winter 2003. Spring 2004.

43500. Applied Bayesian Statistics for Political Scientists. This course provides an introduction to the applications of Bayesian statistics to political science. We begin with a discussion of the theoretical foundations of Bayesian methods. From these foundations we develop univariate (e.g. the mean), simple multivariate (e.g. both the mean and variance), and more complicated multivariate (e.g. regression) models. Advanced topics may include Bayesian treatments of general linear models, hierarchical models, and models of missing data. Emphasis will of course be placed on the development of competency with tools to implement these methods. J. Grynaviski. Spring 2003.

45510. Political Machines. Political machines were the dominant form of partisan organization in the United States for much of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this course, we investigate these organizations through two lenses. First, we track the evolution of political machines, examining why they came about, how they maintained themselves, and why they declined. Second, we examine the performance of machines as agents of representation and governance. J. Grynaviski. Winter 2004.

51010. Special Topics: Political Methodology. The purpose of this course is to cover a number of topics useful for graduate study in Political Science that were beyond the scope of the quarter-long linear models classThe course will be roughly divided into three parts. Part I is a brief introduction to maximum likelihood methods with applications to the linear model and models with dichotomous dependent variables (logit and probit). Part II of the course is basic time-series analysis. Part III covers basic pooled time-series and cross-section methods. Students are expected to have taken Introduction to Linear Models or its equivalent. J. Grynaviski. Spring 2005. (E)

Mark Hansen

22710. Electoral Politics in America. This course explores the interactions of voters, candidates, the parties, and the media in American national elections, chiefly in the campaign for the presidency, both in nominating primaries and in the November general election. The course will examine how voters learn about candidates, how they perceive candidates, how they come to turn out to vote, and how they decide among the candidates. It will examine the strategies and techniques of electoral campaigns, including the choices of campaign themes and the impact of campaign advertising. It will consider the role of campaign contributors and volunteers, the party campaign organizations, campaign and media polls, and the press. Finally, it will assess the impact of campaigns and elections on governing and policymaking. M. Hansen. Autumn 2004.

23301. Interest Group Politics. In this course we will take up claims about interest groups and their role in American politics and consider ways to evaluate them systematically. We will discuss their formation and maintenance as organizations, their efforts to influence Congress and the bureaucracy, their part in campaigns and elections and their overall effect on the conduct of American democracy. M. Hansen. Autumn 2002.

24810. Politics of the U.S. Congress. This course examines Congress from the perspective of the 535 senators and representatives who constitute it. It examines congressional elections, legislators' relationships with their constituents, lawmakers' dealings in and with committees, and representatives' give-and-take with congressional leadership, the executive, and pressure groups. M. Hansen. Autumn 2003, 2006.

30300. Survey of American Politics. A survey of some of the main themes, topics and approaches in the study of American politics and government. M. Hansen, M. Dawson. Winter 2006. (B)

30700. Introduction to Linear Models. PQ: PS 301. An introduction to the general linear regression model, the most widely used inferential tool in quantitative social science. The course first considers the model and its statistical properties. It then considers generalizations of the model that deal with problems caused by violations of its assumptions. Topics include the general linear model, hypothesis testing, nonlinearities in variables, interactions, diagnostics, heteroscedastic residuals, autocorrelated residuals, lagged variables, qualitative dependent variables, measurement error, interdependent sets of equations and graphic display of data and regression models. M. Hansen. Spring 2001.

51400. Topics in American Politics: Party Nominations and Primary Elections. M. Hansen. Spring 2003.

Melissa Herris-Lacewell

20500. Introduction to American Government. This course provides an introduction to American national politics. The course topics include an introduction to America's constitutional foundations; elements of mass public politics (public opinion and participation); the role of intermediary organizations (interest groups, media, parties); and the function of institutions (Congress, Presidency, Courts). In addition to mastering a basic set of facts about American government, students will learn theories addressing "big questions" in American politics, and will explore critical assessments of the evidence brought to bear on these questions. Students will be expected to take part in extensive verbal and written discussion of the various topics. M. Harris-Lacewell. Winter 2001. Spring 2004. Spring 2006.

29100. Black Women's Political Activism (GNDR 29100). Enrollment limited to 25. This course uses the history of African American women's political activism to illuminate questions of participation in American politics. Examining the intersection and interaction of gender, race, sexuality, and class with politics in the United States this course re-conceptualizes both politics and political science. By moving black women from their historically marginal position in the curriculum to the center of our attention, we will begin to explore ways of transforming knowledge about American politics. Specific readings, discussion, and writing will explore topics such as feminism, labor activism, the civil rights movement, black power and black women in the academy. M. Harris-Lacewell. Winter 2003.

30600. Introduction to Statistics. This course will provide an introduction to statistical concepts useful for social scientists. We will begin with an examination of basic statistical concepts and move to an introduction of general regression models and their use in subjecting theoretical claims to empirical tests. We will discuss representation of data, hypothesis testing, and bivariate and multivariate least squares regression. This course will have a decidedly different approach than typical statistics courses. I intend to emphasize intuitive understanding and practical application of statistical tools and to develop students' ability to choose and employ the appropriate tool for particular research questions. Weekly data assignments form the core of this course. M. Harris-Lacewell. Winter 2004.

33500. Political Psychology/Experimental Methods for Political Scientists. The course is intended as an introduction to the application of contemporary psychological theories and methods to the study of political behavior. Psychological approaches to politics rely heavily on traditional areas of social psychology (e.g. attitudes, emotion and affect, group processes), memory and cognition, and decision making. This course draws on literatures in both psychology and political science addressing pivotal topics such as political cognition, political socialization, attitude formation and change, decision heuristics and biases, knowledge structures and memory, public opinion, and race and politics. Through the lens of political psychology, this course also provides an introduction to the use of experimental methods in political behavior research. In addition to substantive concerns of the field, the course will address critical issues of research design, measurement, and statistical inference in the experimental study of political behaviors and attitudes. M. Harris-Lacewell. Winter 2001.

34900. American Political Behavior. This course provides a thorough introduction to American political behavior. We will address concerns such as voter turnout and voter choice, political interest, efficacy, and public opinion. This course will provide both a solid grounding in the "classics" of behavioral work and provide insight into the current research in American political behavior. Readings and discussion will highlight voting behavior, the rise of distrust, disinterest, and inefficacy; the formation of party attachments; political attitudes and sophistication; ideology; the influence of the media; and the centrality of race in American politics. We will spend considerable time on analysis of the 2000 elections as they unfold during the quarter. This is a seminar course with a considerable reading load and discussion requirement. M. Harris-Lacewell. Autumn 2000. Winter 2003. Winter 2006.

34900. African American Political Thought. Politics has played a key role in the African American experience in the United States. This course offers and intensive introduction to black political thought.This course focuses on the various ideologies and strategies which have informed the African American quest for human fulfillment, self actualization, and equity in the United States of America. The readings will focus on thinkers and activists from the rebellion against slavery to the contemporary charges of institutional racism and reparations. The course will focus on such activists, thinkers, and writers, as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr, Angela Davis, Kwame Toure, Malcolm X, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, the contemporary African American conservatives, public intellectuals, and lesser known figures will be explored. M. Harris-Lacewell. Spring 2004.

46800. Black Religion and Black Politics. Scholars of the African American experience have located the black church as the cultural, social and political womb of the black community. This research tends to think of the church as a structure that brings actors into contact with one another; it has paid less attention to the church as a place that brings actors into contact with ideas. This course will use a variety of classic and contemporary texts about black political thought as an entry into investigating the connections between black religious ideas and political activism. The class links the work on religion to an intensive introduction to black political thought. M. Harris-Lacewell. Spring 2006. (B)

Gary Herrigel

27400. Politics of Industry in Advanced Industrial States. This course surveys the experience of industrial development in the three major developed regions of the world in the twentieth century. Key themes are struggles over the control of the corporation (separation of management and ownership, codetermination, and stakeholder capitalism), differences in corporate structure (Konzern and multidivisional company, and Zaibatsu/Keiretsu), role of small and medium size firms in the economy, the development of industrial relations systems, industrial policy, and welfare state institutions. G. Herrigel. Winter 2001.

45000. Comparative Capitalisms I. This course is a general introduction to theories of capitalist organization and development. Foundational works by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Polanyi will be reviewed in addition to more contemporary theoretical writings in neoclassical economics, economic geography, political economy and economic sociology. G. Herrigel. Winter 2001. Winter 2002. Winter 2003. Winter 2005.

45010. Social Theory and the Economy. This course surveys social theoretic writing on the boundaries and character of economic process. Topics include theories of reflexivity and agency, recombinant organizational forms, and alternative forms of governance. G. Herrigel. Winter 2006. Winter 2007.

45100. Comparative Capitalisms II. PQ: Completion of PolSci 450 is encouraged but not required. This course will address key empirical and theoretical controversies involving matters of economic and industrial adjustment in advanced industrial economies. Literature on the welfare state, regions, corporate governance, industrial relations and industrial organization will be examined in comparative context. G. Herrigel. Spring 2001. Spring 2002. Spring 2003. Spring 2005.

45110. Issues in Comparative Capitalism. PQ: Completion of PLSC 45010 is encouraged but not required. This course will address key empirical and theoretical controversies involving matters of economic and industrial adjustment in advanced industrial economies. Literature on the multinationals, regions, corporate governance, industrial relations, welfare states, new patterns of administrative governance and democracy will be examined in comparative context. G. Herrigel. Spring 2006. Spring 2007.

Charles Larmore

20900. The Meaning of Life. (=PHIL 21500) This course explores the nature of the most basic question we may ask ourselves: how should we lead our lives? What sort of question is this? What is involved in reflecting, not simply upon whether this action is right or that trait is admirable, but upon what a life should be like as a whole? Do we discover the meaning of life, or do we create it for ourselves? Is only the reflective life worth living? Topics also include conversion, life-plans, and fear of death. Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Nietzsche, Berlin, I. Murdoch, S. Hampshire, Rawls, B. Williams, and T. Nagel. C. Larmore. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2005.

23700. Sartre (=PHIL 21200). The focus of the course is on sections from Being and Nothingness dealing with the nature of consciousness, subjectivity, and interpersonal relations. Attention is also given to the novel Nausea as well as to Sartre's later writings in social philosophy. C. Larmore. Autumn 2002.

26600. History of Philosophy III: Kant and the Nineteenth Century (=PHIL 27000). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities. This course studies a number of important moral and political philosophers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Kant, Bentham, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, and others may be read. C. Larmore. Spring 2002.

27100. History of Philosophy II: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. (=HIPS 26000, PHIL 26000). Completion of the general education requirement in humanities required. PHIL 25000 helpful. This course surveys the history of philosophy from the late medievals to Hume. C. Larmore. Winter 2004.

33100. The Self (=Philos 331, PolSci 331). This course focuses on the nature of self-knowledge and on the role which self-interpretation plays in the constitution of the self. Readings range from Montaigne and Fichte to contemporary authors such as Charles Taylor and Donald Davidson. C. Larmore. Autumn 2000.

36000. Philosophical Theories of Modernity (=Philos 361, PolSci 360). This course focuses on critical theories of modern and Enlightenment thought. We will discuss the extent to which formal or instrumental ideas of rationality are characteristic of modern thought, the supposed differences between ancient and modern moral thinking, the nature of secularization, the notion of a "dialectic of Enlightenment," and the meanings of "post-modernism." Readings from Schiller, Nietzsche, Weber, Heidegger, Adorno, Horkheimer, Blumenberg, Habermas, Lyotard, and Taylor. C. Larmore. Winter 2001.

36600. Value Pluralism (=PHIL 31700). A study of pluralistic theories of moral value, focusing on their motivations, structure, and implications. Readings will be from Aristotle, Herder, Berlin, and contemporary writers. C. Larmore. Winter 2002.

40810. Practical Reason. (=PHIL 51500) In this seminar we will examine some of most notable recent work on the means and ends of practical reasoning as well as on the nature of reasons and of normativity in general. Books discussed will include Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings; Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity; and Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other. There will also be discussion of essays by Williams, Frankfurt, Raz, McDowell, and Dancy. C. Larmore, Autumn 2005. (A)

48200. Contemporary Theories of Justice (=PHIL 41200, LAWS 77801). This course focuses on four contemporary classics - Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Walzer's Spheres of Justice, and Sen's Inequality Re-Examined. C. Larmore. Spring 2002.

51620. The Legal and Political Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin. (=PHIL 51810) This seminar will be centered primarily on Dworkin's legal philosophy, as expounded in Taking Rights Seriously and Law's Empire, focusing on his critique of positivism and on his interpretive theory of law as integrity. But considerable attention will also be given to its connections to his political philosophy and to his ideas about liberalism and justice. C. Larmore. Winter 2006. (A)

52600. Natural Law. C. Larmore. Autumn 2003.

52700. Freedom. The focus will be recent studies of freedom in both its psychological and political senses. Topics covered will include free will, freedom and necessity, freedom and responsibility, negative and positive liberty. Readings from such authors as Berlin, Strawson, Chisholm, Frankfurt, Nagel, Pettit. C. Larmore. Winter 2004.

Jacob Levy

21300. Freedom, State and Society. There are a number of possible ways to understand the relationship between freedom and the institutions, associations, and communities that stand between the individual and a central state family, religious community, ethnocultural community, local and provincial levels of government, and so on. They may be the sites where free lives are led, or they may be sites of local tyranny. They may provide protection against a central state, or through competition promote internal liberalization; or they may provide local havens of unreflective tradition that slow the growth of freedom. This course will be structured around the question of how secondary institutions relate to freedom, and around debates between those who provide different answers. We will draw on history, economics, law, political science, and, especially, political theory. In examining the freedom-promoting effects of federalism and of competing jurisdictions, as well as in studying the status of voluntary associations in the United States today, we will be considering some quantitative empirical findings, but no prior knowledge of statistics or economics is required. J. Levy, S. Rudolph. Spring 2002.

22000. Constitutionalism (=LL/Soc 253). In this course we will study the ideas and practices of constitutionalism. These center around the constraint of state power, and especially its constraint by law. We will look at the constitutions, and the constitutional practices, of a number of contemporary and historical states. We will also read works from political theory and from the philosophy of law on the idea of a legally binding constitution, on the founding of states, on the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy, and on processes of constitutional revision and reform. We will read some judicial cases that cast light on basic practices and ideas of constitutionalism, but the course is not case-driven. In particular, it is not focused on how the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the U.S. Constitution. Rather, it is comparative, historical, and theoretical. J. Levy. Spring 2001.

25710. The Long 18th Century I. PQ: For undergraduates: At least four quarters of political or social theory or philosophy (including core sequences). This course will examine political, legal, and economic thought in Western Europe and North America from 1688 until the middle of the 18th century. It will focus on English and French thought during the early years of the post-Glorious Revolution era and the early Enlightenment, with particular attention given to Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. Students may take this course or its spring successor without taking the other, but there will be considerable gains from taking them in sequence. The course will include an optional French-language discussion section for students interested in reading selections from 18th-century French political thought in the original. J. Levy. Winter 2006.

25720. The Long 18th Century II. PQ: At least four quarters of political or social theory or philosophy (including core sequences). This course will examine political, legal, and economic thought in Western Europe and North America from the mid-18th century through the French Revolution. It will focus on the Scottish Enlightenment, the American Revolution and founding, and the French Revolution, with particular attention given to Hume, Smith, and the Federalist Papers. Students may take this course or its winter-quarter predecessor without taking the other, but there will be considerable gains from taking them in sequence. J. Levy. Spring 2006.

31300. Freedom, State and Society. There are a number of possible ways to understand the relationship between freedom and the institutions, associations, and communities that stand between the individual and a central state family, religious community, ethnocultural community, local and provincial levels of government, and so on. They may be the sites where free lives are led, or they may be sites of local tyranny. They may provide protection against a central state, or through competition promote internal liberalization; or they may provide local havens of unreflective tradition that slow the growth of freedom. This course will be structured around the question of how secondary institutions relate to freedom, and around debates between those who provide different answers. We will draw on history, economics, law, political science, and, especially, political theory. In examining the freedom-promoting effects of federalism and of competing jurisdictions, as well as in studying the status of voluntary associations in the United States today, we will be considering some quantitative empirical findings, but no prior knowledge of statistics or economics is required. J. Levy, S. Rudolph. Spring 2002.

34000. American Political Thought, 1700-1900. This course will survey major themes in American political thought beginning in prerevolutionary times, as well as historiographic debates about the course of American political thought (the liberal consensus, the civic republican turn, etc). These will include constitutionalism and constitutional interpretation, federalism, the separation of powers, slavery, continental expansion and the dispossession of Indians, relations between state and market, and religion. Depending on student interest, some twentieth-century work may be included. J. Levy. Spring 2004.

35200. Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Nationalism. This course will draw on history, sociology, political science, and the history of political thought to supplement its primary attention to contemporary debates in political philosophy about ethnicity, culture, and nation. Topics will include some or all of: secession, the rights of linguistic groups, the rights of indigenous peoples, immigration, cosmopolitanism, the relationship between nationalism and democracy. J. Levy. Winter 2001.

35300. Conservative and Radical Liberalisms. This course will explore a recurring tension within liberal thought--between a view that society can and should be radically remade in accordance with liberal ideas of rationality, autonomy, and freedom, and a view that the liberal state must respect existing traditions and ways of life (even when these are not autonomous), that it must be so powerful as to dominate society, and that rationality is of limited importance to liberalism. The latter view favors decentralized power, federalism, and a thick civil society made up of a variety of kinds of associations and communities; the former favors the use of state power to prevent the growth of local tyrannies. We will discuss whether one or the other is truer to liberalism or morally preferable in general, and whether and how they could or should be synthesized. We will read Burke, Paine, and Wollstonecraft; Tocqueville and Mill; Montesquieu and Voltaire; and debates surrounding the abolition of slavery and the rights of women. We will also--briefly--consider the contemporary instantiations of this debate. J. Levy. Spring 2001.

35710. The Long 18th Century I. PQ: For undergraduates: At least four quarters of political or social theory or philosophy (including core sequences). This course will examine political, legal, and economic thought in Western Europe and North America from 1688 until the middle of the 18th century. It will focus on English and French thought during the early years of the post-Glorious Revolution era and the early Enlightenment, with particular attention given to Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. Students may take this course or its spring successor without taking the other, but there will be considerable gains from taking them in sequence. The course will include an optional French-language discussion section for students interested in reading selections from 18th-century French political thought in the original. J. Levy. Winter 2006.

35720. The Long 18th Century II. PQ: At least four quarters of political or social theory or philosophy (including core sequences). This course will examine political, legal, and economic thought in Western Europe and North America from the mid-18th century through the French Revolution. It will focus on the Scottish Enlightenment, the American Revolution and founding, and the French Revolution, with particular attention given to Hume, Smith, and the Federalist Papers. Students may take this course or its winter-quarter predecessor without taking the other, but there will be considerable gains from taking them in sequence. J. Levy. Spring 2006.

40302. American Indian Law and Politics. (=LAWS 80302) Enrollment limited to 25. This course will survey the evolution and present state of American Indian law and politics in the United States, with a primary focus on federal-tribal relations and secondary emphases on state-tribal relations and the government of reservations themselves. Topics will include treaties; land rights; sovereignty; allotment and termination; federal jurisdiction over reservations; religious freedom; and civil liberties issues on reservations. Option of a research paper or a final exam. J. Levy. Autumn 2005.

40700. Constitutionalism (=LL/Soc 253). In this course we will study the ideas and practices of constitutionalism. These center around the constraint of state power, and especially its constraint by law. We will look at the constitutions, and the constitutional practices, of a number of contemporary and historical states. We will also read works from political theory and from the philosophy of law on the idea of a legally binding constitution, on the founding of states, on the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy, and on processes of constitutional revision and reform. We will read some judicial cases that cast light on basic practices and ideas of constitutionalism, but the course is not case-driven. In particular, it is not focused on how the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the U.S. Constitution. Rather, it is comparative, historical, and theoretical. J. Levy. Spring 2001.

46600. Jurisprudence (=LAWS 76001). After a brief introduction to some major schools in the history of legal thought, this course will be devoted to twentieth-century philosophical jurisprudence, including Hart, Fuller, Raz, Dworkin, Finnis, and Kelsen. We will explore questions including what law is, the relationship between law and morality, the relationship between law and politics, and the idea of rights in a legal system. J. Levy. Spring 2002.

Charles Lipson

21400. World Politics in the Nineteenth Century: A History. The course provides an overview of major developments in 19th century history: wars, revolutions, diplomacy, economic development, imperial expansion, and international trade and investment. The course covers key elements of international history needed for further study of international politics and IR theory. Besides diplomatic relations among the Great Powers, the course examines long-term trends in economic development and military force. Specific topics include the settlement after the Napoleonic Wars, the failed revolutions of 1848-49, European imperialism, the industrial revolution, and the origins of World War I. C. Lipson. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2004.

21500. World Politics in the 20th Century, 1914-1945: A History. This course provides a survey of major wars, the development of states' military and financial capacity, the maintenance of European empires, diplomatic alignments and alliances, arrangements for international trade and investment, as well as efforts to create international institutions. It surveys the history of modern inter-state relations in the first half of the 20th century (the period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II). It deals with key elements of international history needed for further study of international politics and IR theory, including long-term trends in diplomacy, economic development, and military force. C. Lipson. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2003.

21600. World Politics in the 20th Century, 1945-1991: A History. This course provides a survey of major wars, the development of states' military and financial capacity, imperial retreat, diplomatic alignments and alliances, arrangements for international trade and investment, as well as efforts to create international institutions. It surveys the history of modern inter-state relations in the latter half of the 20th century. It focuses on the Cold War and the development of an integrated world economy under U.S. leadership. It deals with key elements of international history needed for further study of international politics and IR theory, including long-term trends in diplomacy, economic development, and military force. C. Lipson. Winter 2002. Autumn 2005.

29000. Introduction to International Relations. This course introduces the main themes in international relations, including the problems of war and peace, conflict and cooperation. The course begins by considering some basic theoretical tools used to study international politics. It then focuses on several prominent security issues in modern international relations, such as the Cold War and post-Cold War world, nuclear weapons, arms control, and nationalism. The last part of the course deals with economic aspects of international relations. It concentrates on issues where politics and economics are closely intertwined: world trade, foreign investment, environmental pollution, and European unification. C. Lipson. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2004. Autumn 2005. Autumn 2006.

32400. World Politics in the Nineteenth Century: A History. The course provides an overview of major developments in 19th century history: wars, revolutions, diplomacy, economic development, imperial expansion, and international trade and investment. The course covers key elements of international history needed for further study of international politics and IR theory. Besides diplomatic relations among the Great Powers, the course examines long-term trends in economic development and military force. Specific topics include the settlement after the Napoleonic Wars, the failed revolutions of 1848-49, European imperialism, the industrial revolution, and the origins of World War I. C. Lipson. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2004.

32500. World Politics in the 20th Century, 1914-1945: A History. This course provides a survey of major wars, the development of states' military and financial capacity, the maintenance of European empires, diplomatic alignments and alliances, arrangements for international trade and investment, as well as efforts to create international institutions. It surveys the history of modern inter-state relations in the first half of the 20th century (the period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II). It deals with key elements of international history needed for further study of international politics and IR theory, including long-term trends in diplomacy, economic development, and military force. C. Lipson. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2003.

32600. World Politics in the 20th Century, 1945-1991: A History. This course provides a survey of major wars, the development of states' military and financial capacity, imperial retreat, diplomatic alignments and alliances, arrangements for international trade and investment, as well as efforts to create international institutions. It surveys the history of modern inter-state relations in the latter half of the 20th century. It focuses on the Cold War and the development of an integrated world economy under U.S. leadership. It deals with key elements of international history needed for further study of international politics and IR theory, including long-term trends in diplomacy, economic development, and military force. C. Lipson. Winter 2002.

39800. Introduction to International Relations. This course introduces the main themes in international relations, including the problems of war and peace, conflict and cooperation. The course begins by considering some basic theoretical tools used to study international politics. It then focuses on several prominent security issues in modern international relations, such as the Cold War and post-Cold War world, nuclear weapons, arms control, and nationalism. The last part of the course deals with economic aspects of international relations. It concentrates on issues where politics and economics are closely intertwined: world trade, foreign investment, environmental pollution, and European unification. C. Lipson. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2004. Autumn 2005. Autumn 2006.

44500. Hard Questions in IR Theory. This seminar will pose 3 or 4 major questions that remain unresolved (and sometimes unasked) in IR theory. One is the repetitiveness (or “cyclical nature”) of international politics, which is a recurrent theme of Realist analysis. Is this basic assumption warranted and, if so, how should our theories cope with changes in technology, political organization, or ideology? Another hard question deals with the sources of international order. Is it ultimately based on the material relationships, such as the balance of power, or on shared norms and ideas, or some combination? What about the rise (and international reach) of non-state actors? Do they pose fundamental challenges to state-centric theorizing . . . or not? The course will pose several such questions and ask students to pose large questions of their own, as agendas for emerging IR research. This course presumes students have had some prior coursework at the graduate level in international relations theory, security studies, or international political economy. C. Lipson. Autumn 2006.

46000. Sources of International Relations. This course in international relations theory builds on students' prior graduate training to explore four distinct but overlapping sources of international order: coercion, norms, institutions, and contractual bargains. Students will discuss and critique existing literature in all four areas and write a major paper. The course presumes students have had some prior coursework at the graduate level in international relations theory, security studies, or international political economy. C. Lipson. Autumn 2003. Winter 2005.

Patchen Markell

20600. Action and Responsibility. Enrollment limited to 25. Action inserts us into a web of events and consequences not wholly under our control. Conceptions and practices of responsibility render us accountable for some of the consequences of our actions while insulating us from accountability for others. In this course, we will study some of the features and conditions of action (especially political action) that make responsibility important and that also render responsibility problematic. Our themes will include value pluralism; moral and political dilemmas; unpredictability; "dirty hands"; the relations among moral, political, "collective," and "historical" responsibility; and the role of philosophy and/or social science in addressing problems of action and responsibility. Readings will be drawn from classic and contemporary works of philosophy, political theory, and literature. P. Markell. Winter 2001.

24000. Nineteenth-Century European Political Thought: Hegel and Marx. (=FNDL 25702) This course examines the work of two key figures in the development of European political theory and philosophy in the aftermath of the French Revolution: Hegel and Marx. We focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right and Marx's early critiques of Hegel, although these readings may be supplemented by selections from Hegel's early political and cultural writings and from his Phenomenology of Spirit, as well by some of Marx's political writings up through the revolutions of 1848. The course does not deal with Marx's mature critique of political economy. P. Markell. Winter 2004.

24100. Democracy and Its Critics in Nineteenth Century Political Thought (=LLSO 29500, PLSC 24100). This course surveys developments in nineteenth-century European and American political thought, focusing on the theory and practice of democracy, and exploring its connections to such other themes as liberalism, race, empire, socialism, nationalism, the state, gender, class, and mass. The course involves close readings of important works of philosophy and political theory, as well as reconstruction of these works' historical context, including some examination of concrete political struggles over democracy. P. Markell. Winter 2003.

24520. Arendt's The Human Condition. PQ. By consent only. Enrollment limited to 20. For advanced undergraduates. Undergraduates must have completed their Humanities and Social Sciences sequences, and one more specialized course in a relevant area of political theory or philosophy is strongly recommended. This seminar will be devoted to a close reading of Hannah Arendt' s The Human Condition, focusing both on its internal conceptual structure and on its intellectual and political contexts. P. Markell. Winter 2006.

34500. Marx's Capital (=Hist 543). A close, critical study of Volume 1 of Marx's Capital. We will also read Moishe Postone's Labor, Time, and Social Domination and possibly some additional secondary literature. P. Markell, W. Sewell. Winter 2001.

34520. Arendt's The Human Condition. PQ. By consent only. Enrollment limited to 20. For advanced undergraduates. Undergraduates must have completed their Humanities and Social Sciences sequences, and one more specialized course in a relevant area of political theory or philosophy is strongly recommended. This seminar will be devoted to a close reading of Hannah Arendt' s The Human Condition, focusing both on its internal conceptual structure and on its intellectual and political contexts. P. Markell. Winter 2006.

34600. Seminar: Agency. P. Markell. Spring 2003.

42300. Democratic Theory. Is democracy best conceived as the constraint of potentially tyrannical power, or as the exercise of popular sovereignty? Is it best imagined as an institutional form, or as an unruly force that necessarily challenges institutional authority? What is the relationship between democracy and economic inequality? Between democracy and constitutional law? In this seminar we shall consider such questions obliquely, by following the development, over more than four decades, of the work of two eminent American scholars, Sheldon Wolin and Robert Dahl. Rough contemporaries, trained and employed in the same field, Wolin and Dahl have nevertheless made little reference to each other' s work, and their spheres of influence in contemporary democratic theory do not much overlap. At one level, then, the seminar is meant to stage a much-needed encounter between what might be called "radical" and "mainstream"democratic theory; yet it should also help us reflect critically on the adequacy of those labels, and also to understand how the substance of twentieth-century democratic theory has been shaped by arguments about what "theory" is, about its place in the academic discipline of political science, and about the relationship between democratic politics and the institutionalized expert cultures of political theory and political science. This course is primarily for Ph.D. students in the Department of Political Science, although applications from students in other fields are welcome; enrollment will be limited and instructor consent required. P. Markell. Spring 2006.

42400. Politics, Art, and Aesthetics. Enrollment limited and by consent of the instructor only. What is the meaning of art for politics? What is the political significance of the differentiation of an “aesthetic” domain of activity and experience in Euro-American modernity? Can aesthetic judgment serve as a model for political judgment? What can the study of art and aesthetics teach us about how and when people experience events, objects, or spaces as (politically) meaningful or engaging? This seminar approaches such questions both historically and thematically, through the close reading and discussion of important works in the philosophy of art and aesthetics, political theory, and art history and criticism. Readings vary. P. Markell. Winter 2007.

43900. Language, Politics and Political Theory. How do academic political theorists combine the study of texts, the study of history, and reflection on larger theoretical, philosophical, or political problems? To explore this question, we read and discuss a series of interpretations of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, along with related works that make explicit the conceptions of language, history, and theory that inform these interpretations. Primarily for Ph.D. students in political theory; enrollment will be limited and instructor consent required. P. Markell. Winter 2006.

44000. Nineteenth-Century European Political Thought: Hegel and Marx. (=FNDL 25702) This course examines the work of two key figures in the development of European political theory and philosophy in the aftermath of the French Revolution: Hegel and Marx. We focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right and Marx's early critiques of Hegel, although these readings may be supplemented by selections from Hegel's early political and cultural writings and from his Phenomenology of Spirit, as well by some of Marx's political writings up through the revolutions of 1848. The course does not deal with Marx's mature critique of political economy. P. Markell. Winter 2004.

46100. 20th Century Hegelianism. A reading of several important works by twentieth-century thinkers influenced by Hegel, with special attention to the theme of recognition. Readings are to be determined, but may include works by: Bataille, Kojve, Fanon, Lacan, DuBois, Habermas, Derrida, Honneth, Taylor, Zizek, Butler, Sartre, Adorno, and others. Students should have some prior experience with Hegel's thought. P. Markell. Winter 2004.

46200. Contemporary Theories of Agency. A survey of important work in contemporary social and political theory on the theme of agency. P. Markell. Spring 2004.

John McCormick

22800/52800. Principles and Practice of Roman Republicanism. Enrollment limited to 15. This course is devoted to the history, institutions and ideas of the Roman Republic. Readings include classical accounts of Rome’s development (Polybius and Livy), contemporary analyses of its constitution and social structure (Nicolet, Lintott, and Mitchell), philosophic expressions of the epoch (Cicero), and considerations of their reception in subsequent ages (Millar). Themes to be discussed include: the relationship of rich and poor citizens in a republic; the political accountability of elites; the rule of law; the common good; the necessity/threat of “great men”; and military power. Students are expected to come to the first session having read Book I of Livy’s History of Rome. J. McCormick. Winter 2007.

27200. Florentine Republicanism I: Political Theory. This is the first in a two-course sequence on republican theory and practice in Renaissance Florence. This term is devoted to the political writings of the two giants of Florentine republicanism: Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolo Machiavelli. Readings include Machiavelli's The Prince, and Discourses on Livy; and Guicciardini's Maxims and Dialogue on Florentine Government; as well as both authors' recommendations for reforming the constitution of Florence. Themes include the relationship between the person and the polity; the compatibility of moral and political virtue; the utility of class conflict; the advantages of mixed institutions; the principles of self-government, deliberation, and participation; and the question of military conquest. J. McCormick. Autumn 2003.

27215. Machiavelli's Political Thought. (=LLSO 28200) This course is devoted to the political writings of Niccol Machiavelli. Readings include The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Florentine Histories and the "Discourses on Florentine Affairs." Themes to be explored include: the relationship between the person and the polity; the compatibility of moral and political virtue; the utility of class conflict; the advantages of mixed institutions; the principles of self-government, deliberation, and participation; the meaning of liberty and the question of military conquest. J. McCormick. Spring 2005.

27215/52315. Machiavelli and the Florentine Republic. (=LLSO 28200) Enrollment limited to 15. This course is devoted to the political writings of Niccolò Machiavelli, his intellectual predecessors such as Petrarch, Bruni, Salutati, and contemporary interlocutors such as Guicciardini. These readings will be studied in light of the political history of these writers’ native city, the Florentine Republic. Themes to be explored include: the relationship between the person and the polity; the compatibility of moral and political virtue; the utility of class conflict; the advantages of mixed institutions; the principles of self-government, deliberation, and participation; the meaning of liberty and the question of military conquest. Students are expected to come to the first session having read Machiavelli’s The Prince in its entirety. J. McCormick. Spring 2007.

27300. Florentine Republicanism II: History and Interpretation. PQ: PLSC 27200. This is the second in a two-course sequence on republican theory and practice in Renaissance Florence. This term is devoted to classic histories and influential interpretations of Florentine republicanism. Readings include Burckhardt, Baron, Chabod, Rubinstein, Brucker, Pocock, Skinner, and Viroli. Themes include oligarchic versus populist republics, executive power in collegial regimes, the problem of faction, the significance of patriotism, the critique of tyranny, and the problems posed by alliances and wars. J. McCormick. Winter 2004.

27400/47400. Carl Schmitt on Law and the Political. Enrollment limited to 15. This course is devoted to the political thought of controversial lawyer and National Socialist partisan, Carl Schmitt. We will read and discuss his major works on sovereignty, the exception, legal theory, parliamentary government, liberalism versus democracy, and “the political.” But we will devote special attention to his two masterpieces of state philosophy and international law, respectively, Constitutional Theory and Nomos of the Earth. We will also consider recent appropriations of Schmitt’s theories by authors such as Agamben, Hardt and Negri. Students are expected to come to the first session having read The Concept of the Political in its entirety. J. McCormick. Autumn 2006.

52300. Florentine Republicanism I: Political Theory. This is the first in a two-course sequence on republican theory and practice in Renaissance Florence. This term is devoted to the political writings of the two giants of Florentine republicanism: Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolo Machiavelli. Readings include Machiavelli's The Prince, and Discourses on Livy; and Guicciardini's Maxims and Dialogue on Florentine Government; as well as both authors' recommendations for reforming the constitution of Florence. Themes include the relationship between the person and the polity; the compatibility of moral and political virtue; the utility of class conflict; the advantages of mixed institutions; the principles of self-government, deliberation, and participation; and the question of military conquest. J. McCormick. Autumn 2003.

52400. Florentine Republicanism II: History and Interpretation. PQ: PLSC 27200. This is the second in a two-course sequence on republican theory and practice in Renaissance Florence. This term is devoted to classic histories and influential interpretations of Florentine republicanism. Readings include Burckhardt, Baron, Chabod, Rubinstein, Brucker, Pocock, Skinner, and Viroli. Themes include oligarchic versus populist republics, executive power in collegial regimes, the problem of faction, the significance of patriotism, the critique of tyranny, and the problems posed by alliances and wars. J. McCormick. Winter 2004.

52500. Contemporary Democratic Theory. This graduate seminar interrogates recent theoretical approaches to the theory and practice of popular government. In particular, it will focus on a number of tensions in the literature: between minimalist and participatory models; state-centered versus civil-society-focused approaches; emphases on class and identity; theories that prioritize rights as opposed to popular will, among others. Readings include Przeworski, Dahl, Putnam, Shapiro, Skocpol, Sandel, Young, and Pettit. J. McCormick. Autumn 2003.

52800. The Roman Republic: Principles and Practice. This course is devoted to the history, institutions and ideas of the Roman republic. Readings include classical accounts of Rome's development (Polybius and Livy), contemporary analyses of its constitution and social structure (Nicolet, Lintott, and Mitchell), philosophic expressions of the epoch (Cicero), and considerations of their reception in subsequent ages (Millar). Themes to be discussed include: the relationship of rich and poor citizens in a republic; the political accountability of elites; the rule of law; the common good; and military power. J. McCormick. Spring 2005. (A)

52900. Renaissance Florence: Political Theory meets Social History. This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics and society in Renaissance Florence, integrating political theory and social history. We will read primary sources, standard histories, classic interpretations, as well as examine new empirical data pertaining to the Florentine republics, oligarchies and Medici regimes of the Medieval and Renaissance eras. Primary authors include Bruni, Dante, Savonarola, Machiavelli and Guicciardini; historians consulted will be Najemy, Rubinstein, Butters, Stephens, Martines, Baron and Brucker. Mr. Padgett will make available original statistical data and analyses on the social networks and economic markets undergirding the political ideas, institutions and events that we consider. Renaissance intellectual history will be placed in the context of the political, social and economic context of thirteenth through fifteenth century Florence, thereby asking questions about mutual influence. J. McCormick, J. Padgett. Winter 2005.

52315. Machiavelli's Political Thought. (=LLSO 28200) This course is devoted to the political writings of Niccol Machiavelli. Readings include The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Florentine Histories and the "Discourses on Florentine Affairs." Themes to be explored include: the relationship between the person and the polity; the compatibility of moral and political virtue; the utility of class conflict; the advantages of mixed institutions; the principles of self-government, deliberation, and participation; the meaning of liberty and the question of military conquest. J. McCormick. Spring 2005. (A)

John Mearsheimer

27600. War and the Nation-state (=PolSci 376). The aim of this course is to examine the phenomenon of war in its broader socio-economic context during the years between the emergence of the modern nation-state and the end of World War II. J. Mearsheimer. Winter 2001. Winter 2003.

28300. Seminar on Realism. The aim of this course is to read the key works dealing with the international relations theory called "realism." J. Mearsheimer. Spring 2001. Spring 2002. Spring 2003. Spring 2004. Spring 2005.

28320. Realism. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the realist paradigm of international relations. The readings will include such classic works as Machiavelli' s The Prince and Kenneth Waltz' s Theory of International Politics. Special attention will be paid to subjects like: 1) human nature vs. structural realism, 2) defensive vs. offensive realism, 3) the absence of a balancing coalition against the United States since the Cold War ended, and 4) the role of ethics in realist thinking. J. Mearsheimer. Winter 2006.

28400. American Grand Strategy. This course examines the evolution of American grand strategy since 1900, when the United States first emerged on the world stage as a great power. The focus is on assessing how its leaders have thought over time about which areas of the world are worth fighting and dying for, when it is necessary to fight in those strategically important areas, and what kinds of military forces are needed for deterrence and war-fighting in those regions. J. Mearsheimer. Winter 2004.

28900. Strategy. This course is about American national security policy in the post-Cold War world, especially the principal issues of military strategy that are likely to face the United States in the next decade. The course is structured in five parts. The first component examines the key changes in strategic environment since 1990. The second looks at the effects of multipolarity on American grand strategy and basic national goals. The third block focuses on nuclear strategy. The fourth section is about conventional strategy. The last block discusses the future of war and peace in the Pacific Rim. J. Mearsheimer. Spring 2001. Winter 2002.

37600. War and the Nation-state (=PolSci 376). The aim of this course is to examine the phenomenon of war in its broader socio-economic context during the years between the emergence of the modern nation-state and the end of World War II. J. Mearsheimer. Winter 2001. Winter 2003. Winter 2005.

41500. Nationalism in the Age of Globalization. Nationalism has been the most powerful political ideology in the world for the past two centuries. This course examines its future in the age of globalization, focusing in particular on the widespread belief that it is a outmoded ideology. Specific topics covered in the course include: the causes of nationalism, its effects on international stability, nationalism and empires, globalization and the future of the state, globalization and national identities, the clash of civilizations, American nationalism, and the clash between Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. J. Mearsheimer. Spring 2005. Spring 2006.

49500. American Grand Strategy. This course examines the evolution of American grand strategy since 1900, when the United States first emerged on the world stage as a great power. The focus is on assessing how its leaders have thought over time about which areas of the world are worth fighting and dying for, when it is necessary to fight in those strategically important areas, and what kinds of military forces are needed for deterrence and war-fighting in those regions. J. Mearsheimer. Winter 2004.

50900. Comparative Case Study Method. This course will examine the core epistemological and methodological issues surrounding the case study method. J. Mearsheimer. Spring 2001 (with Robert Pape). Spring 2002. Winter 2004.

53000. Seminar on Great Power Politics. The specific aim of this course is to introduce students to some of the key policy issues involving the great powers that dominate the post-Cold War world. Three topics will receive special emphasis: European security, Asian security, and the role of the United States in the larger world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is expected that all students in the class will be well-versed in international relations theory, and will bring their theoretical insights to bear on the relevant policy issues. The broad goal is to encourage students to appreciate that international relations theory and important policy issues are inextricably linked to each other. J. Mearsheimer. Winter 2001. Winter 2002. Winter 2003. Spring 2004. Winter 2005.

Luis Medina

21700. Game Theory. This course will present the most commonly used techniques of game theory, that is, the branch of rational choice theory that deals with interdependent actions. It will focus on simple games and examples relevant to political science with and without uncertainty, and in both static and dynamic settings. The course assumes some knowledge of algebra, basic calculus and elementary probability theory. L. Medina. Winter 2001. Winter 2002.

24900. Insurgency and Democratization in Latin America (1960-2000). This course will analyze different instances of violent insurgency in Latin America during the second half of the 20th Century and how they affected the consolidation (or lack thereof) of democratic politics in the countries where they occurred. In order to gain comparative perspective, it will study three countries with different experiences both in their economic and political background and in their outcomes: El Salvador, Argentina and Colombia. The set of readings will draw mostly from political and economic history but no special background on these disciplines is assumed. L. Medina. Winter 2003. Spring 2004. Spring 2005.

30800. Game Theory. This course introduces concepts of game theory, that is, the mathematical study of interdependent decisions, and some basic instances of its uses in political science. Its goal is to present the basic solution concepts most widely used in the literature (rationalizability, Nash equilibrium, sub-game perfect equilibrium and perfect Bayesian equilibrium, core) in a way that requires little, if any, previous mathematical background. L. Medina. Spring 2001. Autumn 2001. Winter 2002. Winter 2003. Spring 2004.

35800. Formal Approaches to Comparative Politics. This course presents some of the applications of the rational choice paradigm to comparative politics. It consists on three parts of uneven length: civil and ethnic conflict, transitions to democracy and democratic regimes, being the latter the longest one. Within that last chapter, the course will cover the analysis of elections, legislatures, political parties and politico-economic environments (e.g. distributive taxation and public goods). Students with some background in mathematics (especially, algebra and calculus) will benefit the most although other students unfamiliar with, but willing to engage in, formal analysis are also welcome. L. Medina. Spring 2001. Winter 2002. Winter 2003.

41900. Rationality and Collective Action. In this course, we will study critically theories of collective action with an added focus on those proposed by the Rational Choice paradigm. First, we will discuss what demands we ought to place on a theory of collective action if it is to do justice to the ontology of the phenomenon it purports to study. To that end, we will engage some literature on social theory and epistemology of the social sciences. Then we will look at the substantive contents of the rational choice approaches (especially those deriving from Olson and Schelling) together with some criticisms levelled against them from alternative approaches and will inquire about their alleged empirical relevance. Finally, we will study some new tools of game theory that hold the promise of placing the rationalist theory of collective action on a firmer footing and of making it more operational and testable. Some familiarity with rational choice approaches and game theory is desirable but not required. L. Medina. Winter 2005.

Eric Oliver

28600. Political Psychology. Using abstract theories and empirical studies, we investigate the sources of human thinking and behavior as they relate to political action, conflict, and organization. Topics include the inevitability of conflict, the dynamics of obedience and authority, the function and organization of political attitudes, the variety in styles of political thinking, the sources of stereotypes and intolerance, the role of emotions in political life, and non-Western understandings of human consciousness and political action. E. Oliver. Winter 2004.

28610. Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and the Emotional Life. Using abstract theories and empirical studies, we investigate the sources of human thinking and behavior as they relate to political action, conflict, and organization. Topics include the inevitability of conflict, the dynamics of obedience and authority, the function and organization of political attitudes, the variety in styles of political thinking, the sources of stereotypes and intolerance, the role of emotions in political life, and non-Western understandings of human consciousness and political action. E. Oliver. Spring 2005. Autumn 2005.

28615. Politics and Human Nature. Class limited to 15 and 3rd and 4th years only. This course explores commonalities among psychoanalytic theory, Buddhism, and studies of emotions and brain physiology, particularly as they relate to questions of the self and political life. In addition to exploring each of these theories, we investigate particular questions such as the inevitability of conflict, the dynamics of obedience and authority, the emotional power of ideology, and non-Western understandings of human consciousness. E. Oliver. Winter 2007.

32200. Urban Politics/Voting Behavior. This course examines two topics normally not studied in conjunction within American politics: urban politics and voting behavior. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the literatures in these two areas and ultimately to prompt students to develop their own theories of what drives voting choices in local elections. The first half of the course will focus on studies of urban politics, examining topics such as what has driven the development of metropolitan areas, who has power in local affairs, how land, capital, and labor drive political decisions, and the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender in local politics. The second half of the class examines American voting behavior and what factors influence the choices voters make. Topics will include what influences voter turnout and participation, the origins of party identification, and the impact of issues, race and ideology on vote choice. In the final part of the course, students will integrate these two areas of inquiry and think about what drives voting in local elections and what role local elections have in the functioning of democracy within metropolitan areas. E. Oliver. Autumn 2003. Spring 2006.

35200. Political Theory and Social Neuroscience. This course utilizes recent advances in cognitive neuroscience to investigate claims by political theorists (both classical and contemporary) about human nature and political organization. Topics include the inter-relationship between affective and cognitive information processes, the physiology of morality, the meaning of self-governance, and the possibility for making essential claims about human nature, particularly as they relate to processes of political organization. Readings will draw from both the political science cannon as well as recent journals and books in neuroscience. E. Oliver. Winter 2007.

37200. Race, Politics, and Segregation. This seminar will focus on a particular area of politics in the metropolis: the interrelationship between racial attitudes and racial segregation. Many of the biggest political challenges within metropolitan areas continue to revolve around questions of racism and racial segregation. In this seminar we will explore the bases of racial resentment, patterns and sources of racial segregation, the effects of segregation and racial hostility (and vice-versa), and what policy challenges they present. In addition to the readings, students will be expected to produce a research report on a particular aspect of this problem. Topics can include: racial attitudes among understudied groups (such as Latinos and Asian Americans), new trends in racial segregation (from 2000 Census data), consequences of racial segregation for particular groups in areas such as health, education, or employment. These will be developed in consultation with me. In addition to the written report, students will write a 3-4 page analysis of the week's readings to be shared for the group every third week. E. Oliver. Winter 2004.

49700. Obesity, Politics and Society. This course examines the political and cultural consequences of America's obesity epidemic. Topics to be examined include: the factors behind the growth of obesity, the changing food and exercise culture in the United States, the intersection of obesity with concerns of race, class, and gender, issues of size discrimination, and various policy options. E. Oliver. Autumn 2004.

John Padgett

27500. Organizational Decision Making (=SOCI 35000, PPHA 33500). This course is an examination of the process of decision making in modern complex organizations such as universities, schools, hospitals, business firms, and public bureaucracies. The course also considers the impact of information, power, resources, organizational structure, and the environment, as well as alternative models of choice and other implications. J. Padgett. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2004. Winter 2006. Winter 2007.

37500. Organizational Decision Making (=SOCI 35000, PPHA 33500). This course is an examination of the process of decision making in modern complex organizations such as universities, schools, hospitals, business firms, and public bureaucracies. The course also considers the impact of information, power, resources, organizational structure, and the environment, as well as alternative models of choice and other implications. J. Padgett. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2003. Winter 2006. Winter 2007.

46400. State and Market Formation. This course will focus on the emergence of alternative forms of organization control (e.g., centralized bureaucracy, multiple hierarchies, elite networks, and clientage) in different social structural contexts (e.g., the interaction of kinship, class, nation states, markets and heterodox mobilization). Themes will be illustrated in numerous cross-cultural contexts. J. Padgett. Winter 2004.

46410. Co-evolution of States and Markets. This course will focus on the emergence of alternative forms of organization control (e.g., centralized bureaucracy, multiple hierarchies, elite networks, and clientage) in different social structural contexts (e.g., the interaction of kinship, class, nation states, markets and heterodox mobilization). Themes will be illustrated in numerous cross-cultural contexts. J. Padgett. Spring 2006. Winter 2007.

47300. Complexity. J. Padgett. Winter 2002.

57200. Social Networks. This seminar explores the sociological utility of the network" as a unit of analysis. How do the patterns of social ties in which individuals are embedded differentially affect their ability to cope with crises, their decisions to move or change jobs, their eagerness to adopt new attitudes and behaviors? The seminar group will consider (a) how the network differs from other units of analysis, (b) structural properties of networks, consequences of flows (or content) in network ties, and (d) dynamics of those ties. J. Padgett. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2004. Spring 2006. Autumn 2006.

Robert Pape

39900. Strategy. This course is about American national security policy in the post-Cold War world, especially the principal issues of military strategy that are likely to face the United States in the next decade. The course is structured in five parts around the question of how American nuclear and conventional strategy should adapt to an increasingly multipolar world. The first component examines the key changes in strategic environment since 1990. The second looks at the effects of multipolarity on American grand strategy and basic national goals, such as off-shore balancing, spreading democracy, and isolationism. The third block focuses on nuclear strategy, using debates on nuclear strategy and the utility of nuclear threats as tools to examine the problems of deterring major and minor nuclear powers. The fourth section is about conventional strategy, covering conventional deterrence and coercion theory, the use of coercive air power in Vietnam and Iraq, and the problems of intervention in ethnic conflict. The last block discusses the future of war and peace in the Pacific Rim. R. Pape. Spring 2001. Spring 2003. Spring 2005. Spring 2006. Spring 2007.

40600. Seminar on International Relations Theory. The end of the Cold War ushered in a new set of debates about how to study international politics. This course is an introduction to some of those important theoretical approaches and is organized around debate among realism, liberalism, and constructivism and their variants. Seminar discussion will identify and criticize the central arguments advanced by different scholars in order to assess the relative merits of different theoretical perspectives. R. Pape. Winter 2001. Winter 2004. Winter 2006. Winter 2007.

41200. Terrorism. This course examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of terrorism, with special emphasis on suicide terrorism. The course takes a building-block approach. It begins with competing theories about the causes of terrorism, then examines prominent cases, such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al Qaeda, and ends with a series of student research days focusing on important topics, such as those covered in the course as well as on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the IRA, the Assassins, and other cases. R. Pape. Spring 2003. Spring 2004. Spring 2006. Spring 2007.

42700. Politics of Unipolarity. R. Pape. Spring 2005. (D)

50900. Comparative Case Study Method. This course will examine the core epistemological and methodological issues surrounding the case study method. J. Mearsheimer, R. Pape. Spring 2001.

Gerald Rosenberg

22500. Law and Society. (=FNDL 28100, LLSO 28100) This course examines the myriad relationships between courts, laws, and lawyers in the United States. Issues covered range from legal consciousness to the role of rights to access to courts to implementation of decisions to professionalism. G. Rosenberg. Spring 2004. Spring 2005.

22510. Law and Society. (=LLSO 28100) PQ: PLSC 28800 or equivalent. This course examines the myriad relationships between courts, laws, and lawyers in the United States. Issues covered range from legal consciousness to the role of rights to access to courts to implementation of decisions to professionalism. G. Rosenberg. Spring 2007.

22515. The Political Nature of the American Judicial System. PQ: PLSC 28800 or equivalent. This course aims to introduce students to the political nature of the American legal system. In examining foundational parts of the political science literature on courts conceived of as political institutions, the seminar will focus on the relationship between the courts and other political institutions. The sorts of questions to be asked include: Are there interests that courts are particularly prone to support? What effect does congressional or executive action have on court decisions? What impact do court decisions have? While the answers will not always be clear, students should complete the seminar with an awareness of and sensitivity to the political nature of the American legal system. G. Rosenberg. Winter 2005. Winter 2007.

28800. Introduction to Constitutional Law (=LLSO 23900). This course is an introduction to the constitutional doctrines and political role of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on its evolving constitutional priorities and its response to basic governmental and political problems, including maintenance of the federal system, promotion of economic welfare, and protection of individual and minority rights. G. Rosenberg. Winter 2002. Winter 2004. Winter 2006.

29200. Civil Rights/Civil Liberties (=LLSO 24000). PQ: PLSC 28800 or equivalent and consent of instructor. This course examines selected civil rights and civil liberties decisions of U.S. courts with particular emphasis on the broader political context. Areas covered include speech, race, and gender. G. Rosenberg. Spring 2002. Spring 2006.

37000. U.S. Courts as Political Institutions (=LAWS 51300). An examination of the ways in which United States courts affect public policy. Questions include: How do the procedures, structures, and organization of the courts affect judicial outcomes? Are there interests that courts are particularly prone to support? What effect does congressional or executive impact, including judicial selection, have on court decisions? What are the difficulties with implementation of judicial decisions? G. Rosenberg. Winter 2002. Winter 2004. Winter 2005. Winter 2006. Autumn 2006.

38500. Recent Literature on the Courts. PQ: PLSC 37000. This course examines new and recent literature in public law broadly defined. It aims to bring participants in touch with the newest and most exciting work in the public law field and to identify the most promising questions for future research. Topics covered range from recent jurisprudential work (Bork, Dworkin and Ackerman) to agenda-setting (Perry, Provine) to public opinion (Marshall) to judicial policy (Rabkin, Morgan). G. Rosenberg. Spring 2002. Spring 2005.

43000. Law and Social Science. G. Rosenberg. Autumn 2000.

48700. Culture, Practice and Social Change (=Hist 665). Most theories of culture are better suited for explaining social stasis than social change; indeed, they often see social change as somehow originating outside the cultural realm--for example, from social breakdowns, economic changes, or contact with other societies. The goal of this class will be to build change into the theory of culture--in part by insisting that culture be conceptualized as practical activity. The readings will include both theoretical works and concrete investigations of social change. W. Sewell. Autumn 2000.

48800. Introduction to Constitutional Law (=LLSO 23900). This course is an introduction to the constitutional doctrines and political role of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on its evolving constitutional priorities and its response to basic governmental and political problems, including maintenance of the federal system, promotion of economic welfare, and protection of individual and minority rights. G. Rosenberg. Winter 2002. Winter 2004. Winter 2006.

William Sewell

23400. Capitalism in Modern Europe (=HIST 23300/33300). This course investigates the emergence of capitalism in Europe and the world as a whole between the early sixteenth and the late eighteenth centuries. We discuss the political and cultural as well as the economic sources of capitalism and explore Marxist, neoclassical, and cultural approaches. W. Sewell. Spring 2002. Winter 2005.

32800. Capitalism in Modern Europe (=HIST 23300/33300). This course investigates the emergence of capitalism in Europe and the world as a whole between the early sixteenth and the late eighteenth centuries. We discuss the political and cultural as well as the economic sources of capitalism and explore Marxist, neoclassical, and cultural approaches. W. Sewell. Spring 2002. Winter 2005.

47700. The Olf Regime and the French Revolution (=HIST 54800). In this course we will discuss recent trends in the historiography of the French old regime and the Revolution. W. Sewell. Winter 2002. Autumn 2004.

34500. Marx's Capital (=Hist 543). A close, critical study of Volume 1 of Marx's Capital. We will also read Moishe Postone's Labor, Time, and Social Domination and possibly some additional secondary literature. P. Markell, W. Sewell. Winter 2001.

48600. Social Space: Theory and History. W. Sewell. Winter 2004.

49900. Historiography. (=HIST 69900) The aim of the course is to introduce the major theoretical approaches used by professional historians and locate the unique role of the historical discipline within the social sciences and humanities. Students would be expected to gain a critical understanding of different schools of history (Annales, the "new" social and cultural histories, etc.), of historic methods and approaches to studying history (oral, economic, ethnographic, etc.), and of theories and theorists relevant to historians. W. Sewell, P. Duara. Spring 2006. (E)

51300. Money and Commodities as Social Forms. (=HIST 51300). W. Sewell. Winter 2006. (A)

Bernard Silberman

23300. Springtime for Hitler and Germany: The Advocates of the Aesthetic State. This course seeks to introduce students to the idea of the aesthetic state and the rise of political modernism. Readings will include: Benjamin, Mussolini, Marinetti, Schmitt, Rosenberg, and Hitler among others. The aim of the course is to try to make sense out of the rise of politics for politics sake in the first half of the 20th century. B. Silberman. Winter 2002. Winter 2005.

25800. Losers. This is a course that reads and analyses some of the texts of 19th and 20th century writers who wrote on social, political and economic problems and were important in their own time and who have had significant influence on their successors but are not included in the canon." Some of the writers we will examine are: DeMaistre, LaSalle, Frederick Douglas, Sidgewick, Spencer, William James, Sorel, and Hannah Arendt. B. Silberman. Winter 2003. Winter 2006.

25900. Japanese Politics (=PolSci 356). This course is a survey of the major aspects of Japanese politics: party politics, bureaucracy, the diet, and political behavior in post-World War II Japan. B. Silberman. Autumn 2000. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2004. Autumn 2006.

26100. To Hell with the Enlightenment: The Rise of the Aesthetic State. This course's aims are twofold: (1) to introduce the student to some of the writings attacking the Enlightenment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and (2) show how these writings created a concept of political modernism and a theory of the aesthetic state. Among others, we read Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Croce, Mead, Mussolini, and A. Rosenberg. B. Silberman. Winter 2001. Winter 2004. Winter 2007.

28000. Organization, Ideology, and Political Change. This course centers on the comparative analysis of the emergence and institutionalization of public bureaucracies in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the former Soviet Union. The aim is to see whether there are distinctly different patterns of organizational rationality or whether bureaucracies are all culturally unique. B. Silberman. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2005.

35600. Japanese Politics (=PolSci 356). This course is a survey of the major aspects of Japanese politics: party politics, bureaucracy, the diet, and political behavior in post-World War II Japan. B. Silberman. Autumn 2000. Autumn 2002. Autumn 2006.

38000. Organization, Ideology, and Political Change. This course centers on the comparative analysis of the emergence and institutionalization of public bureaucracies in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the former Soviet Union. The aim is to see whether there are distinctly different patterns of organizational rationality or whether bureaucracies are all culturally unique. B. Silberman. Autumn 2001. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2005.

50600. Literature of Japanese Political Institutions. B. Silberman. Autumn 2001.

50600. Japanese Political Institutions. B. Silberman. Autumn 2003. Autumn 2005.

65200. Comparative Bureaucracy. An examination and analysis of the theoretical and empirical literature on national-level public and private bureaucratic organizations in Japan, Great Britain and the U.S. B. Silberman. Autumn 2000. Autumn 2002. Auumn 2004. Autumn 2006.

Alberto Simpser

24600/44600. Political Economy of Development. This course is an introduction to recent scholarship on the political economy of development. It will focus on three questions: What is development? What causes or constrains development? How do we know? The course is structured as follows. First, we will review economic theories of development and examine different approaches to the definition of development. Second, we will examine different theories about the causes of development, with emphasis on the way in which political and economic processes constrain or reinforce each other. Third, we will apply the knowledge from the first two parts to different topics of substantive interest, including health policy, corruption, poverty, inequality and redistribution, and the rule of law, among others. Throughout, we will emphasize issues of inference, exploring the relative merits of different empirical methodologies. A. Simpser. Autumn 2006.

44700. Research Approaches in Comparative Politics. This course has two goals: (1) To expose graduate students involved in empirical research to a variety of methodological approaches used in contemporary social-science scholarship, with the goal of improving the quality of their inferences; and (2) To provide a forum for students to improve ongoing research projects. In the class component, we will review different empirical methods and related research papers, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches among others. In addition to the class component, the course is designed as a workshop for student research in progress. Every student will present her/his own research project and will provide feedback to others on the basis of the knowledge developed in class. Projects at all stages of development are welcome, subject to instructor approval. The course seeks to develop understanding of the possibilities and limitations of different methods, but it will not provide rigorous mathematical foundations. Familiarity with the basics of statistical inference and regression analysis will be very useful. A. Simpser. Winter 2007.

Dan Slater

26500. State, Society, and Democratization in Southeast Asia. This course provides a broad overview of the evolution of Southeast Asia's highly