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3.00 Credits
Making environmental policy is a diverse and complex process. Environmental advocacy engages different governmental agencies, congressional committees, and courts, depending on the issue. This course examines how such differentiation has affected policy making over the last several decades. R. Lodato. Winter.
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The aim of this course is to help students think philosophically about human rights. We ask whether human rights has or needs philosophical foundations, what we need such foundations for, and where they might be found. We also ask some questions that tend to generate the search for philosophical foundations: Are human rights universal or merely the product of particular cultures What kinds of rights (e.g., political, cultural, economic, negative, positive) are human rights Can there be human rights without human duties Without universal enforcement Do the rights we enshrine as human mark only some of us (e.g., men) as human Autumn.
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PQ: ECON 19800 or higher, or PBPL 20000. This course combines basic microeconomic theory and tools with contemporary environmental and resources issues and controversies to examine and analyze public policy decisions. Theoretical points include externalities, public goods, common-property resources, valuing resources, benefit/cost analysis, and risk assessment. Topics include pollution, global climate change, energy use and conservation, recycling and waste management, endangered species and biodiversity, nonrenewable resources, congestion, economic growth and the environment, and equity impacts of public policies. S. Shaikh. Autumn.
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PQ: ECON 20100. This course covers tools needed to analyze urban economics and address urban policy problems. Topics include a basic model of residential location and rents; income, amenities, and neighborhoods; homelessness and urban poverty; decisions on housing purchase versus rental (e.g., housing taxation, housing finance, landlord monitoring); models of commuting mode choice and congestion and transportation pricing and policy; urban growth; and Third World cities. G. Tolley, J. Felkner. Spring.
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This course examines the phenomenon of war in its broader socioeconomic context during the years between the emergence of the modern nation-state in the late 1700s and the end of World War II. J. Mearsheimer. Winter.
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What is the relationship between the mass citizenry and government in the United States 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. We also examine problems of political representation, from the level of political elites communicating with constituents and from the possibility of aggregate representation. J. Brehm. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course is concerned with the theory and the historical evolution of the modern human rights regime. It discusses the emergence of a modern "human rights" culture as a product of the formation and expansion of the system of nation-states and the concurrent rise of value-driven social mobilizations. It juxtaposes these Western origins with competing non-Western systems of thought and practices on rights. The course proceeds to discuss human rights in two prevailing modalities. First, it explores rights as protection of the body and personhood and the modern, Western notion of individualism. Second, it inquires into rights as they affect groups (e.g., ethnicities and, potentially, transnational corporations) or states . M. Geyer. Winter.
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For U.S. students, the study of international human rights is becoming increasingly important, as interest grows regarding questions of justice around the globe. This interdisciplinary course presents a practitioner's overview of several major contemporary human rights problems as a means to explore the utility of human rights norms and mechanisms, as well as the advocacy roles of civil society organizations, legal and medical professionals, traditional and new media, and social movements. Topics may include the prohibition against torture, problems of universalism versus cultural relativism, and the human right to health. S. Gzesh. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This seminar focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on American legal culture. Topics include the socialization of lawyers in law schools and firms, judicial decision making, and media representations of the law. Students conduct fieldwork in various legal settings as a foundation for class discussions about the contributions ethnographic research can make in understanding legal culture and how such research can be useful in practicing law and shaping social policy. M. Fred. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history of labor and laboring people in the United States. The significance of work is considered from the vantage points of political economy, culture, and law. Key topics include working-class life, industrialization and corporate capitalism, slavery and emancipation, the role of the state and trade unions, and race and sex difference in the workplace. A. Stanley. Spring.
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