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PS 135: Analyzing Legislative Elections
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
The purpose of this course is to understand legislative elections. The course will study, for example, what role money plays in elections and why incumbents do better at the polls. It will also examine how electoral rules impact the behavior both of candidates and voters, and will explore some of the consequences of legislative elections, such as divided government. Not offered 2012–13.
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PS 139: Comparative Politics
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
The politics of non-American political systems with an emphasis on their electoral systems and methodologies for assessing their compliance with democratic standards. Students will be expected to develop data sets appropriate to analyzing elections in individual countries and offering an assessment of the pervasiveness of fraud in those elections. The student’s grade will be determined by a final written report reporting the methodology and results of their analysis. Instructor: Ordeshook.
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PS 141: A History of Budgetary Politics in the United States
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This class will examine budgetary conflict at key junctures in U.S. history. Topics include the struggle to establish a viable fiscal system in the early days of the Republic, the tariff, the “pension politics” of the post–Civil War era, the growth of the American welfare state, and the battle over tax and entitlement reform in the 1980s and 1990s. Not offered 2012–2013.
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PS 148 ab: The Supreme Court in US History
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
The development of the Supreme Court, its doctrines, personalities, and role in U.S. history through analyses of selected cases. The first half of the course, which is a prerequisite for the second half but may also be taken by itself, will deal with such topics as federalism, economic regulation, political rights, and free speech. The second half will cover such issues as the rights of the accused, equal protection, and privacy. Instructor: Kousser.
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PS 160 abc: Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
An examination of recent work in laboratory testing in the social sciences with particular reference to work done in social psychology, economics, and political science. Students are required to design and conduct experiments. Instructor: Plott.
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PS 172: Game Theory
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This course is an introduction to non-cooperative game theory, with applications to political science and economics. It covers the theories of normal-form games and extensive-form games, and introduces solutions concepts that are relevant for situations of complete and incomplete information. The basic theory of repeated games is introduced. Applications are to auction theory and asymmetric information in trading models, cheap talk and voting rules in congress, among many others. Instructor: Ortoleva.
Prerequisite:
Ec 11 or PS 12
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PS 173: Cooperation and Social Behavior
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
Game theoretic and evolutionary approaches to modeling various types of cooperative, altruistic, and social behavior. Emphasis on economic and political applications. Not offered 2012–13.
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PS 99 ab: Political Science Research Seminar
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
Development and presentation of a major research paper on a topic of interest in political science or political economy. The project will be one that the student has initiated in a political science course he or she has already taken from the PS courses required for the PS option, numbered above 101. This course will be devoted to understanding research in political science, and basic political science methodology. Students will be exposed to current research journals, work to understand a research literature of interest, and work to formulate a research project.
Prerequisite:
Political science major; completion of a required PS course for major.
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Psy 101: Selected Topics in Psychology
1.00 - 9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
Instructor: Staff.
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Psy 102 ab: Brains, Minds, and Society
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
Introduction to the computations made by the brain during economic and social decision making and their neural substrates. First quarter: Signal detection theory. Unconscious and conscious processing. Emotion and the somatic marker hypothesis. Perceptual decision making. Reinforcement learning. Goal and habit learning. Facial processing in social neuroscience. Second quarter: Optimal Bayesian decision making and prospect theory. Standard and behavioral game theory. Evolution and group decision making. Collective decision making by animals. Exploration. Risk learning. Probabilistic sophistication. Instructors: Adolphs, Bossaerts, Camerer, O’Doherty. Part b not offered 2012–13.
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