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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 Ireland's membership in the European Union has enhanced the impact of their economic policies. These policies have been developed in a process of social partnership bringing key groups into the policy process as Ireland has adjusted to the EU. This course explores Ireland's policies, the policy process and the effects of EU membership. Prerequisite: PS 134.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 An exploration of the savage wars and cold war divisions in Europe in the twentieth century; the creation of a new form of economic and political union by the nations of Western Europe after World War II; the expansion of the European Union after the end of the cold war.
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Three Credits Spring Semester American governance from the 1960s to the present, the interplay of political and cultural forces during critical episodes, the Cold War, the Great Society, the Civil Rights Movements, the Reagan Era, and the War on Terrorism. Political ideologies, domestic and foreign policy challenges, broad political, cultural and institutional changes are explored. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Spring Semester The causes of war, military history with the interplay of strategy, technology and politics as the central focus, the nuclear threat and terrorism in the contemporary period. Prevention and the limitation of war and the moral and legal restraints on the activities of states are explored. Prerequisite: PS 134 for PS majors; no prerequisite for IS majors.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 The origins and growth of the American presidency, the Executive office, and its occupant, the relationship between the office and democratic government, the separation of powers and divided party government, and on the expansion of public administration during the twentieth century. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Representative thinkers from several major trends in twentieth-century political theory that have emerged in the wake of Nietzsche's declaration that "God is Dead", the liberaldefense of rights and individual freedom, the post-modern struggle with moral contingency, and the communitarian return to Greek and early-Christian understandings of virtue. Prerequisite: PS 171.
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Three Credits Fall Semester Constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court regarding the institutional powers and structural form of American government. Topics include the methodology of judicial decision making, judicial self-restraint versus judicial activism, the problems of constitutional interpretation, and the development of presidential, congressional, judicial, and state institutional powers. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Administration of public affairs; how public policy is put into effect by government bureaucracies; theories of government organizations; the political setting of bureaucracies; problems of budgeting and personnel; efficient and humane conduct of public business. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 The idea, and practice, of freedom, a central political and legal concept in the human experience. Freedom and authority, power, rights, justice, and human nature. Various conceptions of freedom are explored in classic and contemporary political philosophers as well as other political concepts such as authority, violence, rights, justice, and human nature, the practical political problems of civil disobedience and discrimination. Prerequisite: PS 171.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 Stonehill's collection of Irish official publications covers a range of concerns central to the Irish experience since 1922 such as economic and social policy, public administration, education, criminal justice, health care, the role of women in society, the environment, and the "New Europe". Students will do research on atopic related to their field of interest.
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