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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; research paper. Prerequisite: course 1. The California political system. Political culture, constitution, elections and parties, direct democracy, legislature, governor, executive branch, courts, finances, state-local relations, and policy issues.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 1. Analysis of the legislative process with emphasis on the United States Congress; legislative organization and procedures, legislative leadership and policy making, legislators and constituents, relations between Congress and other agencies. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.-II.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour; optional termpaper. Prerequisite: course 1. The American presidency's origins and development; presidential power and influence as manifest in relationships with Congress, courts, parties, and the public in the formulation and administration of foreign and domestic policy; nominations, campaigns, and elections. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.-II, III.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 1 or consent of instructor. Introduction to the environment as a political issue in the United States and to the development of administrative mechanisms for handling environmental problems. Changing role of Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, and the courts in environmental policy formulation and implementation. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; research paper. Prerequisite: course 1. The theoretical rationale for governmental activity, program evaluation, PPBS, positive theories of policy making, the quantitative study of policy determinants, implementation, and proposals for improved decision making. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; research paper. Prerequisite: course 1. The processes of formulating public policy, including individual and collective decision making, political exchange, competition, bargaining, coalition formation and the allocation of public goods, resources and opportunities. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.-I.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Introduction to game theory. Explanation of the behavior of individuals in strategic interaction. Rational and behavioral approaches. Applications to political science and other fields.-I. (I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Philosophical basis of modern political science; major specific approaches; selected concepts relevant to modern political concerns; and research design and execution.- I, III.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 4. Major contemporary attempts to reformulate traditional democratic theory, attempts to replace traditional theory by conceptual models derived from modern social science findings. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 4. Origins and nature of American political thought. Principles of American thought as they emerge from the founding period to the present. GE credit: Soc- Sci, Wrt.
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