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3.00 Credits
Jonathan Reuning-Scherer. For description see under Statistics. (Formerly ep&e 209a)
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3.00 Credits
215a: t 1.30-3.20 Hu, So Core (0) Shannon Stimson 215b-1: t 1.30-3.20 Hu, So Core (0) Boris Kapustin 215b-2: w 1.30-3.20 Hu, So Core (0) Shannon Stimson A critical examination of classic and contemporary works that treat problems of ethics, politics, and economics as unities. Topics include changing conceptions of private and public spheres, the content and domain of individual freedom, and ethical and political limits to the market. Readings from the works of Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Smith, Bentham, Mill, Hegel, Marx, Hayek, Rawls, and others. (Formerly ep&e 341a or b)
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3.00 Credits
Thomas Donahue. w 3.30-5.20 So (0) Core Introduction to social choice theory and its implications for political morality. Challenges involved in creating a collective choice procedure given the diversity of individuals' preferences. Philosophical foundations of social choice theory, including the assumptions it makes about the nature of liberty. Questions regarding the feasibility of democracy and the existence of a public interest.
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3.00 Credits
Seok-ju Cho. m 3.30-5.20 So (0) Core A survey of theories of political institutions. Topics include normative frameworks for institutional choices, rational-choice and game-theoretic models of political institutions, and the empirical variations of democratic institutions in the current world.
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3.00 Credits
Justin Fox. w 3.30-5.20 So (0) Core Introduction to game theory and social choice theory, the primary tools used in the formal modeling of politics. How these tools have been applied to understand the interactions between policymakers and voters, executives and legislatures, bureaucrats and courts, and interest groups and government officials. Focus on ways to design institutions that promote citizen welfare.
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3.00 Credits
Jeremy Seekings. For description see under Ethics, Politics, & Economics.
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3.00 Credits
RonEyerman. w9.25-11.15 So (0) Core Overview of developments in social and cultural theory since World War II. Influential authors and their attempts to grasp the changes occurring in the modern world. Theoretical perspectives include critical theory, conservative humanism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism.
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3.00 Credits
Giuseppe Sciortino. w 3.30-5.20 So Meets RP (37) Core Close reading and critical discussion of key classical texts that define important traditions in social theory. Emphasis on reconstructing the conceptual framework and analytical arguments employed by the authors. ep&e 264b, Varieties of Cultural Analysis. Giuseppe Sciortino. w 3.30-5.20 So (37) Core Introduction to the principal analytical approaches used by cultural theorists, including underlying conceptual assumptions. Readings from both classical and contemporary texts that explore issues of social meaning and cultural interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
Philip Gorski. For description see under Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Jeffrey Alexander. For description see under Sociology. Core
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