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3.00 Credits
Offered in the first semester of national election years, looks at presidential and congressional elections by examining the role of voters, parties, candidates, and the media, with particular emphasis on recent elections. American Government.
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3.00 Credits
Considers how economic development, and the policies that support it, affects the environment, both in the United States and Latin America. The course surveys a variety of environmental issues, with special attention to citizen action to address them. Topics may include recent efforts to combat the degradation of the Chesapeake Bay and other restoration projects, the politics of energy and the impact of alternative energy and transportation choices on the environment, grassroots responses to hazardous waste issues, community managed resource exploitation, and urban planning. Students will be expected to participate in Washington-area efforts to address environmental questions as a service learning project in connection with the course. American Politics, World Politics.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the backgrounds, philosophies, and careers of major U.S. political leaders including Washington, Adams, Marshall, Clay, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. American Government.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the theoretical and historical origins of the constitutional separation of powers, the legal and theoretical meaning of the separation of powers, and the historical and political consequences of the constitutional structure for interbranch relations and policy making. Topics include divided government, statutory interpretation, control over bureaucracy, and presidential power. American Government.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of American political thought from the colonial period to the Age of Jackson. Special attention to the Constitutional period. Authors include Winthrop, Penn, Wise, Edwards, Boucher, Jefferson, Paine, Hamilton, Adams, Madison, Henry. Political Theory.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of American political thought from the Age of Jackson to the present. Special attention to democratic thought and its critics. Authors include Tocqueville, Whitman, Thoreau, Calhoun, Sumner, Ward, Twain, Santayana, Dewey, and Lippmann. Political Theory.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on presidential, congressional, bureaucratic, and judicial policy-making processes in the federal government. Selected case studies from foreign and domestic policy show approaches to policy development in the national government.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Can politics be reconciled with virtue? The Machiavellian problem; morality versus moralism; the role of the imagination. Works of political theory and fiction compared and related to actual politics.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the nature and role of power and influence in American politics. Topics include theories of political power, power and American political culture, the establishment of constitutional government, the power and influence of political institutions, political participation, and economic status and inequality. American Politics.
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