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3.00 Credits
Fundamental course dealing with the powers, organization, functions and intergovernmental relations of the state, county, municipal and other local governments.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory study of the way courts in the U.S. influence political and social policies. Topics include the judicial process, judicial decisionmaking, and court rulings in such controversial areas as abortion, affirmative action, school desegregation, capital punishment, gender discrimination, rights to sexual privacy, rights of the disabled, and voting rights.
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3.00 Credits
Identifies and examines some of the leading ideas, concepts, and political contexts of the Western political tradition, and their critique. It uses the works of classical, modern, and contemporary political thinkers to consider such political concepts as politics, power, the state, justice, authority, constitutions, citizenship, personhood, equality, representations, liberty, institutions, and ideology. The course emphasizes critical reading, thinking, and writing.
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3.00 Credits
(3) Examines the practice, as well as the theory, of public administration. The roles of politicians, political appointees, civil servants, consultants, and non-profit organizations contracting with the government are examines, in order to foster an understanding of how government should, and how it actually does, operate. Examination and discussion of current issues are used as illustration.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the politics of metropolitan areas, including central cities and their surrounding governments. Current politics and issues are placed in their historical context in order to foster understanding of, if not solutions to, perennial problems.
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3.00 Credits
Quantitative and qualitative approach to understanding how theory is constructed. Political thought and action and its relation to normative and empirical studies found in the following disciplines: Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Science. Emphasis on how political theory and analysis deals critically with social change through the mediation of structural functional and conflict models of change.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the constitutional powers of Congress, the President and the federal judiciary, and the relationship of the national government to the state governments, as defined by the text of the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions. Topics include the war power of the President, the expansion of the powers of the national government under the commerce clause, the Court's assertation of judicial review, and the regulatory and eminent domain powers of the state governments. (Formerly POLS 0308)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the nation-state system and conceptions of national interest in modern world politics. The forms and distribution of power by which states seek to implement national interest. The making of foreign policy and methods of adjusting international conflict. Emphasis on current international problems. POLS 0210 COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT (3) The institutional approach will be employed to the study of the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and the Russia. The institutional approach considers the organizations of governments, their constitutional basis, their sources of legitimacy, and their methods of operation. This approach seeks to understand the workings of governments by an analysis of these components.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the politics of Britain, France, Germany and Italy utilizing value historical, institutional and public policy approaches. The first third of the course will focus upon the specific political cultures of these countries and their contemporary ideological conflicts. The second third will emphasize their parliamentary systems and electoral voting systems. The third section of the course will discuss the specific public policy processes in each country and the impact of the European Union on their public policy formulations.
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3.00 Credits
The nation-state and its power relationships with other states and international organizations, regional and global. A theoretical study of the cultural, ideological, economic, institutional, and personality influences on the foreign policy of particular countries. The country studied will change from semester to semester. Students may therefore enroll for the course more than once and up to 3 times for major credit. Prerequisite: POLS 0101.
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