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4.00 Credits
Examines political development of Mexican-Americans. Topics include their "territorial" roots in the Southwest,demographics, political leadership and organization; policy issues of immigration, bilingualism, education, and economics; relations with other minority groups; the role of Mexican-Americans in U.S.-Mexico relations. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 143. ( VII)
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4.00 Credits
Problem-solving seminar examining key issues for urban political systems and the metropolitan area. Evaluation of the nature, quality, and feasibility of alternative analyses of a series of policy problems, such as housing, poverty/welfare policy, transportation, crime, education. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Examines selected immigration policy debates since the nineteenth century, rationale and consequences of immigration law since 1965, problems of administration, implementation and enforcement, impact of immigration policy on foreign relations, and contemporary debate regarding the future of U.S. policy. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 163. ( VII)
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4.00 Credits
Examines the economic limits of cities and welfare policy. Addresses such issues as why are the poor concentrated in the central cities Which anti-poverty programs will work best in the cities Which level of government is best able to combat poverty in the U.S.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the politics surrounding issues of public education (K-12) and the policies used to achieve certain education-related goods. Topics include political equality within policies of desegregation, funding, various types of choice, and standardized testing. Satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of government expenditure in the economy from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, with a focus on two broad categories of government expenditures policies: social insurance and redistribution programs. Analysis of taxation. 127B: Theory of public goods, externalities, voting models, analysis of bureaucracy, the Tiebout model, income redistribution, intergovernmental grants. 127C: Allows students to apply knowledge of public economics in the conduct of individual research. Prerequisites: Economics 100A-B or 105A or consent of instructor. For 127C: satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. Same as Economics 141A-B-C.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of how people think about and understand politics, covering a range of issues from the nature of liberalismconservatism opposition to the development of ideological thought during the college years, and using the work of anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, political scientists. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the lower-division writing requirement.
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4.00 Credits
May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to game theory and a survey of its political applications. Examples of topics covered include voting in small committees, legislatures, and mass elections; interest group activities and environmental issues; institutional design, and the evolution of cooperative behavior.
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4.00 Credits
More advanced game theory and its political applications, beginning where Game Theory and Politics I ends. Examples of topics covered include revolutions; arms race; spatial models of party competition; political manipulation; political coalitions and their power. Prerequisite: Political Science 130A.
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