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4.00 Credits
The changing conceptions and interpretations of the presidential institution and the styles and strategies of the American presidents. Topics include the selection process; the executive advisory system; and the relationship between the President, the press, the Congress and the public. Also covered are decision-making in the White House and the powers, tenure and accountability of the President.
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of party organizations, campaigns, and presidential and congressional politics in the United States. Attention is given to state and local party structures and activities, third party movements, and patterns of voting behavior. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
An examination and evaluation of the role of mass media in American politics. Topics include: the legal framework that enshrouds freedom of the press, the newsmaking process, sources of potential bias, the development of investigative journalism, corporate ownership of the media, the role of the press in elections, the impact of mass media on individual behavior and opinion formation, and the politics of entertainment, concluding with an exploration of the process by which the media have become a tool, indeed a weapon, in the contemporary U.S. political process. Recommended: Political Science 110.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the interaction among state and local governments, representatives, institutions and policies. Topics include gubernatiorial policy roles and arenas, the state legislative process, the challenge devolution plays for state and local governments, the role of parties in candidate-focused elections, and interest group organization.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the political institutions and the policy-making processes in American cities. Emphasis is on the impact of historical and social conditions, institutional arrangements, and power relationships on significant problems facing urban areas, including metropolitan organization, taxing and spending, law enforcement, education, social welfare and housing.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of multiple sets of legislated relationships that exist vertically between and horizontally across governmental units and publicly-funded agencies at the local, state and national levels. Emphasis is placed upon the examination of economic development, public assistance, infrastructure, education and other grant-in-aid programs.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of U.S. environmental policy. Topics include key U.S. environmental policies, regulatory politics at the state and federal level, risk assessment, and competing models of environmental policymaking. Analysis of contemporary policy debates over air, water, energy, waste, and agriculture is also emphasized. Prerequisite: Sophomore status or above.
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4.00 Credits
The constitutional interpretation of civil rights and liberties, with emphasis on the Bill of Rights and Warren, Burger and Rehnquist Court cases, and an examination of landmark Supreme Court decisions. Topics include: speech, press, expressive conduct, obscenity, church and state, minority rights, apportionment, gender discrimination, privacy, abortion, "right to die," and the rights of accused persons. Students participate in a moot court decision, arguing a case currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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4.00 Credits
(also listed as Environmental Science 347) An inquiry into how key elements of core U.S. institutions (e.g. the market, the State, the corporation, public education) frame and confront environmental issues, and how impediments to thinking creatively about these institutions exacerbates problems of environmental sustainability and responsive democracy. We pay particular attention to the State: what it is, why it may be a useful unit of analysis, how and why (from competing theoretical perspectives) it chooses to confront environmental ills, and how citizens can most effectively influence it. Although the organizing case study for the course is U.S. environmental policy, students generally interested in analyzing core U.S. institutions with any eye to influencing them will find the course useful.
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4.00 Credits
A comparison of legal and political rights throughout the world. We focus on the differences between negative and positive rights, the role of the state in defining and guaranteeing rights, and the spread of "American-style" rights (e.g., rights demanded of the government via the courts that influence social policy) and law-focused social movements throughout the rest of the world. States to be considered include China, the European Union, Germany, India, Japan, Canada, and the United States.
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