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3.00 Credits
An examination of the office of president, with attention to constitutional foundations, evolution, structure, powers, and functions; some comparisons between presidential and parliamentary systems and between offices of president and governor.
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3.00 Credits
A functional study of legislative bodies and process of legislation, covering organization of legislative assemblies, operation of committee system, procedures, bill drafting, aides, and controls over legislation.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the particular political and public administration issues in metropolitan areas. Examines contemporary developments such as urban renewal, shrinking tax base, federal aid to cities, subsidized mass transit, municipal authorities, and political consolidation.
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3.00 Credits
Explores characteristics of federal systems of government, with emphasis on theories, origins, institutions, problems in intergovernmental relations in the United States, federal systems in other nations, and trends.
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3.00 Credits
Variant theories of the symbolic relationship between American politics and the press are examined in the light of the American colonial-national experience. The special Constitutional rights given to the media are explored, with particular attention to radio-TV.
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3.00 Credits
Explores nature and limits of judicial power, courts as policymaking bodies, selection of judges, decision process, external forces impinging on the courts, and role of Supreme Court in its relationship with Congress, the presidency, and federalism.
Prerequisite:
( PLSC 111 or PS 111 )
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3.00 Credits
A study of civil liberties and civil rights issues through leading Supreme Court decisions; topics treated include First Amendment rights, procedural due process and the Bill of Rights, and Equal Protection problems in civil rights.
Prerequisite:
( PLSC 111 or PS 111 )
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3.00 Credits
The origins and development of Western thought from Plato and Aristotle through Cicero and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Focuses especially on political participation as a way of life, the unity of political and moral conceptions in premodern political thought, and the relationship between order and justice.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the major representatives of modern political thought since the Renaissance. Follows the development of the specifically modern notion of the state and political action through the works of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Lenin. Emphasis on the "instrumentalist" state and the idea of a political science.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the environment and structure of public sector organizations; organizational theory and organizational culture; intergovernmental and intra-organizational relations; leadership and ethics; the planning, management, and evaluation of programs and services; the administration of human resources; budgeting and finance; and management information. Emphasizes the integration of theory and practice through case studies and projects.
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