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4.00 Credits
Examines the role of African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and other minorities in American politics. Particular attention is directed at barriers to participation, the critical factors in minority political successes, the problems and possibilities of coalition politics, and related policy issues.
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4.00 Credits
Basic principles of the United States Constitution, including judicial review, separation of powers, the powers of the presidency and Congress, and federalism. Introduction to individual rights and liberties, including right to privacy and the rights of criminal defendants.
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4.00 Credits
Constitutional principles relating to race and sex discrimination; freedom of religion; and freedom of speech, press, and assembly.
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4.00 Credits
Issues between states and nation with particular attention to financial relations. Consideration of the capacity of state legislative and administrative systems, and problems of evaluation and change. Examination of policy-area issues, including those of education and welfare.
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4.00 Credits
Evaluation of alternative models for the U.S. policy-making process focusing on the political, institutional and bureaucratic influences of policy decisions. Emphasis will be given to the role public bureaucracies have had in shaping and influencing the policy process in a rapidly changing environment including decision-making, organizational theory, and the historical context of the administrative state.
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4.00 Credits
Importance of political parties and elections in American political history and development of the party system; role of public opinion, parties, and interest groups in democratic politics; effects of culture, political socialization, campaign politics, and issues on voting behavior; politics of social movements, the formation of political coalitions, and partisan realignment; party activity at state and local levels.
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4.00 Credits
Patterns of cooperation and conflict between the presidency and Congress in the making of United States public policy, both foreign and domestic; examination of issues of congressional revitalization and reform, and the dramatic growth in presidential power.
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4.00 Credits
Role of public opinion in democratic theory; methods and problems of polling and survey research; nature, formation, distribution, and learning of political attitudes; issues of democratic stability; group opinions, voting behavior, and elite behavior, and their impact on the policy-making process, public policy, and the quality of American democracy.
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4.00 Credits
Background conditions leading to political violence and revolution; ideology, class, ethnicity; the state's response to civil violence; strategies to prevent or engender violence; the destruction and reconstruction of consensus in a political system; the effectiveness of violence as a method of political influence; and the basis of political order also explored.
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4.00 Credits
Unique and common patterns of political organization in Africa presented in a comparative framework; historical patterns, nature of colonial rule, impact on precolonial societies; struggle for Pan-Africanism, nationalism and liberation movements; character of postcolonial regimes. Other factors such as settler rule, racism, world economic organization and underdevelopment; domestic political responses to revolution, internal war, ethnic conflict, personal rule, patron-client relations, democratization, military intervention, institutional development, and development of civil society are explored.
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