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3.00 Credits
Harris. The words "constitutional" and "democratic" represent the gold standard of the contemporary policial lexicon. This course will elaborate a political theory of rule-of-law government by the people. Using classical works of policial theory, it sets out a systematic, multi-level picture of constitutional democracy as: a reflection of nature, an aspiration of humanity, a movement in civilization, a way of civic life for a people, a form of polity, an institutionalization of government, and a design for citizenship.
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3.00 Credits
Harris. Constitutionalism is an independent theory of political order, arising from the
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Harris. This course may be offered as a Benjamin Franklin seminar. See current timetable. Interpretive theory in the constitutional context. A systematic study of the configuration of the American polity in language that has binding authority, assessing the public arguments (judicial and otherwise) made to justify interpretation of this text and other sources of constitutional values: WHAT is the Constitution WHO may authoritatively interpret it HOW is it to be interpreted
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Staff. Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one course may be taken in a given semester. Recent titles have included: Urban Politics and Leadership, Feminist Political Theory, and America and the West.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Types of Democratic and Authoritarian political systems. Comparative study of political participants, leadership, institutions, instability, and system transformation in developed and less developed countries. Relations between economic and political systems.
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3.00 Credits
Faletti. Study of the empirical and logical validity of some of the main arguments that connect the economy and politics in Latin America. The course focuses on themes such as the agro-exporting economy, the oligarchic state, import-substitution industrialization, bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes, transition to and consolidation of democracy, and structural reforms.
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3.00 Credits
Callaghy. A survey of politics in Africa focusing on the complex relationships between state, society, the economy, and external actors. It will cover colonial rule, the independence struggle, authoritarian and democratic statecraft, military rule, ethnicity, and class, with special attention to the politics of Africa's interrelated debt, economy, and development crises.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. The analysis of a most prominent phenomenon in developing nations, the intervention of the military in the political systems of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Particular attention is devoted to the questions of whether military regimes can modernize their societies more effectively than civilian governments, and how military regimes get replaced by democratically elected governments.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. The American political system has changed dramatically over the past 40 years. This seminar examines the ways in which American political institutions and processes have been transformed -- by design and by accident -- and the causes and consequences of those changes special attention is paid to the effect that these changes have had the democratic character of the system and on its ability to govern.
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