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Lustick. An important strain within contemporary political science has been the attempt to explain how power is exercised through the manipulation or exploitation of consciousness, habits, and cultural predispositions. One of the key concepts in the study of these issues is that of "hegemony" --the establishment of particular beliefs as commonsensical presumptions of political life. In this course that notion will be systematically explored. Of particular interest will be how authors who conduct hegemonic analysis cope with the problem of analyzing the effect of what the objects of their analysis, by definition, do not and, in some sense, cannot, think about. Illustrations of hegemonic phenomena and attempts to analyze them will be drawn from a variety of fields, such as political theory, historiography, comparative politics, American politics, rational choice theory,agent based modeling, and epistemology.
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Goldstein. This course is designed to provide a high-level introduction to the study of Chinese politics. After surveying China's political history, we turn to a closer examination of several key issues in the contemporary study of Chinese politics. The themes we cover include issues of political legitimacy, political participation, policy formulation and implementation, revolutionary and reformist strategies of political change, and the domestic and international influences on a regime's foreign policy.
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Staff. A political and historical interpretation of current American political institutions and practice focused on the federal system, the main national institutions, and various regime questions.
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Staff. This seminar will survey the literature in a variety of subfields of American politics but will focus primarily on American political institutions. Emphasis will be on exposing graduate students in the seminar to the field of American politics, the methodologies employed in its study, the work of leading scholars, and the topics currently being debated by those scholars. The course is also designed to lay the groundwork to enable students to conduct original research. As such, the preparation of a research design proposal will be a key part of the seminar.
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Nagel. This seminar explores a series of interrelated debates that have important implications for the design of democratic institutions, the expectations by which they are judged, and the spirit that animates actions within them. The course makes no attempt to survey a vast literature, but the principal readings have been selected because of their outstanding quality and influence.
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Harris. A broadly theoretical approach to the constitutional dimension of the study of politics, with emphasis on the problems of constituting a political form, the nature and authority of a constitution, and systematic standards of interpretation, using the United States Constitution as an exemplar.
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Teune. An introduction to the nature and development of theoretical knowledge in the social sciences with emphasis on political science.
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Staff. An introduction to the design and execution of research to generate information about the nature and behavior of political actors, organizations and systems. Techniques covered include unobtrusive measures, case studies, direct observation, experimentation, content analysis and survey research. Historical and interpretive approaches may also be covered.
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