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3.00 Credits
Introductory public administration course broadly focused to introduce concepts of administrative theory, practice, political aspects of administration, policy making, fiscal management, public human resource management, etc.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of theories regarding the individual and society from the 17th century to the present. Nature and limits of contemporary views of individuals, their freedoms and rights.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction of research techniques for the empirical study of politics including elements of research design and statistics.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to analytical models, often referred to as games, in which the choices of individual rational actors jointly produce significant outcomes. Topics include games such as prisoner's dilemma and the stag hunt, collective action problems, bargaining, signaling, principle-agent models, and the limitations of such approaches given insights from cognitive psychology. These approaches will be applied to international relations, party and interest group politics, political institutions, a selection of problems from other social science fields, and everyday life.
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3.00 Credits
Theories devoted to explaining how and why the sovereign power of the state ought to belong to the people. Nature and importance of representation, equality, liberty, and community.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to educate students in the study of normative democratic theory and the practice in local processes of democracy.
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3.00 Credits
Democracy suffers from a persistent gap between promise and performance. While democracy enjoys a sterling reputation, it routinely fails to deliver the various forms of social justice people, citizen and non-citizen alike, have every right to not only expect but demand of it. This phenomenon manifests itself along lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, sexual identity, and others. The course explores the discrepancy between democratic ideal and reality, offers explanations for it, and seeks possible remedies to it.
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3.00 Credits
Politics, structure and activities of state and local governments, intergovernmental relations, legal and theoretical concerns, political processes, and administrative issues.
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3.00 Credits
Nature of representation, role of political parties, rules and procedures, committee system, and impact of Congressional policies. Simulation of U. S. Congress as learning tool.
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3.00 Credits
History of American political parties; roles and functions of parties; current problems of parties.
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