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This course investigates the origins, meaning, and content of democracy and the role of human rights in a sound, functioning democracy. Questions that will frame debate include: Who should have the right to vote? What are the limits of free speech? Do citizens have a right to healthcare? Students will be introduced to social scientific methods of inquiry as a means to examine global issues systematically and compose thoughtful responses. Global and local case studies will be employed to illuminate the challenges of maintaining freedom and defending rights in a complex world.
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This course examines the historical and contemporary processes of migration and immigration around the world, including the major push-pull causes demonstrated in the history of immigration. The cultural, political, and economic aspects of migration are examined both pre and post immigration. Concepts that will be examined include assimilation, acculturation, nativism, and personal identification. Through readings, discussions, research, and presentations, students will evaluate the driving forces of immigration.
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In an increasingly interdependent world where conflict, peace, and war are recurring themes, thinking about ways to manage and preserve global security poses specific challenges. The international system consists of a variety of actors - states, organizations, and individuals - all of which are deeply interconnected in examining the evolution of approaches to global security. Traditionally, global security has been measured through responses to threats, both external and internal to a nation. This course will focus on observing the evolution of global security from traditional to contemporary approaches. The scope of this course will cover basic concepts and ideas central to global security from the end of the Second World War to the post-9/11 world. We will analyze traditional concepts like balance of power, nuclear deterrence, military strategy, and alliances that were previously central to global security but have now evolved into more distinct, separate categories: political violence and terrorism, civil wars, human security, and environmental security. Learning outcomes of this course will critically assess state and individual responses to external and internal security threats, the interconnectedness between domestic and global security actors, and ways to improve existing theories on global security by developing a more sophisticated approach to solving the problems its study generates.
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This course does two things. First, it introduces students to the history of nation-building in South Asia, the existence of multiple ethnic, regional, and national identities, and the context in which these identities have influenced democracy formation. In this context, we shall examine the link between nationalism and democracy in five specific cases - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Second, lessons from South Asian nationalism will be compared to the experience of states in Africa and Latin America to draw conclusions on their engagement with the democratic project. In examining these cases, we shall attempt to address complex questions such as: How are national identities formed? What impact do these identities have on democracies? Is nationalism destructive to the process of democracy formation?
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This course provides an introduction to the methods of statistical analysis for the social sciences. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistical methods, statistical analysis programs, and considerations of the appropriateness of various statistical methods in political inquiry.
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An examination of the relationship between the national government and state and local government. The focus of the course is an in-depth analysis of federalism with an overview of state and local government. The analysis includes a study of the origin, evolution, and current state of American federalism. National, state, and local decision making will be reviewed. Topics surveyed include the constitutional basis of federalism, grants in aid, interstate compacts, unfunded mandates, state constitutions, city government, county government, issues of taxation and finance, and other issues of practical governance. A gateway course for the study of American politics in the major.
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Application of the basic concepts, tools, and issues of American public administration. The relationship between the theory and the practice of public administration will be investigated through the use of classical conceptual works in the discipline (Waldo, Weber, Wilson, Lindblom) and contemporary administrative case studies. Consideration will also be given to such persistent bureaucratic problems as control, efficiency, equity, responsiveness, and the rise of the administrative state. Students will complete a major project which will be the sophomore assessment of progress in the major. A gateway course for the Political Economy minor, taught in alternate years.
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An examination of the fundamental and enduring issues of politics as articulated by leading political theorists. Among the issues examined will be: the nature and purpose of government, leadership, power, legitimacy, and the relationship of the individual with the state. The course will focus on commentaries written before 1700, i.e., Plato to Locke. A gateway course for the study of Political Theory in the major, taught in alternate years.
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A continuation of Political Theory I with a focus on analyses written since 1700, i.e., from Rousseau to contemporary political theorists. Among other issues, this course will examine individual rights, liberty, equality, revolution, economic justice, and contemporary political and social concerns. A gateway course for the study of Political Theory in the major, taught in alternate years.
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