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The course explores ideas about justice, authority, freedom, and revolution in the work of classical and modern authors from Plato to Marx. It will be both thematic and historical in nature - and introductory.
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An introduction to the national institutions and political processes of American government and democratic representation. Topics include the Constitution, the American political tradition, public opinion, interest groups and social movements, political institutions, civil rights, civil liberties, and matters of public policy.
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This course surveys institutions of government and explores the role of government in economic and social affairs in developing as well as advanced industrial countries. The course also provides an introduction to the comparative method.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines international relations from a historical and theoretical perspective. The course will address how balance of power politics, international institutions, and the domestic political process have influenced world affairs. These perspectives will be compared in analysis of important historical periods from classical Greece to the challenges leaders face today. Topics include the causes of war, establishment of postwar order, the pursuit of economic prosperity, cooperation for environmental protection, and questions about ethics and international relations.
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Introduction to strategic issues in politics. After a brief introduction to game theory, we will look in depth at voting, collective action, deliberation, and deterrence.
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This course focuses on classical political theory in ancient Greece and its appropriation and development in the Roman, medieval, and Renaissance periods. It examines Greek democracy, drawing on tragedy, rhetoric and history; the ethics and politics of Plato and Aristotle; and the Roman republican thought of Cicero and Livy. It considers the influence of Plato on Augustine and More, Aristotle on Aquinas and Marsilius, and Cicero and Livy on Machiavelli. Topics include nature and convention; democracy, oligarchy and tyranny; church and state; consent and representation; and virtue, property, and law.
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A study and critique of the philosophical foundations of modern democratic liberalism based on a close reading and analysis of texts by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Rawls.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
We ask whether conservatism is a disposition or a doctrine, whether it is a particularly modern phenomenon, and whether it needs to be grounded in religion. We compare the history of European, American, and non-western conservative thought and investigate whether doctrines such as libertarianism and nationalism are inherently conservative - leading up to the question whether the conservative movement in the US is characterized by inner tensions, or might even be in terminal crisis, as some now claim. The last part of the course is devoted to contemporary policy issues in areas such as bioethics and the legitimacy of nation-building abroad.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to theories of social justice and examination of their implications in areas of contemporary social and political controversy. The first half of the course introduces the problem of social justice and examines two classic positions, as articulated by John Locke (whose name is associated with liberalism, property, and capitalism) and Karl Marx (whose name is associated with the critique of capitalism). The second half of the course focuses on contemporary theories of justice. We will read authors such as John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and examine controversies over poverty, taxation, equal opportunity, and environmental justice.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Close study of texts that illuminate the relationship between religiosity and politics - especially the tensions between them and possibilities for mutual support. Particular attention is paid to the following questions: to what extent political morality needs to be grounded in religious sentiment, especially whether democracies need a 'civil religion' to sustain themselves; whether some modern political movements are best understood as 'secular religions'; and how secular and religious citizens should interact in contemporary democracies.
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