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What does "working for a living" mean today? What are prospects for good jobs in a world dominated by labordisplacing technology? Who should control the shape and purpose of technology? Do some people deserve better working conditions and more fulfi lling jobs than others? How have workers organized to protect themselves? Should corporations have "rights"?What conditions prompt or retard class awareness and organization among workers, including bonds across national borders? Do global market forces produce the best outcomes for workers? Course addresses these and related questions. Spring. Two 70- minute periods. (M4) Olson
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Why should we obey the law? What makes state violence legitimate? Close textual investigations of the works of great modern political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Mill, with an emphasis on the social contract and its limits as a form of political foundation. Spring. Two 70-minute periods. Haddad
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Scope and method of political science as a discipline. Defi nes the boundary of the political, surveys the major contemporary approaches to study of politics. Fall. Two 70-minute periods. Staff
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Role of the Supreme Court and its relationship to the legislative and executive branches of American political system. Attention to judicial decisions of constitutional and historic signifi cance in development of American government. Recommended: Political Science 110 or Sociology 116. Fall, alternate years. Two 70-minute periods. Reynolds
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Civil liberties of Americans as delineated in the Bill of Rights. Issues of freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, right to counsel, searches and seizures, self-incrimination, cruel and unusual punishment, and fair trial. Judicial policy-making and problem of individual freedoms in confl ict with federal and local police powers. Alternate years. Makoul
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Organization and operation of legislative and executive branches; interaction between them. Attention to the rise of the administrative state and struggle for control of public policy. Fall, alternate years. Two 70-minute periods. Writing-intensive. Reynolds
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Efforts to set up, organize, and implement the European Union, from the end of World War II to the present. Review of political, economic, and social factors that have infl uenced these efforts. Topics include national interests of the larger countries (Germany, France, and Great Britain); role of smaller countries; reunifi cation of Germany; relations with the United States and Japan; recent enlargement of the EU to include central and eastern European countries. Special attention given to the creation, implementation, and meaning of the euro, the EU's common currency. Spring. Two 70-minute periods. (M4) Lalande
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Principles and practice of public administration in the U.S. Organization and operation of executive branch and its role in formulation and implementation of public policy. Topics include organization theory, bureaucratic discretion, power and accountability, administrative process, budgeting, theories of decision-making, regulatory policy. Spring, alternate years. (M4) Reynolds
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Contemporary American politics and policy on environmental issues. Current controversies in legislative and regulatory areas. Examination of environmental issues and the political process. Staff
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Most recent focus has been on the Middle East: Israeli-Palestinian confl ict, oil politics, Islam, U.S. policy in the region, with attention to Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Spring. Two 70-minute periods. (M5) Farbod, Olson
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