POLS W4204. Introduction To Judicial Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Courts and the law as political institutions. Emergence and maintenance of rule of law. Organizational politics of the judiciary. Courts and the separation of powers system. Court curbing and constitutional crises. Decisions making and strategic behavior of the Supreme Court. Social impact of judicial decisions. Creation of rights. Use of courts by interest groups. Political construction of the meaning of cases.

POLS W4211. Liberalism In America. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Drawing on recent work in political theory (e.g., Rawls, Dworkin, Raz) and in American political thought (e.g., Appleby, Kramnick, Greenstone), the course explores the contested qualities of liberalism as a doctrine created to restrain religious passions and unbridled sovereignty in early modern Europe and liberalism as it has been used in American political language and disputes, especially since the New Deal.

POLS W4220x. The Mass Media In American Government and Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The most important aspects of the mass media's roles in the American political process. Focuses on the press itself (its workings, biases, effects, etc.) and on the relationships between the media and the institutions and actors in politics and government. Note: Due to overlap in course content students may not receive credit for both POLS BC3335 and W4220.

POLS W4226x. American Politics and Social Welfare Policy. 3 pts.

The politics and development of the American welfare state. Study and analysis of the origins and growth of domestic social programs that provide income support (welfare and Social Security), employment opportunities, health care, and protection against poverty.

POLS W4238x. Public Opinion and Political Behavior. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Surveys the political and empirical literature on public opinion and individual and aggregate level political behavior. The nature and measurement of political attitudes, the distribution of knowledge and opinions, political sophistication and ideological thinking, partisanship, the mass media and socialization processes, forms of political participation, national voting and elections, and other topics.

POLS W4290. Themes In 20th-Century American Politics and Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on the making and character of new age and post-New Deal policy ideas, state structures and political coalitions, with a particular focus on issues of labor and labor relations.

POLS W4311x. American Parties and Elections. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The changing role of political parties and elections in the American political system, including the historical development of party conflict; the structure of party organization at the local and national levels; the roles of party and the media during presidential elections; who votes and why; and the future of American political parties.

POLS W4316x. The American Presidency. 3 pts.

The growth of presidential power, the creation and use of the institutionalized presidency, presidential-congressional and presidential-bureaucratic relationships, and the presidency and the national security apparatus.

POLS W4321y. The Constitutional Law of Presidential-Congressional Relations. 3 pts.

Examines the constitutional issues involved in presidential-congressional relations, including assertions of presidential emergency powers, control of the administrative agencies, congressional investigations and the independent counsel, and the constitutional law of presidential diplomatic and war powers.

POLS G6210x. Issues and Debates In American Politics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the "American" style of political science. Instructor permission is required before registration. Please contact the instructors for more information.

POLS G8203x. Colloquium on State Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor approval required.

POLS G8208. Themes In American Political Development. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Maximum student enrollment: 20. Prerequisite: interview with instructor. The class critically audits work achieved in the past two decades by such scholars as Skowronek, Skocpol, Bensel, and Orren, as well as possibilities for future research, under the rubric of American political development. The colloquium considers APD's concepts, premises, and silences, and focuses on issues of comparison and periodization, the engagement of political science with history, and characteristics of the new institutionalism of which this literature is a part.

POLS G8209x. Colloquium On Political Economy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. As countries try to build democratic and market systems, there has been a renewed interest in the foundational institutions that support them: rule of law, property rights, civil society, and so on. There has also been a flowering of the application to other countries of the political economy lessons learned with respect to US institutions. This course will examine recent topics in political economy, with special emphasis on the institutions that promote growth, transitions to democracy, and the interaction of politics and markets.

POLS G8210x. Colloquium On Public Opinion and Political Behavior. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

An examination of research on public opinion, political behavior, and the American electorate, focusing on political sophistication, values, ideological thinking, partisanship, the dynamics of public opinion and policy making, and political participation. Methodological issues and survey research. Instructor permission is required before registration.

POLS G8211y. Political Economy of Institutions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8212y. Courts and the Legislative Process. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8217. Politics of Law and Courts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to the scholarly study of the politics of law and courts. Alternative approaches to judicial politics; the politics of judicial selection, including Supreme Court nominations; decision-making on collegial courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court; politics within the judicial hierarchy; the politics of creating rights; courts within the seperation of powers system; courts and American political development; decision-making on juries; comparative judicial systems.

POLS G8219y. Elections. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8220. Congressional and Presidential Relations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The American system of separated institutions sharing power. Theories of divided government; presidential legislative programs; vetoes; nominations; oversight; Congress, presidents, and the courts.

POLS G8223x. Legislative Behavior and Institutions. 3 pts.

Instructor permission required before registration. Examination of the interactions between individual incentives and political institutions in shaping policy. Presents an approach to the study of politics that emphasizes individual incentives in an electoral system, examines how re-election-minded legislators organize to solve collective dilemmas, and focusses on the effects of these political institutions on policy choice.

POLS G8226x. Historical Institutionalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The colloquium, in tandem with two workshops, seeks to function as a reading and research community. Exploring the two key words in its title as concepts, mechanisms, and venues for research, its domain is historical work on political institutions advanced under the rubrics of political history, including scholarship on "American Political Development," and comparative politics. Readings and discussion concern both questions or research design and substantive issues placed in the context of the lineage of political science as a discipline.

POLS G8227y. Historical Institutionalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The colloquium, in tandem with two workshops, seeks to function as a reading and research community. Exploring the two key words in its title as concepts, mechanisms, and venues for research, its domain is historical work on political institutions advanced under the rubrics of political history, including scholarship on "American Political Development," and comparative politics. Readings and discussion concern both questions or research design and substantive issues placed in the context of the lineage of political science as a discipline.

POLS G8229. Foundations of Institutional Analysis: Congress. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to contemporary methods of institutional analysis in political science. Collectively, these methods form the basis for what is often called neoinstitutionalism or the new institutionalism. The U.S. Congress as a laboratory for developing neoinstitutional analysis. Since congressional studies have in fact been the principal testing ground for the new institutionalism, this is a very natural way to approach both the study of Congress and the foundations of institutional analysis.

POLS G8232. Colloquium On Urban Politics, Policy Making, and Administration. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Politics, policy making, and administration in large cities and suburban areas. Particular attention given to the urban social and economic environment; fiscal federalism and other aspects of the federal government's role in urban affairs; the resources, strategies, and tactics of selected local officials and private influentials; and alternative futures for large cities

POLS G8234x. Urban Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration. This seminar is designed as an overview of the major debates in Urban Politics. The primary goals of the course are to familiarize students with the principal questions being asked by scholars in this subfield, the methodological approaches employed, and the avenues available for future research. Methodological diversity will be emphasized.

POLS G8236x-G8237y. Themes in American Political Development. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration. The colloquium audits work achieved under the rubric of 'American Political Development' and looks ahead to possibilities for future research. APD's concepts, premises, substantive themes, and silences will be considered, including the subfield's engagement with history and temporality, its attempts to place the United States in comparative and international perspective, and its approaches to ideas, institutions, regimes, interests, and preferences.

POLS G8238x. Immigration Politics & Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor permission is required before registration.

The seminar is designed to examine major issues related to immigration politics and policy. These include:

Why does migration occur?

What are the effects of migration on sending and receiving states?

What are the effects of migration on sending and receiving states?

What is the role of receiving states in influencing migration?

What factors influence the political incorporation of immigrants?

POLS G8240. The Lineage of Political Science. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Colloquium considers 20th-century political science in the United States, about the U.S., as a distinctive form of social knowledge, focusing- doctrinally, institutionally, and normatively-on the transactions linking the state and civil society and on the interplay between political identities, opinions, and interests. The course proceeds by way of a close reading of key texts, including works by Bryce, Watkins, Merriam, Key, Truman, Hartz, Dahl, Low, Skowronek, and Skocpol.

POLS G8245y. Controversies in American Politics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

This is a seminar intended mainly for Ph.D. students interested in working in depth on current controversies that draw attention from contemporary American politics scholars. On the one hand it is expected that students will arrive with different backgrounds in terms of American politics reading, statistical skills, and training as theorists. On the other hand, all should be willing to approach the research questions at the highest level. In addition to presenting discussion papers regarding the relevant literature (and the subsequent class discussions), students will work on individual research papers related to the course.

POLS G8247y. Mass Mediated American and Global Politics. 3 pts.

Instructor permission required before registration. Readings and class discussions explore the domestic and global news media at the beginning of the 21st century as they relate to and impact on mass-mediated domestic and international politics. The focus is on post-World War II and post-9/11 conditions and changes in terms of ownership, audience, technology, organizational and individual values and imperatives, and, especiall, on the media's role during conflicts--in particular the ongoing "war on terrorism."

POLS G8281y. Political Participation. 3 pts.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8295. Research Controversies In Political Science. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Designed to familiarize students to substantive and methodological controversies that are currently engaging scholars of American politics.

POLS G9290x. Qualitative Methods in Political Science. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS W4405. Politics of South Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Discussion of the political and economic dynamics of the South African state, society and conflict since 1948, with particular emphasis on the leading opposition movements and prospects for majority rule.

POLS W4417x. Comparative Politics of Economic Crises in Europe & America. 3 pts.

This course examines the comparative politics of several industrial societies by looking at how these countries have responded to economic crises and serious threats to their prosperity and stability. The focus is on three major economic powers in Western Europe - Germany, Britain, and France - as well as the United States. (Somewhat less attention is paid to the U.S. in recent decades.) Occasionally, a small country like Sweden will be drawn into the comparison when its policies, institutions, and social arrangements carry a significance out of proportion to that country's size. This constellation - four big trans-Atlantic countries plus a small Scandinavian welfare state - has also been chosen for a more timely reason: The two Anglo-American and the two Continental European countries have lately been on opposite sides (though sometimes also on the same side) of disputes about how to recover from the current economic crisis and how to reform financial markets. The three big European countries (two of which are members of the European Monetary Union, one of which is not) are also cooperating and quarrelling with each other on these issues within the framework of the European Union, whose rotating Presidency is chaired by Sweden through the rest of 2009.

POLS W4420. States, Societies and Political Change In West Europe and the U.S.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The rise and fall of the postwar settlement within advanced capitalism, as well as changes in the labor process, political economy, role of the state, ruling coalitions, and social movements in the present period. Analysis of theoretical debates and historical developments.

POLS W4426y. European Union: Politics and Institutions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is intended to help you answer some of the questions posed by the existence of the EU. For example, how do we explain the process of European integration and what does this mean for national autonomy? What role do national governments, interest groups and citizens play in EU decision-making? Will the EU emerge as a potent, international actor? Finally, is the EU democratic and how can it respond to the stalemate on its constitutional construction and doubts over further enlargement?

POLS W4431y. Religion & Secularism in Multicultural Societies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will serve as an introductory overview of the issues and debates involved in the interaction between religion and politics in non-Western societies. It will cover the issues of secularism and the recent de-privatization of religion, religion-based ideologies and social movements, as well as minority rights, with a particular focus on the former Soviet Union and comparative material drawn from the Middle East and South Asia.

POLS W4432. European Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis of West European political systems and the role of the European Union in Western Europe. Emphasis on electoral laws and party systems, the organization of parliamentary systems of government, the politics of bureaucratic control, patterns of interest intermediation, and regionalism.

POLS W4435. Political Corruption and Governance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the social science discourse on political corruption in the contemporary world and its relationship to political and economic development. Exploration of questions concerning political corruption-its causes, consequences, patterns, and effective mechanisms to reduce, contain and eliminate corruption.

POLS W4445y. Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. 3 pts.

Comparative analysis of regime types, political development and political decay, nation-state building, and the role of political groups in the Middle East and North Africa.

POLS G4452x. Government & Politics of China. 3 pts.

This course is a graduate level seminar designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the numerous challenges and issues faced by China's leaders as they attempt to grapple with the task of managing an increasingly complex and diverse society of 1.3 billion people. At the apex of the Chinese political system sits the Chinese Communist Party-an organization that is seeking to maintain its power, control and legitimacy while change is ubiquitous around it. If we could identify just one word that describes China today it would be "fluidity." Coming out of the Cultural Revolution, China's post-Mao leadership under Deng Xiaoping recognized that significant reforms would needed to adequately feed, clothe, and house the population as well as ensure that China would not be left behind the West and Japan in terms of advanced science & technology and modern military capabilities. The process and politics of reform, however, have been uneven at best, and at times produced great turbulence in socio-political and economic terms. How China's leadership grapples with the intended and unintended consequences of reform and change will determine, to a great extent, how the political system will evolve in the years ahead. Along with obvious questions regarding democracy and human rights, there are many others issues on the political agenda, e.g. social and economic inequality, healthcare, environment, etc. that necessarily also will shape the form and substance of Chinese politics in the coming years. Our goal for the semester is to assess the capacity of the present regime to respond and adapt to the new complexities of a more modern, more mobile, more connected, and more open Chinese society. In other words, does the regime have the ability to reform itself to a sufficient degree so that it can survive in the future?

POLS W4461x. Latin American Politics. 3 pts.

Comparative theoretical and empirical analysis of political development and regime change in the region through close study of the interrelated nature of polity, society, and economy in selected cases.

POLS W4471x. Chinese Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Selected aspects of contemporary Chinese politics, including the causes and character of the Chinese revolution, the transformation worked in Chinese society by the revolutionary government, political conflict, and the goals of government policies and the policies of carrying them out.

POLS G4472x. Japanese Politics. 3 pts.

Surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with focus on political institutions and processes. Themes include party politics, bureaucratic power, the role of the Diet, voting behavior, the role of the state in the economy, and the domestic politics of foreign policy.

POLS W4476y. Korean Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course explores the domestic politics and foreign relations of South and North Korea, including inter-Korean relations. The course will cover relevant political theory, contemporary history and issues of particular significance to Korean politics. It will address the sensitive and sometimes volatile nature of Korean domestic politics, the country's unique geopolitical position, and the dynamics of North-South Korean affairs.

POLS W4491x. Post-Soviet States and Markets. 3 pts.

Recommended preparation: some familiarity with Communist or post-Communist states. Considers the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and the challenge of building new political and economic systems in the post-Communist space. Evaluates contending theories of markets, transitions, constitutions, federalism, and democratic institutions. Primary focus on the post-Soviet states, with some reference to Eastern Europe and China.

POLS W4496x. Contemporary African Politics. 3 pts.

Prerequisite: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission. Topics include the transition from colonialism to independence, ethnic and class relations, the state, strategies for development, international influences, and case studies of selected countries.

POLS G6403x. Issues and Methods In Comparative Politics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required.

A survey of the major issues and methods of comparative politics. In examining the major theoretical puzzles and approaches in the subfield, the course introduces students to major texts and contending theories in the field.

POLS G6406x. Modern State and the Colonial Subject. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar on the development of legal thought on the colonial subject will read and discuss texts that focus on the American Indian in the New World, and subjugated peoples in the Ottoman Empire, in British India and in tropical and southern Africa. participation limited to 15 by prior application.

POLS G6407y. Selected Problems In Brazilian Politics and Economy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Addresses four sets of problems central to modern democratic practices and theories: the metaframeworks of modern democratic institutions; the world's religious systems and democracy, the reconciliation of multinationalism and democracy; and decentralization.

POLS G6435x. Political Dynamics in East Central Europe. 3 pts.

This course is designed to discuss different forms of political change from theoretical and historical-comparative perspective.. In the first part of the semester we examine general evolutionary forms of social change i. e. theories of modernization and development, which might preceed political restructuration. Old and new modernization studies wil be contrasted to old and new approaches in development, underdevelopment and dependency. In the second part, we shall discuss revolutions in theoretical and historical comparative perspective. Comparative politics includes relational analysis of abrupt, violent, unexpected changes in the political structure of a society. We will discuss the major understandings and theories of the state in order to help conceptualizing revolution. We shall discuss revolutions in theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective. Constitutionalist, Marxist, psychological, and functionalist approaches, just as mobilization, structuralist, and political culture theories of revolution will be analysed. The course will allow some case study analyses on distinct revolutionary phenomena as well. When approaching political violence, notions such as palace revolution, coup, theories of internal and international war will also be discussed. We will use the opportunity of student presentations to discuss some recent empirical cases of revolutions or revolutionary movements. Finally, in the third part of the semester, we shall cover non-violent forms of political change, and their social consequences. Transition and consolidation approaches and theories will be discussed and criticized, together with the ideas of democracy promotion in the context of globalization and its discontents.

POLS G6465x. Political Development In the Third World. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The major issues of political development relevant to both policy and comparative analyses. Topics include ethnic, regional and class stratification, state bureaucracy, patronage, parties and the military, economic development and dependency, and the processes of reform, revolution and democratization.

POLS G6480y. Political Economy of Japan in Comparative Perspective. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

POLS G8401x. Legacy of Empire & Soviet Union. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8406. Parties and Party Systems. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis of parties and party systems primarily in the advanced industrialized democracies, i.e. Japan, the U.S., and Western Europe. Focus on four major areas of inquiry: the structuring and dynamics of different party systems, the internal organization and functioning of parties, the relationship between parties and bureaucracies in the policy process, and the challenges parties face to remain relevant institutions in the next century. Extensive readings, class discussions, and the writing of a research paper.

POLS G8408. Political Economy of the Post-Communist Transition. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A theoretical exploration of the political and economic (and social) transformations underway in the formerly Socialist/Communist states of Europe and Eurasia. Colloquium integrates political science and economic methodologies. Focuses on states of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe, and the experience and lesson of post-communist transitions in Asia.

POLS G8412x. Political Economy of Development. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required.

POLS G8414x. Comparative Political Economy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines the interaction between capitalism and democracy. Focus on the major theories of the interaction between politics and markets and the ways in which the economy affects politics, and politics shapes economic outcomes. Looks at both developed and developing countries. The relative significance of domestic and international economic pressures and political institutions is also a main theme.

POLS G8415. Colloquium On Political Change. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis and discussion of major works on modernization, political order, dependency, economic development, the state, the nation, ethnicity, race, class, authoritarianism, social movements and revolution.

POLS G8416x. Comparative Political Economy. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration. This seminar provides an introduction to the main theories of comparative political economy. The survey of these theories is organized as a progression from micro- to macro-level explanations. We begin by examining the sources of political cleavages over various economic policies and the formation of political coalitions. Next, we explore a range of theories positing that differences in the organization of interest groups lead to systematic differences in economic outcomes. We examine how comparativists have studied the problem of 'state capture' by interest groups and its economic and political consequences. In the second part of the course, we apply these theoretical building blocks to a variety of issue areas, including financial development, taxation, the development of social spending and political responses to unemployment.

POLS G8417. Political Incorporation. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Using cases from the U.S., France, India, the former Soviet Union and sub-Saharan Africa, examines how various theories of political incorporation apply to cases of ethnic, racial and religious difference. Contrasts various liberal analyses of political incorporation with political, economic, and historical institution approaches. Theories assessed in light of the countries selected for comparative analysis.

POLS G8419. Colloquium On Modern Social Movements. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis of the origin, internal logic, ideology, actions and impact of modern social movements conceived around ethnicity, race, nationality, class or gender.

POLS G8423x. Organized Labor and Social Movements. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Class discussions and presentations involving theoretical issues and historical developments concerning organized labor, social movements, left political parties, and state policies.

POLS G8426. Democracy and Inequality. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. While democracy might be expected to ensure pressure for greater equality, it has instead coexisted with greater economic disparity. To examine this issue, we will discuss both general analyses and relevant cases ranging from South Africa, Brazil, Mexico and India, to the US and Europe.

POLS G8427y. Comparative Ethnic Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required.

POLS G8428y. Democracy, Autocracy & Regime Change. 3 pts.

POLS G8431. Capitalism, Socialism, and the European Left. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis of contemporary left movements within Europe, including social democratic parties and governments, grassroots movements, and organized labor. The interplay between nationally-based left movements and transnational linkages.

POLS G8432y. Issues in Comparative Secularism & Democracy. 3 pts.

Instructor permission required before registration. Empirical predictions and normative prescriptions about secularism once dominated many of the foundational works in social science, particularly in modernization theory. However, recently scholars as diverse as Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in political theory, Peter Katzenstein in international relations, and Stathis Kalyvas, Ronald Inglehart, and José Casanova in their comparative work have been engaged in a fundamental rethinking of religion, secularism, and desecularization. Some of the issues we will explore in the seminar are the following. In a lecture series, five scholars over the course of the semester will argue that some of the fundamental categories used in IR theory and in comparative politics make religion almost impossible to study. Are they right? If so, what new approaches might be called for? How can social science survey analysis help us explore issues of religion and politics? Most religions have been at times restrictive of full women's rights. What can we learn from successful patterns of contestation in this area? Can we identify, from the perspective of democratic theory, what the minimal degree of freedom democracy needs from religion to function, and the minimal degree of freedom that religion must be allowed if the polity is to be a democracy. If so, what do these "twin tolerations" say about secularism? Finally, just as we now understand that there are "multiple modernities" does it make more analytic sense to speak of the "multiple secularisms of modern democracies"? We will explore this last question by exploring at least four different patterns of state-society relations that actually exist in contemporary democracies; "freedom of the state from religion separatism " (France and Turkey), "freedom of religion from the state separatism" (USA), " a state with an established religion" (most of the Scandinavian countries, UK, and Greece), and the under-theorizedpattern that Rajeev Bhargava (who will participate in the seminar) calls the" respect -all, support-all, principled distance" model for India. Are two of the more successful new democracies in Islamic majority states, Indonesia and Senegal, close to this model? For any given polity can we say anything about what conditions are most, and least, supportive for each model if the goal is democracy and relative peace in a specific polity? Do Holland, Germany, and Switzerland have more in common with the Indian model than they do with "separatist" or one "established religion": model?

POLS G8434y. Latin American Politics In Comparative Perspective. 3 pts.

Instructor permission required before registration. Political structures, conflict and change in the region including discussion of selected countries, patterns of regime change and the involvement of the U.S.

POLS G8451. Political Economy of the Middle East. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course uses the modern history and politics of the Middle East and North Africa to explore and evaluate the various theoretical perspectives that call themselves political economy, including Marxist, positive, and international, and briefly explores some of the alternative approaches, including cultural analysis.

POLS G8454x. Formal Comparative Politics & Constitutional Design. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration. This course covers recent models of democratic policy making, with particular emphasis on the comparison of institutional systems used across liberal democracies.

Instructor permission required.

POLS G8470. Democracy In East Asia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Considers the theoretical literature on modern democracy and democratization in light of the experiences of East Asian countries. Discussion divided between theoretical issues and empirical issues concerning specific East Asian countries: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries, and China.

Instructor permission required.

POLS G8471y. Chinese Politics In Comparative Perspective. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The major issues in the secondary literature, together with identification of problems of, and approaches to, research.

POLS G8472x. Colloquium On Issues In Japanese Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: W4472 or the equivalent. Lectures, discussion of readings, and the writing of papers on themes concerning the comparative analysis of contemporary Japanese politics. Knowledge of Japanese is not required. Assignments of Japanese language materials for students able to read them and discussion of these readings in class.

POLS G8490. The State. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Inquiry about the status of the State in political analysis. Exploration of how useful links might be forged connecting political theory, historical social science, and organizational analysis.

POLS G8492y. Comparing Institutions. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration. Survey of the theoretical literature on the origin and structure of political and economic institutions. Special emphasis on the new institutional economics and other rational actor theories, with particular attention to the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches as tools for comparative analysis.

POLS G8493x. Topics In Comparative Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Provides students in comparative politics an opportunity to read and discuss major classic and new works in a selected number of major topics (e.g., democracy, nationalism, economic development, culture). Introduction of varying methodologies of approach. Students gain experience at analyzing major works, seeing how these fit within a tradition of the study of a topic and within methodological debates. Builds upon introductory survey (G6403) and provides a foundation for more advanced and focused study.

POLS G8495. The Nation-State and Its Exclusions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A review of literature on state truncation and nation building as components of the nation-state. Ethnicity, race and class and how exclusions along these lines have reinforced nation-state building.

POLS G8496. Race, Nation and State. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Why did Jim Crow in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa develop, as contrasted with the image of racial democracy in Brazil? Exploration of previous explanations focusing on history, culture, and economics. Discussion of the interaction between these factors, social constructions of race, and the process of nation-state consolidation, interweaving theory and empirical comparison.

POLS G8497y. Comparative Federalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration. Primary focus on federalism in democracies. Exploration of concepts and histories and examination of case studies attempt to move toward more powerful social, scientific and political understandings of a number of central issues including fragmentation and ethnic conflict, inequality, market enhancement, and multinationalism.

POLS G8526. Comparative Democratic Processes. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Attempts to integrate examination of presidential government in the U.S. and examination of parliamentary democracies in order to make a unified approach to the study of democratic institutions. Focuses on a common set of issues that are faced by individuals in all democratic systems: coordination, cooperation, commitment, aggregation and delegation.

POLS G9430. Analysis of Institutions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

POLS G9450y. Seminar On Civil Society and Political Transitions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. What is civil society? And which actors and collectivities in the developing world belong to this category? This graduate seminar will carefully examine the multifaceted roles civil societies playing in inducing, producing, altering and sustaining political realities within their given setting. The course will look at current theoretical approaches on the importance of civil society in aiding political development and democratization, and its role in creating and sustaining democratic citizenship. By examining empirical cases from Africa, the Middle East, Latin American and well-established democracies, we will consider the ways in which civil society can and cannot promote political development.

Instructor permission required.

POLS G9462y (Section 001). COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will review the literature on policymaking with an emphasis on economic and social policymaking. It will focus on the factors that affect policy adoption and implementation, including the role of institutions, political parties, ideology, electoral competition, and social demands. The class will discuss applications to Latin America, and other developing regions.

POLS G9472. Topics In Chinese Domestic and Foreign Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Open to students with prior work in post-1949 China. The autumn term is devoted to the analysis of problems based on secondary literature. The spring term is devoted to research using primary sources, either in translation or the original.

POLS G9772. Seminar On Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: Political Science W4472 or the equivalent. Research seminar on selected issues in the politics of contemporary Japan. Oral and written reports.

POLS W4804. The Making of United States Foreign Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Constitutional, organizational, and partisan dynamics of the foreign policy process, with special attention to legislative-executive and civil-military relations, intelligence activities, and performance in crises.

POLS W4807y. Secession in Domestic & International Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

POLS W4808y. Weapons, Strategy & War. 3 pts.

An examination of how the interrelationships among military technology, strategy, foreign policy, and the cultural ethos have shaped warfare from the introduction of gunpowder to the present; special attention to selected cases from World Wars I and II and the development of US strategy for nuclear weapons.

POLS W4812. American Strategies In World Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. American national security policy from independence to the present. Special attention to the two world wars, issues of nuclear strategy, the cold war, and its aftermath.

POLS W4842x. Conflict and Conflict Resolution In the Middle East. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Comparative analysis of conflicts and efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East, focusing on inter-Arab politics, the Iran-Iraq war, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sources of conflict between states, the dynamics of intervention in civil strife, and the role of extra-regional actors are examined.

POLS W4846. International Politics of the Middle East.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to the international politics of the Middle East region (Egypt east to Iran; Turkey south to the Arabian Peninsula). Focuses on the interplay during various historical periods in the 20th century of four factors: superpower policies, the Arab-Israeli conflict, regional conflict/integration (inter-Arab, Iranian-Arab), and domestic political trends and events

POLS W4865. The Russian-Central Asian Encounter. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The patterns of Tsarist, Soviet and Russian interactions-political, cultural, socioeconomic-with Central Asia, roughly from the 1860's to the present.

POLS W4868. Japanese Politics and Political Economy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Contemporary Japanese politics with a focus on theoretical conception of state-society relations and the political, institutional and international contexts of the policy-making process. Theoretical frameworks applied to a variety of issues, including policy toward industry, the economy, trade and investment, agriculture, welfare, the environment.

POLS W4869x. Korean Foreign Relations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Changing relations of the two Korean states, with major international actors; analysis of the foreign policies of the two states on issues of war and peace, political economy, human rights, science and technology, international law, international organization, and world order, with an emphasis on recent post-Cold War developments.

POLS W4871y. Chinese Foreign Policy. 3 pts.

The international politics of China--its foreign relations; its intentions, capabilities, and strategies in world affairs; and the major instruments of its foreign policy--with primary emphasis on the People's Republic.

POLS W4882x. Foreign Policies of the Post-Soviet States. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Lecture and discussion. Focuses on the foreign policies of Russia, Ukraine, the Central Asian States, and other former Soviet republics. Explores the sources of these policies, including the impact of the Soviet legacy. Examines the dynamic of relations among these states and with the outside world and weighs their likely impact on an evolving international system.

POLS W4895x. War, Peace, and Strategy. 3 pts.

Survey of the causes of war and peace, functions of military strategy, interaction of political ends and military means. Emphasis on 20th-century conflicts; nuclear deterrence; economic, technological, and moral aspects of strategy; crisis management; and institutional norms and mechanisms for promoting stability.

POLS G6801x. Theories of International Relations. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission is required to register.

Issues and problems in theory of international politics; systems theories and the current international system; the domestic sources of foreign policy and theories of decision making; transnational forces, the balance of power, and alliances.

POLS G6802y. Theory Building and Comparative Methods. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Statistical training is not required. Introduction to the use of the scientific method in the study of international relations and comparative politics: construction of theories, measurement of variables, testing of hypotheses. Comparative and case study methods. Methodological critique of several major theories.

POLS G6803. The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The foreign policy of nations considered from both a theoretical and historical perspective. An effort to understand the ways in which the international system of the day, democratic and non-democratic political orders, stages of political and economic development, and political culture shape national foreign policies.

POLS G6805. International Organization and World Politics.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course intends to examine critically the organizational features of international life. Instead of focusing on one or several international organizations by means of an institutional analysis, the scope of the course is wider and more analytical: it explores the role of norms in structuring interactions in the international arena (regimes), as well as formal organizations. Thus the focus is on the international system and more particularly on the tasks of maintaining the minimum conditions of social coexistance among a set of independent actors.

POLS G6820y. The Theory of International Political Economy. 3 pts.

Political aspects of international economic phenomena, including international monetary system, trade and investment, North-South relations, and East-West economic relations.

POLS G6860. The Post-Soviet States and Europe. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An exploration of the impact of developments in and among the post-Soviet states on the course of international relations in Europe. On a background of Russia's historic relationship with Europe, an examination of the implications for European security, politics, and the process of integration of trends in the former Soviet Union.

POLS G6865. Post-Soviet Policy In Asia.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of post-Soviet foreign and military policy primarily in East Asia, focussing on critical bilateral post-Soviet relationships with China and Japan and on the triangular relationship among China, Russia, and the U.S.

POLS G8800. Current Issues In International Monetary Systems. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Recent history of the international monetary systems, the rise of international financial intermediaries and their relation to state actors, international macroeconomic policy coordination, the political economy of financial regulation and financial crises.

POLS G8803. Colloquium On European Foreign Policies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: instructor’s permission. Examination of the foreign policies of West European countries since WW II: security and arms control, international integration, international economic relations.

POLS G8804x. Colloquium On International Political Economy. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Analysis of theories in international political economy, examining the relationship between politics of economics globally and the causes of the rise and decline of states. Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8809. Quantitative International Relations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: familiarity with data analysis through multivariate regression. Introduction of the application of quantitative methods to the study of international relations.

POLS G8810y. New Perspectives On the Cold War. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Recently released archives and memoirs provide the basis for a reevaluation of the origins, course, and end of the Cold War. Prevailing explanations of Soviet and American foreign policy and international interaction in light of the new materials.

POLS G8811y. Civil Wars. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8815y. Topics and Controversies In International Relations Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Review of the current literature on war, peace and institutions with a focus on recent and evolving topics and controversies; e.g., Why do states fight? Emphasis on debates about the answers to relevant questions, both as the basis for exploring existing answers and as an opportunity for students to identify their own research agendas.

POLS G8819x. International Institutions, Law, Norms. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

POLS G8821y. Topics in International Relations & Rational Choice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required.

The first part of the course will be on the rationalist explanations of bargaining breakdown and bilateral conflict, including the analysis of leaders' selection, strategic militarization, and other variables at the boundary between domestic and international choices. The second part of the course will focus on alliance formation and multilateral conflict. Then we will bring the insights from bilateral and multilateral conflict together and will study the open problems in conflict resolution mechanism design. The final part will be on cooperation, as opposed to conflict. We will present models and useful frameworks to study the functioning of international organizations and their development in an anarchic system.

POLS G8824x. Territorial Conflict. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Why do states fight over territory? We will examine various perspectives that suggest causes of and changes in territorial conflict over time. We will also examine specific cases of territorial conflict to prepare students for conducting their own research on this topic.

POLS G8826y. Political Economy of Trade & Investment. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required to register. Please contact instructor for more information.

This course examines the politics of several major issues in international trade and investment. It explores why and how governments regulate the flow of goods and capital across national borders. The course is divided into four blocs that look at the distributive consequences of trade, the political economy of trade politics, the political economy of trade reform, and the political economy of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations, respectively. The course presumes some familiarity with international economics. Economic theory will help us identify the welfare and distributional implications of alternative policies. We will also make extensive use of the insights from the positive political economy tradition to analyze how political actors (voters, interest groups, political parties, and politicians) interact within political institutions to shape policy outcomes. Students are required to actively participate in weekly discussions, write two review papers during the semester, and submit an original research paper on one of the topics of the seminar at the end of the semester.

POLS G8829. Political Economy of National Security. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Introduction to concepts, theories, and methods relevant to linking economics and national security. Attention will be given to linkages between economic and security issues in U.S. foreign relations, to economics in instruments of national security policy, and to policy-making processes.

POLS G8830. Colloquium On the Causes of War. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Past and current studies and research approaches.

POLS G8831y. Politics and Organization. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This class is designed to be of interest to students of all sub-fields of political science. Organizations structure politics in many forms; legislatures, bureaucracies, states, and supranational institutions, among other organizations, affect political outcomes on a daily basis. The goal of this class is to familiarize students with the various theories of organizational structure and operation that bear on a broad range of politics.

POLS G8833y. Law of War. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission is required for registration.

This course focuses on issues surrounding the conduct of warfare. It is centered around a series of questions relating to jus in bello, or the international law governing use of force once hostilities have commenced. Why, for example, have some laws of war been created but not others? Under what conditions should we expect belligerents to observe the laws of war? Why even try to govern the conduct of war? Few of these questions have received systematic treatment from political scientists. Yet, as the law of war has become increasingly salient both domestically and internationally, it is critical to sharpen our understanding of this topic.

POLS G8842. Colloquium On World Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Exploration of selected issues concerning the nature, uses, and distribution of power in international relations.

POLS G8843y. International Law. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8844x. Nationalism and Contemporary World Politics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required to register.

Theory and history of nationalism and international conflict. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics, especially in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Role of the international community in promoting or containing nationalism.

POLS G8846x. Transnationalism. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration. This seminar explores the emerging empirical/positivist literature on transnational actors and processes. We examine how different scholars define and conceptualize transnational actors and private authority, and it's potential to transform (or not) the character of the international state system. We also focus on how non-state actors contribute to the production and maintenance of order in the international system through interest-group mechanisms, instances of express or implicit delegation of regulatory tasks (the 'privatization' of governance), and various types of strategic behavior within existing regulatory frameworks. Particular emphasis will be given to understanding the challenges associated with the regulation of private actors and conduct across international borders, and implications for the development and diffusion of rules and norms of behavior.

POLS G8861y. Change In the International System.. 3 pts.

The causes of change in the relative position of actors in the international system as well as the causes of fundamental changes in the character of those units. The main focus will be on the last issue. The dynamics behind institutional diversity and isomorphism. Why do historical epochs favor one type of organization over another? Structural realist views and alternative research programs used.

POLS G8863. Colloquium On Conflict and Cooperation. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Recent years have seen the elaboration of a number of theories of international conflict, primarily growing out of deterrence theory, and a new body of literature on international cooperation, largely centered in the substantive area of international political economy. These theories are analyzed and applied, exploring the extent to which they are compatible, and the extent to which they can help explain behavior in both the security and the political economy arenas.

POLS G8864x. Colloquium On Cooperation and Security. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required to register.

Examines theoretical approaches to conflict and cooperation in international relations, including the obstacles to cooperation under anarchy and the possibility of surmounting those obstacles. Empirical focus on cooperation problems in peace and security among both friends and adversaries, including alliance politics, negotiations, maintaining peace.

POLS G8865x. United States Foreign Policy. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required to register. Please contact instructor for more information.

Survey of post-Cold War U.S. policy, relations with Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East, military and economic policy, political intervention (human rights policy and covert action), and environmental diplomacy.

POLS G8870x. US Relations with East Asia. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission is required for registration.

Examination of key developments in East Asian international relations and their implications for United States foreign policy. Students should have knowledge about at least one East Asian country (China, Japan, Korea and the countries in ASEAN).

POLS G8876y. US-Japan Relations from WWII to Present. 3 pts.

Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8880. Statecraft. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Reviews the theory and practice of statecraft. The nature, implications and consequences of various types of statecraft.

POLS G9801x. Seminar In International Politics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required to register. Please contact instructor for more information.

Seminar on theories of international politics and various approaches to the study of international relations that make some theoretical claims. Structural, institutional, critical, and behavioral approaches.

POLS G9802y. Seminar In International Politics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required to register.

Instruction in the design and execution of individual research projects on International politics. Class discussion on theories of decision making.

POLS G9850. Seminar In Security Studies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Maximum student enrollment: 20. Priority to second-year students. Seminar to develop research papers on theory, history, or current policy questions conerning war, strategy, deterrence, coercion, cooperation, alliance, diplomacy, arms control, threat assessment, defense decision-making, or related issues.

POLS G9882. Topics In Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: Political Science W4882 or the equivalent, fluent reading knowledge of Russian, and instructor's permission. A research seminar.

POLS W4209y. Game Theory and Political Theory. 3 pts.

Application of noncooperative game theory to strategic situations in politics. Solution concepts, asymmetric information, incomplete information, signaling, repeated games, and folk theorems. Models drawn from elections, legislative strategy, interest group politics, regulation, nuclear deterrence, international relations, and tariff policy.

POLS W4210x. Research Topics in Game Theory. 3 pts. Prerequisites:POLS W4209 or Instructor's Permission.

Advanced topics in game theory will cover the study of repeated games, games of incomplete information and principal-agent models with applications in the fields of voting, bargaining, lobbying and violent conflict. Results from the study of social choice theory, mechanism design and auction theory will also be treated. The course will concentrate on mathematical techniques for constructing and solving games. Students will be required to develop a topic relating political science and game theory and to write a formal research paper. Prerequisite: W4209 or instructor's permission.

POLS W4291x. Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research. 3 pts.

Instruction in methods for models that have dependent variables that are not continuous, including dichotomous and polychotomous response models, models for censored and truncated data, sample selection models and duration models.

POLS W4292y. Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research: Models for Panel & Time-Series Cross-Section Data. 3 pts.

This course covers methods for models for repeated observations data. These kinds of data represent tremendous opportunities as well as formidable challenges for making inferences. The course will focus on how to estimate models for panel and time-series cross-section data. Topics covered include fixed effects, random effects, dynamic panel models, random coefficient models, and models for qualitative dependent variables.

POLS W4360x. Mathematical Methods for Political Science. 3 pts.

Provides students of political science with a basic set of tools needed to read, evaluate, and contribute in research areas that increasingly utilize sophisticated mathematical techniques.

POLS W4910x. Principles of Quantitative Political Research. 4 pts.

Introduction to the use of quantitative techniques in political science and public policy. Topics include descriptive statistics and principles of statistical inference and probability through analysis of variance and ordinary least-squares regression. Computer applications are emphasized.

POLS W4911y. Analysis of Political Data. 4 pts.

Prerequisite: POLS W4910 or the equivalent. Multivariate and time-series analysis of political data. Topics include time-series regression, structural equation models, factor analysis, and other special topics. Computer applications are emphasized.

POLS W4912y. Multivariate Political Analysis. 3 pts.

Prerequisite: basic data analysis through multiple regression (e.g., POLS W4910) and knowledge of basic calculus and matrix algebra. More mathematical treatment of topics covered in POLS W4911. Examines problems encountered in multivariate analysis of cross-sectional and time-series data.

POLS G8290. Topics In Quantitative Analysis: Limited and Qualitative Variables. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Instruction in methods for models that have dependent variables that are not continuous, including dichotomous and polychotomous response models, models for censored and truncated data, sample selection models and duration models.

POLS G8605. Contemporary Civilization: Texts and Issues. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Discussion of selected authors and issues relevant to the teaching of the core curriculum course Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in Columbia College. Course open only to preceptors in C1101-C1102.

POLS G6047. Political Sociology: Traditions and Concepts. 3 pts. Seminal traditions and problems in the sociological study of politics. Intensive analysis of Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Michels, and others, and of recent interpretive theory. State and society, class and politics, ideals and ideology, problems of research strategy.

POLS G6048. Political Sociology: Comparisons of Institutions and Processes. 3 pts. Recommended preparation: Political Science-Sociology G6047 or the equivalent. Introduction to topics selected from social bases of political regimes; ideology, opinion, and collective consciousness; class structure and political behavior; formation, organization, and representation of interests; social determination of voting; collective violence and revolution; civil-military and church-state arrangement; politics of business, labor, and intellectuals. Empirical and historical materials; emphasis on comparisons within the Western world.

LWPS G4000. Rethinking Representation: the Political, Semiotic and Aesthetic Dimensions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Current and classical texts in the fields of political theory, art and film criticism, and feminist thought. The meaning, sense and reference of a representation; what is represented in political representations: interests, opinions and identities; and how representations shape identities and collectivities. Jakobson, Barthes, Chow, Schmitt, Pitkin, Manin, Phillips, Hooks, Spivak and others.

POLS G4133x. Political Thought - Classical and Medieval. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Selected writers and doctrines in the tradition of Western political and social thought from Plato and Aristotle through Middle Age.

POLS G4134y. Modern Political Thought. 3 pts.

Interpretations of civil society and the foundations of political order according to the two main traditions of political thought--contraction and Aristotelian. Readings include works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Saint-Simon, Tocqueville, Marx, and Mill.

POLS G4610y. Recent Continental Political Thought. 3 pts.

This course will compare and contrast the theories of the political, the state,freedom, democracy, sovereignty and law, in the works of the following key 20th and 21st century continental theorists: Arendt, Castoriadis, Foucault, Habermas, Kelsen, Lefort, Schmitt, and Weber.It will be taught in seminar format.

POLS G4612x. Contemporary Continental Political Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Discussion of the views of some representative figures including Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Lenin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Lyotard, and Foucault.

POLS W4621. Conceptual Foundations of Rational Choice Theory.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Emphasizes conceptual and foundational aspects of rational choice theory. No formal prerequisites, but an acquaintance with abstract reasoning proves helpful.

POLS W4622x. Emotions and Political Science. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Focuses on recent advances in the understanding of emotions and on the relevance of emotions for explanations of economic, social and political behavior.

POLS G4626x. Global Justice & Democracy. 3 pts.

Traditionally theories of justice and democracy have assumed the sovereign state as the relevant context and referent. Today many issues and claims of injustice transcend the sovereign state as do the regulatory responses to them. What is the appropriate context of justice today and how can claims to sovereignty, political autonomy, and self determination mesh with human rights claims and demands for global justice? Is it meaningful to speak of global democracy? How does the globalisation of law and politics affect domestic democracy? This course will consider the relevant literature on these questions.

POLS G4639. Tocqueville's Political Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to Tocqueville's main works with a focus on methodological and theoretical aspects of his writings.

POLS G6601x. Issues In Political Theory. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission is required for registration.

A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.

POLS G6605. Contemporary Political Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Reflexivity is increasingly invoked to characterize our epoch. The debate between theorists of late- vs. post-modernity. Analysis of theoretical and political stakes in this new discourse and self-understanding. The debate over the reflexive identity in the theory of a reflexive paradigm of law and in the context of the revival of constitutionalism. The relevant works of Beck, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas, Holmes, Luhmann, Offe, Preuss, Teubner.

POLS G8499. The Constitution-Making Process. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to constitutional politics from the Federal Convention to the present. A survey of the substantive issues usually included in constitutions followed by discussion of the difference between constitutional and statutory legislation. Examination of episodes of constitution-making and general mechanisms of constitution-making.

POLS G8500. Retroactive Justice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to retroactive justice in the transition to democracy, focusing on German-occupied countries after WW II, post-Communist countries after 1989, selected Latin American countries in the 1980's and South Africa.

POLS G8601. Colloquium In Political Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Rethinkinking Sovereignty: will address state and popular sovereignty in terms of internal and external state power, democracy and law, and the constituent and constituted powers.

POLS G8606x. Liberalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration. Examines the way in which writers in the liberal tradition of political thought have grappled with major institutional questions from the 17th through 19th centuries. Works by Hobbes, Locke, Smith and Mill. Writings considered as reflections on and responses to three major historical events: the development of the modern state, the emergence of market systems, and the growth of national identities.

POLS G8608x or y. Colloquium on Political Thought. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required for registration.

Instructor permission required before registration.

LWPS W8620. Public and Private In Theory and Law. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of shifts in the conception of public and private in political theory and law. The legal construction of a private domain of intimacy and its impact on gender and sexual identities.

POLS G8626. Political Philosophy and the Future. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on three main issues: What criteria is used to speak of overpopulation? Can the concept of intergenerational justice be captured by the notion of sustainability? Does nature have a value independent of human interests, and what difference does it make if it has?

POLS G8638. Colloquium On Habermas. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An intensive reading comparison of the early and late works of Jurgen Habermas and Michel Foucault. Analysis of their different views on the philosophy of the subject, power, the public sphere, modernity, rights, universalism and individualtiy. Assessment of feminist critiques and uses of their work.

POLS G8645. Colloquium On Gender and Political Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A comprehensive study of feminist attempts at rethinking political theory. Susan Okin, Carole Pateman, Jean Elsthain, Carole Gilligan, Judith Butler, Joan Scott, Nancy Fraser, Iris Young, Catherine MacKinnon, and Nancy Hartstock.

POLS G8651. Normative Theories of Justice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Theories of retributive and distributive justice, with emphasis on work published during the last thirty years. Competing formulations of the principle that people should not suffer as a result of brute bad luck and that relative advantages and disadvantages should as far as possible arise from voluntary choices.

POLS G8652x. Empirical Studies of Justice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission required before registration. Twofold focus involves discussion of possible explanations of why people hold or profess specific ideas of justice and the role of justice and fairness motivations in explaining behavior. Examination of experimental studies of these issues as well as real-life case studies, most importantly the study of local justice and transitional justice.

POLS G8653. Rawls' Theory of Justice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An intensive critical investigation of some of the theoretical issues raised by the work of John Rawls. A Theory of Justice; other contemporary writers.

POLS G8672y. Republicanism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Instructor permission is required before registration. We will study the main texts of republican thought classical, modern and contemporary focusing on two main themes that are essentially related to contemporary political theory: republicanism's relationship with liberalism and with democracy.

POLS G8672x. Republicanism. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration. This course seeks to contextualize republicanism within the neo-roman theory of freedom. This tradition contains a conception of freedom that is negative yet political and grounds itself in the power of the law that opposes arbitrary power. The central question the seminar wants to ask is whether and how this type of republican freedom relates to the liberty of the populace, in other words democratic liberty.

LWPS L8675. Multiculturalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An assessment of the claims of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, especially their relation to basic liberal principles. Authors include Iris Marian Young, Charles Taylor and Will Kymlicka, together with published and unpublished work by the instructors.

POLS G8680y (Section 001). PROPERTY. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

What role should private property be accorded within a modern constitutional democracyâ€"and within the contemporary global economy? Through a set of related inquiries into the history and theory of property, we will consider a variety of forms the institution of property has assumed, the relationship between property and other institutional forms of authority, and the consequences of different property regimes.

POLS G9601x. Seminar In Political Theory. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor permission required before registration.

Instructor permission required before registration. The Rule of Law and Popular Sovereignty: How can law rule? What is the relationship between the rule of law and state or popular sovereignty? Who should be the guardian of the most fundamental law, the higher law of the constitution and basic rights? Does judicial review violate popular sovereignty? This seminar will explore these issues in depth, first by looking at competing approaches to the rule of law and popular sovereignty, then by focusing on the contested role of the Courts in American, European, and international contexts.

POLS G9602y. Seminar In Political Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The Rule of Law and Popular Sovereignty: How can law rule? What is the relationship between the rule of law and state or popular sovereignty? Who should be the guardian of the most fundamental law, the higher law of the constitution and basic rights? Does judicial review violate popular sovereignty? This seminar will explore these issues in depth, first by looking at competing approaches to the rule of law and popular sovereignty, then by focusing on the contested role of the Courts in American, European, and international contexts.

POLS G9610. Democracy In Theory and Practice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Key issues on the interface between political theory and the empirical study of democracy, focus is on production of original research. Topics include the definition and measurement of democracy; democracy and the distribution of political influence; the notion of education for democracy; party organization and democracy; the relation between participation and democracy; deliberative polling; social and economic preconditions of democracy; consequences of democracy; representation and the role of representatives; political parties and democracy; forms of democracy (e.g. presidential vs. parliamentary systems); the significance of electoral systems; constitutional limits and democracy.

POLS G9730. Nationalism, Liberalism and Secularism. 3-6 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The issues that Liberal political doctrine must address in the face of nationalism and the politics and moral psychology surrounding claims of identity. Provides a specific interdisciplinary angle which combines the theoretical and institutional study of politics with the philosophical study of human values and of moral psychology.

POLS G8011. Group Study. 3 pts. Prerequisite: permission of faculty sponsor and Department Chair. Group research or critical analysis of works on a topic proposed by students.

POLS G9010. Special Research Course. 3 pts. Prerequisite: permission of faculty sponsor and Department Chair. Research projects formulated by individual students.

POLS G9901x-G9902y. Dissertation Seminar. 3 pts.

Provides students the opportunity to present draft dissertation proposals and draft dissertation chapters. Enrollment limited to advanced students in the Political Science Ph.D. program except by permission of the instructor.

POLS G4005. Archival Internship. 3 pts. Prerequisite: GSAS G4008 or instructor's permission. Practicum in archival management; preparation of a substantial inventory (160 hours). Topic for spring 2002: producing inventories for components or units of Malcolm X papers.

POLS G4008. Archives and Manuscripts In Society. 3 pts. Archival theory and practice; optional 50-hour practicum.