Month: October 2016

Regional integration – the deepening of economic and political ties between states in particular geographic areas of the world – is one of the defining features of contemporary globalization.  Yet while examples of regional integration …

This course will introduce you to the various ways in which political scientists study political phenomena. We will consider a variety of research methods, including historical case study research, field research, quantitative analysis, survey research, …

This course is an introduction to Comparative Politics, one of the four sub-fields in Political Science, which involves the comparative analysis of political institutions, processes, and outcomes at the national level.  During this term, we …

This course is an introduction to American politics and government. By the end of the semester you should have a good understanding of how the government makes policy and why decisions are made as they …

This class will cover the major issues in international relations since the end of World War II. We will discuss a variety of topics from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, including: the causes …

This freshman seminar focuses on concepts and questions pertaining to the relation between politics and economics. It entails reading classical texts of political and economic philosophy from Locke to Piketty. The course asks whether economic …

The aim of this course is to critically examine how various “schools” of feminist political thought understand the relationship between experience and politics. We will pay particular attention to: 1) what feminist theorists mean when …

This graduate seminar is a general survey of French political thought from the Enlightenment to the end of the nineteenth century. The central hypothesis of this course is that the experience of the Revolution and …

This seminar has two basic purposes: (1) To introduce graduate (and law) students to the state of the art in legal and social-scientific studies of the Supreme Court; and (2) to cover a series of …

The main goals of this course are (1) to help you deepen your appreciation of the importance of public management in our democratic scheme of governance; (2) to enhance your ability to think analytically about …