POLISCI 1:
Introduction to International Relations
Approaches to the study of conflict and cooperation in world affairs. Applications to war, terrorism, trade policy, the environment, and world poverty. Debates about the ethics of war and the global distribution of wealth.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
POLISCI 1Z:
Introduction to International Relations
Approaches to the study of conflict and cooperation in world affairs. Applications to war, terrorism, trade policy, the environment, and world poverty. Debates about the ethics of war and the global distribution of wealth.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 2:
Introduction to American National Government and Politics (AMSTUD 2)
The role and importance of the ideal of democracy in the evolution of the American political system. American political institutions (the Presidency, Congress, and the Court) and political processes (the formation of political attitudes and voting) are examined against the backdrop of American culture and political history. The major areas of public policy in the current practice of the ideal of democracy.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 3P:
Justice (ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 136S, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C, PUBLPOL 307)
Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include protecting religious liberty, financing schools and elections, regulating markets, assuring access to health care, and providing affirmative action and group rights. Issues of global justice including human rights and global inequality.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
POLISCI 4:
Introduction to Comparing Political Systems
Politics in major regime types including democratic, authoritarian, and communist; how types of politics affect economic development and state/society relations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
POLISCI 10SC:
American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Investigation of foreign policy challenges and choices facing the Obama administration. Topics include: examination of domestic constraints such as public opinion; Congress and bureaucracy on foreign policy and international challenges of climate change and energy, nuclear policy, biological security; failing states and regional conflict; terrorism; global economic crisis; and the ongoing crises in the broader Middle East. Course includes a 48-hour simulation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
POLISCI 22N:
Inequality and American Democracy
Preference to freshmen. For thirty years or more, inequality has grown in American society as the distance between the richest and poorest segments of the population have grown substantially. What effect does this inequality have on American society? Can democracy be sustained under such circumstances? Focus is on the lives of the poorest Americans, the relationship of resources to political activity and power, and how American politics has been shaped by these forces.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
POLISCI 22SC:
The Face of Battle
Our understanding of warfare often derives from the lofty perspective of political leaders and generals: what were their objectives and what strategies were developed to meet them? This top-down perspective slights the experience of the actual combatants and non-combatants caught in the crossfire. This course focuses on the complexity of the process by which strategy is translated into tactical decisions by the officers and foot soldiers on the field of battle. We will focus on three battles in American history: Gettysburg (July 1863), the Battle of Little Bighorn (June 1876), and the Battle of Lozano Ridge in Afghanistan (November 2003). In addition to reading major works on these battles and the conflicts in which they occurred, we will travel to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the Little Bighorn battlefield in Montana. The course's battlefield tours are based on the "staff rides" developed by the Prussian Army in the mid-1800s and employed by the U.S. Army since the early 1900s. While at Stanford, students will conduct extensive research on individual participants at Gettysburg and Little Bighorn. Then, as we walk through the battlefield site, students will brief the group on their subjects' experience of battle and on why they made the decisions they did during the conflict. Why did Lt. General Longstreet oppose the Confederate attack on the Union Army at Gettysburg? What was the experience of a military surgeon on a Civil War battlefield? Why did Custer divide his 7th Cavalry troops as they approached the Little Bighorn River? What was the role of Lakota Sioux women after a battle? Travel will be provided and paid by Sophomore College (except incidentals) and is made possible by the support of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Hoagland Award Fund. The course is open to students from a range of disciplines; an interest in the topic is the only prerequisite.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
POLISCI 24N:
The Politics of Communication
This course will explore how elected officials present and explain their work to constituents and how this communication shapes American politics. Elected officials use press releases, newsletters, press conferences, and public events to connect with their constituents. While almost none of this communication is formally required, it can have important consequences on what elected officials do in office and how constituents perceive their representatives¿ activities. We will explore the strategies elected officials use when communicating with constituents and identify the consequences of these strategies on the process of representation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 24Q:
Law and Order
Preference to sophomores. The role of law in promoting social order. What is the rule of law? How does it differ from the rule of men? What institutions best support the rule of law? Is a state needed to ensure that laws are enforced? Should victims be allowed to avenge wrongs? What is the relationship between justice and mercy?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 25N:
The US Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective
This course traces the development of legislatures from their medieval European origins to the present, with primary emphasis on the case of the U.S. Congress. Students will learn about the early role played by assemblies in placing limits on royal power, especially via the ¿power of the purse.¿ About half the course will then turn to a more detailed consideration of the U.S. Congress¿s contemporary performance, analyzing how that performance is affected by procedural legacies from the past that affect most democratic legislatures worldwide.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 42Q:
The Rwandan Genocide
Between April and July of 1994 more than 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi but also moderate Hutus, were killed in the most rapid genocide the world has ever known. The percentage of Rwandans killed in a single day of the genocide was ten times greater than the percentage of Americans killed in the entire Vietnam war. What could bring humans to plan and carry out such an orgy of violence? Could it have been prevented? Why did the United States or any other major power not intervene to stop the killing? To what extent should the United Nations be held accountable for the failure to end the genocide? What were the consequences of the genocide for the region of Central Africa? How did international actors respond to the challenges of reconstructing Rwanda after the killings? What has happened to the perpetrators of the genocide? This course surveys scholarly and journalistic accounts of the genocide to seek answers to these questions.nnnThis seminar will be residence based in Crothers, but will be open to Crothers residents and non-residents.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 44N:
Everyday Political Life in the Authoritarian Middle East
Preference to freshmen. How individuals respond to state policy, use informal channels to influence politics, are subject to forms of repression, and challenge authoritarian government through Islamic and other types of organizations. Focus is on Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 48N:
Muslim Integration into France
Preference to freshmen. The specter of Islamized societies haunts Europe. Fears of a fifth column of terrorism and a challenge by a population of religious fanatics to a largely secularized continent are recurrent in political dialogue from Spain to Austria. Are these worries a result of everyday xenophobia common to situations of foreign immigration or whether certain immigrants from the Middle East, Turkey, South Asia and Africa face special challenges due to their Islamic heritage? Sources include survey and experimental data from France, claims made about this immigrant population, readings in French political discourse and the European political context. Final paper that compares analysis of the data and claims in the literature.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
POLISCI 110B:
Strategy, War, and Politics
Traditional and modern theories on the causes of war and sources of peace. Contrasting explanations for the origins of WW I and II; alternative theories of deterrence in the nuclear age; the causes of war in the Persian Gulf, ethnic conflicts, and terrorism in the post-Cold War era.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 110C:
America and the World Economy (POLISCI 110X)
(Students not taking this course for WIM, register for 110X.) American foreign economic policy. Issues: the evolution of American tariff and trade policy, the development of mechanisms for international monetary management, and American foreign investment policy reflected in the changing political goals pursued by American central decision makers. Prerequisite: 1 or equivalent.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 110D:
War and Peace in American Foreign Policy (POLISCI 110Y)
(Students not taking this course for WIM, register for 110Y.) The causes of war in American foreign policy. Issues: international and domestic sources of war and peace; war and the American political system; war, intervention, and peace making in the post-Cold War period.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 110X:
America and the World Economy (POLISCI 110C)
(Students not taking this course for WIM, register for 110X.) American foreign economic policy. Issues: the evolution of American tariff and trade policy, the development of mechanisms for international monetary management, and American foreign investment policy reflected in the changing political goals pursued by American central decision makers. Prerequisite: 1 or equivalent.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 110Y:
War and Peace in American Foreign Policy (POLISCI 110D)
(Students not taking this course for WIM, register for 110Y.) The causes of war in American foreign policy. Issues: international and domestic sources of war and peace; war and the American political system; war, intervention, and peace making in the post-Cold War period.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 114D:
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (INTNLREL 114D, IPS 230, POLISCI 314D)
Links among the establishment of democracy, economic growth, and the rule of law. How democratic, economically developed states arise. How the rule of law can be established where it has been historically absent. Variations in how such systems function and the consequences of institutional forms and choices. How democratic systems have arisen in different parts of the world. Available policy instruments used in international democracy, rule of law, and development promotion efforts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 114S:
International Security in a Changing World (IPS 241)
The major international and regional security problems in the modern world. Interdisciplinary faculty lecture on the political and technical issues involved in nuclear proliferation, terrorism and homeland security, civil wars and insurgencies, and future great power rivalries.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 116:
History of Nuclear Weapons (HISTORY 103E)
The development of nuclear weapons and policies. How existing nuclear powers have managed their relations with each other. How nuclear war has been avoided so far and whether it can be avoided in the future.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 118P:
U.S. Relations in Iran
The evolution of relations between the U.S. and Iran. The years after WW II when the U.S. became more involved in Iran. Relations after the victory of the Islamic republic. The current state of affairs and the prospects for the future. Emphasis is on original documents of U.S. diplomacy (White House, State Department, and the U.S. Embassy in Iran). Research paper.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 120B:
Campaigns, Voting, Media, and Elections (COMM 162, COMM 262)
This course examines the theory and practice of American campaigns and elections. First, we will attempt to explain the behavior of the key players -- candidates, parties, journalists, and voters -- in terms of the institutional arrangements and political incentives that confront them. Second, we will use current and recent election campaigns as "laboratories" for testing generalizations about campaign strategy and voter behavior. Third, we examine selections from the academic literature dealing with the origins of partisan identity, electoral design, and the immediate effects of campaigns on public opinion, voter turnout, and voter choice. As well, we'll explore issues of electoral reform and their more long-term consequences for governance and the political process.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 120C:
American Political Institutions: Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Courts
How politicians, once elected, work together to govern America. The roles of the President, Congress, and Courts in making and enforcing laws. Focus is on the impact of constitutional rules on the incentives of each branch, and on how they influence law.
Terms: Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 121:
Urban Politics (PUBLPOL 133, URBANST 111)
The major actors, institutions, processes, and policies of sub-state government in the U.S., emphasizing city general-purpose governments through a comparative examination of historical and contemporary politics. Issues related to federalism, representation, voting, race, poverty, housing, and finances. Prerequisite: POLISCI 2 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 122:
Introduction to American Law (AMSTUD 179, LAWGEN 106, PUBLPOL 302A)
For undergraduates. The structure of the American legal system including the courts; American legal culture; the legal profession and its social role; the scope and reach of the legal system; the background and impact of legal regulation; criminal justice; civil rights and civil liberties; and the relationship between the American legal system and American society in general.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 123:
Politics and Public Policy (PUBLPOL 101, PUBLPOL 201)
How policies come to be formed. How interests compete within public institutions to turn ideas into policies. Examples of this process from contemporary policy areas, including tax, social welfare, and environmental policy; results evaluated using equity and efficiency criteria. Prerequisite: POLISCI 2 (or equivalent for Public Policy majors).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 123Z:
United States Foreign Policy
The post-Cold War era focusing on foreign policy during the George W. Bush presidency: the war on terror; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the policy of preemption. Current challenges facing the U.S. from new global, economic, political, and security competition; the impact of domestic politics and institutional conflict on American foreign policy making; and possible directions.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 124R:
The Federal System: Judicial Politics and Constitutional Law
The impact of constitutional rules on policy making in the U.S. with a focus on structural issues such as separation of powers and federalism. Topics such as: the role of unelected judges in a democracy; the rule of law; and the constitutionality of the war in Iraq. Prerequisites: 2 or equivalent, and sophomore standing. WIM
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 124S:
Civil Liberties: Judicial Politics and Constitutional Law
The role and participation of courts, primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, in public policy making and the political system. Judicial activity in civil liberty areas (religious liberty, free expression, race and sex discrimination, political participation, and rights of persons accused of crime). Prerequisites: 2 or equivalent, and sophomore standing.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 125S:
Chicano/Latino Politics (CHICANST 125S)
The political position of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.. Focus is on Mexican Americans, with attention to Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other groups. The history of each group in the American polity; their political circumstances with respect to the electoral process, the policy process, and government; the extent to which the demographic category Latino is meaningful; and group identity and solidarity among Americans of Latin American ancestry. Topics include immigration, education, affirmative action, language policy, and environmental justice.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
POLISCI 130B:
History of Political Thought II: Early Modern Political Thought, 1500-1700 (POLISCI 330B)
The development of constitutionalism, Renaissance humanism and the Reformation, and changing relationships between church and states. Emphasis is on the relationships among political thought, institutional frameworks, and immediate political problems and conflicts. The usefulness of the history of political thought to political science.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
POLISCI 132S:
Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector (ETHICSOC 232X, POLISCI 132X, POLISCI 332S)
Students taking this course for a WIM, register for PoliSci 132S. The historical development and modern structure of civil society emphasizing philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. What is the basis of private action for the public good? How are charitable dollars distributed and what role do nonprofit organizations and philanthropic dollars play in a modern democracy? How do nongovernmental organizations operate domestically and globally? Readings in political philosophy, political sociology, and public policy.nnnInterested students must submit a one paragraph statement that contains three things: (1) frosh/soph/jr/senior, (2) your major(s) or prospective major; and (3) your reasons for wishing to enroll in the class to hmeckler@stanford.edu by Monday, March 21st at 5pm.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER
POLISCI 132X:
Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector (ETHICSOC 232X, POLISCI 132S, POLISCI 332S)
Students taking this course for a WIM, register for PoliSci 132S. The historical development and modern structure of civil society emphasizing philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. What is the basis of private action for the public good? How are charitable dollars distributed and what role do nonprofit organizations and philanthropic dollars play in a modern democracy? How do nongovernmental organizations operate domestically and globally? Readings in political philosophy, political sociology, and public policy.nnnInterested students must submit a one paragraph statement that contains three things: (1) frosh/soph/jr/senior, (2) your major(s) or prospective major; and (3) your reasons for wishing to enroll in the class to hmeckler@stanford.edu by Monday, March 21st at 5pm.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER
POLISCI 133:
Ethics and Politics of Public Service (ETHICSOC 133, HUMBIO 178, PHIL 175A, PHIL 275A, PUBLPOL 103D)
Ethical and political questions in public service work, including volunteering, service learning, humanitarian assistance, and public service professions such as medicine and teaching. Motives and outcomes in service work. Connections between service work and justice. Is mandatory service an oxymoron? History of public service in the U.S. Issues in crosscultural service work. Integration with the Haas Center for Public Service to connect service activities and public service aspirations with academic experiences at Stanford.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
POLISCI 134:
Democracy and the Communication of Consent (COMM 136, COMM 236)
(Graduate students register for COMM 236.) Focus is on competing theories of democracy and the forms of communication they presuppose, combining normative and empirical issues, and historical and contemporary sources. Topics include representation, public opinion, mass media, small group processes, direct democracy, the role of information, and the prospects for deliberative democracy.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 134L:
Environmental Justice (ETHICSOC 178M, ETHICSOC 278M, PHIL 178M, PHIL 278M)
Explores the normative questions that arise in environmental policy debates, including arguments over pollution permit markets, conservation regulations, and global warming mitigation efforts. What are the morally relevant ways in which the environment is different from other economic resources? How should the environment be valued? What are our obligations to conserve for future generations? How should the burdens of conservation be distributed? Engages with a variety of philosophical traditions including utilitarianism, deep ecology, liberalism, and communitarianism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
POLISCI 136R:
Introduction to Global Justice (ETHICSOC 136R, INTNLREL 136R, PHIL 76, POLISCI 336)
Recent work in political theory on global justice. Topics include global poverty, human rights, fair trade, immigration, climate change. Do developed countries have a duty to aid developing countries? Do rich countries have the right to close their borders to economic immigrants? When is humanitarian intervention justified? Readings include Charles Beitz, Thomas Pogge, John Rawls.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER
POLISCI 136S:
Justice (ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 3P, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C, PUBLPOL 307)
Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include protecting religious liberty, financing schools and elections, regulating markets, assuring access to health care, and providing affirmative action and group rights. Issues of global justice including human rights and global inequality.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
POLISCI 137R:
Justice at Home and Abroad: Civil Rights in the 21st Century (CSRE 137R, EDUC 261X, ETHICSOC 137R, POLISCI 337R)
Focus is on theories of justice. How the core ideals of freedom, equality, and security animate theories which John Rawls considers the first virtue of social institutions. Topics include the U.S. Constitution as a legal framework for the operation of these ideals, civil rights legislation and litigation as the arena of tensions between those ideals, and how ideas of justice function both at home and abroad to impact civil liberties in today's war on terror.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 140C:
The Comparative Political Economy of Post-Communist Transitions
Dominant theoretical perspectives of comparative democratization and marketization; focus is on the political economy of transition in Eastern Europe and Eurasia while comparing similar processes in Latin America and Asia. Topics include: meanings of democracy, synergy between democracies and markets, causes of the collapse of communism, paths to political liberalization and democracy, civil society, constitutions, parliaments, presidents, the rule of law, electoral systems, market requirements, strategies of reform, the Russian experience of market building, exporting democracy and the market, and foreign aid and assistance.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 140L:
China in World Politics (POLISCI 340L)
The implications of the rise of China in contemporary world politics and for American foreign policy, including issues such as arms and nuclear proliferation, regional security arrangements, international trade and investment, human rights, environmental problems, and the Taiwan and Tibet questions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
POLISCI 147:
Comparative Democratic Development
Social, cultural, political, economic, and international factors affecting the development and consolidation of democracy in historical and comparative perspective. Individual country experiences with democracy, democratization, and regime performance. Emphasis is on the third wave of democratization over the past three decades and contemporary possibilities for democratic change. (Diamond)
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
POLISCI 148:
Chinese Politics: The Transformation and the Era of Reform (POLISCI 348)
Overview of the reforms in China since 1978 that have made its economy one of the fastest growing in the world yet it still has the Chinese Communist Party at the helm wielding one party rule. Key questions addressed include the following: What has been the process and challenges of reform that have reshaped China¿s economic landscape? What are the political consequences of these dramatic economic changes? Why has the CCP remained strong while other communist regimes have failed? Markets have spread but what is the role of the state? What are the opportunities for political participation and prospects for political change? Materials will include readings, lectures, and selected films. This course has no prerequisites. (Graduate students register for 348.)
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
POLISCI 149S:
Islam, Iran, and the West
Changes in relative power and vitality of each side. The relationship in the Middle Ages revolved around power and domination, and since the Renaissance around modernity. Focus is on Muslims of the Middle East.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
POLISCI 149T:
Middle Eastern Politics
Topics in contemporary Middle Eastern politics including institutional sources of underdevelopment, political Islam, electoral authoritarianism, and the political economy of oil.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 150A:
Political Methodology I (POLISCI 350A)
Introduction to probability and statistical inference, with applications to political science and public policy. Prerequisite: elementary calculus.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
POLISCI 150B:
Political Methodology II (POLISCI 350B)
Understanding and using the linear regression model in a social-science context: properties of the least squares estimator; inference and hypothesis testing; assessing model fit; presenting results for publication; consequences and diagnosis of departures from model assumptions; outliers and influential observations, graphical techniques for model fitting and checking; interactions among exploratory variables; pooling data; extensions for binary responses.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
POLISCI 150C:
Political Methodology III (POLISCI 350C)
Models for discrete outcomes, time series, measurement error, and simultaneity. Introduction to nonlinear estimation, large sample theory. Prerequisite: 150B/350B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 152:
Introduction to Game Theoretic Methods in Political Science (POLISCI 352)
Concepts and tools of non-cooperative game theory developed using political science questions and applications. Formal treatment of Hobbes' theory of the state and major criticisms of it; examples from international politics. Primarily for graduate students; undergraduates admitted with consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR, WAY-SI
POLISCI 18SC:
The Federal Government and the West
Historical development and current status of the relationship between the U.S. federal government and the American West. Land ownership, natural resource management, agriculture, water, energy, and environmental quality.
| Units: 2
POLISCI 19SC:
Food and Politics
The politics of food production and distribution; organic and sustainable farming; federal farm and free trade policies; genetically modified food; animal ethics; and the political context of famine and obesity.
| Units: 2
POLISCI 210:
Special Topics: The Political Economy of Immigration
The goal of this class is to explore the political economy of immigration in receiving states over the last two hundred years, with a special focus on the current debates over immigration in the US today. The course assumes some knowledge of international relations and a more limited background in economic theory and economic history. Course readings and lectures are designed to provide both a theoretical orientation and the substantive information necessary to understand and analyze a range of policy issues that now confront immigrant-receiving states.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 210C:
Globalization and Its Discontents
Whose interests are served by the liberalization of trade and finance? What impact can multilateral organizations like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization have on the economic policies of member states and the functioning of the global economy? What determines the policies or rules promoted by these organizations? What motivates foreign aid policies? What is globalization? How can its impacts on different countries and populations be assessed? Policy-oriented questions that emerge from these topics. Should government offset the welfare costs of globalization, and if so, how? Which priorities should be protected despite free trade liberalization? Is free trade fair trade? How should the World Bank and IMF be reformed to meet the needs of the international political economy in the 21st century? How should the international community address the current financial crisis? What is the appropriate balance between government regulation and market freedom? Recommended: POLISCI 110C.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 210R:
International Conflict: Management and Resolution (IPS 250, POLISCI 310R, PSYCH 383)
(Same as LAW 656) Interdisciplinary. Theoretical insights and practical experience in resolving inter-group and international conflicts. Sources include social psychology, political science, game theory, and international law. Personal, strategic, and structural barriers to solutions. How to develop a vision of a mutually bearable shared future, trust in the enemy, and acceptance of loss that a negotiated settlement may produce. Spoilers who seek to sabotage agreements. Advantages and disadvantages of unilateral versus reciprocal measures. Themes from the Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Prerequisite for undergraduates: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
POLISCI 211:
Political Economy of East Asia
(Formerly 117.) Comparative and international political economy of E.and S.E. Asia. Industrial development and the Asian miracle, economic integration, regional cooperation, the Asian financial crisis, and contemporary challenges.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
POLISCI 213R:
Political Economy of Financial Crisis (POLISCI 313R)
Political responses to domestic and international financial crises. nnMonetary and fiscal policy. The role of interest groups. International cooperation and the role of the IMF.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
POLISCI 213S:
A Post American Century? American Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World
This seminar examines recent policy from Bush to Obama in the context of two classic traditions: Wilsonianism vs. Realism. What is the role of the international system, what is the weight of domestic forces like ideology, history and identity? Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 214R:
Challenges and Dilemmas in American Foreign Policy (POLISCI 314R)
This seminar will examine the complexities and trade offs involved in foreign policy decision-making at the end of the twentieth century and the dawn of the post-9/11 era. Students will analyze dilemmas confronting policymakers through case studies including post-conflict reconstruction and state-building, nuclear proliferation, democratization and peace negotiation. The seminar will conclude with a 48-hour crisis simulation. For advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Application for enrollment required. Pick up application in Political Science Department (Encina West 100).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 216:
Law, Economics and Politics of International Trade (ECON 164)
Taught by an economist and a lawyer. Examines aspects of the WTO system from legal and economic perspectives. Integrates a careful examination of topical legal issues with theoretical and empirical research in economics to develop both positive and normative themes regarding the WTO as an international institution. Overview of the economics of international cooperation on trade, and an introduction to the WTO as an institution and its core obligations. Topics may include: the dispute resolution system; the choice between multilateral and regional or bilateral trade agreements; the role of developing countries in the WTO; and the relationship between WTO law, domestic regulation and national sovereignty. Prerequisite: Econ 51 or equivalent undergraduate microeconomics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
POLISCI 216E:
International History and International Relations Theory (HISTORY 202, HISTORY 306E, POLISCI 316)
The relationship between history and political science as disciplines. Sources include studies by historians and political scientists on topics such as the origins of WW I, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, the end of the Cold War, nongovernmental organizations in international relations, and change and continuity in the international system.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 219:
Directed Reading and Research in International Relations
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Diamond, L. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Frisby, T. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Milani, A. (PI);
Miller, A. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rice, C. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Rutten, A. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stedman, S. (PI);
Stoner, K. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP);
Milonopoulos, T. (GP)
POLISCI 220R:
The Presidency (POLISCI 320R)
This course provides students with a comprehensive perspective on the American presidency and covers a range of topics: elections, policy making, control of the bureaucracy, unilateral action, war-making, and much more. But throughout, the goal is to understand why presidents behave as they do, and why the presidency as an institution has developed as it has¿with special attention to the dynamics of the American political system and how they condition incentives, opportunities, and power.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
POLISCI 220S:
The Supreme Court in Race, Law, and Politics
The seminar views the U. S .Supreme Court as part of the on-going governing process in the American political system. This relationship becomes real as students take on the persona of participants involved in a hypothetical case, including Justices of the Supreme Court, referred to as the Supreme Court Simulation Experience (SCSE). Students will develop background data on the position participants might take on the issue(s) presented. Various briefs will be filed with the Court and argued by lawyers for the respective parties. Requirements: Junior Standing, PoliSci 2 or related course(s); or permission of Instructor. Enrollment limited.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 221:
Democratic Theory and Democratic Citizenship
The value of tolerance and its implications for the principles and practices of democracy. Tolerance as understood by political philosophers and citizens. Readings include: John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty," Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty," and modern studies of public opinion. Topics include: ideas and liberty; value pluralism; the interplay of authority and obedience; the role of political elites and mass publics in democratic societies; multiculturalism. Principal forms of value conflict in contemporary liberal democracies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
POLISCI 221F:
Race and American Politics
How the issue of race has helped define the modern era of American politics. Major theories of political cleavage over public policies dealing with race.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
POLISCI 222R:
Culture, Identity, and Diversity
This course explores a naturalistic approach to democratic values. Democratic values are written about as abstractions. But they are not lived in the abstract. They take on their character because they are held (or rejected) by actual individuals who themselves are embedded in particular cultural contexts. The objective of the course is therefore to explore, in an open-ended way, how core democratic values are understood by both those who study them and by those who live them. n nThe course explores understandings of equality, identity, multiculturalism, but most especially the nature of tolerance in liberal societies. It examines two bodies of scholarship. One is philosophical; the other, empirical. The two have had little effect on each other. The purpose of this seminar is to read representative texts from these literatures (and a few that fit into neither) to see if some mutual illumination might occur.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
POLISCI 222S:
Topics in Constitutional History (AMSTUD 251, HISTORY 251G)
Ideas of rights in American history emphasizing the problem of defining constitutional rights, the free exercise of religion, freedom of expression, and the contemporary debate over rights talk and the idiom of human rights.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
POLISCI 224H:
Heretics to Headscarves (HISTORY 202C, JEWISHST 182C)
Broad survey of religious discrimination and persecution in the Euro-American tradition, and the rise of tolerationist ideas and practices, from Augustine's rationale for punishing dissenters to the current European debates over the regulation of Islam. Topics include the Inquisition; struggles over toleration in Reformation Europe; the impact of Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza; Spanish practice in the Americas; and the American constitutional experiment in free exercise.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 224T:
Legislatures, Courts, and Public Policy
To understand the role of courts, focus is on a series of judicial decisions. To make sense of these decisions, focus is on material from the political, social, and economic history of the relevant statutes, such as debates and votes in Congress, later statutes, and speeches by politicians. To make sense of this primary evidence, focus is on a theoretical approach to American politics to be developed in the first weeks of the course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 225L:
Positive Political Theory and the Law (POLISCI 325L)
An introduction to this new and expanding field. Applications to a range of legal and political issues, including statutory interpretation, political economy of regulation, administrative law, and constitutional law. Same as LAW 298
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 226:
Race and Racism in American Politics (CSRE 226, POLISCI 326)
Topics include the historical conceptualization of race; whether and how racial animus reveals itself and the forms it might take; its role in the creation and maintenance of economic stratification; its effect on contemporary U.S. partisan and electoral politics; and policy making consequences.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
POLISCI 226T:
The Politics of Education (POLISCI 326T)
America¿s public schools are government agencies, and virtually everything about them is subject to political authority--and thus to decision through the political process. This seminar is an effort to understand the politics of education and its impacts on the nation¿s schools. Our focus is on the modern era of reform, with special attention to the most prominent efforts to bring about fundamental change¿through accountability (including No Child Left Behind), school choice (charter schools, vouchers), pay for performance, and more¿and to the ¿politics of blocking¿ that has made genuine reform so difficult to achieve.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
POLISCI 229:
Directed Reading and Research in American Politics
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Frisby, T. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Milani, A. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Rutten, A. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stoner, K. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 230A:
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 133, CLASSHIS 333, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 330A)
Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
POLISCI 232T:
The Dialogue of Democracy (AMSTUD 137, COMM 137, COMM 237, POLISCI 332T)
All forms of democracy require some kind of communication so people can be aware of issues and make decisions. This course looks at competing visions of what democracy should be and different notions of the role of dialogue in a democracy. Is it just campaigning or does it include deliberation? Small scale discussions or sound bites on television? Or social media? What is the role of technology in changing our democratic practices, to mobilize, to persuade, to solve public problems? This course will include readings from political theory about democratic ideals - from the American founders to J.S. Mill and the Progressives to Joseph Schumpeter and modern writers skeptical of the public will. It will also include contemporary examinations of the media and the internet to see how those practices are changing and how the ideals can or cannot be realized.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
POLISCI 239:
Directed Reading and Research in Political Theory
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 240:
Special Topics: Democracy and the Politics of Wealth Redistribution
This course explores how political institutions affect the redistribution of wealth among members of a society; focus is on how popular preferences can be translated into pro-poor policies, and the role elites play in influencing a government's capacity or incentives to redistribute wealth. Topics include: economic inequality and the demand for redistribution, the difference in redistribution between democracy and dictatorship, the role of globalization in policy making, the effects of redistribution on democratization and democratic stability, and redistributive policymaking in Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 240T:
American Efforts at Promoting Democracy Abroad: Theory and Reality
Theoretical and intellectual debates about democracy promotion with focus on realism versus liberalism. The evolution of these debates with attention to the Cold War, the 90s, and American foreign policy after 9/11. Tools for and bureaucratic struggles over how to promote democracy. Contemporary case studies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 241:
Special Topics: Democracy and Inequality
The course has two primary objectives. First, we will evaluate the claim that democracy is more effective and more credible than autocracy at serving the interests of poor and working-class citizens. We will do so using quantitative cross-national evidence, historical evidence, and in-depth case studies of how political institutions within democracies and autocracies shape redistributive social policies. The second objective of the course is to develop the analytical tools of social-scientific inquiry: What are the empirical implications of theoretical arguments? What kinds of evidence would increase our confidence that a particular explanation is right? How should we measure inputs and outcomes? Is there a simpler alternative explanation? How would we design a study to test our hypotheses?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 25 units total)
POLISCI 241L:
Democracy and the Market in Eastern Europe
Opportunities and challenges of double transitions towards democracy and capitalism. Topics include shock therapy versus gradualism, opposition to economic reform, the role of political competition and international actors in reform outcomes, and the creation of institutional supports for markets and democracy.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 241S:
Spatial Approaches to Social Science (ANTHRO 130D, ANTHRO 230D)
This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications from several social science disciplines. The course aims to integrate tools, methods, and current debates in social science research and will enable students to engage in critical spatial research and a multidisciplinary dialogue around geographic space.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
POLISCI 242D:
Political Economy of Property Rights (HISTORY 278A)
This course seeks to understand how property rights systems influence economic growth and the stewardship of resources. We are also interested in explaining the political process by which societies create property systems. In order to answer these questions we will read and discuss the work of political scientists, economists, and historians.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 242P:
Comparative Politics of Corruption
Causes, effects, and solutions to various forms of corruption in business and politics in both developing regions (e.g. Asia, E. Europe) and developed ones (the US and the EU).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 244:
An Introduction to Political Development
Political development concerns the evolution of three categories of institutions: (1) the state itself; (2) the rule of law; and (3) accountable government. Focus on many of the major theories of political development, beginning with some classic social theorists and continuing up through the present.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 245R:
Politics in Modern Iran
Modern Iran has been a smithy for political movements, ideologies, and types of states. Movements include nationalism, constitutionalism, Marxism, Islamic fundamentalism, social democracy, Islamic liberalism, and fascism. Forms of government include Oriental despotism, authoritarianism, Islamic theocracy, and liberal democracy. These varieties have appeared in Iran in an iteration shaped by history, geography, proximity to oil and the Soviet Union, and the hegemony of Islamic culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
POLISCI 246L:
Struggle and Transformation: Political Economy of Southern Africa
Born in struggle, majority rule in southern Africa brought promise: a fundamental transformation from a racialized order to a developmental departure in which initiative and opportunity would no longer depend on race, gender, and class. Progress has been dramatic. Yet, inequalities have intensified and the liberation promise remains to be achieved. We will explore contemporary southern Africa, concerned especially with the intersection of politics, economy, and society. Focused comparisons and cases studies will address disaffection and legitimacy, participation and exclusion, democracy and control, parties and protest¿struggles and transformation¿within countries and across the region. No prerequisites.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 248S:
Latin American Politics
Fundamental transformations in Latin America in the last two decades: why most governments are now democratic or semidemocratic; and economic transformation as countries abandoned import substitution industrialization policies led by state intervention for neoliberal economic polices. The nature of this dual transformation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 249:
Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Diamond, L. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Frisby, T. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Milani, A. (PI);
Miller, A. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Rutten, A. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stedman, S. (PI);
Stoner, K. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI)
POLISCI 259:
Directed Reading and Research in Political Methodology
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 299A:
Senior Project
Students conduct independent research work towards a senior honors thesis. See "Honors Program" above. (Staff)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Diamond, L. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Frisby, T. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jha, S. (PI);
Joffe, J. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Milani, A. (PI);
Miller, A. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Rutten, A. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stedman, S. (PI);
Stone, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 299B:
Senior Project
Students conduct independent research work towards a senior honors thesis. See "Honors Program" above. (Staff)
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Diamond, L. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Frisby, T. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jha, S. (PI);
Joffe, J. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Milani, A. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stedman, S. (PI);
Stone, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI)
POLISCI 299C:
Senior Project
Students conduct independent research work towards a senior honors thesis. See "Honors Program" above. (Staff)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Diamond, L. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Ferejohn, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Frisby, T. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jha, S. (PI);
Joffe, J. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Milani, A. (PI);
Miller, A. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Rutten, A. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stedman, S. (PI);
Stone, P. (PI);
Stoner, K. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI)
POLISCI 299Q:
Junior Research Seminar
Required of students interested in writing a senior honors thesis. Students must submit an honors application to the PoliSci office in Encina West 100 by the first Friday of spring quarter.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
POLISCI 299Q:
Honors Research: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law in Developing Countries (INTNLREL 199)
Restricted to students in the CDDRL option of the International Relations honors program. Goal is to prepare students to do research and/or fieldwork to complete their thesis research. Main currents in democracy and development literature concerning how economic growth and democratization are related; how the rule of law supports these processes in countries undergoing change. Student presentations of thesis questions; student groups develop research problems and designs. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
POLISCI 310A:
International Relations Theory, Part I
First of a three-part graduate sequence. History of international relations, current debates, and applications to problems of international security and political economy.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 310B:
International Relations Theory, Part II
Second of a three-part graduate sequence. History of international relations theory, current debates, and applications to problems of international security and political economy. Prerequisite: 310A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 310C:
Research in International Relations
Third of a three-part graduate sequence. Focus is on developing research papers begun in 310A or B, and exploring active areas of research in the field. Prerequisite: 310B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 310R:
International Conflict: Management and Resolution (IPS 250, POLISCI 210R, PSYCH 383)
(Same as LAW 656) Interdisciplinary. Theoretical insights and practical experience in resolving inter-group and international conflicts. Sources include social psychology, political science, game theory, and international law. Personal, strategic, and structural barriers to solutions. How to develop a vision of a mutually bearable shared future, trust in the enemy, and acceptance of loss that a negotiated settlement may produce. Spoilers who seek to sabotage agreements. Advantages and disadvantages of unilateral versus reciprocal measures. Themes from the Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Prerequisite for undergraduates: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
POLISCI 311A:
Workshop in International Relations
For graduate students. Contemporary work. Organized around presentation of research by students and outside scholars. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 311B:
Workshop in International Relations
For graduate students. Contemporary work. Organized around presentation of research by students and outside scholars. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 313R:
Political Economy of Financial Crisis (POLISCI 213R)
Political responses to domestic and international financial crises. nnMonetary and fiscal policy. The role of interest groups. International cooperation and the role of the IMF.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 314D:
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (INTNLREL 114D, IPS 230, POLISCI 114D)
Links among the establishment of democracy, economic growth, and the rule of law. How democratic, economically developed states arise. How the rule of law can be established where it has been historically absent. Variations in how such systems function and the consequences of institutional forms and choices. How democratic systems have arisen in different parts of the world. Available policy instruments used in international democracy, rule of law, and development promotion efforts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 314R:
Challenges and Dilemmas in American Foreign Policy (POLISCI 214R)
This seminar will examine the complexities and trade offs involved in foreign policy decision-making at the end of the twentieth century and the dawn of the post-9/11 era. Students will analyze dilemmas confronting policymakers through case studies including post-conflict reconstruction and state-building, nuclear proliferation, democratization and peace negotiation. The seminar will conclude with a 48-hour crisis simulation. For advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Application for enrollment required. Pick up application in Political Science Department (Encina West 100).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 314S:
Decision Making in U.S. Foreign Policy (IPS 314S)
Priority to IPS students. Formal and informal processes involved in U.S. foreign policy decision making. The formation, conduct, and implementation of policy, emphasizing the role of the President and executive branch agencies. Theoretical and analytical perspectives; case studies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 316:
International History and International Relations Theory (HISTORY 202, HISTORY 306E, POLISCI 216E)
The relationship between history and political science as disciplines. Sources include studies by historians and political scientists on topics such as the origins of WW I, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, the end of the Cold War, nongovernmental organizations in international relations, and change and continuity in the international system.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
POLISCI 317:
International Organizations
(Graduate students register for 317.) The role of international organizations in interstate cooperation. Theoretical approaches and applications. The UN, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and regional and supranational organizations.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 5
POLISCI 319:
Directed Reading in International Relations
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blacker, C. (PI);
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 320R:
The Presidency (POLISCI 220R)
This course provides students with a comprehensive perspective on the American presidency and covers a range of topics: elections, policy making, control of the bureaucracy, unilateral action, war-making, and much more. But throughout, the goal is to understand why presidents behave as they do, and why the presidency as an institution has developed as it has¿with special attention to the dynamics of the American political system and how they condition incentives, opportunities, and power.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 323R:
The Press and the Political Process (COMM 160, COMM 260)
(Graduate students register for COMM 260.) The role of mass media and other channels of communication in political and electoral processes.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 324:
Graduate Seminar in Political Psychology (COMM 308)
For students interested in research in political science, psychology, or communication. Methodological techniques for studying political attitudes and behaviors. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 325L:
Positive Political Theory and the Law (POLISCI 225L)
An introduction to this new and expanding field. Applications to a range of legal and political issues, including statutory interpretation, political economy of regulation, administrative law, and constitutional law. Same as LAW 298
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 326:
Race and Racism in American Politics (CSRE 226, POLISCI 226)
Topics include the historical conceptualization of race; whether and how racial animus reveals itself and the forms it might take; its role in the creation and maintenance of economic stratification; its effect on contemporary U.S. partisan and electoral politics; and policy making consequences.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 326T:
The Politics of Education (POLISCI 226T)
America¿s public schools are government agencies, and virtually everything about them is subject to political authority--and thus to decision through the political process. This seminar is an effort to understand the politics of education and its impacts on the nation¿s schools. Our focus is on the modern era of reform, with special attention to the most prominent efforts to bring about fundamental change¿through accountability (including No Child Left Behind), school choice (charter schools, vouchers), pay for performance, and more¿and to the ¿politics of blocking¿ that has made genuine reform so difficult to achieve.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 329:
Directed Reading and Research in American Politics
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 330A:
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 133, CLASSHIS 333, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A)
Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 330B:
History of Political Thought II: Early Modern Political Thought, 1500-1700 (POLISCI 130B)
The development of constitutionalism, Renaissance humanism and the Reformation, and changing relationships between church and states. Emphasis is on the relationships among political thought, institutional frameworks, and immediate political problems and conflicts. The usefulness of the history of political thought to political science.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 331S:
Politics and Collective Action (IPS 206A, PUBLPOL 304A)
Classic theories for why collective action problems occur and how they can be solved. Politics of aggregating individual decisions into collective action, including voting, social protest, and competing goals and tactics of officials, bureaucrats, interest groups, and other stakeholders. Economic, distributive, and moral frameworks for evaluating collective action processes and outcomes. Applications to real-world policy problems involving collective action.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
POLISCI 332:
Graduate Seminar: John Rawls's Political Philosophy (PHIL 372D)
Leading ideas in A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 5
POLISCI 332S:
Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector (ETHICSOC 232X, POLISCI 132S, POLISCI 132X)
Students taking this course for a WIM, register for PoliSci 132S. The historical development and modern structure of civil society emphasizing philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. What is the basis of private action for the public good? How are charitable dollars distributed and what role do nonprofit organizations and philanthropic dollars play in a modern democracy? How do nongovernmental organizations operate domestically and globally? Readings in political philosophy, political sociology, and public policy.nnnInterested students must submit a one paragraph statement that contains three things: (1) frosh/soph/jr/senior, (2) your major(s) or prospective major; and (3) your reasons for wishing to enroll in the class to hmeckler@stanford.edu by Monday, March 21st at 5pm.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 332S:
Greek Political Economy II
(Same as POLISCI 332R,332S.) First of two-part course. Did large-scale kingdoms radically change the Greek world after Alexander; or had new conditions already emerged from the Peloponnesian War? Continuities and discontinuities across the classical/hellenistic divide. Focus is on states and economies in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C.E. Sources include primary sources and recent scholarship on Greek economic thought and practices with reference to city states (Athens, Rhodes), federations (Achaean, Aetolian), and empires (Ptolemaic, Seleukid). Spring Quarter emphasis is on presentation of research by faculty and students.
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 332T:
The Dialogue of Democracy (AMSTUD 137, COMM 137, COMM 237, POLISCI 232T)
All forms of democracy require some kind of communication so people can be aware of issues and make decisions. This course looks at competing visions of what democracy should be and different notions of the role of dialogue in a democracy. Is it just campaigning or does it include deliberation? Small scale discussions or sound bites on television? Or social media? What is the role of technology in changing our democratic practices, to mobilize, to persuade, to solve public problems? This course will include readings from political theory about democratic ideals - from the American founders to J.S. Mill and the Progressives to Joseph Schumpeter and modern writers skeptical of the public will. It will also include contemporary examinations of the media and the internet to see how those practices are changing and how the ideals can or cannot be realized.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 334:
Philanthropy and Civil Society (EDUC 374, SOC 374)
Associated with the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). Year-long workshop for doctoral students and advanced undergraduates writing senior theses on the nature of civil society or philanthropy. Focus is on pursuit of progressive research and writing contributing to the current scholarly knowledge of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy. Accomplished in a large part through peer review. Readings include recent scholarship in aforementioned fields. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 9 units.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 9 units total)
POLISCI 336:
Introduction to Global Justice (ETHICSOC 136R, INTNLREL 136R, PHIL 76, POLISCI 136R)
Recent work in political theory on global justice. Topics include global poverty, human rights, fair trade, immigration, climate change. Do developed countries have a duty to aid developing countries? Do rich countries have the right to close their borders to economic immigrants? When is humanitarian intervention justified? Readings include Charles Beitz, Thomas Pogge, John Rawls.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 336S:
Justice (ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 3P, POLISCI 136S, PUBLPOL 103C, PUBLPOL 307)
Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include protecting religious liberty, financing schools and elections, regulating markets, assuring access to health care, and providing affirmative action and group rights. Issues of global justice including human rights and global inequality.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 337R:
Justice at Home and Abroad: Civil Rights in the 21st Century (CSRE 137R, EDUC 261X, ETHICSOC 137R, POLISCI 137R)
Focus is on theories of justice. How the core ideals of freedom, equality, and security animate theories which John Rawls considers the first virtue of social institutions. Topics include the U.S. Constitution as a legal framework for the operation of these ideals, civil rights legislation and litigation as the arena of tensions between those ideals, and how ideas of justice function both at home and abroad to impact civil liberties in today's war on terror.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 337S:
Seminar on Liberation Technologies (CS 546)
This one-unit seminar will present speakers relevant in a variety ofnnways to how various forms of information technology are being used tonndefend human rights, improve governance, deepen democracy, empower thennpoor, promote economic development, protect the environment, enhancennpublic health, and pursue a variety of other social goods.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 339:
Directed Reading and Research in Political Theory
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 340L:
China in World Politics (POLISCI 140L)
The implications of the rise of China in contemporary world politics and for American foreign policy, including issues such as arms and nuclear proliferation, regional security arrangements, international trade and investment, human rights, environmental problems, and the Taiwan and Tibet questions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 344U:
Political Culture
An approach to culture emphasizing equilibrium attributes through relationships among culture, choice, coordination, and common knowledge. Implications for the study of political processes and institutions.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
POLISCI 348:
Chinese Politics: The Transformation and the Era of Reform (POLISCI 148)
Overview of the reforms in China since 1978 that have made its economy one of the fastest growing in the world yet it still has the Chinese Communist Party at the helm wielding one party rule. Key questions addressed include the following: What has been the process and challenges of reform that have reshaped China¿s economic landscape? What are the political consequences of these dramatic economic changes? Why has the CCP remained strong while other communist regimes have failed? Markets have spread but what is the role of the state? What are the opportunities for political participation and prospects for political change? Materials will include readings, lectures, and selected films. This course has no prerequisites. (Graduate students register for 348.)
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 349:
Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Diamond, L. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Stoner, K. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 350A:
Political Methodology I (POLISCI 150A)
Introduction to probability and statistical inference, with applications to political science and public policy. Prerequisite: elementary calculus.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 350B:
Political Methodology II (POLISCI 150B)
Understanding and using the linear regression model in a social-science context: properties of the least squares estimator; inference and hypothesis testing; assessing model fit; presenting results for publication; consequences and diagnosis of departures from model assumptions; outliers and influential observations, graphical techniques for model fitting and checking; interactions among exploratory variables; pooling data; extensions for binary responses.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 350C:
Political Methodology III (POLISCI 150C)
Models for discrete outcomes, time series, measurement error, and simultaneity. Introduction to nonlinear estimation, large sample theory. Prerequisite: 150B/350B.
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 351A:
Foundations of Political Economy
Introduction to political economy with an emphasis on formal models of collective choice, public institutions, and political competition. Topics include voting theory, social choice, institutional equilibria, agenda setting, interest group politics, bureaucratic behavior, and electoral competition.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
POLISCI 351B:
Economic Analysis of Political Institutions
Applying techniques such as information economics, games of incomplete information, sequential bargaining theory, repeated games, and rational expectations of microeconomic analysis and game theory to political behavior and institutions. Applicatoins include agenda formation in legislatures, government formation in parliamentary systems, the implications of legislative structure, elections and information aggregation, lobbying, electoral competition and interest groups, the control of bureaucracies, interest group competition, and collective choice rules.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
POLISCI 351C:
Testing Models of Governmental Decision Making (POLECON 682)
This course surveys applications of formal models to several stages of decision making, primarily in the U.S. national government and with an emphasis on the legislative branch. The course begins with explicit consideration of issues in philosophy of science and introduces an analytic framework to be applied to specific research throughout remaining sessions. Substantive topics and applications covered include strategies of committees, roll call voting, policy formation, effects of special rules, congressional-presidential relations, and congressional-agency relations. Students should have taken POLECON 680 and POLECON 681. Also listed as Political Science 351C.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
POLISCI 352:
Introduction to Game Theoretic Methods in Political Science (POLISCI 152)
Concepts and tools of non-cooperative game theory developed using political science questions and applications. Formal treatment of Hobbes' theory of the state and major criticisms of it; examples from international politics. Primarily for graduate students; undergraduates admitted with consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 353A:
Workshop in Statistical Modeling
Theoretical aspects and empirical applications of statistical modeling in the social sciences. Guest speakers. Students present a research paper. Prerequisite: 350B or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
POLISCI 353B:
Workshop in Statistical Modeling
Continuation of 353A. Prerequisite: 353A.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 353C:
Workshop in Statistical Modeling
Continuation of 353A. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 353A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 359:
Advanced Individual Study in Political Methodology
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 369:
Directed Reading and Research in Political Organizations
Advanced individual study in public administration. (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bendor, J. (PI);
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Bernard, T. (GP)
POLISCI 400:
Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 403:
International Conflict Resolution Colloquium (IPS 250A, PSYCH 283)
(Same as LAW 611.) Sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Conflict, negotiation, and dispute resolution with emphasis on conflicts and disputes with an international dimension, including conflicts involving states, peoples, and political factions such as the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Guest speakers. Issues including international law, psychology, and political science, economics, anthropology, and criminology.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
POLISCI 420A:
Approaches to the Study of American Politics
Theories of American politics, focusing on Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, and the courts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 420B:
Topics in American Political Behavior
For graduate students with background in American politics embarking on their own research. Current research in American politics, emphasizing political behavior and public opinion. Possible topics: uncertainty and ambivalence in political attitudes, heterogeneity in public opinion, the structure of American political ideology, political learning, the media as a determinant of public opinion, and links between public opinion and public policy.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 420C:
American Political Institutions
Field seminar. Major theoretical perspectives, controversies, and literature on the substance of American politics, including Congress, the Presidency, federalism, bureaucracy, and the courts. Preparation for performing publishable research. Prerequisites: 420A,B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 422:
Workshop in American Politics
Research seminar. Frontiers in mass political behavior. Sources include data sets from the 2004 election cycle. Prerequisite: 420B or equivalent.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 423P:
Race in American Politics
This course focuses on the role of racism in shaping the political choices of the ordinary American in the twenty-first century. Its premise is the necessity of rigorous conceptual and empirical analysis. Among the questions that it will probe are: To what extent do explicitly racist attitudes persist? How important a force in politics is subtle or implicit racism? To what extent are there counter-balancing forces, and to the extent that they are, how do they express themselves politically?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 425:
Political Communication (COMM 360G)
Limited to Ph.D. students. Advanced topics. Prerequisite: 260 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-5
POLISCI 430A:
Wealthy Hellas (CLASSHIS 330A)
Drawing on Herodotus and other literary sources, ancient historians have traditionally seen classical Greece as a very poor land. Recent research, however (much of it conducted here at Stanford), suggests that Greece in fact saw substantial economic growth and rising standards of living across the first millennium BCE. This seminar tests the poor Hellas/wealthy Hellas models against literary and archaeological data. We will develop and test hypotheses to explain the rate and pace of economic change in the Greek world.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 430B:
Wealthy Hellas (CLASSHIS 330B)
Drawing on Herodotus and other literary sources, ancient historians have traditionally seen classical Greece as a very poor land. Recent research, however (much of it conducted here at Stanford), suggests that Greece in fact saw substantial economic growth and rising standards of living across the first millennium BCE. This seminar tests the poor Hellas/wealthy Hellas models against literary and archaeological data. We will develop and test hypotheses to explain the rate and pace of economic change in the Greek world.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
POLISCI 433:
Workshop in Political Theory
For graduate students. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 436R:
Amartya Sen's capability theory (PHIL 378)
Amartya Sen's pioneering work attempts to open up economics to missing informational and evaluative dimensions. This seminar will explore Sen's "capability approach" and its implications for the study of economics, gender, and justice. It will look at different ways that the capability approach has been developed, in particular, by Martha Nussbaum, but also by other political philosophers.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
POLISCI 438:
Democracy and the Constitution (PHIL 374C)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 440A:
Theories in Comparative Politics
Required of Political Science Ph.D. students with comparative politics as first or second concentration; others by consent of instructor. Theories addressing major concerns in the comparative field including democracy, regime change, the state, revolutions, national heterogeneity, and economic performance.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
POLISCI 440B:
Political Economy of Development (HISTORY 378E)
Required of Political Science Ph.D. students with comparative politics as a first or second concentration; others by consent of the instructor. The origins of political and economic institutions and their impact on long run outcomes for growth and democracy. Emphasis is on the analysis of causal models, hypothesis testing, and the quality of evidence.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 440C:
Methods in Comparative Politics
Required of Political Science Ph.D. candidates with comparative politics as a first or second concentration; others by consent of instructor. Current methodological standards in comparative politics. Students develop their own research design that meets these standards.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 440D:
Workshop in Comparative Politics
Faculty, guest speakers, and graduate students conducting research in comparative politics present work-in-progress. Graduate students may enroll for up to 5 total units apportioned by quarter. Auditors welcome. Graduate students whose major or minor field is comparative politics must make at least one presentation to the seminar.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 441L:
Grad Seminar on Middle Eastern Politics
Survey of major topics in the study of Middle Eastern politics including state formation, authoritarian resilience and political Islam
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
POLISCI 443S:
Political Economy of Reform in China
Content, process, and problems of China¿s post-Mao reforms. Changes in property rights, markets, credit, and the role of the state in economic development. Comparative insights about reform in the Chinese communist system that distinguishes it from the experience of regimes in E. Europe and the former Soviet Union.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 443T:
Approaches to Chinese Politics
Major secondary literature on Chinese politics, involving the evolution of theoretical concepts and social scientific approaches characterizing the field. Subjects include changes made to defining fundamental issues of Chinese political theory, and the implications of shifts in research methods and analytical tools. Prerequisite: basic knowledge of politics of post-1949 China.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
POLISCI 445:
Contemporary African Politics in Historical Context
To what extent, and in what ways, have current events and ntrends in sub-Saharan Africa been influenced by the past? The ncourse goal is to generate testable propositions linking the pre-colonial and colonial eras, nationalist movements, transitions to independence, and early independence years to today's politics and policy choices.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
POLISCI 448R:
Workshop: China Social Science (SOC 368W)
For Ph.D. students in the social sciences and history. Research on contemporary society and politics in the People's Republic of China. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 451:
Design and Analysis of Experiments
Political scientists increasingly rely on experimental methods. This course covers the principles and logic of experimental design as applied to laboratory, field and survey experiments. We discuss the strengths and limitations of experiments in relation to observational methods. Design considerations include randomization, the construction of treatments, the use of deception, the ethical implications of deception, and new developments in subject recruitment. Turning to the analysis of experimental data, we describe the methods for estimating treatment effects, interactions, and more complex indirect effects stemming from either mediator or moderator variables. We also cover appropriate data analytic strategies for quasi-experimental designs including interrupted time series, matching and propensity scores.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 452:
Text as Data
Topics covered will include preprocessing texts (unigrams, bigrams, and a brief introduction to natural language processing), unsupervised learning (clustering, topic models, and computer-assisted methods), supervised learning (includingnnSVM, lasso, naive Bayes, and a matrix smoothing method), and methodsnnfor evaluation (cross-validation, model based, expert based). Thennclass is ideal for students in the dissertation phase of research whonnhave texts they would like to analyze, but aren't quite sure what tonndo with them. Prerequisites are at least 350a and 350b and annwillingness to learn programming skills (including Python and R).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bendor, J. (PI);
Blaydes, L. (PI);
Brady, D. (PI);
Cohen, J. (PI);
Cox, G. (PI);
Fearon, J. (PI);
Fiorina, M. (PI);
Goldstein, J. (PI);
Grimmer, J. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Jackman, S. (PI);
Jusko, K. (PI);
Karl, T. (PI);
Krasner, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Laitin, D. (PI);
Lipscy, P. (PI);
Magaloni-Kerpel, B. (PI);
McFaul, M. (PI);
Moe, T. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Oi, J. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Reich, R. (PI);
Rivers, D. (PI);
Rodden, J. (PI);
Sagan, S. (PI);
Schultz, K. (PI);
Segura, G. (PI);
Sniderman, P. (PI);
Tomz, M. (PI);
Wand, J. (PI);
Weingast, B. (PI);
Weinstein, J. (PI);
Bernard, T. (GP);
Haga, C. (GP)
POLISCI 110A:
Theory and Practice in International Relations
Major approaches to understanding international politics including realism, liberalism, and constructivism, and their utility in explaining events and issues over the last century including the WWI and WWII, the Cold War, trade and globalization, and transnational terrorism.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 111:
Peace Studies (PSYCH 165)
Interdisciplinary. The challenges of pursuing peace in a world with many conflicts and rising regional, ethnic, and religious antagonisms. Historical, social, psychological, and moral perspectives. Contributions of academic disciplines to the study of peace. Students explore a conflict and offer contributions to the building of peace. Limited enrollment.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 113F:
The United Nations and Global Governance
The role of international institutions and organizations in the areas of health, environment, security, trade, development, and human rights. Evaluation, accountability, participation, legitimacy, and autonomy.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 120A:
American Political Sociology and Public Opinion: Who We Are and What We Believe
First of team-taught, intermediate-level, three-part sequence designed to introduce students to topics in American politics and government. The sociology of the U.S. and the political beliefs and values of Americans. Students may enroll for one, two, or three quarters, but the course is cumulative so maximum benefit results from enrollment in the entire sequence. Recommended: 2.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 128S:
The Constitution: A Short History (HISTORY 57)
A broad survey of the Constitution, from its Revolutionary origins to the contemporary disputes over interpretation. Topics include the invention of the written constitution and interpretative canons; the origins of judicial review; the Civil War and Reconstruction as constitutional crises; the era of substantive due process; the rights revolution; and the Constitution in wartime.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul
POLISCI 132:
Ethics of Political Animals
The ancient Greek conception of ethics as arising from human social and political nature. Problems related to values, identity, and responsibility. Topics include civic friendship, equality, reciprocity, integrity, dignity, and legal obedience.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas
POLISCI 136:
Philosophical Issues Concerning Race and Racism (PHIL 177)
Concepts of race, race consciousness, and racism, and their connections. What is race and what is its role in racism? How should ethnic and racial identities be viewed to secure the conditions in which humanity can be seen as a single moral community whose members have equal respect? What laws, values, and institutions best embody the balance among competing goals of group loyalty, opposition to racism, and common humanity? Philosophical writings on freedom and equality, human rights, pluralism, and affirmative action. Historical accounts of group exclusion.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
POLISCI 140:
Political Economy of Development
Emphasis is on the interplay between political economic processes, and national and international factors from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Do governments provide the foundations for economic development? The role of the state in solving problems of violence and capital accumulation.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
POLISCI 142Z:
Politics in the Name of Identity
How national, ethnic, religious, racial, tribal, and regional identities have been politicized. How identity is used as a motive, cause, or justification for peaceful or violent political actions. Issues such as suicide bombers, the U.S. immigration bill, and ethnic cleansing. Case studies.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 151B:
Data Analysis for Political Science
Operationalization of concepts, measurement, scale construction, finding and pooling/merging data, cross-tabulations, tests of association, comparison of means, correlation, scatterplots, and regression models. How to present the results of data analysis in research reports, essays, and theses. Emphasis is on getting and using data with appropriate statistical software. Prior mathematics not required.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
POLISCI 157:
Sampling and Surveys (POLISCI 357)
The importance of sample surveys as a source of social science data including public opinion, voting, welfare programs, health, employment, and consumer behavior. Survey design, sampling theory, and estimation. Nonresponse, self-selection, measurement error, and web survey methods. Prerequisite: 150B or equivalent.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 204:
Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Colloquium (INTNLREL 110, IPS 271, POLISCI 304)
This one-unit seminar will comprise 10 international and domestic human rights scholars, judges and activists who have made significant contributions to international justice, women and children¿s rights, environmental rights and indigenous rights. It is open to all Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. Students in the seminar will be encouraged to present their ongoing research and to develop new research projects (individually and collaboratively). Students wishing to do significant research and reading in the context of the seminar may, in consultation with one of the instructors, sign up for independent study. Law students are first required to be enrolled in an International Human Rights in the law school in order to participate. Course requirements are attendance, participation, and assignments.
| Units: 1
POLISCI 222P:
Creating the American Republic (HISTORY 251)
Concepts and developments in the late 18th-century invention of American constitutionalism; the politics of constitution making and ratifying; emergence of theories of constitutional interpretation including originalism; early notions of judicial review. Primary and secondary sources.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 225E:
The Laws of Politics: Term Limits, Campaign Finance, Blanket Primaries, and Redistricting
The intersection of election law, politics, and academia. Major policy changes that affect the way that politics works, the legal decisions that govern them, and the academic research aimed at influencing policymakers and judges. Topics include campaign finance, redistricting, blanket primaries, and term limits. Students make presentations summarizing cases and research, prepare legal briefs of their own, and argue their cases before a mock Supreme Court.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 227P:
Contemporary Political Issues
Prerequisite: PoliSci 2, Stats 60 or equivalent, and consent of instructor.nThis seminar will engage in an in-depth examination of public opinion surrounding issues important in contemporary American politics, including but not limited to the economy, immigration, race, abortion, sexuality, foreign and defense policy, age, and role of government. Students will be expected to do primary research. Prerequisites: PS 2, Stat 160 or equivalent, permission of the instructor.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 231S:
Contemporary Theories of Justice
Social and political justice and contemporary debates in political theory. Recent works that develop the principles of justice, and the political arrangements that best satisfy their requirements. Limited enrollment. WIM
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-EthicReas
POLISCI 237:
Models of Democracy (COMM 212, COMM 312, POLISCI 337)
Ancient and modern varieties of democracy; debates about their normative and practical strengths and the pathologies to which each is subject. Focus is on participation, deliberation, representation, and elite competition, as values and political processes. Formal institutions, political rhetoric, technological change, and philosophical critique. Models tested by reference to long-term historical natural experiments such as Athens and Rome, recent large-scale political experiments such as the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly, and controlled experiments.
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 245P:
Politics and Society in Israel
Focus is on Israel's political system and social makeup, from the pre-state period (Yishuv) to the 2009 elections. The ideological roots of Zionism; the core issues which comprise the Arab-Israeli conflict. Key aspects of the Israeli political system, including election methods, parties, and the constitutional status. The religious, ethnic, and national cleavages that manifest in Israeli public life and politics.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 246:
African Politics
Key issues in African political economy: the nature and legacy of colonial rule; the African state; voting, elections, and Africa's democratic transitions; the sources of Africa's poor economic performance; ethnicity in political and social life; violence, social conflict, and civil war. Emphasis is on mastering the literature on African politics and developing intuitions and skills to permit students to become producers of high quality research in the area.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 304:
Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Colloquium (INTNLREL 110, IPS 271, POLISCI 204)
This one-unit seminar will comprise 10 international and domestic human rights scholars, judges and activists who have made significant contributions to international justice, women and children¿s rights, environmental rights and indigenous rights. It is open to all Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. Students in the seminar will be encouraged to present their ongoing research and to develop new research projects (individually and collaboratively). Students wishing to do significant research and reading in the context of the seminar may, in consultation with one of the instructors, sign up for independent study. Law students are first required to be enrolled in an International Human Rights in the law school in order to participate. Course requirements are attendance, participation, and assignments.
| Units: 1
POLISCI 311C:
Workshop in International Relations
Organized around presentation of research by students and outside scholars. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 312S:
Theory and Practice in International Relations and Comparative Development
The value of major theories and concepts in international relations for understanding and addressing global policy issues. Country case study with policy challenges such as development, democracy promotion, proliferation, and terrorism; the challenge of creating coherent policies that do not run at cross purposes. Case study of a policy challenge that cuts across academic disciplines and policy specializations to provide the opportunity to bring together skills and policy perspectives.
| Units: 3
POLISCI 314:
The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation
(Graduate students register for 314.) The origins and effects of the spread of nuclear weapons at international and domestic levels. The role of faulty intelligence, clandestine proliferation networks, and nuclear assistance from third parties on proliferators' programs. Case studies of relevant programs, including Iran and North Korea.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 332R:
Greek Political Economy I
(Same as POLISCI 332R,332S.) First of two-part course. Did large-scale kingdoms radically change the Greek world after Alexander; or had new conditions already emerged from the Peloponnesian War? Continuities and discontinuities across the classical/hellenistic divide. Focus is on states and economies in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C.E. Sources include primary sources and recent scholarship on Greek economic thought and practices with reference to city states (Athens, Rhodes), federations (Achaean, Aetolian), and empires (Ptolemaic, Seleukid). Spring Quarter emphasis is on presentation of research by faculty and students.
| Units: 4-5
POLISCI 336J:
Collectivities (PHIL 279)
Issues about the nature of collective action, shared intention, and cooperation, the role of sociality in the nature of mind, problems of preference and judgment aggregation, and, quite generally, different ways of thinking about the relationship of I to we. Enrollment limited to 30.
| Units: 4
POLISCI 337:
Models of Democracy (COMM 212, COMM 312, POLISCI 237)
Ancient and modern varieties of democracy; debates about their normative and practical strengths and the pathologies to which each is subject. Focus is on participation, deliberation, representation, and elite competition, as values and political processes. Formal institutions, political rhetoric, technological change, and philosophical critique. Models tested by reference to long-term historical natural experiments such as Athens and Rome, recent large-scale political experiments such as the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly, and controlled experiments.
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 338E:
The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy
Conceptions of evil and its nature and source, distinctions between natural and moral evil, and what belongs to God versus to the human race have undergone transformations reflected in literature and film. Sources include Rousseau's response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; Hannah Arendt's interpretation of Auschwitz; Günther Anders' reading of Hiroshima; and current reflections on looming climatic and nuclear disasters. Readings from Rousseau, Kant, Dostoevsky, Arendt, Anders, Jonas, Camus, Ricoeur, Houellebeck, Girard. Films by Lang, Bergman, Losey, Hitchcock.
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 344:
Politics and Geography
The role of geography in topics in political economy, including development, political representation, voting, redistribution, regional autonomy movements, fiscal competition, and federalism.
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 354F:
Applied Bayesian Analysis
Bayesian modeling in the social sciences emphasizing applications in political science, anthropological science, sociology, and education testing. Topics include: Bayesian computation via Markov chain Monte Carlo; Bayesian hierarchical modeling; Bayesian models for latent variables and latent states (measurement modeling); dynamic models; and Bayesian analysis of spatial models. Implementation of Bayesian approaches (priors, efficient sampling from posterior densities), data analysis, and model comparisons. Final project. Prerequisites: exposure to statistical modeling such as 200-level STATS or POLISCI 150/350B,C, or ANTHSCI 292.
| Units: 3-5
POLISCI 357:
Sampling and Surveys (POLISCI 157)
The importance of sample surveys as a source of social science data including public opinion, voting, welfare programs, health, employment, and consumer behavior. Survey design, sampling theory, and estimation. Nonresponse, self-selection, measurement error, and web survey methods. Prerequisite: 150B or equivalent.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 364:
Theories of Political Institutions
Organized activity as it reflects the organization of political life. Eclectic and interdisciplinary. Emphasis is on political institutions and formal organizations, and the norms, expectation, and routines characteristic of informal political structure.
| Units: 4
POLISCI 365:
Organizational Decision Making
Behavioral theories of organization. Emphasis is on the institutional applications of bounded rationality. Models of incrementalism; evolutionary models of change; organizational learning. The differences between predictions of theories of perfect rationality and those of imperfect rationality. Organizational responses (constructive and pathological) to constraints on information processing. Institutional contexts; public agencies and firms.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 404:
Dispute Resolution in International Economic Law
(Same as LAW 356.) Topics include: theoretical work on international trade and investment disputes; empirical work on WTO dispute resolution and the efficacy of developing country participation; and legal analysis of current, prominent disputes in the WTO and under international investment treaties. Substantial paper required. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1
POLISCI 431L:
Graduate Seminar on Equality (PHIL 371D)
This seminar will focus on ideas of equality of opportunity, with readings from political theory, as well as American constitutional law, political science, economics, and sociology. The readings will address four main questions: What is equality of opportunity? Why is equality of opportunity an important requirement of justice? What are the principal sources of inequalities of opportunity? And how might those inequalities be remedied? Readings from: Hayek, Rawls, Dworkin, Okin, Roemer, Tawney, Bourdieu, Barry, Jencks, Mazumder, Alstott, McLanahan, and Heckman.
| Units: 5
POLISCI 444:
Comparative Political Economy: Advanced Industrial Societies
Political economy approaches to key policy outcomes including redistribution, the size of government, fiscal behavior, and pork-barrel politics. Theories related to institutions, interest groups, and geography, focusing on middle- and upper-income countries.
| Units: 3-5
