printer friendly pagePOLECON 390: Individual Research (ACCT 390, FINANCE 390, GSBGEN 390, HRMGT 390, MGTECON 390, MKTG 390, OB 390, OIT 390, STRAMGT 390)
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Last offered: Autumn 2007
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 8 units total)
POLECON 530: Nonmarket Strategy - Advanced
This is an advanced applications class on nonmarket strategy. The topics covered in this class are similar to those covered in the entry-level foundations class (
POLECON 230): media relations, strategic interactions with activists, political coalition formation, strategic lobbying, regulation, antitrust policy, intellectual property, and the politics of international trade. nnnCompared to the entry-level class,
POLECON 530 places less emphasis on introducing basic facts and frameworks for understanding the nonmarket environment. It places more emphasis on introducing students to foundational research in political economy. This research is then applied to specific strategic situations that companies face when dealing with activists, governments, and regulation. The class is taught using a combination of lectures, cases, and projects.nnnPOLECON 530 is most appropriate for students who have worked in the media, NGOs (in a political capacity), governments, or government relations, as well as those who have studied political science, law, or public policy.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Shotts, K. (PI)
POLECON 547: Intellectual Property and Its Effect on Business
This course explores the impact intellectual property rights have on business decisions. We begin with a general background of intellectual property law including copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret. We will also cover quasi property rights such as database and privacy. Each of these distinct rights will be examined through a case methodology affording students an opportunity to gauge the relative strengths and weaknesses of a particular form of protection. As the value of intellectual property rises, the avenues of economic return increase. We will analyze various methods of maximizing such economic returns. Focus for this course is on the impact both technological innovation and intellectual property law have on business strategies. This is not a class designed to teach students the law of intellectual property. Rather, this course educates business decision makers on the impact intellectual property can have on the bottom line. This course employs a mixed lecture/case discussion format. We will have several sessions with lectures by visiting industry experts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Handler, B. (PI)
;
Hornik, D. (SI)
POLECON 571: The Future of Growth: Developed and Developing World
The course deals with the recent (post war) sustained high growth in the developing world and its likely evolution and impact in the future. How are these kinds of growth rates possible? What accounts for the absence of growth in a part of the developing world? What are the key political ingredients? Attention will be given to the evolving global landscape surrounding this growth. What is the impact of this widening pattern of growth and are there natural brakes that may slow the process down or make it difficult for the non-G20 developing countries and their 1/3 of the world's population to start or sustain the high growth process. The class will attempt to identify and assess the impact of important global trends and challenges. Included in the latter will be governance issues. We will spend a little time on the impact of the 2008-2009 crisis, the transmission channels and lessons learned from the vantage point of developing countries.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Brady, D. (PI)
;
Spence, A. (SI)
POLECON 670: Advanced Topics in Political Economy
This is a topics class aimed at advanced students in political economy and related disciplines. It will consist of a combination of lectures and student presentations. Grading will be based on class participation and a research proposal/paper.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Callander, S. (PI)
POLECON 680: Foundations of Political Economy
This course provides an introduction to political economy with an emphasis on formal models of collective choice, public institutions, and political competition. Topics considered include voting theory, social choice, institutional equilibria, agenda setting, interest group politics, bureaucratic behavior, and electoral competition. Also listed as Political Science 351A.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Hatfield, J. (PI)
POLECON 681: Economic Analysis of Political Institutions
This course extends the foundations developed in P680 by applying techniques of microeconomic analysis and game theory to the study of political behavior and institutions. The techniques include information economics, games of incomplete information, sequential bargaining theory, repeated games, and rational expectations. The applications considered 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. Also listed as Political Science 351B.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Shotts, K. (PI)
POLECON 682: Testing Models of Governmental Decision Making (POLISCI 351C)
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
Instructors:
Krehbiel, K. (PI)
POLECON 683: Political Development Economics
This course surveys emerging research in political economics as it applies to developing societies, emphasizing both theoretical and empirical approaches. Topics will include: corruption and "forensic" political economics, institutional reform and democratization, ethnicity, conflict and public goods provision, and the role of trade and financial innovations in political development. The aim of the course is to bring students to the frontier of the field and develop their own research. Graduate level proficiency in microeconomics and empirical methods will be required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Jha, S. (PI)
POLECON 691: PhD Directed Reading (ACCT 691, FINANCE 691, GSBGEN 691, HRMGT 691, MGTECON 691, MKTG 691, OB 691, OIT 691, STRAMGT 691)
This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Baron, D. (PI)
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Bendor, J. (PI)
;
Brady, D. (PI)
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Callander, S. (PI)
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Hatfield, J. (PI)
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Jha, S. (PI)
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Kessler, D. (PI)
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Krehbiel, K. (PI)
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Lim, C. (PI)
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Malhotra, N. (PI)
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