printer friendly pagePOLISCI 330A: Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 133, CLASSHIS 333, HUMNTIES 321, 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
Instructors:
Ober, J. (PI)
POLISCI 330C: History of Political Thought III: Freedom, Reason, and Power (POLISCI 130C)
Classic works in political theory since the American and French revolutions. Readings include Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Dewey.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Stone, P. (PI)
POLISCI 331: High-Stakes Politics: Case Studies in Political Philosophy, Institutions, and Interests (CLASSHIS 332, POLISCI 231)
Normative political theory combined with positive political theory to better explain how major texts may have responded to and influenced changes in formal and informal institutions. Emphasis is on historical periods in which catastrophic institutional failure was a recent memory or a realistic possibility. Case studies include Greek city-states in the classical periodand the northern Atlantic community of the 17th and 18th centuries including upheavals in England and the American Revolutionary era.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Ober, J. (PI)
;
Weingast, B. (PI)
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.
Instructors:
Stone, P. (PI)
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
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)
Instructors:
Powell, W. (PI)
;
Reich, R. (PI)
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
Instructors:
McLeod, A. (PI)
;
Oberman, K. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Bratman, M. (PI)
;
Cohen, J. (PI)
POLISCI 336S: Justice (ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, 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
Instructors:
Cohen, J. (PI)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Fishkin, J. (PI)
;
Lev-On, A. (PI)
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