Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Overview of policy literature, including political economy and practical politics. Formal analyses and case studies.

Political parties, interest groups, and electoral behavior in American political context.

Origins, development, and character of the American administrative state from 1877 to the present. Welfare state, regulatory state, and the civil state.

Examines the trajectories of and interactions between China, Japan, and Korea, with a focus on the implications of these developments for the region and the United States.

Basic introduction to the ways in which political scientists have conceptualized and studied American politics, primarily through an examination of influential approaches and "classic" works.

Contemporary theories of international relations. Approaches to understanding and explaining international behavior at single-nation, multiple-nation, and systematic levels.

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Major theoretical approaches in comparative analysis: structural functionalism, systems, Marxism, dependency theory. Comparative research techniques: use of elite studies, aggregate data, theory, cross-national surveys, political sociology, diachronic analysis, and causal modeling.

Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical tools in comparing state, society relations, and their political and socioeconomic outcomes in the Pan African world and the rest of the world.

Orientalist, Marxian, Weberian, and postmodern viewpoints about such issues as colonialism, Islamism, nationalism, secularism, authoritarianism, modernity, and patriarchy in the Middle East.

Analysis of some of the central issues of contemporary regional and international politics of the Middle East.

In-depth exploration of a problem or problems.  Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.

Major debates in logic of political inquiry. Includes alternative approaches to explanation and theory, nature of political knowledge, place of values in political inquiry, and policy relevance of political science.

Basic statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion, hypothesis testing, indices of association, and bivariate analysis. Application of statistics to political science data.

Survey of qualitative methods in political science research. Topics include elite interviewing, participant observation, content analysis, and discourse analysis. Discussions center on research practices and exemplary applications.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Survey of perspectives and literatures on global civil society organizations and transnational NGOs. Begins the process of integrating these literatures through critical analysis.

Political economy of economic growth, redistribution and inequality. Political institutions, origins and evolution. Cross-national variations in economic institutions.

Current problems in planning and administering national security policy in the United States.

Key moments, periods, and themes in American constitutional development. The influence of constitutional ideas and institutions on political development and the influence of political ideas and institutions on the Constitution.

Comparative perspective, emphasizing United States. Opinion formation, political communication systems, impact of news media, propaganda, and methods, including opinion surveys and content analysis.

Separate and shared powers of Congress and the Presidency. Consequences for policy making.

Judicial structure and process, emphasizing U.S. Supreme Court. Behavioral and institutional perspectives on judicial attitudes and behavior.

American political thought to about 1820. Puritans, American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, and thought of Hamilton and Jefferson.

Examines the opportunities and constraints for addressing environmental problems through the political process. Its aim is to understand how problems, political actors, and institutions come together to shape policymaking in this arena.

The goal of this class is to provide students with a broad overview of the field of post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) from both a theoretical and applied point of view. Over the course of the semester we will consider the various goals of PCR work, the range of actors that conduct it and the lessons learned from its application across various settings.

Introduces graduate students to the use and analysis of surveys and experiments in political science. Explores both technical aspects of surveys and experiments and applied substantive social science literature that uses these methods.

Explores key controversies and debates in contemporary security studies.

Foundations and application of international law. Institutional and political capability of international organizations. Recent theoretical and methodological development.

Relation between international politics and economics. Neoclassical and leftist approaches to problems of expansion, North-North relations, North-South relations, and system transformation.

Forms of international conflict and explanations for occurrence and resolution.

The impact of advanced computing and communications technologies on the structure, organization, and behaviors of contemporary systems of public governance.

History, institutions, policies, and political dynamics of the European Union and its relations with the rest of the world.

Analysis and assessment of the causes of transnational non-state activism, the means and goals chosen by activists, and the effects of non-state actors in international and domestic affairs.

Why do people move across international borders, and where do they go? How should local communities, national governments, and international institutions respond? What are the goals of these policies, and are they effective?

Leadership, cooperation, and conflict in times of crisis. Key dynamics that influence the way decision makers perceive and respond to crisis and the processes that facilitate constructive crisis management.

Selected aspects of foreign policy, such as American foreign policy, Soviet foreign policy, and foreign policy analysis.

This graduate seminar surveys human rights issues, including the sources of violations, the role of international institutions and non-state actors, and explanations for commitment and compliance.

This course aims to introduce students to comparative judicial politics and human rights, and familiarize them with relevant theories and methodologies for conducting research on comparative legal systems, human rights and judicial institutions.

Political parties, interest groups, the electorate, and legislative behavior in a comparative political context.

Political systems and political system change in selected nations and regions. Seminars may focus on one nation/region or they may analyze a substantive topic comparatively.

The socio-economic, political, and cultural issues shaping people's lives in the more than 140 state-societies that constitute the "Third World."

Political development, political institutions, and political economy of China and Chinese foreign relations, emphasizing the reform era.

Systematic development of theories of foreign policy not limited to a single nation, decision, situation, or time. Definitions of foreign policy and logic of comparative analysis; historical roots of study of foreign policy; theories of war proneness, change and cooperation; examination of how foreign policy is made.

Theory and practice of civil-military relations. The military's role in the modern state and in modern society. Broad geographic coverage, including the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Political institutions and political development of Russia and other post-Soviet and post-communist states, particularly since 1991.

Nature of modern democracy, contemporary transitions to democracy in countries around the world, problems of democratic consolidation and democratic theory, and the effects of democracy on the economy and world politics.

The relationship between what political leaders are like, the behavior of the institutions or governments they lead, and the effects of leaders and leadership on politics.

Logic of designing research in political science. Conceptual, theoretical, and empirical analysis. Focus on developing dissertation proposals.

Survey of constructivist research. Comparisons of constructivist theories, comparisons to other theories of world politics, and reviews of exemplary empirical applications.

Multivariate data analysis, including regression, causal analysis, time series, and factor analysis. Theoretical uses, implications, and meanings of techniques. Techniques applied through computer analyses using statistical software.

Production of collective states from individual choice. Role of evaluative concepts like equality, liberty, and rights in such efforts. Design theory, game theory, impossibility theorems, voting rules, distributive justice, market models.

Major debates in contemporary democratic theory: extent of and rationale for political participation; relation of material and political equality; tension between liberty and equality. Theories of justice: Rawls, utilitarianism, Nozick.

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Advanced survey of selected qualitative research methods, for students who have completed PSC 694. Specific topics covered will vary by semester.

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Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.

In-depth exploration of a problem or problems.  Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.