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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.190.322 (01)
Future of American Democracy
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lieberman, Robert C
Gilman 377
POLI-AP, INST-AP
Future of American Democracy AS.190.322 (01)
For the most part, observers of American politics have not considered the possibility that the American democratic regime might be at risk. But the unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the subsequent course of his presidency have occasioned a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety about whether democracy in the United States is at risk and whether American political institutions can withstand the stresses of contemporary politics. This course will use the Trump era to explore the conditions that seem to threaten the stability of the American regime. We will begin by exploring the political circumstances that led to Trump’s rise. We will then examine what we can learn from the experience of other countries about the conditions that make democracy either robust or fragile. Finally, we will consider how a set of contemporary political conditions in the United States — extreme partisan polarization, intense racial antagonism, growing economic inequality, and expanded executive power — contribute to the challenges facing American democracy today and in the future.
Credits: 3.00
Level:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/19
PosTag(s): POLI-AP, INST-AP
AS.190.626 (01)
Quantitative Methods for the Study of Politics
MF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Kocher, Matthew A
Bloomberg 168
POLI-CP, POLI-AP, POLI-IR
Quantitative Methods for the Study of Politics AS.190.626 (01)
This course is intended as Ph.D.-level introduction to applied statistics, with a focus on the identification of causal effects in the tradition of the Neyman/Rubin potential outcomes framework. Prior coursework in applied statistics or quantitative methods will be useful but is not required. Upon completion of the course, students will be in a position to understand and critically assess scholarship that uses instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and other quasi- and natural-experimental research designs. Formal mathematical proof will be kept to a minimum. Students will be asked to adapt existing code and write some of their own code in R.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): POLI-CP, POLI-AP, POLI-IR
AS.190.604 (01)
Foucault and Kant
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Connolly, William E
Mergenthaler 366
Foucault and Kant AS.190.604 (01)
This seminar will explore Kant and Foucault comparatively across the registers of ontology, morality, epistemology, time, and politics. How does each move into and across these registers? How do the two thinkers inform and challenge one another? Texts will include: Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason, Conflict of the Faculties, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, The Anthropology (sections); Foucault, The Order of Things (chapters), Discipline and Punish, “On the Genealogy of Ethics,” “What Was Enlightenment?”, and Subjectivity and Truth.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.613 (01)
Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Transformation
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Bennett, Jane
Mergenthaler 366
Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Transformation AS.190.613 (01)
An exploration of the political aims and tactics, and strengths and liabilities, of Dada and Surrealism, as it operated in Europe and the Americas in the years between and after the World Wars. Readings by Andre Breton, Leonora Carrington, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Meret Oppenheim, College of Sociology, and others. Seniors allowed by permission of instructor only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.634 (01)
Rethinking the Renaissance: Alternatives to "Early Modernity"
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Campbell, Stephen
Gilman 177
HART-RENBAR
Rethinking the Renaissance: Alternatives to "Early Modernity" AS.010.634 (01)
"The Renaissance" as a periodization under attack, and its persistance; the hermeneutics of the Pre-Modern Image since Panofsky; the critique of Eurocentrism; challenges to and recuperations of iconology, assessing the contributions of semiotics, psycholanalysis and queer theory.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR
AS.190.607 (01)
Decolonizing the Episteme: Knowledge, Empire and the Academy
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Shilliam, Robert
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-IR
Decolonizing the Episteme: Knowledge, Empire and the Academy AS.190.607 (01)
What complicity does the Western academy have with empire? How might the development of certain intellectual dispositions be implicated in the challenges of imperial rule? And how might such implications have produced influential concepts and theories? In this course we will consider the ways in which - and extent to which - the academy’s claim to epistemic privilege has a colonial provenance. Seniors permitted with instructor permission only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.625 (01)
Theories-Comp Politics
W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-CP
Theories-Comp Politics AS.190.625 (01)
This seminar is intended for graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exam in comparative politics, either as a major or as a minor. In addition to exploring central methodological debates and analytic approaches, the seminar reviews the literature on state-society relations, political and economic development, social movements, nationalism, revolutions, formal and informal political institutions, and regime durability vs. transition. Graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): POLI-CP
AS.190.634 (01)
Political Corruption
T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Katz, Richard Stephen
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-CP
Political Corruption AS.190.634 (01)
Political corruption is widely seen to be an impediment to economic and political development and stability. But what is political corruption? The common definition of corruption as abuse of power for private gain is too vague to be of serious scholarly use. Is “abuse” culturally specific or merely a synonym for “illegal” - or even worse, for undesirable according to some unspecified standard? Does “private gain” refer only to under-the-table cash payments to a corrupt official, or does it extend to intangible private benefits, and does it extend to gains for identifiable favored groups (“club goods”) and may or may not include the corrupt official him or herself?
This seminar will focus on several questions. How should political corruption be defined, and what is at stake in the choice if definition? Are there identifiable patterns to, or types of, political corruption? What conditions encourage or discourage corruption, and how might corruption be controlled or limited? What are the consequences of corruption - and are they necessarily all negative?
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): POLI-CP
AS.190.612 (01)
Comparative Citizenship and Immigration Politics
W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Chung, Erin
Mergenthaler 366
Comparative Citizenship and Immigration Politics AS.190.612 (01)
Graduate students only. Examines the contemporary political dynamics of migration, citizenship, and race concentrating on North America, Europe and East Asia. We will focus on how citizenship and immigration policies shape immigrant political identities, claims, and strategies as well as how immigrants impact public debates and policies in receiving societies.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.632 (01)
The Development of American Political Institutions
W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Lieberman, Robert C, Schlozman, Daniel
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-AP
The Development of American Political Institutions AS.190.632 (01)
This course explores institutional development in American national politics, from the Founding until the present. It traces parties, Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, and courts, and also examines how those institutions have interacted with one another across American history. Throughout the course, we will consider how ideas, interests, procedures, and sequence together shape institutions as they collide and abrade over time. Finally, although it hardly covers the entire corpus across the subfield, the course is also designed to prepare students to sit for comprehensive examinations in American politics.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): POLI-AP
AS.190.635 (01)
Theories of Constitutional Governance
T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Zackin, Emily
Mergenthaler 366
Theories of Constitutional Governance AS.190.635 (01)
This class is focused on the nature of constitutions and the way that they should and do work within a political system, with particular emphasis on the U.S. context. We will examine both normative and empirical arguments about the relationship between politics and constitutional law. More specifically, we will think about how societies and individual actors should make meaning out of constitutional texts, how they do seem to make meaning out of those texts, and the conditions that give rise to constitutional drafting and change. Graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.636 (01)
Politics of Information and Information Technologies
M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Marlin-Bennett, Renee
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-IR
Politics of Information and Information Technologies AS.190.636 (01)
What information is and how it flows in the world are questions that are now obviously relevant to the fraught politics of today. We live in a time in which the facticity and authenticity of information is often questioned, in which the flood of “too much” information is often blamed for problematic outcomes, and in which information technologies and social media have (perhaps) upended previous expectations about how communication happens. This course explores the politics of information and information technologies from ancient times to the present, drawing from a substantial body of scholarship in political science and other fields to apply older and more recent wisdom to contemporary problems. Among the themes to be explored are: the differences between knowledge, information, and data; embodied (corporeal) information; commodification of information; securitization of information; technological change, information, and the political; information, cyberspace, and governance; and information privacy/transparency. And, of course: “fake news,” “cyber,” and “bots.”
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.638 (01)
Racial Capitalism
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Chambers, Samuel Allen, Spence, Lester
3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
POLI-AP, POLI-PT
Racial Capitalism AS.190.638 (01)
This graduate seminar will explore the imbrication of the theory, history, and politics of the logic of race and the logic of capital.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): POLI-AP, POLI-PT
AS.190.800 (16)
Independent Study
Lawrence, Adria K
Independent Study AS.190.800 (16)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (11)
Dissertation Research
Zackin, Emily
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (11)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (13)
Dissertation Research
Lieberman, Robert C
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (13)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (12)
Dissertation Research
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (12)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (10)
Dissertation Research
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (10)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (04)
Independent Study
Chung, Erin
Independent Study AS.190.800 (04)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (13)
Independent Study
Parkinson, Sarah
Independent Study AS.190.800 (13)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (06)
Independent Study
Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
Independent Study AS.190.800 (06)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (10)
Independent Study
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Independent Study AS.190.800 (10)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (14)
Independent Study
Jabko, Nicolas
Independent Study AS.190.800 (14)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (09)
Independent Study
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Independent Study AS.190.800 (09)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (05)
Independent Study
Connolly, William E
Independent Study AS.190.800 (05)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (01)
Independent Study
Bennett, Jane
Independent Study AS.190.800 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.657 (01)
Re-Turn to Language
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Culbert, Jennifer
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-PT
Re-Turn to Language AS.190.657 (01)
A central claim of structuralism is that all systems of meaning are structured along the lines of language. Post-structuralism challenges this claim but does not dismiss it so much as probe the ways in which these systems fail and reveal interesting things about how communication may (not) take place. What is sometimes called "post-post-structuralism" rejects the focus on language, emphasing instead how meaning is generated in and by culture or with the (mostly) unacknowledged collaboration of matter. This course will revisit these claims, challenges, and refusals within the context of contemporary, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought. We will read, among others, texts by Saussure, Liev-Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, Butler, and Barad. Students will be required to submit weekly response papers and write a final 20-30 page paper on a topic related to the course.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): POLI-PT
AS.190.651 (01)
Policy Dynamics
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Teles, Steven Michael
Mergenthaler 366
Policy Dynamics AS.190.651 (01)
Policy dynamics is the study of changes of the political system in its entirety, from the point of view of the system's outputs--what government actually does, or fails to do. It is dynamic in that it seeks to explain changes in what matters governments feel can or must be addressed, the tools that are available to deal with problems, and the interactions of government and non-government actors that generate change. Particular emphasis will be placed on studying policy dynamics over long periods of time, including such post-enactment issues as implementation, policy feedback on political identities and group formation, and policy durability.
