Introduction to Quantitative Political Science
AS.190.602 (01)

An introduction to measurement and data analysis in contemporary American political science. Measurement topics will include the formation of indices and cumulative scales. Analytic topics will topics include sampling variations, statistical association and causation, as manifested in contingency tables and correlation and regression. Emphasis will be on fundamental concepts and assumptions, and on comprehension and evaluation of the scholarly literature. Advanced undergraduates by permission only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15

Black Political Thought
AS.190.633 (01)

This course will introduce you to a survey of Black political thought. Our examination will cover the time period between the latter years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the present. In the first two thirds of the course we will deal with primary texts (including but not limited to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Souls of Black Folk, and The Wretched of the Earth), and in the last third we will deal with modern day attempts to wrestle with the ideas in these texts (including but not limited to Intimate Justice and Critique of Black Reason).

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15

Law's Love: Command, Submission, Obligation, Power
AS.190.623 (01)

This course focuses on the affective dimensions of law, a power that both creates and preserves the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties. Two related questions will guide our examination of the affection dimensions of law: What are the grounds of law? Why do we obey law? Students will turn in response papers every week on the reading. In addition, there will be a 20-30 page paper due at the end of the semester.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15

Gilles Deleuze and Classical Theory
AS.190.627 (01)

What can Deleuze teach classical Eurocentric theories? And what can representatives of those traditions teach him? We will read Deleuze in relation to theorists he has examined, such as Plato, Lucretius, Spinoza, Kant, Kafka, Nietzsche and Hegel, as we seek to hear the history of political theory in a new key. Concepts and issues such as politics, history, time, culture/nature divisions, capitalism, the source of ethics, the shape of political ideals, and the nature of explanation will come up for review. The course will typically read a text from a classical thinker and then consult Deleuze’s engagements with them.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane, Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15

Colonialsim and Foreign Intervention in the Middle East and Africa
AS.190.644 (01)

How did colonial rule and post-colonial foreign intervention shape the history and politics of states in the Middle East and Africa? The first part of this course focuses on the colonial period, examining the era of conquest, considering how and whether colonial rule differed from other types of ruling arrangements, and studying how people in colonized territories reacted to conquest and foreign rule. Part Two focuses on post-colonial foreign military interventions. Part Three considers the potential long-term consequences of colonialism and foreign intervention. The course focuses on British, French, and American imperialism.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 4/4

Black Politics
AS.190.645 (01)

Grad Students Only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15

Violence: State and Society
AS.190.658 (01)

This course will examine violence that occurs mainly within the territory of nominally sovereign states. We will focus on violence as an object of study in its own right. For the most part, we will look at violence as a dependent variable, though in some instances it will function as an independent variable, a mechanism, or an equilibrium. We will ask why violence starts, how it “works” or fails to work, why it takes place in some locations and not others, why violence take specific forms (e.g., insurgency, terrorism, civilian victimization, etc.), what explains its magnitude (the number of victims), and what explains targeting (the type or identity of victims).

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kocher, Matthew A
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/6

Democratic Resilience: US Democracy in Comparative and Historical Perspective
AS.190.660 (01)

What gives democratic regimes the ability to withstand challenges such as extreme polarization, racial and ethnic conflict, rising economic inequality, and institutional sclerosis and avoid the prospect of backsliding toward authoritarianism? This course will examine the problem of democratic resilience by locating the contemporary crisis of American democracy in comparative and historical perspective, bringing together literatures in comparative democratization and American politics.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 12:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15

International Relations, Selected Topics
AS.190.661 (01)

This course examines diverse topics in international relations scholarship with a view to dereifying foundational concepts and pushing the boundaries of the field. Particular attention will be paid to agency, identity, norms, territory, aesthetics, embodiment, and borders. The idea is to develop a more critical perspective to open new avenues for research.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee, Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15

Political Economy Of Development
AS.190.666 (01)

Graduate students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (08)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Organizations
AS.190.653 (01)

Graduate students only. "Organizations are the fundamental building blocks of economic, social and political life. This course will examine how different disciplines (sociology, economics, political science) approach the problem of explaining how organizations operate, as well as exploring the structure and development of a very wide range of organizations (firms, interest groups, charitable foundations, universities, militaries, bureaucracies, international organizations, and professions)."

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 12:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15

Money
AS.190.672 (01)

What is money? And given its absolute centrality to economics and politics, shouldn’t political economy and political theory hold answers to this question? Instead, the history of both neoclassical economics and modern political thought is marked by eschewals or refusals of it or its importance. This graduate seminar will explore the theory and politics of money, through critical readings of orthodox theories, engagements with heterodox political economy, and encounters with contemporary political theory.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15

Race and Politics of Punishment in the U.S.
AS.190.681 (01)

Contact with criminal justice has become a primary way that many Americans see and experience government, particularly those from race-class subjugated communities. Yet, our field has been slow to appreciate the development of the carceral state or to consider its manifold impacts for citizenship. In this graduate seminar, we will survey key debates around punishment, state violence, and surveillance, with a particular focus on research that takes institutional development, history, and racial orders seriously. Why did the carceral state expand in “fits and starts” and with what consequence for state-building? We explore its (racialized and gendered) relationship to other key systems: foster care, social provision, labor relations and the labor market, and immigration enforcement. A core preoccupation of this course will be to understand the ways in which the criminal justice system “makes race” and how debates about crime and punishment were often debates about black inclusion and equality. How does exposure to criminal justice interventions shape political learning, democratic habits, and racial lifeworlds? In addition to policy, political discourse, and racial politics, we will employ works from a range of fields – history, sociology, law, and criminology – and a range of methods (ethnography, historical analysis, quantitative and qualitative). Required books include: Khalil Muhammad’s Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, David Oshinsky’s Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, Bruce Western’s Punishment and Inequality in America, and Michael Fortner’s Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Weaver, Vesla
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/18

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (09)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (15)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (16)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (18)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (22)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (21)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (10)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (17)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (14)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (20)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (06)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (11)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (19)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (24)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (26)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (06)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (09)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (10)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (17)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (14)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (18)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Intermediate data-analysis for social science & public policy 2
AS.196.601 (01)

We will gain experience with data-analysis at the intermediate level, handling data with multi-level and longitudinal structure. How can we draw valid statistical inferences with such data? What designs and methods enable us to infer the causal effects of interventions? The course will consist of alternating discussions and small-group and instructor-led demonstrations with a heavy emphasis on computation, using both Stata or R whenever possible.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (23)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (15)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (11)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (19)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (16)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (08)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (22)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Intermediate data-analysis for Social Science & Public Policy I
AS.196.600 (01)

We will gain experience with data-analysis at the intermediate level, handling data with multi-level and longitudinal structure. How can we draw valid statistical inferences with such data? What designs and methods enable us to infer the causal effects of interventions? The course will consist of alternating discussions and small-group and instructor-led demonstrations with a heavy emphasis on computation, using both Stata or R whenever possible.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/14

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (21)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (20)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (24)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (26)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (23)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5