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Emphasis on using these techniques to answer classic questions in political science.
Instructor: McKean. 3 units.
319. Ethics and Policy-Making. 3 units. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 316
320. Political Psychology. Examination of the human political situation through the study
of actual problems and solutions at the level of: (1) the individual, (2) political discourse
among government officials, (3) public discourse in the media. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
321. Seminar in Political Theory. Prerequisite: 6 units in political science elected from
223, 224, 229, 231, or their equivalents. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
324. Seminar in Comparative Politics. A field survey with emphasis on the politics of
developing areas. Note: it is generally expected that political science graduate students
taking comparative politics as a preliminary field will take both this course and Political
Science 325. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
325. Seminar in Comparative Politics. A field survey with emphasis on the politics of
advanced industrial democracies. Note: it is generally expected that political science
graduate students taking comparative politics as a preliminary field will take both this course
and Political Science 324. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
326. Research Seminar in Comparative Government and Politics. Seminar in major
issues in comparative politics and intensive individual student research projects. Instructor:
Staff. 3 units.
327. Comparative Political Behavior. This seminar critically examines research on
variations in elite and mass behavior as well as the conditions affecting that behavior in a
variety of Western countries. Instructor: Kornberg. 3 units.
330. Research Design and Qualitative Methods. Systematic exploration of key issues in
research design and methods: Examines epistemology, observation and description,
causality, case selection, and case study research design. Also covers specific tools,
methods, and special topics such as survey design and sampling, qualitative interviews,
historiography and archival research, content analysis, experiments, field research,
temporality and institutional change. Instructor: Büthe. 3 units.
332. Seminar on Political Economy: Micro Level. Survey of recent work in political
science and economics on the organization of institutions: political, sociological, and
economic. Focus upon the ways in which rational choice theory is applied to areas outside
of economics. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
333. Seminar in Political Economy: Macro Level. Survey and analysis of recent work in
political science, economics, and sociology on the relationships between states and markets.
Special emphasis on the ways states influence market outcomes and the ways the
organization of power in markets influences state behavior, especially in democratic
systems. Instructor: Lange or Soskice. 3 units. C-L: Sociology 333
338. Social and Economic Data. 3 units. C-L: see Economics 310; also C-L: Sociology 310
340. Seminar in American Politics and Institutions. Survey, analysis, and critique of the
literature. Instructor: Aldrich or Paletz. 3 units.
341. Legislative Politics. Survey of current research on the legislative branch of
government. Topics include: elections, committee systems, oversight, party organizations,
and others. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
345. Comparative Constitutional Design. Consideration of configurations of political
institutions apt for democratizing countries, especially those divided by ethnic or religious
affiliations. Begins with theories of constitutional and legal change and of efficacy of
constitutions as instruments of conflict management, as well as alternative approaches.
Specific issues include: electoral systems; federalism and regional devolution; the
presidential-parliamentary debate; costs and benefits of judicial review; the special issue of
Islam and the state. Extensive discussion of the overarching question of adoptability and
emphasis on the relations between processes of constitutional change and the content of the
institutions adopted. Instructor: Horowitz. 3 units.
Political Science (POLSCI) 231