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202S. Race in Comparative Perspective (A). Comparative study of the way race is socially constructed in the United
States, several European, Latin American, and other countries. The real effects of this social construction on the social
and political lives of communities of color in these countries. Instructor: McClain. 3 units.
203S. Politics and Media in the United States (A). The impact of the media of communication and new technologies
on American political behavior, government, politics, issues and controversies. Development of critical interpretive
skills and arguments as students write research papers assessing the media's political influence and effects. Instructor:
Paletz. 3 units.
205S. Collective Action, Property Rights, and the Environment (B). The rational choice tradition (public goods,
collective action, game theory, property rights, new institutionalism) as applied to environmental problems, resource
exploitation, environmental justice, and the design of an environmentally sound society. Instructor: McKean. 3 units.
206S. Political Participation: Comparative Perspectives (B). The study of political participation through development
of an understanding of relevant research methods. The effects of political culture on political participation. Popular
participation and mobilization systems in liberal democracies and developing countries. Instructor: Shi. 3 units. C-L:
International Comparative Studies 201AS
207S. Religion and Comparative Politics (B). The relationship between states, societies, and religious institutions in
contemporary world politics. Theories that emphasize the explanatory role of religious ideas, religious market
structures, and different socio-economic and political conditions. Major focus on Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism
and Evangelicalism) mostly in Latin America, Western and Central Europe, and the United States. Attention also
to Islam and Hinduism in Africa, the Middle East, and India. Instructor: Trejo. 3 units.
208S. Theories of International Conflict (D). Social science literature review of the causes of international conflict
emphasizing the theories concerning the causes of war. Objectives of course: to identify the strengths and weaknesses
of the literature concerning the causes of war; to define specific questions and issues which must be addressed by future
research; and to develop concrete research strategies for investigating these questions. Instructor: Gelpi. 3 units.
209S. Post War Europe, 1945-1968: Politics, Society and Culture. 3 units. C-L: see History 204S
210S. Comparative Ethnic Politics. Why and when ethnicity becomes a salient cleavage for political mobilization and
the conditions under which ethnic collective action may take violent or non-violent forms. Approaches to the study of
social identities; types of ethnic collective action, including non-violent (electoral participation and social protest) and
violent ones (riots, rebellions, civil war, and terrorism); and main normative debates in favor and against ethno-cultural
group rights. Comparisons include Latin America, Africa, Europe, and South Asia. Instructor: Trejo. 3 units.
212S. Politics and Markets (A, C-E, D). Seminar on classics of political economy, exploring the relationship between
economic markets and politics as treated in the works of Adam Smith, Marx, Polanyi, Schumpeter, Lindblom, and
Hirsch, as well as contemporary works on globalization and its effects on domestic politics. Open only to seniors and
graduate students. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
213S. Theories of International Political Economy (D). Issues include politics of trade, finance, economic development,
conflict and cooperation in the world economy, and causes and consequences of economic globalization. Both advanced
industrialized and developing countries. Open to qualified seniors with consent of instructor. Instructor: Buthe. 3 units.
214S. Economy, Society, and Morality in Eighteenth-Century Thought (C-N). Explorations of eighteenth-century
topics with a modern counterpart, chiefly (a) self-interest, liberal society, and economic incentive; and (b) the passions,
sociality, civic virtue, common moral sensibilities, and the formation of taste and opinion. Original texts: for example,
Bacon, Newton, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Hogarth, Burke, Cato's Letters, Federalist Papers,
Jane Austen. Stress on integrating economic and political science perspectives. Open only to seniors majoring in either
political science or economics. Not open to students who have had Economics 146. Pre-requisites: Economics 105D;
and Economics 110D. Instructors: De Marchi and Grant. 3 units. C-L: Economics 214S
215S. Democratic Institutions (B). How constitution makers choose basic rules of the democratic game, such as the
relations between legislatures and executives, the role of parties, electoral system, prerogatives of constitutional courts,
and other important elements of democratic institutional design; the impact of such arrangements on various groups
within the state, and the overall performance of democracies; durability of arrangements, the structuring of power
relations among parties, and whether democratic institutions affect economic and social policy outcomes. Instructor:
Kitschelt. 3 units.
218S. Political Thought in the United States (A, C-N). American political thought and practice through the Civil War
period. A critical analysis of the writing of our founders and their European antecedents. Focus on the philosophical
and political debates and the underlying ethical and political issues found in the debates over the Constitution, slavery,
and the Union. Instructor: Gillespie or Grant. 3 units.
219S. American Grand Strategy. Study of policy that nations adopt to marshal their political, economic, military,
technological, and diplomatic resources to achieve their national goals in the international environment they face,
drawing on political science, history, public policy, law and political economy and other disciplines to achieve these
ends. Course examines the history, current reality, and future prospects of American grand strategy. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: Feaver. 3 units. C-L: History 220S, Public Policy Studies 219S
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