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257S. Politics, Society and Development in China (B). Issues affecting development in
China including financial markets, labor, capital, democracy, and cultural patterns.
Instructor: Shi. 3 units.
259S. American Civil-Military Relations (A, D). Theory and practice of relations between
the military, society, and the state in the US. Special attention paid to how civil-military
relations play out in the use of force. Other topics include: public opinion, casualty sensitivity,
and the role of the military in partisan politics. Consent of instructor required. Instructor:
Feaver. 3 units.
260S. Social Theory and Social Practice (C-N). Comparison and critique of answers given
by philosophers and social theorists to the questions: what can we know about society and
what is the practical utility of that knowledge? Theorists and topics include Aristotle, early
modernity's "new science of politics," Marxist praxis, Weber's "wertfrei" science, Mill's
logic of the "moral sciences," Comte's sociology, Mannheim's sociology of knowledge,
behaviorism and its critics, the vocation of social science. Instructor: Spragens. 3 units.
264. Marine Policy (A). 3 units. C-L: see Environment 276; also C-L: Public Policy Studies
297
266S. Topics in Early Modern Political Thought from Machiavelli to Mills (C-N).
Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff. 3 units. C-L: Philosophy 266S
267S. Persistence and Change in Political Institutions (B, D). Persistence and Change in
Political Institutions (B,D). International and domestic institutions in world politics; focus
on causes and mechanisms of institutional persistence and change in comparative
perspective. Examines, for instance, evolution of political-economic institutions under the
impact of globalization. Instructor: Buthe. 3 units.
268S. The Regulatory Process (A). 3 units. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 269S
271S. International Environmental Regimes (B, D). Law, politics, and institutional
design of international regimes created among nations to cope with environmental problems.
Includes study of particular conventions and treaties (for example, acid rain, ozone, carbon
reduction, biodiversity, Antarctica, regional seas, ocean dumping), and the environmental
implications of international trade rules and regimes (for example, GATT). Instructor:
McKean. 3 units. C-L: Public Policy Studies 258S, International Comparative Studies
201CS
272S. International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy (B,D). Examines
range of theories and conceptual approaches to the study of international relations to see how
these may or may not work in explaining Chinese foreign policy and whether or not patterns
of Chinese foreign policy require evaluation of theories. Instructor: Shi. 3 units.
273S. Heidegger (C-N). An examination of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger from its
phenomenological beginnings to its postmodernist conclusions with particular attention to
its meaning for questions of identity, history, nihilism, technology, and politics. Instructor:
Gillespie. 3 units. C-L: Philosophy 273S
275. The American Party System (A). Role of political parties and the party system in the
origin and perpetuation of democratic politics. Critical evaluation of different theories and
models of the origins, structures, and activities of American political parties and their
contribution to maintenance of a democratic society. Development of original research or
critical evaluation of research findings using an extensive array of evidence, including
statistical estimation and formal modeling. Instructor: Aldrich. 3 units.
276. Media in Post-Communist Societies (B). 3 units. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 243;
also C-L: Russian 246
277. Comparative Party Politics (B). The concepts, models, and theories employed in the
study of political parties in various competitive democracies. Focus on advanced industrial
democracies where there is a rich empirically oriented literature on this topic. The
resurgence of democracy in developing areas and the role of party competition and
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