~EGULAR SESSION - University of Oregon

POLITICAL SCIENCE 201
zation setting and the factors influencing their behavior; an examination in
depth of selected studies of organizations and their environments; problems
of analysis and techniques. Mendelsohn.
PS 414, 415, 416. Political Parties and Public Opinion. (G) 3 or 4 hours each
term.
Analysis of the structure and functions of political parties and public opinion
to provide an understanding of the broad area of politics in various contexts,
and of the critical wle of politics in society; the interrelationship of generalization
and political experience. Seligman, Davies, Crabtree, Kieffer.
PS 420, 421. International Organization. (G) 3 hours each term, fall and winter.
The organization of interaction among nations; institutional structures, patterns
of communications, processes of collaborations and integration; special
attention to the United Nations and to problems arising from the UN system.
Graymer.
PS 422. International Law. (G) 3 hours spring.
Introduction to international public law as an aspect of international organization;
international law and the political process; the International Court
of Justice.
PS 424. Government and Politics of Great Britain. (G) 3 hours.
Governmental institutions and political processes in Great Britain. Crabtree.
PS 425. Government and Politics of France. (G) 3 hours.
Governmental institutions and political processes in France. Marquis.
PS 426. Government and Politics of Germany. (G) 3 hours.
Governmental institutions and political processes in Germany. Hanhardt.
PS 427,428. Government and Politics of the Soviet Union. (G) 3 hours each
term, fall and winter.
Governmental institutions and political processes in the Soviet Union. Fiszman.
PS 430. Political Theory: General Issues. (G) 3 hours fall.
Problems posited by political theorists, past and present; demands made
upon political theory by society and by practitioners of political science; relations
between political theory and political behavior. Crabtree.
PS 431. Political Theory: Values and Utopias. (G) 3 hours winter.
Ideals, rights, values, and moral imperatives; natural rights and natural law ;
utopian models and images of the good life and the good society; problem
of ends, related means, and the necessary social and organizational conditions;
selected theories from Plato to the modern theorists of the "ideal"
social and political orders. Crabtree.
PS 432. Political Theory: Causes of Political and Social Change. (G) 3 hours
spring.
Problem of identifying change-inevitability, gradualism, and rupture;
theories of change-historical, economic, social, and political; the roles of
class, group, elite in relation to political power; techniques of change; levels
of generality, testability and applicability; selected theories from Plato and
Aristotle to the present. Crabtree.
PS 433, 434, 435. Political Theory: The American Tradition. (G) 3 hours each
term.
The development of American thought about government and its proper relation
to life, liberty, and property.
P S 440, 441, 442. Foreign Policies of the Major Powers. (G) 3 hours each term.
A systematic and comparative study of the foreign policies of the major
world powers, in the light of the general world situation and the internal
geographical, social, and institutional situations of each country. Schleicher.
PS 456, 457. Theory of Democracy. (G) 3 hours each term.
The internal functioning of democracy as a type of political system; social,