POL 549
- Spring 2011-2012
Seminar in American Politics - American Political Development
The study of American political development provides a vehicle for exploring how American democracy has come to assume its present form. It emphasizes the intersection between institutional incentives, institutional and "state" development, and political agency. This course will examine what we mean by a "state," and how institutional "development" provides a set of analytically distinctive problems for political actors. This class will seek to identify historical patterns, engage literature that seeks to explain political outcomes over time, and address questions about methodology and evidence.
Sample reading list:
Aldrich, John,
Why Parties?
Carpenter, Daniel,
Forging Bureaucratic Autonomy
Frymer, Paul,
Uneasy Alliances
Marx, Anthony,
Making Race and Nation
McAdam, Douglas,
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency
Pierson, Paul,
Politics in Time
Other Requirements:
Open to Graduate Students Only.
Schedule/Classroom assignment:
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Class number: 42445
Section: S01
Time:
9:00 am
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11:50 am
Days:
T
Building-Room:
Robertson Hall
008
Enrolled/Limit:
5/
20