Pol Sci 211B Micropolitics

Monroe, Kristen R.

Course Code: 67800

Fri 12:00-2:50pm

SSPB 5250

Provides students with comprehensive introduction to the substance and methods of the study of political behavior. Focuses on the level of individual behavior, but the relation to macrosocial analysis is considered. Required of first-year graduate students in Political Science.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

        *Required of 1st year grad students

Pol Sci 219A Research Workshop in

International Relations

Solingen, Etel

Course Code: 67810

Wed 4:00-6:50pm

SSPB 5250

This is an informal graduate workshop geared to advance students' own research projects in the field of international relations. The emphasis will be on developing and polishing research designs. Projects can include: the design of qualifying papers (literature-review, empirical, other), dissertations, publications, and outside funding proposals.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 219B Human Rights

Brysk, Alison

Course Code: 67820

Tues 1:00-3:50pm

SSPB 5250

New Course - please contact professor, abrysk@uci.edu, for course description/ information.

Pol Sci 219C Deliberative Democracy

Rosenberg, Shawn R.

Course Code: 67830

Tues 6:00-8:50pm

SSPB 5250

Amid theoretical critiques of democracy and growing political cynicism among citizens, deliberative democracy and collaborative governance have emerged as central topics of theory and empirical research in political science, sociology and public administration. At the same time, the use of citizen deliberations in governance has become a widespread practice in North America and a matter of public policy in the European Union.

In the class, we will consider the arguments of both the advocates and critics of deliberative democracy. We will also review some of the empirical research on deliberation. We then turn to alternative models and practices aimed at bringing citizens together to make decision. In this context we will consider the work on conflict mediation (at the personal and group level), dispute resolution (a legal alternative to going to court) and competitive advocacy. We will conclude the course by formulating ideas about future theorizing, empirical research and political practice.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 219D U.S. in Comparative Perspective

Grofman, Bernard N.

Course Code: 67840

Wed 6:00-8:50pm

SST 630

New Course - please contact professor, bgrofman@uci.edu, for course description/ information.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 219E Predictive Models in Social

Sciences

Taagepera, Rein

Course Code: 67850

Thurs 10:00-12:50pm

SSPB 5250

Science walks on two legs. One leg refers to the question: How things are? It leads to careful observation, description, measurement, and statistical analysis. The other leg refers to the question: How things should be, on logical grounds? That question guides the first one. The question “How things are?” assumes that we know which aspects of things are worth paying attention to. But we largely see only what to look for. This is what quantitatively predictive logical models are about. Social sciences have emphasized statistical analysis. This course shows how to construct logical models and also how to improve on basic statistical analysis.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 219F Old and New Democracies

Tverdova, Yuliya V.

Course Code: 67860

Mon 10:00-12:50pm

SSPB 5250

The course is designed to give students an overview of the post-communist transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Moreover, this course is aimed at comparing industrialized Western democracies with new democracies of the former communist bloc. In the manner of seminar discussions, students will be facilitated to analyze how similar institutional design of established and new democracies, on some occasion, yields different political outcomes. For example, the introduction of free elections and multi-party systems in East Central Europe, which, in fact, mirrored the Western system, resulted in somewhat different patterns of voting behavior in the East compared to the West. On the other hand, democratic support in post-communist nations, as well as evaluations of government performance at the beginning of the transition, was remarkably high (in fact, comparable to that in established democracies), despite a dreadful state of the economy and the society as a whole.

To summarize, this course is designed to explore differences in political outcomes that occurred as consequences of similar institutional set-ups in old and young democracies, as well as similarities that resulted from different political and economic conditions. Finally, possible implications of such political outcomes for democracy consolidation and survival will be analyzed.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 223A Theories of Power &

Empowerment

Feldman, Martha S.

Course Code: 67865

Fri 9:30-12:20pm

SE2 200

Studies different ways of thinking about power and its uses.  Explores theories of power that inform various notions of empowerment, including resistance, participatory democracy, and workplace empowerment.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 232A Introduction to Voting Theory

Kaminski, Marek

Course Code: 67870

Wed 7:00-9:50pm

SSL 119

Introduction to voting modules. Substantive topics include majority rule, voting methods and their properties, apportionment and proportional representation, agenda manipulation, coalition formation, voting power, political consequences of electoral laws.

Restrictions: K= Graduate standing

Pol Sci 241B Seminar in Intl. Relations Theory

Morgan, Patrick M.

Course Code: 67880

Mon 1:00-3:50pm

SSPB 5250

Overview of the major theories guiding research and scholarship in international relations. Focus on major conceptual approaches (realism, neoliberalism, marxism) and levels of analysis (systemic, state, and subnational), as well as on methodological/epistemological debates engulfing the field.

Pol Sci 245A U.S. Ethnic Politics

DeSipio, Louis

Course Code: 67890

Mon 4:00-6:50pm

SSPB 5250

Assesses theories of ethnic political attitudes and behaviors in U.S. politics and examines methodological approaches to testing theories of ethnic politics. The primary focus is contemporary ethnic politics with attention to ethnic politics in American political development.