Course Descriptions
Fall 2006
POLS 60009 (CRN 16719) - Elections and Public Policy
Ben Radcliff
Monday 6:00-8:30 pm
335 DeBartolo
3 CR HR
This course examines the relationship between the electoral choices of voters and the public policy regimes that the governments so chosen pursue. The central focus is thus on whether and how different types of electoral outcomes (which parties win elections and in what institutional contexts) actually determine the policies that governments pursue.
POLS 60019 (CRN 18045) - Representation
John Griffin
206 DeBartolo
Tuesday 3:30-6:00 pm
3 CR HR
This course will investigate the translation of public preferences into public policies. Among the topics that will be discussed are public opinion and public policy, measuring public opinion, political participation and representation, political parties and representation, representation in legislatures, demographic disparities in representation, the courts as representative institutions, and the presidency and representation.
POLS 60225 (CRN 18126) - European Integration
Sebastian Rosato
302 DeBartolo
Monday 3:30-6:00 pm
3 CR HRThis course is about the causes of European integration. it focuses on evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of three major sets of international relations theories in accounting for integration: realism, which attributes integration to power politics considerations; liberalism, which stresses the role of economic interdependence; and constructivism, which privileges the impact of federal or community ideas. Empirically, the course covers the major integration initiative since World War II including the European Coal and Steel Community, The European Economic Community, the European Defense Community, and Economic and Monetary Union. The last part of the course is devoted to thinking about the future of the European Union. Will it go from strength to strength or is it on the verge of collapse? Is Europe about to become the next superpower? If so, what does this mean for US-European relations?
POLS 60426 (CRN 16722) - Theoretical Approaches in Comparative Politics
Frances Hagopian
330 DeBartolo
Monday 3:00-5:30 pm
3 CR HRThis course has two objectives. First and foremost, it provides an overview of major theoretical approaches to comparative politics. We will examine structural approaches, contingent action arguments, institutionalism, rational choice, political culture, and eclectic approaches. We will also spend one week discussing international influences on domestic politics. An important secondary objective is to provide some awareness of comparative methods in political science. Toward this objective, we will begin the semester with some readings on methods in comparative politics, and we will discuss methods of inquiry throughout the semester.
POLS 60437 (CRN 17790 ) - Democracy & the State: Issues and Frontiers of Research
Guillermo O’Donnell
C102 Hesburgh Ctr.
Wednesday 3:00-5:30 pm
3 CR HRThis seminar will look at an intersection that has been largely negelected by both democratic theory and comparative politics: that between democracy and the state. Of ocurse, we will have to take a first look at what I believe are the main conceptions of both topics. Then we will explore the intersections. This seminar will be much more a trip of discovery than a reinspection of well-trodden territories.
POLS 60601 (CRN 16718) - Cicero and the Romans
Walter Nicgorski
108 DeBartolo
Tuesday 3:30-6:00 pm
3 CR HRThis course offers the opportunity to study major issues in political theory, moral philosophy, and jurisprudence as they appear in the writings of Cicero and in the teachings of the philosophical schools of ancient Rome. Lucretius is also read. Topics considered include the relation of practice and theory, the virtues and expediency, the basis of right and law, and the natures of republican and mixed constitutions. Above all the course provides an opportunity for reading and discussing some of Cicero's most significant writings. Cicero's skepticism and his metaphysical and theological views come to attention in certain of the readings. Cicero, a leading statesman of the late Roman Republic, endeavored to mediate between the work of Greek theorists and Roman practice; in time, his writings became among the most important sources on ancient moral and political thought for the Christian tradition. His acknowledged influence on key American founders was much greater than that of Plato or Aristotle.
POLS 60630 (CRN 17446) - Hegel's Philosophy of History
Michael Zuckert
347 DeBartolo
Thursday 6:30-9:00 pm
3 CR HRThis course will examine Hegel's develoment of a philosophy of history according to which he maintains that the course of history has or is producing the rational political order he conceptually describes in his Philosophy of Right. the chief reading for the seminar will be Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, but attention will also be paid to other texts of Hegel's and to the relation of the emergence of this theory in Hegel to certain themes in Kant's philosophy.
POLS 60631 (CRN 17449) - Ethics and Politics in the Italian Renaissance
Vittorio Hosle
245 DeBartolo
Thursday 3:30-6:00 pm
3 CR HR
The Italian Renaissance is not only one of the most creative times in the history of art; it initiates also a major change in our moral concepts and in our vision of the state (the latter term being coined in that time). We will read major works by Machiavelli, who separates ethics and politics in a way unknown to antiquity and the Middle Ages, by his friend Guicciardini who is separated from Machiavelli by a far more skeptical view on the possibility of political planning, and by Baldassare Castiglione, whose dialogue "Il Cortegiano" presents the norms valid for the educated courtier in the most elegant form.
POLS 60819 (CRN 16720) - Intro to Qualitative Methods
Alvin Tillery
336 DeBartolo
Tuesday 6:30-9:00 pm
3 CR HR
This course seeks to expose students to current trends related to the use of qualitative methods in political science. It explores both the similarities and differences between idiographic research (or "Small-N" studies) and research based on statistical analyses. It also examines the myriad ways in which qualitative techniques like process-tracing, comparative case studies, content analysis, discourse analysis, and archival research can be successfully wedded to both statistical and formal approaches within one research design
POLS 60821 (CRN 17455) - Advanced Quantitative Methods: Limited Dependent Variables
David Nickerson
306 DeBartolo
Thursday 6:30-9:00 pm
3 CR HR
Quantitative methods are useful for uncovering and understanding patterns of behavior in the world. Basic statistical models assume continuous dependent variables, but many quantities of interest to social scientists are categorical in nature. This course builds upon introductory statistics courses to explore the logic and analysis of models with limited dependent variables. We will begin by reviewing the basics of statistical inference and the linear regression model, with a thorough discussion of the assumptions underlying OLS. The bulk of the course will be devoted to the following topics: maximum-likelihood; logit/probit; ordered logit/probit; multinomial logit/probit; event count models; and, selection models such as Tobit and Heckman. Throughout, we will focus on understanding the theoretical underpinnings of the model and developing and evaluating applications of the models to substantive problems in political science.
POLS 60860 (CRN 18081) - Designing Research Projects: Practical Problems and Theoretical Issues
Robert Fishman
328 DeBartolo
Wednesday 1:30-3:30 pm
3 CR HR
The course is intended to familiarize students with practical problems and options-as well as some underlying theoretical issues-encountered by social scientists in the course of qualitative or field research. Themes covered include consideration of the relationship between broad interpretive categories and specific empirical observations as well as the delineation of a research problem. Research strategies discussed include comparative historical work, historical case studies, observation, survey research, and qualitative interviewing. Students are asked to formulate a research proposal and to carry out practical exercises involving the use of several research strategies.
POLS 63800 (CRN 16721) - Proseminar
Andy Gould
3 06 DeBartolo
Wednesday 6:00-8:30 pm
3 CR HR
This is a required course for all first-year graduate students in the Department of Political Science. It is what is commonly called a "scope and methods" course; that is, a course designed to survey the great variety of themes and approaches in political science and to guide you through the fundamental debates about what political science is or should be. This course is also about democracy because the best way to teach about methods is to apply them to an interesting topic, and democracy is a topic of central interest to almost all of us these days. There is abundant literature that demonstrates the relevance of our course themes to democracy. Therefore, in the process of learning about the scope and methods of political science, this course will also familiarize you with some key ideas about what democracy is, what it could be, how it is changing, what causes it, and how we measure it.
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings
Reading and research on specialized topics that are immediately relevant to the student's interests and not routinely covered in the regular curriculum. Letter grade given.
0.000 TO 12.000 Credit Hours
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings -01 CRN # 11254 Peri Arnold
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings 02 CRN # 11255 Sotirios Barber
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 03 CRN # 11256 Rodney Hero
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings -0 4 CRN # 11257 Michael Coppedge
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings -05 CRN # 11257 Fred Dallmayr
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings -06 CRN # 11259 Robert Dowd
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings -07 CRN # 11260 Alan Dowty
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings -08 CRN # 11261 Michael Francis
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 09 CRN # 11262 John Griffin
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 10 CRN # 11263 Andy Gould
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 11 CRN # 11288 Robert Johansen
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 12 CRN # 11289 Mary Keys
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 13 CRN # 11292 Don Kommers
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 14 CRN # 11295 Alexandra Guisinger
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 15 CRN # 11316 Louis Ayala
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 16 CRN # 11317 George Lopez
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 17 CRN # 11318 Dan Lindley
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 18 CRN # 11319 Scott Mainwaring
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 19 CRN # 11320 Jim McAdams
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 20 CRN # 11321 Gerald Mackie
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 21 CRN # 11322 Peter Moody
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 22 CRN # 11323 Walter Nicgorski
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings- 23 CRN # 11324 Alvin Tillery
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 24 CRN # 11325 Guillermo O’Donnell
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 25 CRN # 11325 Kathleen Collins
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 26 CRN # 11327 Benjamin Radcliff
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 27 CRN # 11328 John Roos
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 28 CRN # 11329 Naunihal Singh
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 29 CRN # 11330 Fr. Tim Scully
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 30 CRN # 11331 Debra Javeline
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 31 CRN # 11332 A.P. Walshe
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 32 CRN # 11333 Christina Wolbrecht
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 33 CRN # 11334 David Nickerson
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 34 CRN # 11335 Eileen Botting
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 35 CRN # 11336 Catherine Zuckert
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 36 CRN # 11337 Michael Zuckert
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 37 CRN # 11338 Frances Hagopian
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 38 CRN # 11116 David Singer
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 39 CRN # 11339 Tony Messina
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 40 CRN # 11340 Keir Lieber
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 41 CRN # 11341 Vittorio Hosle
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 42 CRN # 11342 Edward Goerner
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 43 CRN # 11343 Barbara Connolly
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 44 CRN # 11401 Dan Philpott
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 45 CRN # 11402 David Campbell
POLS 66900 - Directed Readings - 46 CRN # 11419 TBA
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings
Reading and research on specialized topics that are immediately relevant to the student's interests and not routinely covered in the regular curriculum. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grade given.
0.000 TO 12.000 Credit Hours
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 01 CRN # 11344 Peri Arnold
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 02 CRN # 11345 Sotirios Barber
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 03 CRN # 11346 Michael Coppedge
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 0 4 CRN # 11347 Fred Dallmayr
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 05 CRN # 11348 Alan Dowty
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 06 CRN # 11349 Michael Francis
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 07 CRN # 11350 David Campbell
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 08 CRN # 11351 Andy Gould
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 09 CRN # 11352 Frances Hagopian
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 10 CRN # 11353 Robert Johansen
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 11 CRN # 11354 Mary Keys
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 12 CRN # 11355 Don Kommers
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 13 CRN # 11356 John Griffin
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 14 CRN # 11357 Dan Lindley
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 15 CRN # 11358 Rodney Hero
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 16 CRN # 11359 George Lopez
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 17 CRN # 11360 Scott Mainwaring
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 18 CRN # 11361 Jim McAdams
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 19 CRN # 11362 Gerald Mackie
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 20 CRN # 11363 Tony Messina
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 21 CRN # 11364 Peter Moody
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 22 CRN # 11365 Robert Dowd
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 23 CRN # 11366 Walter Nicgorski
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 24 CRN # 11367 Guillermo O’Donnell
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 25 CRN # 11368 Barbara Connolly
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 26 CRN # 11369 Benjamin Radcliff
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 27 CRN # 11370 John Roos
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 28 CRN # 11371 Fr. Tim Scully
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 29 CRN # 11372 Dan Philpott
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 30 CRN # 11373 Alexandra Guisinger
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 31 CRN # 11374 A.P. Walshe
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 32 CRN # 11375 Christina Wolbrecht
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 33 CRN # 11376 Naunihal Singh
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 34 CRN # 11377 Catherine Zuckert
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 35 CRN # 11378 Kathleen Collins
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 38 CRN # 11379 Keir Lieber
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 39 CRN # 11380 Debra Javeline
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 40 CRN # 11381 Eileen Botting
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 41 CRN # 11382 Vittorio Hosle
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 42 CRN # 11383 David Singer
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 43 CRN # 11384 Edward Goerner
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 44 CRN # 11403 Louis Ayala
POLS 66903 - Directed Readings - 45 CRN # 11418 TBA
POLS 67950 (CRN 11253) - Examination Preparation
Preparation for comprehensive examination.
Ben Radcliff
0-12 CR HR
POLS 78599 (CRN 11251) - Thesis Direction
Research and writing on an approved subject under the direction of a faculty member.
Ben Radcliff
0-12 CR HR
POLS 78600 (CRN 11252) - Non-resident Thesis Research
Required of nonresident graduate students who are completing their theses in absentia and who wish to retain their degree status.
Ben Radcliff
1 CR HR
POLS 98699 (CRN 11387) - Research and Dissertation
Independent research and writing on an approved subject under the direction of the director of graduate studies.
Ben Radcliff
0-12 CR HR
POLS 98700 (CRN 11388) - Nonresident Dissertation
Research Required of nonresident graduate students who are completing their theses in absentia and who wish to retain their degree status.
Ben Radcliff
1 CR HR