Emphasis will be placed on the efforts to subject military policies to normative restraints. An examination of the creation of public policy at the federal and state levels. Attention will be given to the actors and politics of agenda-building, formulation, legitimation, and implementation. Emphasis is on the political and ethical context in which policy decisions are made. This course examines how diverse groups in America's multi-ethnic plural society manage their political, social, and economic relations.
Attention is given to the strategies and policies for gaining economic and racial equality.
A study of the American Bill of Rights. By means of a careful study of Supreme Court opinions as well as commentaries on some of these controversial issues, this course will explore how our understanding and interpretation of these liberties and rights have evolved over time. 58 American Political Thought Emphasizes past and present problems of the American political system. Major writings which attempt to deal with these problems will be critically analyzed. A study of the process of democratization in light of the recent world-wide expansion of democratic regimes.