This course proposes to investigate the new relationships that have evolved in the 20th century between the print and electronic media and our major political institutions. Citizens and Bureaucrats. The focus of this course is citizen participation in administrative behavior. Attention is paid to the perspectives of both citizens and bureaucrats. The course uses broad concepts of political participation and organization behavior.
Federalism is considered from both legal and operational perspectives.
Students examine traditional views of Federalism as well as empirical and technical studies about intergovernmental relations at national, state, and metropolitan levels. A survey of Canadian politics and government. Politics of the Developing Areas. Religion and Politics. The primary focus of the course is on political movements or systems which take a religious form or have a religious base or use a religiously-rooted ideology.