State government in the Middle Atlantic region will receive special attention. Focuses on selected topics in state and local management and policymaking. 3 Introduces basic topics of political inquiry including philosophies of science, epistemologies and theory building, and research design. Conceptual and normative issues are explored. Each participant has an opportunity to write a research proposal that is then critiqued by members of the class and the instructor.
Seminar helps students understand and evaluate alternative research methods and research design.
Each participant has an opportunity to write a research proposal that is then critiqued by members of the class and the instructor. Topics may include democratic transition and consolidation, comparative democracy, political economy of liberal economic reform, religion and political culture, new nationalisms and ethnic conflict, and international systemic influences on all the above. Topics may include state theory and the new institutionalism, political culture and nationalism, the welfare state and reform, party systems, civil society and new social movements, regional integration and transnational dimensions of policy processes. Core seminar for the field of law and courts. Provides a broad overview of the range, depth and variety of approaches of current research within this field.