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SPRING 2005 POLS 500 Political Theory Bartlett, M 1:00-4:00 MAX: 12 Content: This course serves as an introduction to the study of political theory, with emphasis on the relation of political theory to the other subfields of political science. Texts: Particulars: POLS 506 Qualitative Methods Doner, Th 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: Good social science research requires diverse methodological tools and shared standards. This course explores the diverse set of tools categorized as “qualitative.” Using a small number of cases or observations, these tools include various approaches to single cases, traditional cross-case comparisons, within-case process analysis, as well as more specific data-gathering strategies such as interviewing and historical records. We shall examine these tools with an eye to their particular and potential contribution to concept development and measurement, theory development, and theory evaluation. Overall, our concern is with establishing clear, high standards for qualitative research. Although most of the readings will be directly methodological, readings will also include several examples of qualitative scholarship, whether undertaken by itself or in conjunction with other methodologies. Particulars: POLS 509 The Linear Model Reinhardt, TT 1:00-2:15 MAX: 12 Content: This course provides a thorough foundation for understanding and using regression analysis for empirical research in political science. After a basic primer on rudimentary calculus and matrix algebra, and a discussion of the properties of statistical estimators, the course builds the ordinary regression model and estimators from the ground up. It covers model assumptions and techniques for detecting and addressing violations of those assumptions, plus topics such as model specification, interactions and functional forms, measurement error, and endogeneity. The emphasis throughout is on applied techniques common in current political science research. POLS 510 World Politics Reiter, F 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: This is the introductory course to international relations for political science graduate students. The emphasis is theoretical, covering issues such as international conflict, decision-making, trade, and system structure. The class uses a discussion format. Particulars: POLS 513 Introduction to Game Theory Carrubba, F 1:00-4:00 MAX: 12 Content : Introduction to game theory. The focus of the class will be on the basic tools and solution concepts of game theory. We will also consider the usefulness of formal theory and its appropriate/inappropriate application. Texts: Particulars: POLS 519 International Political Economy Reinhardt, Tu 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: This is an advanced graduate course on international political economy. The course covers the politics of international trade, investment, and finance. Topics of special interest are the instruments of trade policy; pluralist and institutionalist domestic explanations of trade policy; international bargaining over trade; regional and multilateral trade institutions; the politics of international capital mobility, foreign direct investment, exchange rates, and foreign debt; the politics of financial crises; and regional economic integration. Particulars: POLS 526 Comparative Political Economy Hallerberg, W 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: This course focuses on the relationship between the market and the state. It considers, among others, the following topics: market effects and market failures, principal-agent frameworks, representation, and the government’s effect on economic growth, economic policy, and insurance. It pays particular attention to the role political institutions play in structuring market-state relationships. The focus is on advanced industrialized democracies, although other settings will be discussed where appropriate. Texts: Particulars: POLS 540 American National Government Reingold, W 1:00-4:00 MAX: 12 Content: The primary goal of this course is to expose students to many (but certainly not all) of the early and most notable works in the study of American politics. The first half of the course is an introduction to some of the ideological underpinnings and theoretical frameworks of American politics and the study thereof. Included in this introduction are readings on liberalism, rational choice, democratic theory, pluralism, and representation. The second half of the course is a selective survey of research on the behavior of political actors (citizens, groups of citizens, and leaders) and the operation of American political institutions. These topics vary from year to year, but cover numerous subfields available for study in the department. By no means does this course provide a comprehensive overview of American politics. Instead, it is meant to help students begin their studies by introducing some of the theoretical and empirical frameworks that have guided research on American national politics. POLS 542 Public Opinion & Voting Behavior Abramowitz, W 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: This course will involve an intensive examination of some of the classic works on elections and voting behavior in the United States as well as recent scholarship. Topics to be covered will include party identification, party realignment and dealignment, effects of political campaigns and advertising, campaign finance, candidate recruitment, and primary elections. Students will be responsible for leading class discussion on selected topics. Texts: Particulars: Grading--weekly discussions (25%), term paper (50%), oral presentation (25%). POLS 572 Modeling Social Phenomenom Brown, TT 1:00-2:15 MAX: 12 Content: This seminar is ideal for assisting graduate students develop unique and nontrivial theories of politics and society together with mathematical model specifications that exactly match those theories. Helping students develop theories and specifications useful for dissertation research is a key component of the course. The subject is taught with an extremely user-friendly approach, and students should have little or no trouble mastering the course content. High school algebra is all that is required to begin. Substantively, the course focuses on a system's view of modeling, and students will learn a great many practical tools that help to bridge the divide between a verbally-stated theory and its mathematical representation. Check out the syllabus and other course materials at www.courtneybrown.com. [Click on "Student Area (Emory)" in the navigation menu.] Particulars: POLS 585 Variable Topics
Seminar Gandhi, M 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: This course offers a thematic introduction to the politics of economic development in dictatorships. In the first part of the course, we compare democracies and dictatorships to determine which type of regime better promotes economic growth and why. In the second part of the course, we attempt to understand the variation in economic performance among dictatorships by analyzing how these regimes use ideology, coercion, and institutions in achieving their goals. The course finishes with regime dynamics and development. We examine whether development has effects on the durability of authoritarian regimes, whether growth is possible during regime transitions, and whether some dictatorships are trapped in underdevelopment. POLS 585 Variable Topics
Seminar Davis, TT 2:30-3:45 MAX: 12 Content: This course is an advanced seminar that will focus on the affects of globalization on the realization of human rights. The course begins by exploring many facets of globalization, such as the free flow of capital and goods and the movement of people and ideas across borders, and their influence on human rights. Specific facets of human rights that will be discussed include, development, international labor and safety standards, environmental sustainability, the preservation of cultural identity, social welfare and democratization. We will examine the influence of a variety of actors on the intersection of globalization and human rights, including, the IMF/World bank, the WTO, Transnational Corporations, NGOs, and states. This course assumes the student is familiar with the origins, evolution and functions of the global human rights system. Texts: Particulars: POLS 585 Variable Topics
Seminar Saltman, M 9:00-12:00 MAX: 12 Content: This course focuses on the reform process currently underway in many health systems in the developed world. After an introductory overview, the course will explore the reform process in a number of tax-based and insurance-based health systems. The course concludes with a brief assessment of whether a similar reform process could be undertaken in the United States.
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