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Mail: politicalscience@y book: jack y book: susan ng insurgency from below conference on future of u. Full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable ctions how to enable javascript in your web political science program at the graduate center, cuny consists of a community of scholars dedicated to the tasks of acquiring, expanding, and transmitting reliable knowledge about political phenomena. Its essential function is to educate professional political scientists, capable of independent research and qualified for careers in academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and the private ph. Programs in political science offers three degree programs and features courses in five subfields:• comparative politics.

International addition, students can specialize in writing politics, which trains them to write serious political analysis for an audience outside of the discipline. Fleary, assistant program : efleary@cal science | the graduate center, ational cs & protest strative dissertation and theses g resources for phd g fellow for ma students in political political science descriptions by subfield can be found below the weekly schedule, or click the following links directly:International relations. It draws on prominent theoretical perspectives for understanding empirical issues regarding: (1) the history of american political development; (2) the constitutional and institutional structure of american government in its contemporary form; (3) the structure of power and the behavior of political elites; and (4) ordinary people’s political behavior as manifested in studies of public opinion and political participation broadly construed. The course will regularly address issues and problems in teaching an undergraduate american politics survey o’brien – american political thought (ap).

11:45am – 1: list with wscp an political thought is one of the core subfields in the american politics field. In addition, the seminar gives more weight to the latter half of american political thought written about capitalism and identity politics in the late-19th and 20th centuries rather than the founding or the civil war eras in the 18th, early, and mid-19th y renshon – the modern presidency: fdr to trump (ap). Since its creation, supporters for a strong presidency have viewed it as the primary source of “energy,” “decision,” and “activity” in american political life. Moreover, simply accruing power does not necessarily translate into effective political leadership or successful policy, politics, leadership and public expectations as four core frames of analysis, this course examines how and why the modern presidency developed as it did from a revered to a contested institution.

Because the key theories and concepts are also key political science concepts and theories, it is not exclusively intended for those majoring or minoring in comparative politics; all are welcome. The focus is on substantive topics within comparative politics: the role of concepts and theoretical approaches, the state, political regimes (e. Democracy, authoritarian government) – origins, stability, and transition, political institutions, revolution and civil war, collective action, identity politics, institutions of political participation, the state and economic development, and the global context of domestic politics and ts in this seminar will vary in their goals depending on the extent of their prior knowledge of the subject matter, their particular substantive interests, and their field specialization within the discipline. With a manageable kit of statistical tools you can uncover structure in the political world where before was only fog or chaos.

My latin american politics survey courses employ a top-down perspective, emphasizing the role of state institutions and political elites. This seminar examines many world regions and takes a bottom-up perspective, focusing on participation by worker, peasant, popular, feminist, indigenous, religious, and other sectors of civil society and ideological and political porary scholarly interest in social movements and civil society developed in the 1970s and 1980s, when a body of literature on “new social movements” emerged in response to changing political realities, as “post-materialist” environmental, peace, and women’s movements developed in western europe and north america; as opposition to authoritarian rule crystallized in latin america; and as unrest challenged the weakening communist party-states in the soviet union and eastern europe. In latin america, scholars and activists raised very optimistic normative expectations that contentious social, economic, and political engagement by hitherto oppressed and excluded lower strata would create new, superior, forms of participatory democracy. 6:30pm – 8: the first time, a majority of the world’s countries have adopted democracy, making democratization a key focus of political science.

The course aims to: prepare students to become informed and critical consumers of claims to knowledge about terrorism, whether they are manifested in scholarship, policy, popular debates in the media, or elsewhere, and; advance student’s capacity to produce robust social science research about terrorism and y shirkey – basic concepts & theories in international relations (ir). To enhance students’ ability to critically analyze political science research, especially in the field of international security. 4:15pm – 6:-depth readings of a wide range of walter benjamin’s writings in historical-political context, from world war i and the bolshevik revolution, to world war ii and the vichy regime. We will then focus on key conceptual problems in delineating new democratic and cooperative forms of social, economic, and political organization, including worker self-management; structural injustice and ecological justice; the question of markets, coordination, and distribution; the problem of scale (local, national, and global); and the role of feminist notions of reproduction, recognition, and care.

4:15pm-6: course will examine key texts of modern western political thought and the different ways they have been interpreted by contemporary political theorists. Some questions that will guide us include: if the period we loosely and contentiously describe as modern places stress on the problem of value, how do modern political systems gain and maintain legitimacy? How are visions of political subjectivity linked to political orders and who is excluded from political subjectivity? The primary texts will come from the department’s political theory reading list and the seminar will be useful for students in preparation for their comprehensive exams in political theory.

2:00pm-4: course will investigate the causes and processes of political protest and efforts to remake the world through non-institutional politics. It will also treat questions of the relationship of non-institutional and institutional politics, political speech and organization, reformism and radicalism, and what protest tells us–and can tell us–about the constitution of power across geographical gornick – women, work, and public policy (pp). 4:15pm – 6: list with soc 84700, afcp the past, political scientists described new york city both as an exemplary case of machine politics (from boss tweed of tammany hall to the queens county democratic machine) and of urban reform (from mayor laguardia through mayor de blasio). This course uses the 2017 mayoral elections to explore the construction of electoral majorities and the exercise of political power in this large, complex, multicultural setting, with a particular focus on what difference having a left liberal or progressive mayor makes and the difficulties facing attempts at reform governance in various policy areas, including housing criminal justice, and homeless digaetano – urban public policy (pp).

The theoretical perspectives considered are paul kantor’s “two faces of american urban policy” framework, clarence stone’s urban regime theory, civic and ideological political culture approaches, and those that rely on the concept of neoliberalism to explain contemporary urban policy making. To that end, students will read a lot of political writing, most of it fabulous, some of it awful, and try to figure out what distinguishes the two. They will also come up with many, many ideas for political columns, essays and blog posts of their own, see those ideas dissected by their classmates and the instructor, and then write the best ones up. 6:30pm–8: course has two primary objectives: 1) to introduce students to and provide an overview of major perspectives, problems, and approaches in political science; 2) to foster intellectual community within our program.

The seminar proceeds through the various subfields of the political science discipline engaging key texts and debates in these modes of analysis through course sessions led by faculty members in the program. An important theme throughout the course is how conceptions of democracy, democratization, and de-democratization now inform political questions and political science ght © 2017 powered by oxygen help with the commons? Academic ations on the site is part of the cuny academic commons, an academic social network for the entire 24-campus cuny otherwise stated, all content on the cuny academic commons is licensed under a creative commons | contact us | privacy policy | terms of service | image with wordpress |. To main contentskip to main portal / ation and safety ic affairs / and safety portal / ation portal / blackboard / degreeworks / y / staff management / political science /.

These courses explore political institutions of every kind: executive and legislative bodies, courts and legal systems, bureaucracies, political parties, interest groups and coalitions, mass media, structures of international cooperation and conflict, ethnic, religious and ideological try to understand where political power is, how it operates, whose interests it serves—who gets what, when, where, how. But we also ask not only how political institutions work, but how they should work, what human values they serve or violate, and what is the ultimate meaning and purpose of political department prepares people for careers in politics and in government employment generally in law, mass communications, health professions and in every aspect of private and public planning. 5468email: jwilliams@cal science | the graduate center, ational cs & protest strative dissertation and theses g resources for phd g fellow for ma students in political political science line leonard ght © 2017 powered by oxygen help with the commons? Science | the graduate center, ational cs & protest strative dissertation and theses g resources for phd g fellow for ma students in political political science political science program at the graduate center, cuny consists of a community of scholars dedicated to the tasks of acquiring, expanding, and transmitting reliable knowledge about political phenomena.

Its essential function is to educate professional political scientists, capable of independent research and qualified for careers in academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and the private ts in the political science program are trained to become professional political scientists. They will also have opportunities to gain teaching experience at cuny colleges, preparing students for careers as college and university addition, students can specialize in writing politics, which trains them to write serious political analysis for an audience outside of the discipline.