GOV 2305: American Politics Field Seminar

This course aims to introduce doctoral students to some of the major themes and best scholarship in the political science literature on American Politics. The readings for GOV 2305 typically form the core of students’ subsequent reading lists for major or minor general exams in American politics, and often for research projects or dissertations. Still, much in the study of American politics is not represented here -- indeed, has not been taken up by political scientists. So along the way, we will want to identify important but neglected questions: What issues should motivate the next generation of research in this field? What theoretical and methodological approaches might be appropriate to studying them?