Classes

The Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy is a required three-semester sequence for second and third year doctoral students in Government and Social Policy, Sociology and Social Policy, and the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. Objectives for...

The concept of “power” is central to the discipline of political science as well as to governance and political disputes. But its meaning, measurement, causes, and effects are all elusive. How to attain, use, and challenge power is even harder to define or articulate. The...

How can Americans manage issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in a polarized political era? What role did race play in the elections of Presidents Obama, then Trump, then Biden? How can we be good citizens of the world when Americans’ views and activities regarding...

Oscar Handlin famously wrote, “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.” That is not entirely true, of course, as Native Americans, Mexicans in the Southwest, and (depending on how you define...

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...

The course begins with the history and structure of the classic Black-White binary, then addresses ways in which it must be rethought to include other groups, mainly Asians and Latinos. Issues include racialization, immigrant incorporation, political coalitions and conflict...

The American racial, ethnic, and immigration orders have been changing at a dizzying pace over the past decade, from the extraordinary election of a liberal African American president in 2008 to the very different, but equally extraordinary, election of a conservative...

The purpose of this course is to introduce doctoral students to the major themes and some of the best scholarship in the political science literature on American Politics. The readings for 2305 typically form the core of students’ subsequent reading lists for major or minor...