Professor W. P Shively
1460 Social Sciences
phone: 624-4395
Shively office hours:
Monday 2:00-3:00
Wednesday 9:30-10:30
I'm generally in at other times as well. If you need to see me, just stop in; I'll tell you if the time doesn't work for me, and arrange some other time to meet.
Two texts are available at the West Bank bookstore:
Rod Hague, et al. Political Science: A Comparative Introduction
Shively, Primis book (may be titled Comparative Governance), with two chapters: Germany and Indonesia
In addition to the two texts, the bookstore has a packet with the readings that are assigned from Anderson, Michels, and Orwell.
Beyond the materials at the bookstore, two readings are available only in the Wilson Library reserve room. These are Robert Putnam's book, Making Democracy Work (assigned April 24 and 26), and W. P. Shively, The Craft of Political Research (assigned May 1 and 3). You will at some point need to obtain these from the library reserve room and either read the assigned portions directly from the books, or else copy them. I apologize for the inconvenience of doing this, but this arrangement saves you a significant amount of money.
We will have a midterm examination, a final exam, and one written assignment. The written assignment will be taken through two drafts - that is, you will hand the assignment in, we will comment on it and make suggestions for revision, you will revise it and hand it in again, and it will then be graded. Grading for the course will be weighted: midterm 20%, final examination 50%, paper 30%. The paper will be graded half on the quality of your argument, and half on the quality of your writing. Late papers will be reduced one-half grade for each missed deadline.
Make-up exams will be given only for significant reasons such as illness, participation in official student organizations, serious family emergencies, jury duty, etc., and will require documentation of the reason. Incompletes in the course will be awarded only in consultation with Professor Shively. In the absence of a prior agreement on an incomplete, students with work still missing at the time final course grades are assigned will earn zero points for the uncompleted work and will be given the resulting overall grade.
The University's standards for grading are as follows:
- Achievement that is outstanding relative to the level necessary to meet course requirements
- Achievement significantly above the level necessary to meet course requirements
- Achievement that meets the basic course requirements in every respect
- Achievement worthy of credit even though it does not fully meet the basic course requirements in every respect
- Performance that fails to meet the basic course requirements
Daily assignments are as follows:
January 19 introduction; no assignment
January 21 NO CLASS
January 24,26 Hague, ch. 1
January 28 Charles Anderson, Statecraft (in the packet), ch. 1
January 31 Anderson, ch. 2
February 2 Anderson, ch. 3
February 4 Anderson, ch. 4
February 7 Anderson, ch. 5
February 9 Anderson, ch. 6
February 11 NO CLASS
February 14, 16 Hague, ch. 2
February 18 Hague, ch. 14
February 21 Hague, ch. 4
February 23 Hague, ch. 5
February 25, 28 Hague, ch. 6
March 1, 3 Hague, ch. 7
March 6, 8 Hague, ch. 8
March 10 no assignment
March 13 MIDTERM, PART 1
March 15 MIDTERM, PART 2
March 17 Robert Michels, Political Parties, Part One/A/chs.1,2 (in the packet)
March 20 Hague, ch. 9
March 22 George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (in the packet)
March 24 NO CLASS
April 3 Hague, ch. 10
April 5 FIRST DRAFT OF PAPER DUE
April 5, 7 Hague, ch. 11
April 10 Hague, ch. 12
April 12 First draft of paper returned; discussion of writing
April 14 Hague, ch. 13
April 17, 19 "Germany" in Shively, Comparative Governance
April 21 "Indonesia" in Shively, Comparative Governance
April 24 FINAL DRAFT OF PAPER DUE
April 24, 26 Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, pp. 63-151 (on reserve)
April 28 NO CLASS
May 1, 3 Shively, The Craft of Political Research, 4th ed., pp. 71-93 (on reserve)
FINAL EXAM
May 9, 8:00-10:00AM, Room is Anderson 370
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