Professor W. P. Shively
1460 Social Sciences
phone: 624-4395
Office hours:
Wed. 11:00-12:00
Fri. 2:30-3:30
and by appointment
or happenstance.
The object of this course will be to introduce the major concepts of political science, in both the American and non-American contexts, and introduce you in a very initial way to methods of political analysis.
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
Other readings are available in a packet at the West Bank bookstore, or on reserve in Wilson Library.
We will have a midterm exam (part objective, part essay), a final exam (ditto), and a short written exercise. Grading for the course will be weighted - midterm, 30%; final, 50%; written exercise, 20%. Late papers will be reduced one grade.
Daily reading assignments are as follows:
January 4 introduction; no assignment
6 Hague, ch. 1
8 Charles Anderson, Statecraft, ch. 1
11 Anderson, ch. 2
13 Anderson, ch. 3
15 Anderson, ch. 4
20 Anderson, ch. 5
22 Anderson, ch. 6
25 Hague, ch. 2
27 Hague, ch. 14
29 Hague, ch. 4
February 1 Hague, ch. 5
3 Hague, ch. 6
5 Hague, ch. 7
8 Hague, ch. 8
10 Robert Michels, Political Parties, Part One/A/chs.1,2
12 MIDTERM, PART 1
15 MIDTERM, PART 2
17 Hague, ch. 9
19 Hague, ch. 10
22 Hague, ch. 11
24 Hague, ch. 12
26 Hague, ch. 13
March 1 "Germany" in Shively, Primis
3 "Indonesia" in Shively, Primis
5 Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, pp. 63-151
8 Hague, ch. 16
10 TBA
12 George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", in Shooting an Elephant
and Other Essays
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