Representative Courses & Seminars

American Politics

Organized Interest Groups
Political Participation and Voting Behavior
Public Opinion
Political Parties
Judicial Process and Policy Making
Judicial Decision Making
State and Local Politics
Urban Politics
Gender Politics
Minority Politics
Legislative Politics and Policy Making
Political Leadership

Comparative Politics

Comparative Political Theory
Comparative Political Institutions
Methods in Comparative Politics
Democratization
Political Leadership
Politics of the Developing World
Theories of Political Development
Empirical Theories of Stable Democracy
Comparative Political Parties and Interest Groups
Comparative Political Economy

International Politics

Theories in the Study of International Politics
International Conflict and Peace
International Political Economy
Research Methods in International Politics
Security Policy for the Post-Cold War Period
Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
American Foreign Policy Decision Making
Research on Cognition in International Politics
Foreign Policy Design
Advanced Research in International Political Economy

Political Economy

The Field of Political Economy
Positive Political Economy
Comparative Political Economy
Politics of the Modern World Economy
International Political Economy
Democratization and Political Economy
Game Theory
Social Choice and Decision Theory

Political Psychology

Mass Political Attitude Formation and Change
Psychology of Mass Political Behavior
Psychological Aspects of Political Leadership
Psychology and Foreign Policy Decision Making
Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
Psychological Research Practice
Experimental Methods

Political Theory:

Theory by era:

• Socrates to Machiavelli
• Machiavelli to Hume
• Hume to Marx
• 20th Century

Foundations of Political Science
Interpretation of Texts in Political Theory
Theory and Explanation in Political Science
Democratic Theory
Contemporary Political Analysis

Political Methodology

Causal Analysis Regression Analysis
Scaling and Dimensional Analysis
Mathematical Political Theory
Simultaneous Equations
Event History Models
Time Series

Formal Theory

Models of Politics
Social Choice Theory
Game Theory
Game Theory for International Relations