GOVT 6201

GOVT 6201

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

The United States Congress will be examined: first, as a "closed system" in which institutional arrangements decisively apportion political power; and, second, as the product of electoral and social forces outside the institution. Emphasis will be placed on the historical relationship between institutional growth and state formation, parliamentary rules as both arrangements within which the "rational choices" of legislators are played out and as deliberate, constructions and allocations of political influence, and the use of legislative behavior as evidence in the analysis of fundamental principles of politics. Because the literature on the lower chamber is generally more rich, the House of Representatives will receive greater attention than the Senate.

When Offered Spring.

Course Subfield (AM)

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16481 GOVT 6201   SEM 101