POL 405A Constitutional Democracy in Theory and Practice
What is distinctive about the polity in which we live? What are the most important elements that created and sustain it? Can it be exported? Why should we care? We will consider these questions in historical and theoretical perspective, focusing on key influences and observers, such as early liberal and republican thinkers, the American framers, Tocqueville, the Progressives, and modern social science, ideology and law.
Cross Listed Courses
POL 405A &
POL 505A