PSCI4333 - American Democracy: Past, Present, and Future

PSCI 4333 American Democracy: Past, Present, and Future (3 semester credit hours) This course is divided into three segments to provide a comprehensive examination of American democracy. The first third covers seminal works in American political thought, studying key figures and ideas that laid the ideological groundwork for American governance. The second segment focuses on American democracy as political scientists saw it from the 1950s to the 1980s. The final third brings contemporary research into focus, scrutinizing the current state of American democracy through empirical studies. (3-0) Y