GOVT 6011

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GOVT 6011
The American State

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Contemporary politics raise profound questions about the American past and how aspects of it have traveled across time and into the present, shaping US government and politics. This PhD-level seminar uses historical and institutional lenses to examine analytical questions about the origins and development of the American state as well as processes of political change. In Spring 2021, we will explore American political development with an eye toward understanding how threats to democracy have waxed and waned and combined over time, and the implications for the present. We will focus on topics such as political parties and polarization; conflict over belongs, with respect to race and gender; economic inequality; and executive aggrandizement. We will read some classic texts as well as new and recent ones.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2021SP, 2018SP, 2014SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 6011

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8041 GOVT 6011   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Mettler, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  8577 GOVT 6011   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Mettler, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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