Spring 2008 Course Description
Politics and Process
| Section Title: |
Trying Democratization at Home |
| Instructor(s): |
Lodis Rhodes |
| Course: |
P A 383C - Politics and Process
(previously Policy Development) |
| Unique Number: |
64200 |
| Day & Time: |
Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Room: |
SRH 3.108 |
| Waitlist Information: | For LBJ Students: UT Waitlist Information
For Non LBJ Students: LBJ School Waitlist Instructions |
Description: A strong democracy implies that sound policy emerges from open, inclusive processes that actively engages citizens in politics and civic affairs. We further presume that those most affected by policy decisions have substantive, meaningful roles in making the decisions. This course explores these assertions by examining two key issues. The first is the institutional and associational arrangements that have proven most effective at home in affirming meaningful participation in the policy process. The second is how we might compare our ongoing experiment in democracy at home with our effort to ?democratize? other nation-states.
A key objective throughout the course is to see when and under what conditions we have successfully expanded participation in the policy process in the United States.
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