American Politics

Catalog description

This course offers a broad introduction to the structure and function of the American political system at the national level, including the roles played by the President, Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy, political parties, interest groups and the mass media in the policy-making and electoral processes. This course places special emphasis on how the efforts of the framers of the Constitution to solve what they saw as the political problems of their day continue to shape American national politics in ours.