G53.1300: Core Seminar in the Domestic Politics of the United States II (Graduate) This course builds on the topics covered in the fall semester class, delving in greater detail into some active theoretical and empirical controversies in the study of the U.S. domestic politics (with Rebecca Morton, Spring 2007)

V53.0350: Bureaucracy and Public Policy (Undergraduate) Bureaucracies are inescapably embedded in the American political environment, and political conflicts within administrative agencies are ubiquitous. In this course, we will examine the major questions political scientists ask about public bureaucracies: How have they evolved to their current form? Why do bureaucrats engage in behavior that many of us consider pathological or arbitrary? How can unelected government officials be made more accountable to their elected counterparts and to citizens? In addressing these questions and others, we will draw on cases of “government in action” in a number of different public policy areas. (Spring 2007)

G53.1300: Core Seminar in the Domestic Politics of the United States I (Graduate) This course provides graduate students with a broad overview of important topics in the study of the domestic politics of the United States. We will examine classic and contemporary research on political participation, mass opinion, elections, direct democracy, legislative politics, inter-branch relations, bureaucratic politics, judicial politics, federalism, inequality, and the role of money in politics. The course has two goals: First, to introduce students to important controversies in the study of American domestic politics; and second, to encourage students to think rigorously about the process of conducting political research. (with Howard Rosenthal, Fall 2006)

V53.0300: Power and Politics in America (Undergraduate) This course has two aims. First, it is a survey of political institutions and behavior in the United States focusing primarily at the national level, which aims to demonstrate the connection between the guiding principles of the American Constitution and the role of politics and government in contemporary American life. Second, it introduces students to a variety of analytical concepts and approaches to the study of domestic politics. (Fall 2006)

V53.0130: Ethics, Politics, and Public Policy (Undergraduate) This course will provide students the ability systematically to evaluate ethically controversial public policy issues using concepts from normative political theory. (Spring 2005)

G53.3300: Organization and American Politics (Graduate) In his groundbreaking work, The Functions of the Executive (1938), Chester Barnard, previously an executive with AT&T, defined organization as “a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons.” In this seminar, we will discuss such systems, formal or otherwise, in a variety of institutional contexts in the American political system. (Spring 2003)