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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

PSC 768 - Political Institutions

Credits 3

Explores social scientific studies of political institutions and their role in guiding and constraining behavior and policy outcomes;  Major approaches to the study of institutions in the social sciences, agenda setting and veto players, electoral rules, legislatures, executive institutions (presidential and parliamentary), and questions of delegation and oversight.



Prerequisites
PSC 760R , PSC 701