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Advanced seminar
WiSe 21/22: Democracy, Inequality, and Public Policy
Christian Lammert
Information for students
Please note: This class will be held in a hybrid format.
Comments
This seminar invites students to explore the interplay of democratic politics, social inequalities, and public policy in the United States today. The course is designed around three core agendas. First, it provides an opportunity to investigate the complex ways that democratic politics, public policies, and social inequalities shape one another. Second, it invites us to pursue a deeper dialogue between political theory and empirical research and to seek out creative and fruitful ways to work across this divide. Third, it challenges participants to develop clear positions on how we should understand and evaluate the current practice of democracy in America and its relation to social inequalities and public policies.
We will try to draw theoretical and empirical writings into dialogue around a series of key analytic concepts, such as power, justice, care, democracy, representation, participation, citizenship, social control, social construction, neoliberalism, paternalism, and so on. In each case, we will ask (1) how key normative and explanatory concepts can be clarified and contested by studies that pay close attention to the concrete operations of politics and policy and (2) how critical engagements with normative and explanatory concepts can help us develop more interesting and important empirical studies of politics and policy.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2021-10-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-10-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-11-03 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-11-10 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-11-17 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-11-24 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-12-01 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-12-08 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-12-15 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-01-05 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-01-12 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-01-19 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-01-26 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-02-02 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-02-09 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-02-16 12:00 - 14:00