GOVT 3161 - [The American Presidency]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 3161) (SBA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2012-2013.

E. Sanders.

This course will explore and seek explanations for the performance of the 20th- to 21st-century presidency, focusing on its institutional and political development, recruitment process (nominations and elections), relationships to social groups, economic forces, and “political time”, and foreign and domestic policy-making.