ILRLR 3022 - Capitalism and American Democracy: 1880-2010

(crosslisted) AMST 3022, HIST 3022

Spring. 4 credits.

N. Salvatore.

This course explores the changing relationship between democratic practice and the evolving corporate form of capitalism during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The economic strength of the corporate sector and its changing position in the law will be one emphasis. We will also examine the impact of the corporate sector on classical and modern liberalism and on the practice of democracy, including the populist and anti-monopoly protest traditions and the notion of rights, both civil and social. This lecture course will have a midterm and final, and a research paper.