Politics

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The study of politics emphasizes several challenging and critical issues:

• The exercise of power in formal governmental institutions and in non-governmental institutions, from interest groups to human rights organizations to corporate board rooms
• Political systems, their historical context, and the social and economic systems with which they interact
• The ideas of the great political thinkers, and how those ideas might apply in contemporary practice
• How public policy gets formulated, legislated, implemented, and evaluated and how democratic and accessible is the process.
• Comparing the U.S. political system to those elsewhere in the world, in nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East
• The politics of nations and international relations, and the transnational relations increasingly practiced by peoples, organizations, and local institutions across national boundaries

Programs

• Politics Major

• Politics Minor
• Public Policy Minor

• Urban and Public Affairs, MA

• Public Policy + Urban and Public Affairs (4+1), BA/BS-MA

• Urban and Public Affairs, MA/JD

• 2+2+3 BA/BS-JD Program
• 3+3 BA/BS-JD Program
• 4+3 BA/BS-JD Program

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