POL 229 - Political Parties, Interest Groups, and the Media

FDR: SS2
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter

Prerequisite: POL 100. A study of the three central extra-constitutional mediating institutions in the American political system: political parties, interest groups, and the media. The course explores theoretical and practical, historical and contemporary developments in party politics, interest group politics, and media politics. Special attention to the debate between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. Connelly.