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Jul 31, 2025
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PSC 3400 - AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES
credits: 3.0
Will explore the vital role political parties play and have played in the American political process. Among topics that will be covered will be the history of our party system and the functions that parties serve, including recruitment of political candidates, mobilization of the public, coalition-building, issue framing and organizing legislative institutions. Will also discuss how the role of parties has changed in the modern era, how political alignments are formed and how they erode, the reasons we have a two-party system and how this system shapes our politics, the historic role of third parties in America, how protest movements and other groups find “homes” within political parties, whether the public is well-represented by the two current parties, and a host of other possible topics. Method of Instruction: Primarily lecture and class discussion. Method of Evaluation: Mid-term and final exams, other written assignments, and class participation. Meets *WEP Distribution Requirement.
Prerequisite(s): PSC 1040 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
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