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Fall 2020 | PA 5012 Section 001: The Politics of Public Affairs (20662)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- PA: major or minor in Public Policy or Science/Technology/Environmental Policy or PA PhD or Human Rights major or Development Practice major
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 55 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Stages of policy making from agenda setting to implementation. Role and behavior of political institutions, citizens, social movements, and interest groups. Concepts of political philosophy. Theories of state. Team taught, interdisciplinary course. Small discussion sections.
- Class Notes:
- Remote delivery. Class will meet synchronously online on Tuesday/Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ljacobs+PA5012+Fall2020
- Class Description:
- America has witnessed four massive surges of protests and political organizing over the past decade: The Tea Party (started in 2010), Occupy Wall Street (occurred in September 2011), grassroots resistance following President Trump's election in 2016, and the ongoing demonstrations sparked by George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Each promised deep, enduring political change -- but what normative and legal impacts did they produce?
Sophisticated agents of change appreciate that there are "varieties of politics," which offer discrete and interconnected avenues. Elections, legislation, and administrative and legal accountability - along with protests and community organizing - are used by political activists and policy entrepreneurs to produce or thwart change. Each modality of politics is distinctive, varying in terms of the types of actors involved; the resources that are required; the scope of political debate; the visibility of the policy design; and their potential consequences. If political change is the objective, which variety of politics is most feasible and potentially impactful?
Time is a critical - often overlooked - dimension in politics. President Barack Obama's health reform and the conservative movement's attack on estate taxes not only produced change at one point in time but also influenced subsequent politics by generating new public expectations, interest groups, and government agencies committed to ongoing implementation. Politically astute reformers design progressive and conservative policies to secure change in the first instance and then to influence politics downstream.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with permission of the instructor.
- Grading:
- Paper, Two Group Projects, Final Examination, and 5 short discussion reports.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20662/1209
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/ljacobs_PA5012_Fall2020.pdf
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/ljacobs_monda006_PA5012_Fall2018.docx (Fall 2018)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/ljacobs_monda006_PA5012_Fall2015.pdf (Fall 2015)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 August 2020
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Larry Jacobs