GOVT 2200 Designing Democracy
This course will consider and analyze the institutional recipes to consolidate democracy. We will examine primary ingredients including constitutions, executives, legislatures, voters/elections, political parties, and judiciaries. We will also consider the challenges to consolidation, and what can go wrong. Also, we will examine case studies that exemplify the institutions in the real-world, before applying them to a constitutional convention simulation event at the end of the course. We will consider what makes democracy something to strive for in the first place and analyze its shortcomings.
Offered
Most Interims