POLS 4021 - American Political Theory

3 cr.

This course focuses on the origin and development of American political thought. Topics include Locke and liberalism, Puritanism and republicanism, Paine and the revolutionary impulse, Founders and Anti-Federalists, Jefferson’s agricultural republic, Tocqueville’s social America, Jacksonian democracy, Lincoln and Calhoun, populists, progressives and pragmatists, New Dealers and social engineers.

Prerequisite(s): POLS 2001.

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