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We’d like to make you aware of a few new classes that have recently been added to the fall schedule.
POLI 368R section 002: Plato’s Political Philosophy
We are all faced with issues such as ‘fake news,’ ‘alternative facts,’ book-banning, demagogue-instigated insurrections that threaten democracy, socialized healthcare, euthanasia and suicide, the role of women in political life and in society more broadly, and the threat of empty knowledge posed by ChatGPT. What do all of these have in common? –Among other things, that they were first systematically addressed by the Ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. (Well, he didn’t know about ChatGPT, but his thinking about empty knowledge remains paramount.) In this class, we will learn how philosophers like Plato address these and a host of other political questions. We will read some of history’s most influential books (the Apology, the Republic, etc.). And we will scrutinize our most fundamental political commitments.
POLI 368R section 003: Environmental Ethics
You might think it cruel to club baby seals or irresponsible to dump toxic waste in ponds, but just how far do your moral responsibilities extend? E.g., should you refrain from eating meat, from flying in airplanes, or from stepping on plants? Just how much should governments intervene in ‘environmental’ issues? Can aesthetic and religious connections to nature prohibit mining, hunting, harvesting trees, building houses, etc.? In this class, we will examine questions like these and topics such as climate change, our duties to future persons, animal ethics, wilderness preservation, Indigenous American philosophy, ecofeminism, ecopolitics, and eco-hope.
POLI 359R Democracy and Democratization
POLI 359R is a survey of diverse theories of democracy and democratization. The course explores important questions related to democratic transition and consolidation and the problem of democratic backsliding. The course is divided in three parts. The first part discusses criteria used to delineate democratic regimes and types of democracies. The second part deals with major theories of transition and consolidation with an emphasis on works starting from the 1970s and 1980s. The last part of the course considers cases of democratic reversal and debates surrounding the internal-external dimensions of democratic development.
POLI 358 Latin American Politics
Conceptual and contemporary issues in Latin America's search for political order and economic development. |
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Full-Time Research Associate Position
at The Cato Institue
The Cato Institute’s Public Opinion Project seeks a Research Associate for a full-time position in Washington D.C., to help our scholars conduct national public opinion polls and survey experiments and to produce research on public opinion. In this role, you will assist with polling on topics ranging from public attitudes toward trade, free speech, monetary policy, financial regulation, health care, government spending, criminal justice, policing, immigration, economic opportunity, and more. You will help design survey questionnaires and experiments, analyze survey data, create data visualizations, draft blog posts and survey reports, and collate outside public opinion research. The role will also help support public opinion products for social media and track externally conducted public opinion polls each day.
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