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dealing with J.P. Morgan--I can't help but think T.R. and Woodrow wouldn't have some sage words of advice for the Presidential hope-fuls. And---from a philosophic lens--Flagg and Natalie's classes in theory and political thought have made it a little less nerdy (or perhaps far more nerdy) for me to keep John Locke's Treatise on the bookshelf behind my desk.

What is your favorite part of your job? Dealing with human beings and becoming a part of a micro political community. From a more pragmatic perspective, my current job has revealed to me---"in real time"--the importance of political science (or Governmental studies) as a system that exists simultaneously in a qualitative and quantitative realm --- and as a system that produces numbers and data but only in so far as those numbers are representative and responsive in relation to human beings.

If you could have any job, what would it be? A sports-oriented documentary filmmaker. Governor of Vermont. In that order.

GO 367: Constitutional Conflicts: Presidential Power Professor Flagg Taylor

In this course we will examine the contours and limits of presidential power. We will begin by examining the foundations of the office of the presidency as elaborated at the constitutional convention and in subsequent debates early in American history. The course will then proceed through an analysis of landmark Supreme Court cases touching on various aspects of executive power: war, foreign affairs, law execution, appointment and removal, and budgetary authority. We conclude by examining the debate around the so-called “unitary executive” that reached its highest pitch during the George W. Bush presidency. Students will gain detailed knowledge of the constitutional controversies surrounding executive power and an understanding of the different conceptions of the office of the president as elaborated throughout American history. Prerequisite: GO 101; Recommended: GO 311 or GO 334.

AMERICAN COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL THEORY GO 222: State and Local Politics

GO 209: Latin American Puzzle

GO 219: Political Economy of European Integration

GO 205H: Modern Political Thought GO 231: Environmental Politics and Policy

GO 251A: States, Markets and Politics in Developing

GO 219: US Foreign Policy GO 236: American Political

Thought

GO 362: Politics of Congress

GO 301: Contemporary

International Politics

GO 351B: Political Thought of Aristophanes GO 367: Constitutional Conflicts: Presidential Power

GO 319: What the U.S. Does

Wrong in the World: Views from India and Answers from Washing-ton

GO 340: International Human

Rights

GO 366: Understanding

Globalization