School of Liberal Arts: Political Science
2008-2009 Academic Year
460
Office:
316 Norman Mayer
Phone:
504-865-5166
Fax:
504-862-8745
Website:
www.tulane.edu/~polsci/
Email:
polisci@tulane.edu
Professors
Thomas S. Langston, Ph.D., M.I.T. Nancy L. Maveety, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Anthony Pereira, Ph.D., Harvard (Chair)
Raymond C. Taras, Ph.D., University of Warsaw
Associate Professors
Mary Clark, Ph.D., Wisconsin
Gary A. Remer, Ph.D., California, Los Angeles
Martyn P. Thompson, Ph.D., London University; Dr. phil. habil., Universität
Tübingen
Assistant Professors
Brian J. Brox, Ph.D., Texas
Dana Zartner Falstrom, Ph.D., California, Davis
Christopher Fettweis, Ph.D., Maryland
J. Celeste Lay, Ph.D., Maryland
Aaron Schneider, Ph.D., California, Berkeley
Jeffrey Stacey, Ph.D., Columbia
Mark Vail, Ph.D., California, Berkley
Political Science concerns itself with both the struggle for power and the search
for justice. These at times conflicting goals of the polity account for a basic
division in the discipline. Thus, the study of political phenomena has both a
descriptive or scientific component and a normative or evaluative component.
Political phenomena are present everywhere in political life, wherever questions
about the distribution of wealth, status, power, and privilege occur. Politics, then,
concerns conflicts of interests and values and the practices through which they are
conciliated. The acknowledgment of the ubiquity of political phenomena across a
range of geographic, cultural, and temporal settings accounts for the four broad
subfields that constitute the work of the discipline: American political processes,
comparative political processes, international politics, organization and law, and
political theory.
At least 30 credits of political science course work (based on the three-credit-hour
per course system), earned in at least ten courses.* Only four credits of honors