Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Paris campus
Course Title:
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
Course Number:
DSPO 25A04
Course Description:
The topic of this multidisciplinary seminar is equality, discrimination, affirmative action, and multiculturalism, considered within the specific context of the U.S. experience. That context is characterized by three structural features that Alexis de Tocqueville famously identified: the ‘passion for equality', the salience of racial divisions, and the juridicialization of politics. Elaborating upon Tocqueville's intuitions, the seminar will rely extensively on history (that of ethnoracial and religious minorities since the early nineteenth century); law (through an analysis of some of the key Supreme Court decisions in this area); political science (through the study of the emergence, development, and partial decline of race-conscious policies such as affirmative action and the redistricting designed to increase the number of Black and Hispanic elected representatives); and political philosophy (through discussions of theories of social justice and equality, notably those of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Michael Walzer).
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 414, GOVT 398
Course URL:
https://syllabus.sciencespo.fr/fr/?202210/218229
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