Rutgers University - Revolutionary Ideas: Borders, Elections, Constitutions, Prisons
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Duration | 18 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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- What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State should we have?
- Even within a political community, there may be sharp disagreements about the role and purpose of government. Some want an active, involved government, seeing legal and political institutions as the means to solve our most pressing problems, and to help bring about peace, equality, justice, happiness, and to protect individual liberty. Others want a more minimal government, motivated, perhaps, by some of the disastrous political experiments of the 20th Century, and the thought that political power is often just a step away from tyranny. In many cases, these disagreements arise out of deep philosophical disagreements.
- All political and legal institutions are built on foundational ideas. In this course, we will explore those ideas, taking the political institutions and political systems around us not as fixed and unquestionable, but as things to evaluate and, if necessary, to change. We will consider the ideas and arguments of some of the world's most celebrated philosophers, including historical thinkers such as Plato, Hugo Grotius, David Hume, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and more contemporary theorists such as Michelle Alexander, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Bryan Caplan, Angela Davis, Ronald Dworkin, Jon Elster, John Hart Ely, H.L.A. Hart, Michael Huemer, Andrew Rehfeld, and Jeremy Waldron.
- The aim of the course is not to convince you of the correctness of any particular view or political position, but to provide you with a deeper and more philosophically-informed basis for your own views, and, perhaps, to help you better understand the views of those with whom you disagree.
Revolutionary Ideas: Borders, Elections, Constitutions, Prisons at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Part II of the Course
Introduction to Part II
Syllabus
Networks
Grading
Argumentative Reflections
Political Community and Borders
Lecture 6.0: Political Community: An Introduction
Lecture 6.1: Voluntarism & Political Community
Lecture 6.2: Alternatives to Voluntarism: Rehfeld's Random Constituencies
Lecture 6.3: Political Community, Cosmopolitanism & World Government
Lecture 6.4.0: Immigration & Exclusion
Lecture 6.4.1: Immigration, Exclusion & Open Borders
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Political Community and Borders
Representatives, Elections, and Lotteries
Lecture 7.0: Representatives, Elections & Lotteries: An Introduction
Lecture 7.1: The Case for Representatives
Lecture 7.2: The Case for Elected Representatives
Lecture 7.3.0: The Perils of Elected Representation: Part I
Lecture 7.3.1: The Perils of Elected Representation: Part II
Lecture 7.4.0: The Lottocracy
Lecture 7.4.1: The Promise of Lottocracy
Lecture 7.4.2: Concerns About Lottocracy
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Representatives, Elections, and Lotteries
Constitutions
Lecture 8.0: Constitutions: An Introduction
Lecture 8.1: Constitutions as Limits
Lecture 8.2: The Mechanisms of Constitutional Limitations
Lecture 8.3.0: Pre-Commitment & Constitutional Authority
Lecture 8.3.1: Pre-Commitment Revisited
Lecture 8.4: Constitutions & Process Theory
Lecture 8.5.0: Constitutions, Judicial Review, & Constitutional Interpretation
Lecture 8.5.1: Constitutional Interpretation
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Constitutions
Prisons and Punishment & Conclusions
Lecture 9.0: Crime & Punishment: An Introduction
Lecture 9.1.0: What is Crime? What Should be Criminalized?
Lecture 9.1.1: What Can be Criminalized? The Hart-Devlin Debate
Lecture 9.2: Theories of Punishment
Lecture 9.3.0: Theories of Punishment: Retributivism
Lecture 9.3.1: Retributivism Reconsidered
Lecture 9.4: Alternatives to Incarcerations: Restorative Justice
Reflections on Revolutionary Ideas: A Question & Answer Session with Prof. Guerrero
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Prisons and Punishment & Conclusions
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