Weekly Reminders and Discussion Topics, PLSC 083S

Listed below are various reminders, hints, useful pieces of information, and discussion points for PLSC 083S, First-Year Seminar on Lobbying the Federal Government.

• Notes and topics for Week 2, Schattschneider and his ideas about conflict expansion.
• Notes and advice about how to write good papers.
• Notes and topics for Week 5, Schattschneider, Browne, Light. Also comments on your papers.
• Notes and topics for Week 6, Browne, Ch. 2-3. Also comments on your reactions to Light.
• Notes and topics for Week 7, Browne, Ch. 4,5,6. Also comments on women's rights and Richard Nixon.
• Notes and topics for Week 8, but mostly comments on your papers and writing in general.
• Notes and topics for Week 9, the last few chapters of Browne and how it relates to your cases.
• Notes and topics for Week 10, Wolpe and Levine, Ch. 1-3. Also some notes on your papers and reactions to Light.
• Notes and topics for Week 11, Wolpe and Levine, Ch. 4-5. Also some notes on your papers.
• Notes and topics for Week 12, Wolpe and Levine, Ch. 6-9. Also some notes about normative conclusions for your papers.
• Notes and topics for Week 13, Wolpe and Levine, Part II: Ch. 1-4. Class debates about health-care reform, NAFTA, Crime Package, and Cable TV Regulation.
• Notes and topics for Week 14, end of discussion on Light; also Zartman visit. Happy T-day.
• Notes and topics for Week 15, Wolpe and Levine, Part II: Ch. 5-6. Class debates about Bork; catastrophic health-care coverage; grazing fees; and family and medical leave.
• Notes and topics for Week 16, Review, discussion of term papers, how to pick up your grades.