POLITICAL CHOICE AND STRATEGY
An introduction to decision analysis, strategic interaction, and voting systems and their manipulation. Examines a wide range of institutions for making social choices and the opportunities for the exercise of political strategy.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A Course Designation: Core GenEd - Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning Comm QR - Quantitative Reasoning B Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore a rational-choice approach to studying politics -- also called formal political theory. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine how multiple people can make a social choice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine how various voting rules and types of preferences can lead to different outcomes under certain circumstances, and the implications of that for democracy. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explore collective action in politics and examine how people can cooperate to achieve common goals. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore a rational-choice approach to studying politics -- also called formal political theory. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine how multiple people can make a social choice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine how various voting rules and types of preferences can lead to different outcomes under certain circumstances, and the implications of that for democracy. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explore collective action in politics and examine how people can cooperate to achieve common goals. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027