PO607
Normative Analysis: What Guides Our Political and Policy Choices?
0.5 Credit

This course explores the role that values play in political practice, and whether we can talk about values – such as freedom, fairness, justice, goodness, efficiency - in ways that are principled, even scientific. This seminar introduces some promising efforts to argue constructively about values in politics and public life, by examining a range of morally charged controversies at a variety of geographic and political scales, such as enduring racial injustices, gendered assumptions about work and productivity, universal health care, covert and extra-judicial military engagements, and the possibility of global justice.