PS 188-03: Gender Issues in World Politics Professor Eichenberg Office hours Wed 6-7:30pm; Thurs 10:30-11:30 Eaton 314 Introduction This course is a survey of many issues relating to gender in world politics, but the emphasis is on: • gender differences in political attitudes and behavior • gender differences in attitudes toward war and national security in particular • the cross-cultural uniformity (or lack thereof) in gender differences in attitudes • the role of gender in war, particular how they are created and effect war We ask (at least) 6 types of question in the class: 1. Are gender differences in attitudes (or other phenomena) visible? 2. How cross-culturally universal are these differences? 3. Why do they exist? What theories explain them? 4. What are the political implications of gender differences? 5. How have national and international institutions responded to gender discrimination? Indeed, what forms of discrimination exist? 6. Is there such a thing as a “global feminist movement?” How are where? Course Website We will not be using Blackboard in this course. Rather, we will use a website called the “International Research Network”, a site developed by the IR Program. If you have not received an e-mail inviting you to the course site, you soon will. Please follow the instructions. Reading (See additional useful references at the end of this syllabus) The following books are required and will be available from the bookstore. IN: Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. JG: Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. HJ: Sarah Henderson and Alana S. Jeydel, Participation and Protest: Women and Politics in a Global World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. TEJ: In addition, there will be a number of scholarly articles assigned from Tisch Electronic Journals. I look at these pretty much as if they were chapters in a printed book: I assume that you will print them and read them (unless you have the endurance to read them onscreen). The cost will end up being about the same as assigning another book. Second, in the past I have provided links to the journals in Tisch, but this is becoming cumbersome, and there is an easy way to find them: 1. Go to the Tisch catalog; 2. Do a Title search for the journal (listed below); 3. Follow the link to the electronic version of the journal; 4. Using the bibliographic information that I provide, find the article and print it. 5. Note: you may be asked to enter your student ID, and it may be easier to do on campus than off. There are other things that I link directly on this syllabus; I’ll post a copy on the Website (“Resources”) so that you can click on them.Assignments and Grades Your grade will be based on the following: 1. Weekly Reading Discussion Board/Participation. I will create a discussion forum for each week’s topic. Each week, you must post an entry about the reading for that topic, which may take the form –or combine—the following: a question; an observation or argument; a critique; a comparison to something else you have read or a personal experience; a challenge to the logic or evidence. No specific length is required, except to say that a brief perfunctory sentence is probably too short and a two-page memo is probably too long. I would say 2-3 thoughtful paragraphs will be sufficient. Because I will use your contributions to prepare the class, these must be posted by 5pm each Friday (so that I can work on the weekend!). Focus on the reading for whatever we are covering the following Monday and Wednesday. If there are multiple readings, you may focus on the one that interests or annoys you most. These contributions are worth 25 points and 25% of your grade. The grade will also include my assessment of your willingness to discuss the readings in class (or raise questions; or make arguments). 2. Country/Regional Weekly News Journal on Gender Issues. I want you to choose a particular country or region of the world and find a news article each week about gender issues in that country or region. Once you find the article, write a paragraph in a “running journal” that summarizes the key points in the article AND relates it to any material that we have read or discussed. You will turn in the journal document at the end of the semester; it will be worth 15 points and 15% of your grade. Begin immediately –find one before Wednesday Jan 24. 3. Take-home midterm exam. To be distributed on 2/22 and returned in class (no e-mails please). Papers should be no longer than 7 pages using an 11 point font. You will have several questions to choose from, and I will provide guidelines on how to write these well. 4. Take-home final exam. To be distributed on 4/30 and returned on 5/9 by 12pm (I will arrange a location for dropoff – no e-mails please).. Papers should be no longer than 7 pages using an 11 point font. You will have several questions to choose from, and I will provide guidelines on how to write these well. Topics, Schedule, and Readings – All of the readings are required 1. Gender, Political Attitudes, and the Politics of War and Peace 1/24 & 1/29 1.1 The Emergence and Nature of Gender Differences in the US: Attitudes and Voting TEJ: Shapiro, Robert and Harpreet Mahajan. 1986. “Gender Differences in Policy Preferences: A Summary of Trends from the 1960s to the 1980s.” Public Opinion Quarterly. Vol. 50. No. 1 (Spring). 42-61. TEJ: Norrander, Barbara. 1999. “The Evolution of the Gender Gap,” Public Opinion Quarterly. Vol 63, 566-576. Center for the American Woman and Politics. 2006. “The Gender Gap. Partisan Identification and Presidential Performance Ratings.” Rutgers University. TEJ: Kaufman, Karen M., and John R. Petrocik. 1999. “The Changing Politics of American Men: Understanding the Sources of the Gender Gap.” American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 43. No. 3 (July). 864-887. TEJ: Chaney, Carole Kennedy, R. Michael Alvarez, and Jonathan Nagler. 1998. “Explaining the Gender Gap in US Presidential Elections, 1980-1992.” Political Research Quarterly, Vol 51, (June), 311-340.TEJ:Kaufmann, Karen. 2006. “The Gender Gap (2004).” PS: Political Science & Politics 39: 447-453. 1/31 & 2/5 1.2 Gender Differences on War and Peace Issues in the