政治学哲学博士-美国政治

罗格斯（Rutgers）的“美国政治”计划重点研究美国公民身份的含义，来源和后果。我们围绕这些基本问题的理论思考和实证研究围绕三个相关领域形成。第一个问题涉及民主国家中每个公民的政治行为和态度。在这里，我们通过考虑普通百姓在政治上的所作所为，他们如何活跃于政治或与政治疏远以及他们对政治和领导人的看法和决策方式来解释当代美国民主制度中公民身份的含义。美国政治计划的第二个重点是在更大的社会背景下考虑公民意识的建构。我们考虑个人特征（尤其是性别和种族身份）对民主实践的影响方式。在第二个领域中同样重要的问题是，诸
The American Politics program at Rutgers focuses on the meaning, sources, and consequences of citizenship in the United States. Our theoretical consideration and empirical investigation of these essential questions takes shape around three related areas. The first concerns the political behavior and attitudes of individual citizens in a democracy. Here we interpret the meaning of citizenship in the contemporary American democracy by considering what ordinary people do in politics, how they come to be active in or alienated from politics, and what and how they think and make decisions about politics and leaders. The second focus in the American Politics program considers the construction of the meaning of citizenship in the larger social context. We consider the ways in which characteristics of individuals -- in particular, gender and race identities -- influence the practice of democracy. Equally important in this second area is the question of how nongovernmental institutions such as political parties, the mass media, and private business as well as interest groups and social movements interact with the political process and its actors to structure political outcomes. The third area of focus within the American Politics field is the formal institutions of American government -- particularly Congress and the Presidency -- and their relationships to citizens. How do these formal institutions shape what it means to be a citizen in the United States And how do relationships between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government affect their ability to perform their functions And how do the interactions of formal government institutions, nongovernmental institutions, and social groups structure state-society relations and democratic practice in America Students in American politics are encouraged to integrate rigorous theoretical inquiry regarding the nature and definition of citizenship and democracy with applied analysis of contemporary politics.