{"content":[{"text":"Baumgartner, Lobbying Seminar","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.043136,"width":0.258833,"height":0.020212}},{"text":"Fall 2001","bbox":{"left":0.808113,"top":0.043136,"width":0.07442199999999999,"height":0.020212}},{"text":"Three books concerning government and lobbying are required for purchase. In addition, a fourth \n book on how to make the most of your college education is required and will form the basis for \n discussions throughout the term. These four books have been ordered and are available at local \n bookstores:","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.088591,"width":0.763793,"height":0.072485}},{"text":"Schattschneider, E.E. 1960. The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in \n America. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. \n Browne, William P. 1998. Groups, Interests, and U.S. Public Policy. Washington: Georgetown \n University Press. \n Wolpe, Bruce C. and Bertram J. Levine. 1996. Lobbying Congress: How the System Works. 2nd \n ed. Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press. \n Light, Richard J. 2001. Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. Cambridge: \n Harvard University Press.","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.175712,"width":0.747694,"height":0.142182}},{"text":"In addition to these readings, we will make extensive use throughout the term of a large web site \n maintained here at Penn State. You should become familiar with it as soon as possible; its \n contents will form the basis for many of our assignments and discussions. Often, we will relate \n the details of what you find on the web site with the theories and ideas presented in the other \n required readings. Http://lobby.la.psu.edu is the site. More details about that will follow \n throughout the term. Check it out.","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.33253,"width":0.756548,"height":0.10733400000000004}},{"text":"Assignments are simple. Lots of writing, and lots of class discussion. No exams. You will write 5 \n 3-to-5 page papers throughout the term and then combine these into a term paper due on the last \n day of class. Details on these papers are below, and we’ll talk more about them in class. Each \n Wednesday for most of the semester, as noted below, we’ll finish class with a half-hour \n discussion of Light’s book. Students will be divided into two groups, and each time one of the \n groups will be required to distribute to all the other students in class a very short (less than one \n page, single-spaced) reaction paper. Does the book apply to Penn State? What advice in the book \n is worth following, or what have your experiences been? What advice will you ignore, and what \n will you follow? These papers will be graded only acceptable/not acceptable, and each of you \n will write four of them over the term.","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.4545,"width":0.764673,"height":0.17703000000000002}},{"text":"Grades will be calculated as follows:","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.646166,"width":0.28923899999999997,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"50% \n 10 \n 20 \n 20","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.681015,"width":0.035898,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"5 short papers combined (10 points each) \n acceptable grades on all four 1 page papers on Light (2.5 points each) \n class discussion and participation \n term paper","bbox":{"left":0.176494,"top":0.681015,"width":0.5461199999999999,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"100% Total grade. Note that class participation, not simply attendance, can make the difference \n between an A and a C.","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.768136,"width":0.7575000000000001,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.872615,"top":0.934803,"width":0.009804000000000035,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}