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POL500A3(政治学 / Politics 500)
Studies on Think Tank

蒔田 純

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Faculty/Graduate school Graduate School of Politics
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Year 2022
Class code X5069
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Term 秋学期集中/Intensive(Fall)
Day/Period 集中・その他/intensive・other courses
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷
Classroom name 各学部・研究科等の時間割等で確認
Grade
Credit(s) 2
Notes 公共政策学、連帯社会と合同
Class taught by instructors with practical experience
Category 政治学専攻
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Outline (in English)

(Course outline)
Examining how think-tanks play a role in the political process, based on the understandings regarding the concept meanings and concrete structures of fundamental factors about public policy including policy process, political structure, politician-bureaucrats relationship and nation-society relationship.

(Learning Objectives)
*Grasping roles and functions of internal and external thinktanks in the policy process.
*Understanding characteristics and problems of public-policy-related factors including policy process, political system, politico-administrative relation and nation-society relation through a perspective of thinktank.
*Gaining a capability to logically explain a causation between thinktanks and other political factors in the context of public policy based on the scientific thinking of "constructing hypothesis → verifying it".

(Learning activities)
Standard times for preparation and review is two hours per each.
In preparation, reading articles presented in references is required.
In review, a thinking training to apply some thoughts or theories about thinktanks presented in the classes to the real political phenomena for understanding their structures is required.

(Grading Criteria/Policy)
Attendance, discussion(proactivity, analytical ability, critical ability, proposing ability): 40%
Report(analytical ability, logicality, novelty, simplicity): 30%
Presentation(analytical ability, logicality, novelty, simplicity): 30%

Default language used in class

日本語 / Japanese