The Theory and Practice of Republican Government

Harvard Core Curriculum: Moral Reasoning 74

 

Professor Daniel Carpenter

Department of Government

Harvard University

 

Syllabus [pdf] [doc]

Announcements: [January 29, 2007]: All office hours will be held in the CGIS Cafe, 1737 Cambridge St., in the Knafel building

 

Papers and Assignments

First Paper Questions [pdf] First Paper due Monday, February 19th, 8PM. (Electronically no later than 8:31:00.)

Second Paper Questions [pdf] Second Paper due Monday, March 19th, 8PM. (Electronically no later than 8:31:00.)

Third Paper Questions [pdf] Third Paper due Monday, April 23rd, 8PM. (Electronically no later than 8:31:00.)

Fourth (Final) Paper Question [pdf] Third Paper due Monday, May 21st, at final examination.

 

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 (February 1st, 2007) -- Introduction and Theoretical Queries [pdf]

Lecture 2 (February 6, 2007) -- What is a Republic? Why Did the Founders Care? [pdf]

Lecture 3 (February 8, 2007) -- The Roman Republic and the Machiavellian Model [pdf]

For web-accessible chronological and factual information on the Roman Republic, see here

University of Texas has a renowned classics department. See some of their documents on the Roman republic here

Lecture 4 (February 13, 2007) – Machiavellian Republicanism I [pdf]

Lecture 5 (February 15, 2007) – Machiavellian Republicanism II [pdf]

Lecture 6 (February 20, 2007) – The Co-Evolution of Monarchy and Representative Government [pdf]

Lecture 7 (February 22, 2007) – The Revolt against Absolute Monarchy [pdf]

Lecture 8 (February 27, 2007) – The Abolition and Re-Emergence of Institutions in Stuart England [pdf]

Lecture 9 (March 1, 2007) – The Philosophy of Institutional Form: Harrington and Locke [pdf]

Lecture 10 (March 6, 2007) – The Reassertion of the English Constitution [pdf]

Lecture 11 (March 8, 2007) – Montesquieu and the English Constitution [pdf]

Lecture 12 (March 13, 2007) – Montesquieu and Republican Arrangements [pdf]

Lecture 13 (March 15, 2007) – Montesquieu on Governance, Religion and Lawmaking [pdf]

Lecture 14 (March 20, 2007) – The American Revolution through the Lens of Republicanism I [pdf]

Lecture 15 (March 22, 2007) – The American Revolution through the Lens of Republicanism II [pdf]

Lecture 16 (April 3, 2007) – The American Founding – Repudiation of 1776 [pdf]

Lecture 17 (April 5, 2007) – The American Founding – Institutional Order [pdf]

Lecture 18 (April 10, 2007) – Two Visions of American Republicanism -- Hamilton versus Jefferson I [pdf]

Lecture 19 (April 12, 2007) – Two Visions of American Republicanism -- Hamilton versus Jefferson II [pdf]

Lecture 20 (April 17, 2007) – The Progressive, Corporate and Social Democratic Challenges to Republicanism I [pdf]

Lecture 21 (April 19, 2007) – The Progressive, Corporate and Social Democratic Challenges to Republicanism II [pdf]

Lecture 22 (April 24, 2007) – Challenges to Republicanism: Plebiscitary Government and Libertarianism I [pdf]

Lecture 23 (April 26, 2007) – Challenges to Republicanism: Plebiscitary Government and Libertarianism II [pdf]

Lecture 24 (May 1, 2007) – Contemporary Republican Visions I [pdf]

Lecture 25 (May 3, 2007) – Contemporary Republican Visions II and Conclusion [pdf]