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Downey, Lawrence L. – Teaching Political Science, 1984
How fiction is used in a college-level political science seminar to teach about democratic decision making and U.S. politics is described. The fiction used is clustered around the following topics: community-level decisions, limits to consensus, group values and politics, acquiring elected offices and trying to keep them, and public bureaucracies.…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Community Study, Course Descriptions, Decision Making
