Each student is asked to post questions or short comments for discussion on our discussion group on Canvas by midnight before the relevant class. These can be questions of clarification or critical comments. The postings are not designed to test you, but rather, to enable you to organize your thoughts and prompt some critical reflection on each reading. Please use your name as the title for your posting.
Class 11 (November 11): Market Society: Births and RebirthsKarl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times, pp. 35-80, pp. 141-170, (Rinehart, 1944/ Beacon Press, 2001).NPR Podcasts from the Indivisible Series. Listen to the podcast from April 20th: How Do We Get America Back To Work? http://www.npr.org/podcasts/516647023/indivisible. You can also listen to other podcasts in the same series.
11Recommended: James Boyle, Enclosing the Genome: What the Squabbles over Genetic Patents Could Teach Us. Conference Paper, 2003.
Choose one of this topic to prepare a draft proposal about a research essay/
Why is womens representation in the House of Commons so
much lower than the representation of men? What role do
political parties play in creating or challenging this result?
Why is the federal Liberal party often considered to be
Canadas natural governing party?
How should political parties be funded?
Health Policy and Politics in the US: Examines contemporary healthcare policies, programs, and politics. Discusses the structure of the healthcare system and its costs, efforts to develop universal health coverage, the spread of managed care, and related topics.
Please follow the Political Science Research Paper Guideline in the PDF file,
25 Pages, APA Style
Please be analytical and logical, Use third person writing.
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- Must reference from the movie ( examples and details ) within this paper , Cite in the text and refrence in the work cited in order to get 8/10 or higher on assignment.
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Each student will select a topic in consultation with me and prepare a research paper, approximately 20-25pages (6,000 words maximumin 12-point font) in length. Students are required to submit a proposal early in the semester to confirm their topics and to receive feedback from me. The resulting research paper should distill issues, connect to appropriate theoretical literatures, evidence with empirical data, and tease out conclusions both scholarly and practitioner-oriented.Students will present this paper (10-12minutes) in Part IV of the class.
According to Borjas, how does immigration affect wages and employment of native workers in the US?
According to Card, how does immigration impact wage inequality in the US? Why did the two economists achieve different conclusions?
According to Xu et al., how does immigration affect state-level inequality in the US? Why?
According to Barrett et al, how does immigration affect earning inequality in Ireland? Why does Ireland see an opposite effect compared to the US?
also - The response paper should be 3 pages single-spaced (or 6-pages double-spaced), and it should include a summary of the readings, responses to the questions provided by the instructor, and 2-3 discussion questions that you will use to lead the class discussion.
Using the attached chapter as a reference for information or terminology, answer the following questions. How can we, as American citizens, best use the media to inform us on political issues? Which sources should we use, and how can we verify that the information we are receiving is accurate?
American Government and Politics in the Information Age
Chapter 1: Communication in the Information Age
Citation is not requested but must be free of plagiarism.
Assignment #2: ***READ ALL RULES BEFORE PROCEEDING***
This assignment contains two applied exercises on techniques from chapters 9 and 10. Each answer is worth 75 points.
1. The first part of this assignment asks you to apply the technique of an intervention analysis: Using Gallup's Presidential Approval Center, (https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx) compare tenures of two presidents of your choice. Looking at each presidency, pick two specific spikes or drops per president in the approval rating of each president and using Google research the background of how/why the spikes or drops occurred at those specific points in time. All examples used must be your own, and you may not use any of the examples that we used in the lectures. You also may notuse the current Covid crisis for this first question, because unfortunately not enough time has passed to objectively analyze trends.
Next write three paragraphs. The first para
Essay about political violence in Spain.You should include a bibliography of not less than ten sources, of which one must be a book or specialized encyclopedias and two must be scholarly articles. Minimum 1000 words or 4 pages. Simple English for an intro to political science class.
Please Read the Attached Reading (Sophocles, Philoctetes- entire) then do the following:
QUESTIONS, REFLECTIONS, & COMMENTS (QRCS)
Please make a post offering at least two thoughtful and
substantive questions, reflections, or comments (QRCs) inspired by your engagement with the material below.
-- At least one of the QRCs must explicitly identify a passage( quote a passage and then respond to it) from the reading attached that you found intriguing, confusing, enlightening, etc. to lift up for consideration. You should quote the passage in full in your post along with a clear citation so others can easily find it in the text, and briefly explain your reasons for highlighting this passage this can come in the form of substantive questions about, interpretations of, or challenges to the ideas expressed in the passage.
For the second QRC, you may choose to lift up another passage, but you are not
required to do so. Instead you may choose to of
