Political science

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate a literacy of power, politics, and government as we usually encounter it in our lives, especially interpreting the news.  What is going on in the article represents and illustrates in real life what we’ve learned about politics, government, and power in the course.   You will be graded upon your ability to properly identify power, politics, and government concepts, to correctly apply these course concepts in the analysis, and to correctly explain how the concepts explain what is going on in the article. Write a 5-page paper, double-spaced, 1″ margins, 12-point font.  Please cite as appropriate and provide works cited list (any citation format is fine).  Do not summarize the article; stick to analysis.  For help, answer the questions below in your paper to aid in your analysis.   Analysis Tips This article covers everything we’ve learned this semester.  It discusses all the institutions and actors in Texas politics and implies policy and political ideas also addressed in the course.   Answer the following questions to help you analyze the article:   1.  What institutions do you see in the article?  What are they doing and why?  What vocabulary, concepts, and theories have we learned about these institutions and behaviors? 2.  What political behaviors are the people doing?  What have we’ve learned about these behaviors–vocab, concepts, theories?  How are people interacting with the institutions? 3.  How does Texas political history, culture, power affect what is going on?  What vocab, concepts, and theories have we learned to explain the context?   We have learned about: political cultures & power political participation interest groups and political parties three branches:  Congress, Courts, Governor various policy issues, including access to justice issues, access to voting issues, etc.  the Constitution and federalism local governments (county, city, special districts)

Paper is arguing that banning flavoured tobacco but especially menthol cigarettes will have major detrimental effects on Black Americans. Need to compare the regulation of hookah with other flavoured tobaccos. Also need to articulate which ethnic groups use different flavoured tobaccos most frequently. Introduction of Hookah to the United States, difference between Hookah and other flavoured tobaccos in terms of regulation, and social justice issues behind banning menthol cigarettes and how it will impact Black Americans

Answer the question: In what areas is the need for UN reform the most urgent, and what are the main obstacles to achieving reform? Use references properly, the accuracy of the references will be checked.

433. Change is so great a curse that we could not even abolish so great a wrong as slavery without great temporary suffering; and that people is happiest and most likely to maintain its liberties, and to be prosperous, which, by natural temperament, dislikes change, and can be moved to it only upon important occasions and for clearly and even pressingly necessary objects. Stability of laws, stability in industry and business, the stability of character and of purpose in the individual, are all of the far greater importance than the most brilliant experiments in government, or the most seductive and adventurous enterprises…      As we watch today’s political campaigns, we see most of the Democrat candidates advocating revolutionary changes to our economic system, with a massive increase in the role of government in the lives of all Americans.  Such policies as “Medicare for all”, “Guaranteed income for all citizens”, “The Green New Deal”, “Open Borders and Citizenship for all Immigrants” are touted as being, in Nordhoff’s words, “the most brilliant experiments in government, or the most seductive and adventurous enterprises…      In an original essay of c.350-500 words, address how you think Nordhoff would respond to the revolutionary proposals of today’s Democrat candidates–Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, et al.  Do you believe the positions of Biden, AOC, and The Squad promotes national stability, national liberty or national prosperity?  Nordhoff comments that even a reason as important and necessary as the abolition of slavery could not be accomplished without massive national trauma and violence…at least temporarily.  Is battling “Climate Change” as worthy an endeavor as abolishing slavery? In your opinion, can the Democrat/Socialists accomplish their fundamental remaking of America without another outbreak of trauma and violence?  As a Texan, how do you predict many in this state would respond should a President Biden, using his already named Gun Czar, Beto O’Rourke, order the confiscation of firearms from all citizens?  In short, do you agree with Nordhoff that governments should support stability, prosperity, and liberty; and avoid the temptation to indulge in “seductive experiments” in government?

This homework, we’re focusing on states and the concepts of sovereignty, power and governance. You have two options. Answer just one of the questions below. Choice 1:  After reviewing  INTERACTIVE CFR’s Crisis Guide on Eastern Congo or click on the link  https://www.cfr.org/interactives/eastern-congo#!/?cid=main-interactive_dap-the_eastern_congo explain why it is considered a weak state. Define the terms you use, such as the weak and failed state. Please be sure to support your thoughts with references to the course materials and please be sure to use Turabian style citations (author-date). Choice 2:  As explained in the Week 4 lesson notes, IGOs are supranational organizations that are heavily connected to regional or international security and international law. A prime example is the UN. Today, the UN is involved in a number of peacekeeping missions around the world. Each time the UN intervenes it sets precedent, which could evolve into customary law. For this option, please visit the UN peacekeeping homepage and choose one current or past mission to focus on (you can choose the mission in Somalia. For that mission, explain the circumstances that created the need to intervene (background), if the state is weak or failed, the purpose of the mission (mandate) and any interesting facts and figures about it. Be sure to use more than two sources and reference the course material.  Please be sure to paraphrase the information rather than quoting it. I recommend thinking of it as telling the story behind the mission much like the producers did in the movie Black Hawk Down. What happened and what did the UN do about it? Is there something unique about the mission that is setting precedent or impacting international law?

“My Canada” project students envision—they make—a different Canadian politics. This reimagining must be politically grounded; it does not start from a blank slate. It is based in the Canadian politics of the contemporary moment with their, inter alia, geography, colonial history, fragmentations, international relations, and crises. The transformation must also be realistic in the sense that it starts in existing relations of power and antagonistic and competing interests (i.e. if a student wants to explore changing federal policy to effectively address the global climate crisis, the power of fossil capital dictates that the issue of pipelines cannot simply be wished away). The project is not pie-in-the-sky fantasy; it is materially grounded. Contrary to appearances, and dominant representations in the corporate media, Canadian politics are always changing. The “My Canada” project demands that students make themselves thinking and acting participants in this change. Through the project, each student answers four questions involving political transformation, synthesized as an essay. First, what political change do I want to see realized in Canadian politics? This question amounts to a diagnosis of what aspect of Canadian politics (i.e. policy, institution, cultural practice) the student sees as not serving her/his interests and/or values. Second, what status-quo oriented social forces (both internal and global) oppose this change and why, and what transformative social forces (both internal and global) support this change and why? And third, how do exist and contentious power relations have to change to produce the politics I seek? These are the realistic political questions in the sense that they require identification of those social forces with which the student can align her/his political project, or from which the student can expect support, and those social forces antagonistic to the political project. They also demand consideration of the manner through which power relations have to be rebalanced in favor of the sought after change. Fourth, how would political change be institutionally expressed? This question recognizes that, once actualized, political change is “locked into” political institutions in law and/or governing apparatuses; that the moment a political goal is realized the will to transform morphs into the will to preserve What is politically possible or “realistic” in Canadian politics is not given or natural but determined by the actually existing balance of power between competing interests. This project empowers students to recognize that another Canadian politics is possible and that they play a part in creating them. Student projects must employ concepts learned in the course and indicate a clear and accurate understanding of these concepts. They must also reflect the student’s own analysis. Projects are not to be collections of quotations, direct or indirect, from other sources. Each project/essay must be researched, not the least because this accelerated course does not have sufficient time to review all of the material necessary to successfully complete the project/essay. Each essay must cite at least FOUR academic sources (i.e.academic books and peer-reviewed journal articles). Do not submit a paper that has not engaged with published scholarly literature. The Okanagan College library has a good selection of databases for electronic, full-text journals such as ProjectMuse, JStor, ProQuest, and Academic Search Elite. Students may use the course textbook, but it does not count as one of the four required academic sources. Additionally, articles from ordinary magazines, say Time or The Economist, and internet sites do not count as academic sources. In order for all written work to be graded, it must be properly formatted (12 point font, double-spaced with proper margins) and prefaced with a cover page clearly indicating the student’s name and ID number. Assignments that do not conform to these criteria will not be accepted for assessment

*As per the Paper Assignments: A) Paper has to be 3 pages long B) It has to be double space and one-inch margins on all sides C) It has to be typed in Times New Roman Font (12) D) Written in MLA format with endnotes E) Needs to have at least 4 citations from 4 different reputable sources within your paper. No Wikipedia is allowed. *The papers will consist of opinion/research essays. Topics to choose from: PICK ONE A)    Choose and write about 3 different Supreme Court Cases that took place in the last 20 years.   What was the name of the case? What was it about? (Provide some detail)  What was the final vote?  Do you support or oppose their decision?  Why? B)     What is the current Stimulus / COVID 19 bill about?  (Provide details of the plan) What is the Democrats Plan?  What is the Republicans Plan?  Has it passed the House?  the Senate?  What does President Trump think?  What are your thoughts on the matter?

In other areas of life, we seem to place a high value on reason and objective evidence. For example, the scientific theory that has the best arguments and the most evidence is accepted over one that has little rational support. The politician who has the best arguments for her economic proposals is favored over the opponent who has no reasons for his position. Should things be any different with religious beliefs? Why? 6 sentences only not a long paper

The United States Constitution provides for a Republican/representative form of democracy yet many states and localities allow for direct democracy through ballot initiatives, referendum, and recall. Develop a paper in which you identify and assess arguments in favor of and against both representative and direct democracy. Drawing on your assessments of representative and direct democracy, develop an argument in which you advocate for one form of democracy over another. Do not equivocate. There is no right or wrong answer. 

The critical analysis questions are designed to stimulate thought, clarify concepts, explore course materials in detail, and to examine the course concepts from a new or different perspective. Responses should be 500-800 words in total. Questions. What are the key characteristics of hegemony according to Gramsci? Who are the organic intellectuals, and what are organic ideologies? How do these ideologies relate to the creation of common sense? In what ways does Gramsci’s conception of power differ from Althusser’s?