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  • Social Media’s Role in Political Polarization and Strategies…

    My thesis topic was : Bridging the Divide: An Examination of Social Media’s Role in Political Polarization and Strategies for Promoting Constructive Dialogue THIS DRAFT SHOULD BE COMPLETE WITH TITLE PAGE- ALL MAJOR SECTIONS (including Methods, Results, Limitations and Delimitations, Discussion), AND REFERENCES. You are not expected to have your data collected and analyzed at this point, but your paper should include more than what you completed in Research Methods. The ultimate number of references is twenty, so I expect to see more than the number you collected for the annotated bib in Junior Thesis.

  • Democracy and Democratic Theory

    Due Date Following the completion of Unit 11 (approximately week 16 or 26 of the suggested study schedules) Weighting 50% of the final grade for the course Instructions Write an essay of 15 to 20 pages (3,7505,000) words on one (1) of the following topics, unless you have specific permission from your tutor to do otherwise. The final research essay allows you to further develop a particular interest in any one of the issues raised in the course. You are expected to engage the course materials wherever appropriate, as well as incorporate references from outside the course material, such as those listed in the study guide references lists. Before you complete this assignment, please read Legal Notes and Regulations . Selected Authors Write a research essay critiquing, defending, or evaluating the theories of one of the following authors: John Dryzek Iris Marion Young Seyla Benhabib Carole Pateman Mark Kingwell You may also write about one of the following topics associated with a group of authors: Associative democracyespecially. Paul Hirst, Joshua Cohen, and Joel Rogers Minimal democracyFriedrich von Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Max Weber, and Adam Przeworskidefended against other models. This topic should also include a discussion of Ian Shapiros theory of democracy as a means of managing power relations to minimise domination. Deliberation about Public Policy and Governance Deliberative forms of governance are on the rise worldwide, as governments, businesses and not-for-profit organisations seek to engage with their constituents. Empirical research on these deliberative experiments is beginning to emerge. Using models provided in Chapters Five and Six of Why Deliberative Democracy?, in Volume 28, Issue 3 of Policy and Society (2009) in the Athabasca University Library journal databases, in John Dryzeks Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance, and in sources listed in the References section of Unit 6, write about the uses of, and/or lessons learned from, deliberation in a particular policy area, such as health care or health care reform, electoral reform, truth commissions, or environmental policy. Pluralism and Democracy An important theme in contemporary democratic theory, as exemplified by Boris DeWiel, Avigail Eisenberg, William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe, and David Held, is that both the theoretical and practical appeal of democracy lies in its status as a meta-value or meta-narrative. The idea of democracy is important because it does not just represent one value among many, such as liberty, equality or justice, but is the value that can link and mediate among competing prescriptive concerns (Held 2006, 261). The link between the usefulness of democracy as a meta-value and the conditions of modernity and (postmodernity) are sometimes used to explain the success of democracy both in theory and in practice. Nevertheless, these authors appear to differ considerably about what they think the implications of value pluralism are, and ought to be, for democratic practice. Write an essay about what you think the significance of pluralism is for democracy. Plato versus Democratic Theory The most famous objection to democracy, immortalised by Plato, is that democratic decisions are likely to be worse than decisions made by those better qualified by virtue of their knowledge. Can modern models of democracy respond to this criticism? If so, which models respond the best? For example, can deliberative democracy, with its stress on reasongiving, make better decisions than a philosopher king? Can a philosophical approach like Tullys public philosophywhich asks us to identify ourselves in terms of relations of power, pragmatics of knowledge validity (games of truth), and practices of subjectivisationbe an answer to Platos criticism? In other words, can Foucaults approach be a theoretical justification for democracy? Indigenous and Post-colonial Struggles, and Multinational Democracy Examine a particular struggle for recognition, distribution, or accommodation in Canada, the Third World, or elsewhere around the world. Pay particular attention to (a) the multiplicity of ways in which individuals or groups have been blocked from questioning or entering into dialogue about norms of recognition and governance; (b) how such struggles and conflicts for recognition are, or can be, undertaken; (c) how these struggles are carried over into negotiations, which test and extend the limits imposed upon civic freedom; and (d) whether the counter-hegemonic practices identified by De Sousa Santos and Avritzer, or the civic or glocal practices identified by Tully, are present and, if not, whether they are feasible in this context. Finally, conclude your observations with (e) an assessment about the effects of struggles for recognition on the quality of democracy in the society in which the struggle is situated. Has the society become more democratic as a result? Submission Instructions Submit your completed assignment to Assignment 4: Final Research Essay – Submissions for assessment (submission link will be available upon your course contract start date). Important Once you submit the assignment for grading, your submission is final. To resubmit the assignment, you must obtain special permission from your instructor. Please name your file using the following template: ___ Examples: COMP101_Assignment1_DoeJane_1234567 COMP101_Assignment1_file1_DoeJane_1234567 COMP101_FinalAssignment_DoeJane_1234567

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): POLI470 Required Readings.pdf, POLI470 Required Readings 12.pdf, POLI470 Study Questions 2.pdf, POLI470 Study Questions.pdf, POLI470 Study Questions 9.pdf, POLI470 Required Readings 5.pdf, POLI470 References.pdf, POLI470 References 8.pdf, POLI470 References 1.pdf, POLI470 Overview.pdf, POLI470 Objectives.pdf, POLI470 Overview 7.pdf, POLI470 Objectives 6.pdf, POLI470 Key Terms and Concepts.pdf, POLI470 Key Terms and Concepts 11.pdf, POLI470 Key Terms and Concepts 4.pdf, POLI470 Commentary.pdf, POLI470 Commentary 10.pdf, POLI470 Commentary 3.pdf, POLI470 Assignment 4 Final Research Essay – Instructions.pdf

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  • The Constitution

    Article Analysis #3- The Constitution

    • Due Monday by 10:30am
    • Points 50
    • Submitting a file upload
    • File Types doc, pdf, docx, and pages
    • Available after Sep 1, 2025 at 12am

    One Page Article Analysis

    First, read a news story from the newspaper or the Internet. Answer the following questions regarding your news story: 1) What is the main issue, who are the main actors being discussed, what are your thoughts about this story?;

    Second, choose one of the assigned articles from Canvas you read for this week. Answer the following questions regarding the assigned article: 1) What are the basics of this article (who, what, when, how, why, etc.); 2) What is the overall main point the author is trying to convince you of? 3) Do you agree with the authors argument? Why? Why not?

    Finally, tie together your news story with what you learned from the assigned article, textbook readings, podcasts, videos, etc. for this week. Type your answers using your own words, no outline or bullets, complete sentences and paragraphs, single-spaced, full-page.

    There are fifteen article analysis assignments required (50 points each), one due in the dropbox on Monday of each week by 10:30 am (no late work please). Each of these assignments requires the student to read articles assigned for the week on Canvas (for example: “Export This?”), as well as recent political news stories from a major daily periodical or e-news source (NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN Politics, Sacramento Bee, etc.). You must read the newspaper every day and choose a story about American politics for your weekly Article Analysis. We will discuss your news story at the beginning of class every Monday when I ask “So, what is going on in American politics today?”

    The idea behind this assignment is to have students keep up on political events from throughout the country, put them in the context of broader conceptual thought (based on the assigned articles for the week), and then think critically about that news event. Students are expected to use their own thoughts and words in the written assignments. Use of ChatGPT or other AI tools to submit what should be original written work will be detected and given zero points.

    The quality of writing should be college level, one full page, at least 300 words, double or single spaced, 12 pt font. You must include a citation of the source of your news article with the title, author’s name, periodical name, and date of publication (MLA or APA format). Please Submit Assignment as a .pdf or Word doc.

    Plagiarism will result in zero points. I use a program called TurnItIn and other AI detectors to determine how much, if any, of your assignment has come directly from the Internet or is AI generated. So, please put everything in your own words. Do not cut and paste anything from the Internet or AI generated text.

    I recommend students clip several political news articles from the newspaper or the internet each week. Then, in your article analysis, you can tie one or more of these stories to what you have been learning from the assigned articles, textbook, podcasts, and other course resources.

    Be prepared to talk about your news story in class on Mondays.

    Requirements: Follow Steps

  • The Founding of our government

    Article Analysis #2- The Founding of Our Government

    • Due Feb 2 by 10:30am
    • Points 50
    • Submitting a file upload
    • File Types doc, pdf, pages, and docx
    • Available after Aug 25, 2025 at 12am

    One Page Article Analysis

    First, read a news story from the newspaper or the Internet. Answer the following questions regarding your news story: 1) What is the main issue, who are the main actors being discussed, what are your thoughts about this story?;

    Second, choose one of the assigned articles from Canvas you read for this week. Answer the following questions regarding the assigned article: 1) What are the basics of this article (who, what, when, how, why, etc.); 2) What is the overall main point the author is trying to convince you of? 3) Do you agree with the authors argument? Why? Why not?

    Finally, tie together your news story with what you learned from the assigned article, textbook readings, podcasts, videos, etc. for this week. Type your answers using your own words, no outline or bullets, complete sentences and paragraphs, single-spaced, full-page.

    There are fifteen article analysis assignments required (50 points each), one due in the dropbox on Monday of each week by 10:30 am (no late work please). Each of these assignments requires the student to read articles assigned for the week on Canvas (for example: “Export This?”), as well as recent political news stories from a major daily periodical or e-news source (NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN Politics, Sacramento Bee, etc.). You must read the newspaper every day and choose a story about American politics for your weekly Article Analysis. We will discuss your news story at the beginning of class every Monday when I ask “So, what is going on in American politics today?”

    The idea behind this assignment is to have students keep up on political events from throughout the country, put them in the context of broader conceptual thought (based on the assigned articles for the week), and then think critically about that news event. Students are expected to use their own thoughts and words in the written assignments. Use of ChatGPT or other AI tools to submit what should be original written work will be detected and given zero points.

    The quality of writing should be college level, one full page, at least 300 words, double or single spaced, 12 pt font. You must include a citation of the source of your news article with the title, author’s name, periodical name, and date of publication (MLA or APA format). Please Submit Assignment as a .pdf or Word doc.

    Plagiarism will result in zero points. I use a program called TurnItIn and other AI detectors to determine how much, if any, of your assignment has come directly from the Internet or is AI generated. So, please put everything in your own words. Do not cut and paste anything from the Internet or AI generated text.

    I recommend students clip several political news articles from the newspaper or the internet each week. Then, in your article analysis, you can tie one or more of these stories to what you have been learning from the assigned articles, textbook, podcasts, and other course resources.

    Be prepared to talk about your news story in class on Mondays.

    Requirements: Just follow Steps

  • Discussion Board and replay to one student 75 words

    Discussion Board #1: African Americans and the American Revolution

    Attached are videos of the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War and the U.S. Constitution. Watch and tell me what you think. You should write about 1 paragraph (75 words). You should also write replies to other people’s posts on the discussion board. Please be respectful of other people’s opinions. This is meant to be an interactive and lively discussion between students.



    Feb 6 4:41pm

    Reply from Carlyann Bulleri

    These videos were interesting and very important to learn about. I was not aware that after the Revolutionary War, thousands of African Americans were taken by British ships, and some started a new colony off the coast of Africa. Additionally, I thought it was important to know and understand the parts of the Constitution that protected individual people. The first video described how some African Americans voted to ratify the Constitution and add the Bill of Rights to implement citizen protections. It is important to learn and understand this part of history to understand how and why our country is the way it is today.

    Requirements: Just Follow steps

  • Populism

    Read through the PDF file included below and then answer each question in enough proper details.

    What is populism?

    Why is populism a contested concept?

    What do Mudde and Kaltwasser mean when they describe populism as a thin-centered ideology?

    What is pluralism, and what do pluralists believe about society and politics?

    Identify and define the three core concepts of populism.

    What is the relationship of populism with democracy?

    Over the course of history, how have the definitions of the people and the elite changed or remained the same?

    Why has populism been so dominant in Latin America?

    How has populism developed (or emerged) in contemporary Europe?

    What is the process by which populism adopts a particular form?

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Populism.pdf

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  • assignment

    Paper must be double spaced, with one inch margins, 12 point font and include section headers for each of the paper sections noted below (Three Representational Roles and Role You Choose, Influence of Legislative Leaders, Rank and Explain Influences of Institutional Factors, and Explain Your Vote) and at least three full pages long.

    Objective: The objective for this assignment is for students to understand and critically analyze the multiple pressures on policy makers in Texas as they most listen to their leaders, the governor, the voters (social responsibility) and their own conscience (personal responsibility) in deciding how to cast their vote on a controversial issue.

    Assignment: You have recently been elected as a Republican to the Texas House of Representatives from a competitive district (even number of Democrats, Republicans and Independents) just outside of Dallas. One of the first bills that you must vote on is House Bill 3- a bill to require all votes be cast on election day, prohibiting early voting or voting my mail in Texas. Your constituents support the bill as does the Lt. Governor, because they believe the bill will significantly reduce voter fraud and increase faith in the election results. However, you oppose the bill because you believe it will make it harder for elderly and rural voters to cast their votes and that voter fraud is not a significant problem. The Speaker of the House and the Governor oppose the bill as well.

    In explaining how you will vote on the bill, be sure to explain the following:

    • What Representational Role you will adopt (trustee, delegate or politico). (Unit 4 Written Lectures, Slide 4-25). Be sure to discuss all three representational roles.
    • How will the Speaker of the House, the Lt. Governor and Governor of Texas influence the fate of the bill? (Unit 4 Written Lectures, Slides 4-9, 4-10, 4-18 & 4-22)
    • How do you think constituents might try to influence your vote? (Unit 4 Written Lectures, Slide 4-20)
    • Which factors noted above and in your notes (constituents, governor, party leaders and your own opinion) will influence your vote? Rank them in importance. (Unit 4, Written Lectures, Slide 4-20, 4-21)
    • Will you vote for or against the bill? Please explain your answer thoroughly. You should refer back to the representational role here. (Unit 4 Written Lectures, Slide 4-25)

    NOTE: Your focus in this paper is NOT the particular bill, but how the various players and your constituents will impact your vote, regardless of the topic of the bill.

    The paper should include subject headers (ie. Representational Roles, Influence of Legislative Leaders, etc.)

    Assessment: Your Assignment will be assessed based on the following rubric.

  • POS2041 Media Analysis

    Using the links below and the instructions attached please provide an informal 500 word analysis on Immigration Custom Enforcement

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    Requirements: Meet instructions attached for max credit

  • Critical Thinking Exercise #2

    For this critical thinking exercise you will in a roughly 500 word one or two page document:

    1. Find an event/issue in modern culture that address the issues of culture/socialization/media. You can examine anything that address these issues like songs such as Jason Aldean’s “Try That in Small Town”, Lil Baby’s “Bigger Picture”, movies such as “Boys N the Hood”, short articles, perception of Bad Bunny’s participation in the super bowl, etc. You can choose whatever examples you want.

    2. Once you find media, address the following questions:

    Be sure to explain how you think your chosen media impacts culture and/or public opinion using course concepts from this week. How do stereotypes in the mass media reinforce blacks’ subordinate status and work against universal freedom for African Americans? How might media reinforce positive images for African Americans? How does the culture/media you examined impact political socialization positively and/or negatively?

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    Additional Material:

    https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M9Iu6oSm9NEC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&ots=kcqoXNvjDX&sig=q5G2BuAbGTDBRsnazP46TguI5JE#v=onepage&q&f=false

  • Reading Report 1

    Each of these reader reports will be no less than two (2) pages, and no more than three (3) pages in length and should respond to, or elaborate on some aspect of the texts (note that here and throughout text refers to films to the same extent that is does to memoirs, novels, or critical works) that we have been examining in the week before it is due.

    Reader report 1 will identify one aspect, passage, scene, theme, or symbol in the text you have chosen, and discuss (a) why this aspect is important for understanding this text in response to the theme of the class, and (b) why this aspect deserves further consideration. For this report, please select from one of the works read in the first three weeks of the course.

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Carson v Makin (SCOTUS 2022)_ A Primer.pdf, Locke 1689 Letter on toleration.pdf, Jan 26 POLS-Y249 Agenda.pdf, Jan 21 POLS-Y249 Agenda.pdf, 20-1088_dbfi.pdf

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