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Using at least 4 terms from the vocabulary list:

Describe the site (history, purpose, design)

Analyze how it represents memory and history

Identify what is emphasized and what may be missing

Apply Gillian Roses concepts:

What discourse is being produced?

What intertextual connections are present?

Vocabulary for the Week

Students should be familiar with and use these terms, locate them while reading and reviewing the PPTs, then cite page numbers and PPT slides in your summaries:

Discourse Systems that produce knowledge and truth

Intertextuality Meaning created across texts/images

Memory Politics Struggles over how history is told

Museumization Turning lived experience into exhibition

Community Museum Built with and for communities

Difficult Heritage Painful, contested histories

Public Culture Shared space of meaning-making

Contact Zone Space of cultural encounter and tension

Landscape as Archive Land as a site of memory

Reparations Material compensation for injustice

Reconciliation Symbolic healing and acknowledgment

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22. What is the difference between a state and a regime?

23. When it comes to the defining the concept of democracy, we generally face at least two problems. What are these two problems or challenges?

24. In one to two paragraphs answer the following question:

One of the longest and continuing debates within comparative politics is the “agency” vs. “structure” debate. What do we mean by this? Specifically what do we mean by agency and structure and what are the implications for the study of politics.

25. What was the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 and what is its significance, which we see even to this day?

26. In Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson are attempting to provide answers to what specific type of political outcome? What is the political outcome they are trying to figure out (in other words, what is the Dependent Variable) and what are the independent variables (the causes of this outcome) that they provide as causes?

27. Long Essay Question: There is no specific lengthy here, I want to see how you apply these authors analytically in answer the following prompt.

Scenario:

Scenario: It is the year 2021-2022 and a global pandemic in the form of a new strain of the Covid virus has struck the world. This virus has spread around the globe, impacting every country. However, states and their governments have responded differently to this pandemic with some arguing that certain states have responded better than others.

As political scientists you are asked to provide analysis of what factors are necessary to help us understand how effective a countrys response will be. In other words, how can we begin to understand and analyze how countries will respond differently to this ongoing crisis?

In order to answer this question, I want you to draw upon the following authors: Fukuyama, Weber, and Robinson and Acemoglu (Why Nations Fail, and the Narrow Corridor). What do these authors say about questions of state power, scope and capacity, institutions, and how do these authors inform the ongoing pandemic crisis? You must use these authors and directly quote from the readings to do well on this question. You must have a minimum of five quotes to be successful on this essay question.

27. Long Essay Question: There is no specific lengthy here, I want to see how you apply these authors analytically in answer the following prompt.

Scenario:

Scenario: It is the year 2021-2022 and a global pandemic in the form of a new strain of the Covid virus has struck the world. This virus has spread around the globe, impacting every country. However, states and their governments have responded differently to this pandemic with some arguing that certain states have responded better than others.

As political scientists you are asked to provide analysis of what factors are necessary to help us understand how effective a countrys response will be. In other words, how can we begin to understand and analyze how countries will respond differently to this ongoing crisis?

In order to answer this question, I want you to draw upon the following authors: Fukuyama, Weber, and Robinson and Acemoglu (Why Nations Fail, and the Narrow Corridor). What do these authors say about questions of state power, scope and capacity, institutions, and how do these authors inform the ongoing pandemic crisis? You must use these authors and directly quote from the readings to do well on this question. You must have a minimum of five quotes to be successful on this essay question.

22. What is the difference between a state and a regime?

23. When it comes to the defining the concept of democracy, we generally face at least two problems. What are these two problems or challenges?

24. In one to two paragraphs answer the following question:

One of the longest and continuing debates within comparative politics is the “agency” vs. “structure” debate. What do we mean by this? Specifically what do we mean by agency and structure and what are the implications for the study of politics.

25. What was the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 and what is its significance, which we see even to this day?

26. In Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson are attempting to provide answers to what specific type of political outcome? What is the political outcome they are trying to figure out (in other words, what is the Dependent Variable) and what are the independent variables (the causes of this outcome) that they provide as causes?

22. What is the difference between a state and a regime?

23. When it comes to the defining the concept of democracy, we generally face at least two problems. What are these two problems or challenges?

24. In one to two paragraphs answer the following question:

One of the longest and continuing debates within comparative politics is the “agency” vs. “structure” debate. What do we mean by this? Specifically what do we mean by agency and structure and what are the implications for the study of politics.

25. What was the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 and what is its significance, which we see even to this day?

26. In Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson are attempting to provide answers to what specific type of political outcome? What is the political outcome they are trying to figure out (in other words, what is the Dependent Variable) and what are the independent variables (the causes of this outcome) that they provide as causes?

27. Long Essay Question: There is no specific lengthy here, I want to see how you apply these authors analytically in answer the following prompt.

Scenario:

Scenario: It is the year 2021-2022 and a global pandemic in the form of a new strain of the Covid virus has struck the world. This virus has spread around the globe, impacting every country. However, states and their governments have responded differently to this pandemic with some arguing that certain states have responded better than others.

As political scientists you are asked to provide analysis of what factors are necessary to help us understand how effective a countrys response will be. In other words, how can we begin to understand and analyze how countries will respond differently to this ongoing crisis?

In order to answer this question, I want you to draw upon the following authors: Fukuyama, Weber, and Robinson and Acemoglu (Why Nations Fail, and the Narrow Corridor). What do these authors say about questions of state power, scope and capacity, institutions, and how do these authors inform the ongoing pandemic crisis? You must use these authors and directly quote from the readings to do well on this question. You must have a minimum of five quotes to be successful on this essay question.