. The first step in our hiring process is a practical exercise, which is described below. We hope you’ll enjoy it!  We’ll imagine the TurboVote database just crashed. We’re still able to watch new requests come into a blank version of the system, but in the meantime, we’re looking up everything by hand. The addresses of the last three users to search for their election […]

  For this assignment, we will be putting together an annotated bibliography of at least 8 sources for a potential final project proposal. These sources can include the non-required reading section of the syllabus. However, academic articles from well-regarded journals and trusted journalistic sources are preferred, and we encourage you to use your best judgment as scholars when selecting these sources. How will you know if […]

Instructions: Write your answers in a Word document. Double space your answers and use spell check before you submit. Be sure to include your name at the top of the page. You must ground each part of your response in course readings with complete citations (Author Date, Page Number). You may use your skills papers as inspiration, but your exam answers must be new. Your […]

 1.      Identify political trends in your area (city, county, or state) that have contributed to or could contribute to a crisis in a particular industry. 2.      How do political and economic events comingle to create a crisis? 3.      What crisis events are discussed the most on the blogs and Internet sites that you visit? 4.      What examples of resistance to technology have you seen where […]

Unlike the other authors that you have read over the past few weeks, Dennett gives attempts to give a strictly empirical account of ‘self’. For Daniel Dennett, accounting for phenomena (objects or events experienced in reality) is a matter of reduction to natural facts. When philosophers say all experience in reality is reducible to physical facts, we say that this is a physicalist account of […]

The ability to analyze and interpret texts is an essential skill in the study of political theory.  The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to develop that skill by preparing a short, carefully-crafted essay on the similarities and contrasts between Plato and Aristotle on several topics. These papers are to be exegetical or interpretive, which means that the task is not […]

The theme of the article is ” What distinguishes the political thought of modern thinkers like Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke from that of ancients?  Choose two out of these three modern thinkers and  contrast their political thinking to that of the ancient thinkers (in other words, contrast the ancient thinkers to either Machiavelli and Hobbes, or Hobbes and Locke, or Machiavelli and Locke—the choice is […]

 The exam draws on the following assigned texts: Barrington Moore, �The Democratic Route to Modern Society,� Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Hannah Arendt, �Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie,� Origins of Totalitarianism Alexander Motyl, �Imperial Structures,� �Trajectories,� �Futures,� Revolutions, nations, empires Alexander Gerschenkron, �Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective� Andre Gunder Frank, �A Plea for World Systems History� Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System Samira Haj, �Introduction,� […]

I have suggested that we should engage and be engaged by those persons who see and understand the world differently from those who sit comfortably within a dominant we society so that we might (re)imagine or discover a new place for democratic politics. And as film-goers who find ourselves more susceptible emotionally to the stimuli presented in a movie theatre, we can at times experience […]

The extra credit (OPTIONAL) consists of: writing a journal on 2018 political issues. The task is to read one newspaper/internet article per day (foreign sources are o.k.), during five days. All the articles should be connected to the same topic. Students have to summarize in a paragraph the content of the article selected, and then in a second paragraph provide a commentary (please include a complete citation […]