Category: Political science

Contentious Politics: “Social Movements, Political Violence and Revolutions” Due: June 26th
Preamble: In this lesson activity you are prompted to assess why social movements, political violence and revolutions occur. Please choose one ‘contentious political’ event from a nation of your choice. Discuss with your peers how we can justify political ideology inflecting social movements, political violence or revolutions. 
Justification: Through research see links and comprehensive analysis you will be able to identify Why and How contentious politics happen as well as reflecting on the aftermath Effects positive or negative. Please consider causes and effects of government rule either Democratic or Coup d’etat or Authoritarian regimes. 
We find it most useful to think of two key types of revolutions: political revolutions and social revolutions. A political revolution is the fundamental transformation of an existing regime, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group. The key difference between a political revolution and a military coup or regime transition negotiated among elites (see chapter 9) is the role of at least one major social movement or armed group of citizens. 
Political revolutions are relatively rare, but much more rare are social revolutions: fundamental transformations of a regime and social structure, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group of citizens.
Social revolutions are so rare they are often historically important events, not only for their country but the world, such as in France (1789), Russia (1917), China (1911–1949), Cuba (1959), Iran (1979), and Eastern Europe (1989–1990).
Political revolution: The fundamental transformation of an existing regime, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group. 
Social revolution: A fundamental transformation of a regime and social structure, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group of citizens.
Political violence: The use of physical force by nonstate actors for political ends.
A Competition among protest groups can also produce violence, as they compete for attention and support by engaging in ever more dramatic actions. Repertoires of action, however, also matter; past political violence in a society can serve as a model of acceptable and/or effective tactics, while certain forms of violence may be seen as beyond the bounds of moral acceptability, regardless of their effectiveness.
Arab Spring Revolution
China Revolution
USSR Revolution
Causes of Terrorism
Civil Wars
Radical Revolution
Political Party Revolution
Women’s Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Coup d’etat
Authoritarian Regime
Task and Mission: 
see Announcement tab and links… on 2 ebooks free 
https://commons.libretexts.org/book/socialsci-18213Links to an external site.
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Political_Science_and_Civics/Introduction_to_Comparative_Government_and_Politics_(Bozonelos_et_al.)

American Politics
You are free to choose a topic that most interests you as long as it is related to American Politics. I must approve of the topic. Email me your research question by 6/9th. Think of the political science topics that most interest you. Is there something you have always been curious about? Can you develop a research question out of that curiosity? For example, would you be interested in understanding more about the low levels of voting in the U.S.? Or are you more interested in comparative politics and want to compare the U.S. educational systems to another country?. Or are you interested in reducing gender violence and want to research why gender violence is so persistent? You are free to follow your interests but the topic must be related to American Politics. From there, develop a thesis, find evidence to support your thesis and write an outline that includes your introduction, thesis, evidence, and conclusion. What you are doing with this assignment is the actual research without writing up a paper. LET ME REITERATE THAT – YOU ARE NOT WRITING A PAPER. DO NOT HAND IN A PAPER. Rather, you are handing in AN OUTLINE THAT HAS ALL YOUR RESEARCH FINDINGS AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. You will spend hours reading everything there is to read on this topic. You will present your research findings to me in the form of an outline and you will put your sources in a proper APA formated annotated bibliography (Reference list). The focus of this project is helping you learn how to do research. The annotated bibliography is something researchers often use to summarize the sources they find when they are doing research. You will turn in to me a list of your sources (using APA format for the bibliography) and under each entry, you will provide a short summary of the source. Here are some great sources to help you do an annotated bibliography:
Sample annotated bibliography:
https://library.tiffin.edu/annotatedbibliography/e…
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_…
Remember: Develop your own thesis and back up your argument with concrete examples, statistics, and quotes from your research. Research Process:
Once you have chosen a research topic (which you should always be able to say in the form of a question), you will now begin the research process. I want you to become a mini-expert on this topic. Read all there is on the topic. You can read newspaper sources, online sources (if reputable), books, articles, etc. Use the library databases and Google Scholar. You should have used at least ONE peer-reviewed, scholarly source. As you are reading, collect and begin to form a bibliography of sources that are good ones for your purposes. Once you have done that, you should begin to start forming a thesis. In other words, after reading and looking at the evidence and arguments related to your question, you should form your own thesis based off of all of this evidence. Once you have a thesis, you will begin to develop an outline. Typically, you will have an introduction of which your thesis is usually stated towards the end of that introduction. You will need to provide evidence (quotations, statistics, case studies, logical reasoning, or examples that you found while researching) in your outline to support your thesis. I want your evidence to be cited in the outline. Use in-text citations to do that in APA format. The reason you do that is you never want to separate any evidence you find from its source so you should get in the habit of always providing a citation – even for yourself as you do the outline. What I will consider when grading:
Is it written free of spelling and grammatical errors? (5 points)
Does the outline have a thesis? Is the thesis focused narrowly enough? (10 points)
Do you provide evidence for your argument? Did you read a variety of sources in order to find good data, quotations, case studies, etc. to back up your thesis? (30 points)
Did you cite your evidence in the outline using APA format? (10 points)
Did you create an annotated bibliography of your sources and put it in APA format? Did you use at least 8 sources, one of which is from a peer-reviewed scholarly source? (20 points)

Prompt
We have learned about some major ideologies in Weeks 2–7 (Classical Liberalism, Reform (Social Welfare) Liberalism, Classical Conservatism, Modern Conservatism, and Socialism). This assignment asks you to analyze how each of these ideologies would evaluate important ideas that have been discussed in the past few years.
For this assignment, you will complete the following:
1. The Classical Liberalism Perspective (45 Pts.)
Read “The Covid-19 response must balance civil liberties and public health—experts explain howLinks to an external site..” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/18/covid-19-response-vs-civil-liberties-striking-the-right-balance.html
Describe how the article defends classical liberalism. Explain your thoughts about the article.
2. The Reform(Social Welfare) Liberalism Perspective (45 Pts.)
As stated in Political Ideologies and Worldviews 3.3.2, explain the core themes of Reform Liberalism.
Read “Biden signs $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, clearing way for stimulus checks, vaccine aidLinks to an external site..” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/biden-1point9-trillion-covid-relief-package-thursday-afternoon.html
Describe how the article defends reform liberalism.
Explain your thoughts about the article.
3. The Socialist Perspective (30 Pts.)
Analyze the socialist take on the two articles above. 
3. The Conservative Perspective (30 Pts.)
Analyze the conservative take on the two articles above. 
Audience
Your intended audience is your fellow students. Although I will of course correct your essay and your classmates will not read it, I want you to communicate your information and analysis AS IF you were explaining the subject to a classmate. Therefore, do not assume your reader is that familiar with the subject matter. 
Objectives
By completing this assignment you will be able to meet the following learning objectives:
Analyze how Classical Liberalism, Reform Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism would view current events
Formatting Expectations
3-4 double-spaced pages of CONTENT (Note: this does not include the additional title page and reference page at the end of your essay.)
Preferably, turn in the essay in the form of a Microsoft Word document to the relevant Canvas assignment portal.
Have regular margins and 12-point font.
Please PROOFREAD your essay and/or have someone else do it.
I want you to use APA (American Psychological Association) style for in-text citations which correspond to entries on your reference page at the end of your essay.

For this assignment you are to chose 1 candidate who is running for office. This can be anyone who is running for federal office (President, Senate, House of Representatives) or any Texas position. In your paper you must: provide some background on the candidate (e.g. their experience such as is this their first elected position? have they held office before?
Qualifications?), and what their position is on 2 issues. This can be any 2 issues–ones they talk about a lot, ones important to them/their constituents/you, ones easy to find.
formatting: 4-5 pages, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman Font with 1 inch margins all around. Works Cited does NOT count towards the page requirement. Title pages are optional but do NOT count towards the page requirement. The 4-5 pages is strictly based on content.
Papers are to be uploaded by June 24, end of day. Papers will be checked for plagiarism. You should aim to have 3 credible sources. Late papers are accepted but penalized -5% per 24 hours late.
I do not care what style of citations you use internally in your paper as long as you have them and are consistent. An easy style is Chicago in-text citations. After you make a reference to someone’s work you use last name year of publication and page number if it’s a direct quote (Gregory, 2022). You MUST have internal citations—no citations is a form of plagiarism. You do not innately know information about the elected official you pick. The use of Al software to write your paper is a form of plagiarism and will receive a 0 and be sent to the appropriate university officials for conduct violation.
Finally, just a reminder I don’t care which elected officials you chose or which policy issues you talk about. You are graded on accuracy of information (based on the sources you use) and the quality of writing.

Write an essay about Canada adopting a gender quota in politics using references from t
he course and outside sources. 

A more focused approach, to one ideology USING THIS OUTLINE.
You’re advertising your new country and accepting immigration applications. If you can’t convince people to immigrate to your new system, it will never exist.
Be imaginative. Not only are you selling your ideas, you must explain why your competitors are inferior. How is this system an improvement over past systems? What’s wrong with other systems that your ideas fix?
This is a chance to show off what you’ve learned about ideology, policy, comparative systems, international relations, political participation, and the U.S. system in particular.
Think of your audience. Are you presenting to people on the internet, on TV, or in person? Remember that your points should be accurate, knowledgeable, but concise. People don’t like to be read to, and they’re unlikely to read entire paragraphs.
Remember the components of your original outline too:
I. What is the foundational ideology?
A. Why?
B. What is an advantage of this ideology?
C. What is a disadvantage of it?
II. What is the form of government?
A. Why?
B. What is an advantage of this system?
C. What is a disadvantage of it?
III. Political participation
A. Party system?
B. Civil rights?
C. Interest group influence?

In June 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the next president of Mexico. 
Using your own research, explain why Claudia Sheinbaum’s election is important.
In your answer, you should:
structure your writing with clear organisation,
include your own research, 
develop a strong viewpoint on the issue
fully support your argument
write with objective language.
250-450 words please make it as close to 450.

Dissertation Topic: “Analyzing the Effects  of the Resource Curse on Foreign Direct
Investment in Sub-Sahara African Countries: A Case Study Approach”

Preamble: In this lesson activity you are prompted to assess why social movements, political violence and revolutions occur. Please choose one ‘contentious political’ event from a nation of your choice. Discuss with your peers how we can justify political ideology inflecting social movements, political violence or revolutions. 
Justification: Through research see links and comprehensive analysis you will be able to identify Why and How contentious politics happen as well as reflecting on the aftermath Effects positive or negative. Please consider causes and effects of government rule either Democratic or Coup d’etat or Authoritarian regimes. 
We find it most useful to think of two key types of revolutions: political revolutions and social revolutions. A political revolution is the fundamental transformation of an existing regime, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group. The key difference between a political revolution and a military coup or regime transition negotiated among elites (see chapter 9) is the role of at least one major social movement or armed group of citizens. Political revolutions are relatively rare, but much more rare are social revolutions: fundamental transformations of a regime and social structure, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group of citizens.
Social revolutions are so rare they are often historically important events, not only for their country but the world, such as in France (1789), Russia (1917), China (1911–1949), Cuba (1959), Iran (1979), and Eastern Europe (1989–1990). 
Political revolution: The fundamental transformation of an existing regime, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group.
Social revolution: A fundamental transformation of a regime and social structure, instigated and primarily carried out by a social movement or armed group of citizens. 
Political violence: The use of physical force by nonstate actors for political ends.
A Competition among protest groups can also produce violence, as they compete for attention and support by engaging in ever more dramatic actions. Repertoires of action, however, also matter; past political violence in a society can serve as a model of acceptable and/or effective tactics, while certain forms of violence may be seen as beyond the bounds of moral acceptability, regardless of their effectiveness.
Arab Spring Revolution
China Revolution
USSR Revolution
Causes of Terrorism
Civil Wars
Radical Revolution
Political Party Revolution
Women’s Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Coup d’etat
Authoritarian Regime
Task and Mission:
see Announcement tab and links… on 2 ebooks free 
https://commons.libretexts.org/book/socialsci-18213Links to an external site.
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Political_Science_and_Civics/Introduction_to_Comparative_Government_and_Politics_(Bozonelos_et_al.)  

Peace be with you . Please see the PADM 550-Week7 for instructions and consider consulting the grading rubric before one starts writing .Also , please consult the course syllabus .It will show the required reading material and give you more depths about the course. Please let’s focus on the 1st column of the Rubric (Targeting Great Distinction ) . The instructions document will show the required material and the transcripts of the watched videos as well . Pages : #2 ; Sources :5 to 7 ; Format : APA