Political science

2 to 3 page paper on the selection of judges in Texas, explain two more judicial selection processes in Texas as well. Choose with system you believe is better and explain why. Essay must be neatly organized and informative. Be sure to add work cite page.

A role of elections is to give governments legitimacy.  IF we feel that our elections are NOT free/fair, we begin to question that legitimacy. If enough citizens question the legitimacy, democracy becomes weakened. We must first know how the system works to identify any possible weaknesses so that we can improve/strengthen rather than weaken our democracy.  In American presidential elections, explain fully the following in essay format (do NOT simply answer a list!): 1. Invisible/pre-primary “Season” * When is this? * Why does it occur? * What background qualifications normally make a candidate most successful? * Name 3 specific things candidates or potential candidates hope to gain during this “season” 2. Primary and Caucus “Season” * Specifically, when during a presidential election cycle do these occur? * How do they differ from each other? * WHAT are the candidates competing for? * What role does money and media play in determining which candidates are more successful? Explain fully. * What did Dr. Patterson’s article show us about motivation of media to cover any certain candidate AND what that media coverage does? 3. Party Conventions * What time frame in the election year do these occur? * Talk about at least 3 specific things that each political party will accomplish at its convention * What is the role of the media during the conventions? How does that affect the success of the party nominee?  Use “priming” and “framing” terminology to explain this. 4. General Election “Season” * When is this “season” of the election year? * Describe how it is different from the Primary and Caucus Season * What are the candidates (now called nominees – why?) trying to gain? * Why is more media attention on the battleground states during this time? 5. Election Day * Specifically, how do we know when this day is every 4 years? * What is the role of the popular vote? * What motivates people to go vote? * What are the implications for the system when large percentages of the voting age public (VAP) do not go vote for whatever reason? * What is the role of electors? 1. How do we know how many electors each state gets? 2. When do the electors cast their votes? 3. How many total electors are there in the Electoral College and how many must a nominee get to win the presidency? 6. When is the Inauguration of the President? What are the weaknesses of the system? What are the strengths? Chapters 6-9, Patterson’s article posted online, and all other posted materials may be referenced in writing your essay. Do NOT use other sources! https://openstax.org/books/american-government-2e/pages/6-introduction https://openstax.org/books/american-government-2e/pages/7-introduction https://openstax.org/books/american-government-2e/pages/8-introduction https://openstax.org/books/american-government-2e/pages/9-introduction

Attention All Students: Once again both Lesson # 3 and Lesson # 4 are mandatory, and you cannot skip them. All students must post at least one long post and two short posts for each of these two lessons. by their due dates. Once again you cannot skip this assignment. All students must read the following reading assignments very carefully. Chapter 6 on “The News Media” from the Struggle for Democracy by Drs. Greenberg and Page, and Chapter 13 on the “Mass Media” from the Democracy for the Few by Dr. Parenti. Scholarly research shows that the mass media help set the political agenda for ordinary citizens. But there are two kinds of mass media in the United States: The Mainstream media owned by giant corporations, like the CNN, L.A Times, N.Y. Times, the Wall Street Journal, Times Magazine, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, ABC… And the Non-Mainstream media which run no corporate commercials /advertisements and are publicly owned (mostly supported by donations by their subscribers /the public.) Examples of Non-mainstream will be Pacifica Radio (KPFK in Los Angeles Area F.M. 90.7), NPR F.M. 89.3, the Nation Magazine, The Humanist, Z magazine… In this assignment, you must compare nonmainstream and mainstream media coverage of current pressing domestic and global political issues in a scholarly fashion. You must also answer the 5 questions at the bottom of this post. To accomplish these tasks, you must first read chapters on the mass media from both Democracy for the Few and the Struggle for Democracy. Furthermore, you must listen to KPFK radio station, F.M. 90.7, or go online http://www.kpfk.org or http://www.kpfk.org/programs and listen to one of Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now” program on that radio station. You can also navigate through that cite and obtain a hard copy of the same program. There are several other important programs at KPFK like “the Middle East Focus”, “Beneath the Surface”, “Nation Magazine”, “Lawyers Guild” or weekday’s 6:00 p.m. news that you can use. Listening to KPFK, F.M. 90.7, or reading its programs online is mandatory. This is not optional. You must cite specific examples from that radio station. You cannot cite just a few simplistic headlines information. You must cite specific, detailed information from KPFK programs and your detailed responses to them. You should also access the web site of the nation magazine by clicking “www.thenation.com” and read a couple of articles on one or two current major foreign and domestic policy issues/ crisis like the war in Iraq, the Palestinian Israeli conflict, International Economic Crisis or Global Environmental condition /crisis. You must also read a couple of articles on at least one of the following current major domestic issues/crises: The Patriotic Act and its restrictions of Civil Liberties in the United States or the current economic crisis and meltdown in the United States. Furthermore, you must watch a couple of CNN or CBS news programs and read a couple of articles from the L.A. Times or the Wall Street Journal or any mainstream media of your choice on at least one current major foreign policy issue/ crisis AND at least one current major domestic issue/ crisis. Please read the examples provided above. This is also a must. This is not optional. Then you must compare and contrast the coverage of those issues by both the Mainstream media; (CNN, L.A.Times,…), and the nonmainstream Media; KPFK F.M. 90.7, the Nation Magazine. After that you must answer all of the following questions: 1) What does Dr. Parenti mean by “He Who Pays the Piper” and by “the ideological monopoly”? Based on your research which media (mainstream or nonmainstream) is guilty of those charges? (Manifests ideological monopoly the way described by Dr. Parenti.) 2) Which one, the mainstream or the nonmainstream media deals with the root causes of current issues or crisis like the Palestinian Israeli conflict, the global climate change, the crisis of gun violence in the United States, the U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the Russian Interference in the American Election, the restrictions of Civil Liberties in the United States especially for women and the LBGTQ community? 3) What does Dr. Parenti mean by the “official manipulation?” Based on your research did you see more official manipulation in the mainstream media or the non-mainstream Media? Which one feeds us the official line of the current U.S. administration and why? In other words which one of the two media: mainstream or nonmainstream, feeds us the official line and which one is doing a better job to play its role as the watchdog? 4) Focus on the section on “Prevailing Themes in Political News” and “Limited Fragmented, and incoherent political information.” The struggle for Democracy.) Which one of the two: Mainstream or Nonmainstream is guilty of those charges? 5) In your essay, you must include KPFK’s programs comparison with either CBS or CNN news programs. If you live in an area that you cannot get that radio station you can go online and listen to that station online. The online address of that station is http://www.kpfk.org/ or http://www.kpfk.org/programs/ these two links both give you access to KPFK and give you the option of listening to or reading the programs of your choice online. The following are required: You must write a scholarly essay. Please try your best to restrain your emotions and construct them in a logical scholarly essay. Your position is not the issue here. How scholarly you do your research and how well you support your position is the main focus of this exercise. You must post at least one long post and at least two short posts. Your long post must be at least two and a half pages single-spaced. You must answer the entire question.

Write a 500- to 750-word paper in which you discuss the pros and cons of polls, their accuracy, and their relevance in taking the public “pulse” on important topics. Incorporate how interest groups and other lobbying efforts impact polls and voting outcomes. Consider how things in the media may influence public opinion and who is more likely to vote in demographics (e.g., voting trends of older adults versus younger adults).

Public budgeting revolves around two basic powers – the power to raise revenue (e.g., to tax) and the power to use the revenues raised to accomplish legitimate constitutionally authorized goals (e.g., to spend). Both of these actions have a wide range of both intended and often unintended consequences. Economic policies and political realities often arise in issues of taxing and spending policies, their influence on the economy, and the resulting impacts on jobs, incomes, living standards and relative freedom and liberty. Ronald Reagan famously employed “supply side economics” and the Laffer Curve in the national budget and budget decisions. After carefully reading this week’s reading assignments, you will conduct your own research and write a concise but thorough research paper 1) explaining and examining the Laffer Curve and a historical perspective on the balance of tax burdens and revenue generation; 2) analyzing contemporary proposals and arguments for the tax cuts in tax reform; 3) analyzing the politics of tax cut discussions in contemporary budget and tax reform issues, and 4) providing a Judeo-Christian analysis of the potential role of tax cuts in contemporary tax reform. The text of this research paper must be 5–7 pages (not including title page, reference page, and any appendices). This paper must be in current APA format with 1-inch margins and 12-pt Times New Roman font. You must also include a title page and reference page. You must include citations to a sufficient number of appropriate professional, scholarly, or other appropriate sources to fully support your assertions and conclusions (which will likely require more than the minimum number of citations); each paper must contain citations to the course texts book, assigned readings, and a minimum of 5 additional sources, not including the course textbooks, assigned readings, and the Bible.

Identify why students should learn about political science. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source. Describe at least one reason why political science is interesting or relevant to you personally.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: “Life, Liberty and Property” (John Locke, 1690s) vs. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” (Thomas Jefferson, 7/4/1776) How could a government that protects your property rights be different from one that protects your right to pursue happiness? Which one would be a better government? Things to think about: * Does our government do a bad job of protecting your property?  How so? * Would your answer be different if you were a billionaire? (money is property too!).  Why? Some people say that if government focuses on protecting people’s private property, then it’s favoring rich people too much.  Do you agree?  Why or why not?  Why would someone say this?  Why might a rich person disagree?

1. Please help me to write an answer with 4-5 sentences on the following question and please read these 2 links:https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-american-monuments-memorials-statues-combating-recent-criminal-violence/On Friday, June 26, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence. The Order protects public monuments, memorials, and statues.The Order further seeks to protect state and local monuments. However, under our system of federalism, defacing a state or local monument would be a violation of state or local law. Therefore, federal law enforcement cannot enforce such a violation of law.In order for the president to ensure state and local monuments are also protected, he is directing officials to consider holding back funding and grants.Although the president is well-intended on protecting all monuments, memorials, and statues, do you think the president is overstepping his executive powers by directing officials to consider holding back federal funding and grants? Explain.2. Please help me to write the responds to 2 following discussions(2-3) sentences1. In my opinion, this is not only President Trump’s decision to consider containing federal funding and grants. With all this, they want to stop this violence, as well as punish people with these decisions. But people go against the law, destroy state statuses and other things, and this is not good. What example we give to our children with such actions, the same can somehow be solved with the right path and not with the destroyed ones, that this country will belong to our children in the future. According to the state and presidency, they are only thinking of those people who are protesting and raping the country today, but how about those people who are struggling today in difficult times with this Covid-19 and crisis, what should they do in such a difficult time. I think Government and Trump should think something else what would be good for everyone, that’s my opinion.2. I believe that the president is overstepping his power by doing this. America’s government was set up in a way that local and state governments would have to govern themselves with influence but not total control from the federal level. By trying to enforce state laws at the federal level he is overstepping this boundary. Regarding the withholding of funding towards states that do not support the policy, it may be unethical but has already happened in America before. States were forced to choose between raising their drinking age or losing highway funding, the same is happening now except with the monument policy. Forcing states to either comply with the policy which may lead to more protests towards the state that went against them or would lead greater protests towards the federal government who are trying to stop them. So in my opinion this policy will only end badly and have the opposite effect but is the president’s power to put in place. Instead of enforcing local laws at a federal level a way that would not overstep boundaries would instead be to get the local and state governments to enforce and pass their own laws.

One (full ) page essay detailing how I intend to help honor our Past, Uniting our Present & Mentoring our Future Military sorority. It has to be typed double-spaced with 1″ margins on all sides; 12pt Times New Roman or Arial. I am a retired US Army Veteran.

Research the initial stages of both the federal government and state government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. You may choose to watch the video: http://www.pbs.org/video/1555897742/ (Links to an external site.) Write a 1page essay on which level of government should have been responsible for the Hurricane Katrina response. Consider including the answers to the following questions: What issue did the Mayor have with the state and federal government? What was the local government’s responsibility? State government? Federal government? How does each level of government’s response relate to the concept of federalism? How does federalism affect your future career?