Political science

InstructionsThe Electoral College was created to protect US citizens against mob rule. Mob rule is the control of a lawful government system by a mass of people through violence and intimidation. However, some Americans question the legitimacy of this process. Pick one election where the outcome of the popular vote and the electoral college vote differed to create an argument in favor of or opposed to the use of the electoral college. List at least three valid points to support your argument. Present you argument in a PowerPoint presentation.As you complete your presentation, be sure to:Use speaker’s notes to expand upon the bullet point main ideas on your slides, making references to research and theory with citation.Proof your workUse visuals (pictures, video, narration, graphs, etc.) to compliment the text in your presentation and to reinforce your content.Do not just write a paper and copy chunks of it into each slide. Treat this as if you were going to give this presentation live.Presentation Requirements (APA format)?Length: 8-10 substantive slides (excluding cover and references slides)??Font should not be smaller than size 16-point??Parenthetical in-text citations included and formatted in APA style??References slide (a minimum of 2 outside scholarly sources plus the textbook and/or the weekly lesson for each course outcome)?GradingThis activity will be graded using the Electoral College Grading Rubric.

Find a bill that is being discussed in the state or national legislature (either house). You can look in a newspapers or check out an interest group webpage that interests you to identify a bill, then find it on an official website. Or you can browse an official website. (Short bills are easier to write about.)Think about / find out who is lobbying for it and financing it. Think about what might happen if it’s passed. Decide what your opinion is about it.Write a 2-3 page typed letter to your representative in that legislative body in favor or against it’s passage, giving reasons for your stance. Organize your argument.For this paper, you’ll need to use two or three scholarly sources to provide evidence for your position. You may also find this  general Political Science Libguide to be useful as you look for those sources, in addition to the assignment Libguide: 4 sources minimum

Compare Japan & Canada On Food Dependency: Policy & Trade Please turn in an alphabetized (by author’s last name) bibliography. It should be single spaced, Times new Roman 12 point font. For books: Authorlast, author first. Title. (City: Press, year). For articles: Last, first, “Title,” Journal, volume, number (Year), page range. For CIA factbook use our customary format.

How does General Sam Houston use the attribute develops (or not develop) his soldiers during these events of the Battle of San Jacinto?1. march 11- Sam Houston takes command of the Texan Army at Gonzales. how does he develop or doesn’t during the training and modernizing Texan army2. march 29- the city of San Felipe is burnt to prevent supply/use by the Mexican army. How does he develop or not his subordinate Mosley baker to be trained enough of the incoming amy3. April 12- Houston has a war council. has a new tactic, giving subordinates a voice in the battle went against their vote anyway, and decided to attack. how did he develop or not I need this typed out as if I was briefing this to someone. each point is only about 90 seconds long. therefore i just need an example of each and how he did not use the attribute develops

What are the dangers of popularism Obama’s foreign policy.

Essay Number 1:Write a paper that addresses the rise of Vietnamese Nationalism that creates the Viet Minh. How does the rise of Ho Chi Minh collide with the rise of the Cold War, the last gasps of French Colonialism, and military conflict in the 1940s and 50s to to create the American presence in Vietnam? Why does the US continue down the path to war in the 1950s? How are the ideas of American presidents consistent or different from Truman to Kennedy? What does Vietnamese nationalism mean to them? Use ALL of these questions to trace the development of the French-Indochina war into the rise of American support of South Vietnam. Use a thesis (a statement of argument) early in the paper (language like, “This paper argues…”) to help organize your paper.Essay Number 2: Write a paper that addresses the escalation of the conflict between the two Vietnams and the increasing American presence in the conflict. How did the US go from advisors to direct combatants? How did that shift result in a war that wasn’t won in the mid 1960s? Given LBJ’s hesitation to commit, followed by a graduated commitment strategy to finally large troop deployments, what happened to create these changes? And why didn’t the commitment work? How did the failure of the warfighting strategy finally explode in the perceptions and misperceptions of success and failure in and around the Tet Offensive? What was different for US military commanders, politicians, and citizens by Winter/Spring of 1968?Cite the readings in each essay. Use a very simple parenthetical citation method: (Karnow, pp. 45-46) or (Johnson, p. 6) within the paper, no footnotes needed. Use a very brief works cited page at the end of the total submission. Try to avoid LONG quotes, but brief quotes are allowed.papers should be between 3 and 5 pages. Three and a half to four pages seems perfect.Readings:Andrew Rotter: The Light at the End of the TunnelStanley Karnow: Vietnam, A  History (1997 edition) Textbook

Do international economic institutions make developing countries economically better or worse off?- The maximum length of the paper is 1,500 words (not counting the works cited section). State your word count at the beginning of your paper. There is no word minimum. However, it is generally a good idea to take advantage of the space you have to write a comprehensive paper.- The paper must include a works cited section where you list all the readings cited in the paper.- The paper should be double-spaced, with standard formatting for fonts and margins; it should include the page number for each page.SOURCES- This is not a research paper. External research is neither required nor expected.- The sources for the paper are the class readings.TOPIC CHOICESQ1: Do international economic institutions make developing countries economically better or worse off?STRUCTURE OF THE PAPER- State your thesis early in the paper (in the 1st sentence)- Describe and assess the logic of your argument Describe and assess the logic of the alternative argument- Address the evidence- Convincingly and clearly argue, referring to the logic and the evidence, why your argument is better than the alternativesThe paper emphasizes analysis and asks you to take a side in a debate. Your thesis is a statement of which side of the debate you think is more persuasive. For topic 1, you can argue that international institutions make developing countries better off, or that they make developing countries worse off.The side of the debate you choose is associated with your argument; the side of the debate that you do not choose is your counterargument. E.g., if you are arguing that international economic institutions make developing countries better off than the counterargument is that they make developing countries worse off. Your paper needs to present the strongest possible case for BOTH sides of the debate, including the one you are arguing against. You need to describe and asses the causal logic behind both sides of the debate. The casual logic should be developed by analyzing relevant arguments from the readings. Identify and address scholars and theories who argue in favor of international institutions or who criticize those institutions (topic 1), In doing so, you should emphasize analysis: show clearly and directly why some arguments are more persuasive than others. Explain specifically why the logic behind the counterargument is flawed and why the logic behind your side of the debate is more sound. You should also be comprehensive in incorporating a number of relevant readings, authors and issues.The paper should consider relevant empirical evidence from the class readings. Scholars and analysts make claims and predictions about how the world works. Are those predictions supported by relevant evidence (e.g.: the track record of international economic institutions; history of great power politics)? Refer with specificity to relevant empirical evidence. Do not ignore evidence that does not favor your side of the debate; rather show why the evidence is overall more consistent with your side of the debate than the counterargument.Finally, to strengthen the paper, work on overall organization and coherence. Avoid the following problems: 1) writing a laundry list paper. Addressing a number of relevant authors and arguments is good and it makes your paper more comprehensive. However, you also need to develop a coherent analytical structure showing why overall some arguments are more persuasive than others. You should not only write a list of authors along the lines of: scholar A says X, scholar B says Y […], and stop there without doing analysis. 2) a paper that reads like you are trying to figure out what you want to say as you go along. Instead, write a paper with a coherent overall structure.Overall, this is a paper that emphasizes analysis based on the class readings. Think about the following question: how do you know? Write with an analytical purpose. E.g., when discussing what happened in country X at time Y, go beyond being descriptive and telling a story: make an analytical point about how and why that development supports or is inconsistent with a certain theoretical perspective. Always back your claims by reference to the arguments and the evidence from the readings.CITATIONS- Identify your source within the text of the paper. Key: identify the author of the text ((e.g., if citing the Wallerstein chapter of the Lechner and Boli book, identify Wallerstein). If you are citing multiple chapters from the Lechner and Boli book, list each chapter separately in the works cited, rather than only listing the Lechner and Boli book.- Cite the author in parentheses at the end of sentence (or within a sentence) but always according to the format author/year/page (i.e. Keohane and Martin 1995, 40). If cited within a sentence the format should be “According to Keohane and Martin (1995, 40)…”- Include a works cited section at the end with all the relevant information. Example: Keohane, Robert O. and Lisa L. Martin. 1995. International Security 20(Summer): 39-51- Follow APSA style and consult the following document: http://www.psci.unt.edu/~pmcollins/APSA%20Citation%20and%20Reference%20Guidelines.pdf (Links to an external site.)- If you prefer to follow another commonly used citation style (e.g., Chicago style), that is fine.STYLE GUIDELINES- Avoid long verbatim quotations, rather paraphrase and use your own words, while citing the source you are referring to.- Break up long paragraphs.- Proofread the essay before submission.

Reviewing the concepts of ethnic conflict and totalitarianism:Often students are confused on what constitutes an ethnic conflict. Before you select a topic for this assignment, be sure to review the information below to gain a better understanding of what constitutes Totalitarianism and ethnic conflict.Totalitarianism and ethnic conflict are not the same as violent act committed by a police officer that was officially deemed as being racially motivated. Ethnic conflict is when government has discriminatory policies in place. Slavery and segregation were examples of ethnic conflict. Many students confuse recent events of violence or shooting by police officers on individuals as examples of ethnic conflict. However, not all of those actions were acts of racially motivated violence.  In addition, they were committed by individuals in the execution of their job, which are subject to review and oversight (administrative and legal), and if deemed excessive and/or racially motivated, will be sanctioned and prosecuted because they would go against standing policies and laws that do not allow excessive force in the execution of police duties or racially motivated violence against others (by police or any other person). In the 1960s and earlier, we had state governments requiring African Americans to be segregated. This was an example of ethnic conflict. We do not have government policy in this country today promoting the harassment or killing of people because of their race.If a person kills another person, it is a legal issue. If the killing took place because of the race of the person, it is also a hate crime. It is not designated as ethnic conflict. Topics centered on racial inequity such as Black Lives Matter, while important and viable topics in the context of race relations and social justice, are not the same as ethnic conflict in Totalitarian regimes and so are not appropriate topics for this assignment.InstructionsWrite a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation. Summarize the article and explain why this issue is important to the global community. What outside influences might help change this issue? How? Is the article neutral? Why or why not?Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. Articles may not be more than one month old.Writing Requirements (APA format). Refer to the APA manual.Length: 3 full pages (not including the title or references page)1-inch marginsDouble-Spaced12-point Times New Roman fontTitle and Reference page requiredAPA cite article with linkScan copy of article required

Describe presidential election campaigns. How has the nomination process changed over the past few decades, from the primaries to national political party conventions?  Today, what is the role of these political party conventions as was the case in 2016 with the Republican and Democratic Conventions? What role does special interest (lobbyists/PACs) money play in presidential politics?  What lessons can be learned from the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and elections?From the Chapter’s description of the presidential campaigns and elections, how is a presidential campaign organized and what is required to achieve victory in the November general election? What specific ideas or suggestions can you offer for both candidates for president in 2024, for both the Democratic and Republican candidates especially given the situation in the United States at the moment?Please note: Only the two major political parties are relevant in this discussion, Democrats and Republicans. in both historical and contemporary (2021) terms.

The  87th Texas state legislative session began on January 12, 2021.  Thousands of bills have been introduced.  Yet, some bills will receive more attention than others.  The purpose of this paper is for students to examine a bill that has been introduced in the 2021 session and its related issue.  The student should discuss the general intent (purpose) of the bill, the arguments for and against the bill, and the student’s prediction on the outcome of the bill (becomes law or not) and/or his/her own personal position on the bill.The student can discuss more than one bill as long as the bills are related to the same general topic (issue).Research paper requirements:•    Minimum FIVE pages in length•    Standard font and margins•    Appropriate citations (i.e. MLA format)•    Works Cited page