Political science

Instructions: • Write a 9-11 page dialogue script between yourself and 3 of the philosophers we have covered in this class, you are also a philosopher.  • Ideally these philosophers will be from different time periods The Idea: One way to better understand the ideas proposed by our philosophers is to compare and contract them with each other, and with your own ideas. In this assignment you will write a dialog /script that takes place between you and three of other philosophers from this class using the prompt below Format: • The paper should be standard format (12 pt font, 1 inch margins, page numbers.) • The proper spacing for a script is single space within a dialog, double space between speakers. Writing prompt : • Imagine that you are hiking on a mountaintop (Or any other setting you choose…) • You are speaking with 3 of the philosophers we have studied at DIFFERENT points in class, you are also a philosopher. • The four of you start to discuss how to set up a society and achieve the good life. • In this discussion, you debate the following topics 1. Who are we (humans) at our core? 2. What kind of rule/govt should we choose? Who should hold power? 3. How could justice be achieved? 4. How do we best handle material/economic concerns? 5. What advice do you and our philosophers have for a US President, so that he/she may better achieve these goals in the US? What I am looking for: • clear presentation of the individual philosophers viewpoints • insightful comparison and contrast of the philosophers as a group • natural flow of dialog, without there being a lot of filler or “fluff” • Your own personal insights (Remember that this dialog is between 3 philosophers and  yourself. You have an active role) Options for completing this assignment This assignment is focused on the ideas presented by the philosophers. The prompt asks you to imagine yourself hiking. The setting, however, is not central to the project, so you may choose any setting you want. You may also take liberties with the philosophers and their lives, as long as the ideas of the philosophers are portrayed accurately. Basically, you are welcome to be creative and have fun with the project. Some examples chosen before were: The philosophers are participants on the Dating Game, and the Bachelorette is British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher John Locke and Karl Marx are a same sex couple hosting a dinner party. John Locke is a civil and gracious host, while Karl Marx gripes about all the money they are spending on a lavish meal The philosophers are together in family therapy

Instructions from my instructor:  “With specific reference to the relevant readings, choose and answer one of the following questions in an essay of 2-3, double-spaced pages (600-1000 words).  This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your mastery of the course material and to craft the knowledge you have acquired into original interpretation. You should say as much as possible in as few words as possible. To help you remove all fluff from your papers, I encourage you to use the Excel Writing Center. If you participate in an on-line consultation with them, I will add 5 points extra credit to your paper grade. Please submit an electronic copy of your paper on Canvas by 5:00pm on Wednesday, 4 November.  There will be a three-point penalty (out of 100) for each day that it is late. Write in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font. The writing should be polished, thoughtful, and error-free. The electronic format should be Microsoft Word (.doc). Based on Tocqueville’s descriptions of “aristocracy” and “democracy,” how well have Americans embraced the virtues, and tempered the vices, of the modern democratic age? How have Christianity and the Puritan founding of New England influenced the history of American political thought? How have John Locke, the Declaration of Independence, and “classical liberalism” influenced the history of American political thought? How have Adams, Madison, and “constitutionalism” influenced the history of American political thought? Does American politics today operate according to the “rule of law” or the “rule of will”? How have the ideas of the Anti-Federalists, what some might call “classical republicanism,” influenced the history of American political thought? What lessons from the Anti-Federalists can we apply to American politics today? In what ways were the Federalists, who argued for ratification of the United States Constitution, right and wrong in their predictions about how American politics would operate under the Constitution? Which of their ideas are most useful for us today? Was the original presidential selection system designed by the Founders able to prevent demagoguery? Is the current presidential selection system in use today able to prevent demagoguery? If not, what reforms could help? How were Garrison, Thoreau, Douglass, and Lincoln similar, and different, in their anti-slavery arguments? If they are different, whose position is most commendable? How were Croly’s ideas similar to, or different from, Hamiltonian Federalism and Jeffersonian Republicanism?” Don’t worry about the references from relevant readings, I can add some in later. It’s supposed to be 600-1000 words, but 550 is fine. I would recommend one of the prompts that’s more broad or general like prompt 3, but feel free to pick any. Please do not plagiaries or anything, this assignment will be submitted on turnitin.com. I will add a bunch of readings from this class in pdf form as well. If you have any questions, please contact me. Thank you so much! It’s due today at 5:00 PM Mountain Time.

Use this Resource: https://citiesspeak.org/2020/03/19/prioritize-equity-in-covid-19-response/?_ga=2.175268331.818599022.1602355110-1934727499.1602355110 After listening to the lecture on vulnerable populations for research and reading the article on this web site complete this assignment, This assignment requires that students discuss the vulnerable population in terms of ethics not their medical condition While the Corona virus can make anyone sick, some Americans are more at risk of getting an infection and developing severe complications due to their social and economic circumstances. Health care managers will play an important role in helping to prevent these populations from getting or spreading the COVID-19 virus. When completing this assignment virus vulnerable populations include anyone who has difficulty: reading, speaking, understanding or communicating accessing medical care or health advice doing preventive activities, like frequent hand washing and social distancing  ongoing specialized medical care or needs specific medical supplies such as the disabled ongoing supervision needs or support for maintaining independence difficulty accessing transportation economic barriers  unstable employment or inflexible working conditions social or geographic isolation, like in remote and isolated communities insecure, inadequate, or nonexistent housing conditions For this assignment select two vulnerable populations and describe why they are vulnerable due to and their social and economic circumstances and what can be done by health care managers to decrease the populations’ vulnerability. You can address the vulnerability of the homeless, mentally ill, uninsured, the economically disadvantaged, language, racial or ethnic minorities, the undocumented or other immigrants or the disabled.  Requirements for assignment Uploaded as a doubled-spaced MS Word  Write a separate paragraph for the discussion of each population Each paragraph must be at least 10 sentences and free from grammar, spelling and punctuation errors Answers must reflect logic and demonstrate understanding and correct use of terminology and concepts described in the lecture All stated facts must be properly referenced in footnotes in APA 6th edition format (not just link or web address)

This discussion is prompted by two articles. The first article entitled “Genetic variation in chromosome Y regulates susceptibility to influenza A virus infection” by Krementsov et al. introduces the genetic components of human susceptibility to Influenza A virus. The second paper by Lindor et al discusses questions surrounding the increasing genome sequencing information available to healthy individuals. Several issues arise from the availability of detailed health information including concerns about discrimination and stigmas, as well as the impact on the psychological well-being of those found to be at increased risk for infections, diseases, or conditions. Such sensitive health information also poses ethical, legal, and social challenges for the management of such information (who has access, who is allowed to view such information). The applications of personalized genome information require care and expertise in interpreting genetic data and implementing, for example, changes in lifestyle and behavior. The background reading includes first, an article titled “Ethical Consequences of Full Human Genome Testing” which discusses privacy concerns over the handling of such genomic information (which may include the quality of individual responses to disease treatment, their health susceptibilities, predictions of their future disease likelihood, their carrier status for certain genetic disease alleles, etc.). Second, an issue brief regarding workplace wellness health screening programs and the rights of workers regarding this information titled “Changing Rules for Workplace Wellness Programs: Implications for Sensitive Health Conditions”. DISCUSSION PROMPTS After receiving personalized genomic information, how might you use such knowledge with respect to your own health? Would a genetically tested family member providing children or other family members with information regarding genetic information (such as carrier status) be desirable? Might such testing be used as a prerequisite for employment, spousal selection, marriage, adoption, or IVF embryo implantation? READINGS Changing Rules for Workplace Wellness Programs – Implications for Sensitive Health Conditions 2017.pdf Ethical Consequences Of Full Human Genome Testing 2017.pdf Genetic variation in chromosome Y regulates susceptibility to influenza A virus infection 2017.pdf Whole-Genome Sequencing in Healthy People 2018.pdf Grading: Your first post must be a complete response to the prompt. Subsequent posts will not count as the initial post and will not be graded as such. AMA cited.

Instructions Find an article in your local newspaper about a local policy issue that affects you. For example, an article concerning your county’s decision to privatize your trash collection service. Summarize the article and explain how this issue affects you. Is the article neutral? Why or why not? How might you influence this policy in the future? Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. There are several free scannable apps on the market such as Scannable. If printing is an obstacle, you may include a hyperlink to the article. However, if the link breaks or can not be accessed the burden falls on you to produce that article or to risk losing points. Articles may not be more than one month old. Writing Requirements (APA format) Length: 3 full  pages (not including title page or references page) 1-inch margins Double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font Title page References page The student uses a relevant and timely newspaper article The student describes the main points clearly. The student identifies how the issue relates to them accurately and in detail. The student provides a detailed account of how they might influence the issue. The student accurately evaluates the source. Source is properly cited in the text and references page demonstrating a mastery of resource and APA citation reference format. The student presents information using clear and concise language in an organized manner (minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation).

Comparative Politics PSCI 103 Antonia Cucchiara Final Exam 1. (1 paragraph min.) (5 points) Based on the New York Times article and any prior knowledge of this case, ‘Why is Ethiopia at war with itself’ published on 11/5/20 (which can be found under course materials ‘Final Exam (Reading#1)’), what explanation, societal, economic or political, most effectively explains this case of ethnic conflict in Ethiopia? 2. (1 paragraph min.) (5 points) Based on an excerpt of the study called ‘The Care of the Baby: a Family Affair in Italy’ by Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Manuela Naldini & Paola Maria Torrioni, which cluster of welfare capitalism would Italy be categorized within, and explain why with three reasons from this study and your knowledge of the three clusters of welfare capitalism. Despite these family and labour market changes, several factors point to persisting difficulty faced by young women in trying to become parents and to manage family and work. First of all, Italy as whole is characterized by a persistent of traditional gender division of housework. As a matter of the fact, throughout the country sharing housework between men and women remains highly unbalanced, and the gender gap, even among younger cohorts, with respect to domestic chores remains one of the widest in Europe (Eurostat, 2008; Naldini and Jurado, 2013)…This incomplete transformation of gender relations (Esping-Andersen, 2009; Gerson, 2010) is particularly evident in this Country because also labor market policy and more broadly social policies, as we will try to illustrate, remain unbalanced with respect to gender and to generation. First of all, despite an important policy shift in reconciliation policy (Law 53/2000 on parental leave),3 in defining childcare as parental, not maternal-only responsibility, the law shows several shortcomings, especially for parents-to-be who have an unstable job trajectory. The replacement rate is only 30% of pay for a maximum of 6 months for each parent. In addition, non-standard work contracts, which mainly affect men and women in the reproductive age group, are excluded from some measures protecting motherhood or supporting reconciliation, and where entitlement does exist, implementation is difficult (Bertolini, 2006). For instance, a self-employed parents-to-be and the majority of temporary worker parents-to-be are entitled only to 3 months of parental leave instead of 6 months. Moreover, although the new law introduces a “use or lose” quota for the father, the rate of take-up by fathers remains very low. According to recent national data based on the Italian Labour Force survey (Istat, 2011), among working parents having a child under 8 years old, 45.3% of mothers and 6.9% of fathers have taken up parental leave at least once.4 The same survey shows that the number of parents who do not use parental leave is very high and among them respectively 25% of interviewed mothers and 20% of interviewed fathers declared the reason is that they were not entitled.5 Childcare services for children under 3 years of age (asili nido, nursery school) are relatively few (12.7% being the national average in 2008, Istituto degli Innocenti, 2009) and vary extensively in geographical terms. Even in regions, i.e. Northern Italy, and municipalities where coverage is higher, the figure remains well below the 33% “Barcelona target”6. For example, in 2006, the coverage rate in the municipality of Turin was 15.4%, with only 50% parents’ demand for services being met. Pre-primary school services for 3 to 6 year-olds are well developed (by the age of 5, almost 100% of children attend school) but school time is shorter than a normal working day, so that parents who have full time job are unable to combine family and work without some “external” help. Reconciliation policy in Italy is also inadequate at company level, where the flexibilization of work schedules, part-time work and “family-friendly” measures are not widespread and/or many employees are unable to take advantage of them (Den Dulk, 2001; Fine-Davis et al., 2004; Naldini, 2006). Hence, in Italy the dilemma of work versus family is still largely relegated to the private sphere, whilst the tensions between change in women’s life and resistant institutions and the issues of gender imbalance are not addressed. This is not surprising, as the lack of strong state involvement in the welfare system means that the family (and family network) is the main provider of care and welfare. The family is perceived, by both public opinion and policy-makers, as the bottomless resource for the “weaker” members of society. This ‘unsupported familialism’ (Saraceno, 2010), slows down the development of care services, especially for very young children, and the adoption of measures for the reconciliation of work to family life. Work-family reconciliation tensions, as well as gender issues, have figured little in public debate. 7 As it has been argued, along with cultural factors one has to take into account lack of a shared political consensus on priorities, together with a high degree of political and ideological divisiveness, between catholic and no-catholic political forces and political parties, with regard to issues concerning the family, sexuality and equal opportunities (Naldini and Saraceno, 2008). So that, managing family and work continues to be regarded as an issue for women. These factors, together with a strong bias by the welfare state toward supporting childcare a family responsibility, explain why working parents, as the study of parent-to-be will show, depend/rely heavily on relatives (mainly grandparents) and informal support in general. 3 The law has acknowledged an individual entitlement for fathers. It stipulates that working fathers of newborn children are individually entitled to a portion of the parental leave (10 months in total, between mother and father, until the child reaches the age of 8, of which neither parent may take more than 6 months, but if the father takes at least 3 months of leave, then he is entitled to an additional month. 4 Information on take up rate of leave entitlements is full of gaps, however, from a comparative perspective, according to Plantenga and Remery (2005, box 5), take up rate of Italian fathers is higher compared to Spanish, Polish and German fathers (cfr. Ray, Gornick and Smith, 2010). 5 In addition, data coming from administrative records shows that parental leave among fathers was much higher in the in the public sector, where almost half had used some Parental leave at some point. Take-up of Parental leave is also much higher for more educated women: it reaches 49 per cent among women with high school or tertiary education compared with just under 30 per cent for women with secondary education. The take up of leaves is higher for women who are employees (51.7 per cent) and lower for self employed (17.1 per cent) (Moss, 2012). 6 In 2002, at the Barcelona Summit, the European Council set the targets of providing childcare by 2010 to: 90% of children between 3 years old and the mandatory school age and 33% of children under 3 years of age. 7 The reasons of the scant development of welfare state and in particular of social policies for families and for the lack of public debate over time in Italy cannot be addressed here, but have been covered in the literature (see, e.g. Naldini, 2003; Saraceno, 2006). 3. (1 paragraph min.) (5 points) Based on the excerpt above, ‘The Care of the Baby: a Family Affair in Italy’ by Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Manuela Naldini & Paola Maria Torrioni, how might an advocate of the ‘social democratic’ welfare state respond to the policies in Italy? Please explain with three possible responses to this study and your knowledge of the ‘social democratic’ welfare state. 4. (1 paragraph min.) (5 points) Based on your understanding of the movement in Belarus, is it possible for movement actors to use the strategies explained by Deva Woodly to have a successful outcome? If so, how? If not, why? 5. (1 paragraph min.) (5 points) Based on the article ‘The Art of Dissent; Cuba’ from The Economist published on 12/5/20 (which can be found under course materials ‘Final Exam (Reading#2)’), and any prior knowledge of this case, which theory of social movements best explains the emergence, and explain with three reasons.

Briefly explain what their arguments are regarding US foreign policy in a post-pandemic global order. Further you shall write which of the arguments align with realist interpretation of world politics and which align with liberal interpretation of world politics? How? The papers should include a brief summary of the main arguments of the article as well as a brief description of realist and liberal IR theories followed by your analysis of these arguments by using the above theories.

Find an article in your local newspaper about a local policy issue that affects you. For example, an article concerning your county’s decision to privatize your trash collection service. Summarize the article and explain how this issue affects you. Is the article neutral? Why or why not? How might you influence this policy in the future? Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. There are several free scannable apps on the market such as Scannable. If printing is an obstacle, you may include a hyperlink to the article. However, if the link breaks or can not be accessed the burden falls on you to produce that article or to risk losing points. Articles may not be more than one month old Writing Requirements (APA format) Length: 3 full  pages (not including title page or references page) 1-inch margins Double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font Title page References page

For this paper, students are to answer one of the questions below in a 4-6 page paper. Other topics are possible, but must be approved in advance by the professor. Please clearly indicate which topic you are addressing.   Why is partisan polarization in our legislature is so strong, despite California having “weak” parties? Explain this seeming paradox (possibly including denying one or both of those two assertions), drawing on course material from the relevant sections of the course. Please note the way this question is phrased: if you don’t explain the polarization or argue that the legislature is not polarized, you have NOT addressed the question asked of you. Political scientists and economists often refer to the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” A version of this would read: “making changes to systems often makes worse the problem that reformers were seeking to solve.” Pick one of the following (Proposition 140 (1990), Proposition 14 (2010), or Proposition 13 (1978)), and assess whether or not the Law of Unintended Consequences applies in the case you have chosen. In other words: did reformers get what they ultimately wanted?   The paper should be between 1200 and 1800 words (about 4-6 pages). The paper should adopt a conventional font and spacing, such as 12 point Times New Roman, with double-spacing and 1-inch margins. Papers should follow a consistent citation style, such as Chicago, MLA, or APA.  Plagiarism is a very serious issue, and will not be tolerated.   Research is necessary for these papers to the extent needed to answer a question or back up a claim. The second topic, for example, is an empirical question that lends itself well to be answered by assessing what supporters of these propositions wanted (for example, by looking at their ballot arguments) and then comparing it to what we know has happened since then. Both of those parts can be discovered through research; you can look at contemporary stories or the official ballot language for what supporters wanted, for example.  That said, all three of these propositions are covered in our readings and lectures as well. The first topic asks more that you draw from course materials, but research could still be appropriate for a number of different takes on this question. Again, our course readings address this topic, but whatever angle you take may lead to you doing more research.

What is a Just State? Explain the idea that society should be based on virtue by discussing Confucius, Plato, and /or Aristotle Explain at least one version of social contract theory Illustrate your understanding of the classical and social contract approaches to justice with illustrative examples from contemporary political life. Remember to explain specific theories with supporting citations from the textbook and online lectures. Review and comment on the posts of other students and the instructor by the end of the week. Must use references from the text book Roots of Wisdom: A Tapestry of Philosophical Traditions