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Class Syllabus
First Writing Assignment
Midterm Review Guide
Election Day Extra Credit Assignment
*My Answers to the Election Day Extra Credit Asg. – For those who like to be lazy 🙂
Second Writing Assignment
Final Exam Review Guide
Election Prediction and Information Websites
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster
http://election.princeton.edu/
http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/senate-forecast/
http://californiachoices.org/
Important Dates
1st Writing Assignment Due – October 6th
Midterm – October 13th
2nd Writing Assignment Due – December 10th
Final Exam – December 15th
Additional Readings
Plato, “Crito”
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty,” chapter 2
Edmund Burke, selection from “Reflections on the French Revolution”
Michael Oakeshott, “On Being Conservative”
Friedrich Engels, selections from “The Condition of the Working Class in England”
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto”
Readings for Second Writing Assignment
1. David Brooks, “Why Partyism is Wrong”
2. Robert Putnam, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”
3. Thomas Sander and Robert Putnam, “Still Bowling Alone? The Post-9/11 Split”
4. Carles Boix and Daniel N. Posner, “Making Social Capital Work: A Review of Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy”
5. The Constitution of the United States
6. Robert A. Dahl, “What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?”
7. Francis Fukuyama, “25 Years After Tiananmen, Liberal Democracy Still Stands”
8. Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee, “It’s Still Not the End of History”
9. Larry Diamond, “The Democratic Rollback”
10. Larry Diamond, “Chasing Away the Democracy Blues”
Lecture Slides
08/18/14: Lecture #1: Why Do We Obey the Law? (No Slides This Day)
08/20/14: Lecture #2: Power and Authority
08/25/14: Lecture #3: Liberal Legitimacy
08/27/14: NO CLASS THIS DAY – CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
09/01/14: NO CLASS THIS DAY – LABOR DAY
09/03/14: Lecture #4: Liberalism: Political and Economic
09/08/14: Lecture #5: Reactions to Liberalism: Conservatism and Socialism
09/10/14: Lecture #6: Debates over Liberty
09/15/14: Lecture #7: The State and Nationalism
09/17/14: Lecture #8, Part 1: Policies of the State
09/22/14: Lecture #8, Part 2: Policies of the State
09/24/14: Lecture #9, Part 1: Economic Policies of the State
09/29/14: Lecture #9, Part 2: Economic Policies of the State
10/01/14: “Ten Trillion and Counting” Documentary
10/06/14: Lecture #10, Part 1: What Lies Behind Policy?
10/08/14: Lecture #10, Part 2: What Lies Behind Policy?
10/13/14: Midterm Today
10/15/14: Midterm Review
10/20/14: Lecture #11: Democracies and Authoritarian Systems
10/22/14: Lecture #11: Democracies and Authoritarian Systems
10/27/14: Lecture #11: Democracies and Authoritarian Systems
10/29/14: Lecture #13, Part 1: Elections
11/03/14: Lecture #13, Part 2: Elections
11/05/14: Lecture #12, Part 1: Constitutions & “Creating a Constitution” [00:00-22:50]
11/10/14: Lecture #12, Part 2: Constitutions
11/12/14: NO CLASS THIS DAY – CANCELLED DUE TO FAMILY MATTER
11/17/14: Lecture #14, Part 1: Parties
11/19/14: Lecture #14, Part 2: Parties
11/24/14: NO CLASS THIS DAY – THANKSGIVING WEEK
11/26/14: NO CLASS THIS DAY – THANKSGIVING WEEK
12/01/14: Lecture #15: Interest Groups and Social Movements
12/03/14: Lecture #16: Parliamentary vs. Presidential Systems
12/08/14: Lecture #17: Bureaucracy, the Law, and the Courts
12/10/14: Lecture #18: International Politics
R. Allen Bolar, Ph.D. 