What is the relationship between the institutional expectations of racial identification and our social polarization? Does this “carry over” to other identities? What does this mean for the bigger political world?
Can you provide a general analysis of the El Salvador counterinsurgency (COIN) effort and assess how well the U.S. forces, U.S. country team, ESAF, and GOES did in relation to the COIN principles: Legitimacy, unity of effort, the primacy of political objectives, understanding the environment/culture, good intelligence, isolating the insurgents from society and security/the rule […]
What are the features of the Family and Medical Leave Act? Is the law effective? Are there changes that could be made to make it more effective? What are the features of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act? Is the law effective? Are there changes that could be made to make it more effective?
Read the news on a regular basis with a focus on issues and events related to social justice and select a recent news story as your focus (within the last 6 months). You can search for a news story on ANY social justice issue or advocacy movement. Use keywords to search on Google News, for […]
Explain how the insights from Hume’s draining the swamp game could be used to understand the following situations: (1) two politicians competing for the same office must decide whether or not to use negative campaigning; (2) two opposing interest groups consider whether or not to contribute to a senator’s reelection campaign; and (3) the largest […]
Storytelling is an important part of advocacy and leadership work because it answers the “why” questions: why we care, why the work we do matters, and why we are organizing for change. The purpose of this assignment is for learners to develop their story following the Public Narrative Framework (ICL, 2017): Story of Self, Us […]
Discuss the differences between types of federalism. What type of relationship do you think there is between Texas and the federal government in terms of federalism? Give two reasons to support your answer.
What are the strengths of the stages model of the policy process? What are its weaknesses? How would you propose we improve on this model? 2) What are the strengths and weaknesses of any systems model of a political or social process? How might you overcome the weaknesses you have identified? 3) The trends […]
Explain what the difference is between Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. Where do each of them originate? Choose one of the Bill of Rights. Explain its history and original meaning/purpose. How has our understanding of this amendment changed over time? Lastly, how have policies such as Affirmative action, influenced the way people see the Bill […]
What theory best explains the creation of ASEAN? Why? Given the theoretical approaches that we have read, do you believe that the members of ASEAN are likely to pursue deeper integration in the future? Why, or why not? In your post specifically address what impact (if any) China has had upon ASEAN.
