Republicanism, as a major political language, is an active framework within American political culture. The framework of republicanism persists to surround public policy formation and implementation, economic and political participation as non-domination or to eliminate arbitrary interference upon an individual by other individuals, society, and/or government. Republicanism promotes the nation’s civic virtue because it is implemented into…
I will use this workshop in tomorrow’s class. This document holds about 10 answers to quiz 6 (in case you missed class). ***************************************************************************************** Intro. to Political Science Chapter Download Lesson Time Structure, Institutions, Parties Democracy-Development Structures, Institutions, Parties, Politics 45 minutes The Lecture Question: “How are parties and factions salient in a democracy?” ***This group work…
My co-pilot is a student, A first year independent. Remember: the war to transcend liberalism; long last at it was– is over. We no longer transcend it! ’tis a fool’s errand! Now we are surfing: Political Pipeline Alas, remembering Wittgenstein, “The individual words of this language are to refer to what can only be known…
Teaching in Mass Lecture Halls w/ Cooperative Learning I specifically seek to understand if scholarly literature as a supplement to the textbook creates more learning than simply lecturing from the textbook. Indeed, as Phelps (1994) relates; “thematic supplementary print materials motivate students to explore content in a manner that not only builds and extends textbook…
This essay will discuss the starting points, premises, and relative utility of the top-down and bottom-up approaches within policy implementation. I will account when the top-down and bottom-up approaches should be utilized depending on the nature of the policy and the task environment in which the policy is being implemented. In general, Top-down implementation is…
For the entire “Quick Policy Analysis: Solutions for Declining Municipal Revenue in the City…” click here. Executive Summary This report analyzes the problem of declining revenue within the City of Royal Oak (henceforth the City). I describe the municipality’s current economic development plan, and I analyze three alternatives to it. Declining revenue in Royal Oak…
I was mentioned a while back on The Browser. After reading a Monkey Cage post a few days ago about the value of academic blogging (see here), I thought to put this post together and link it back to The Monkey Cage conversation in the comments. First, I am interested in the path by which…
***I created the entry below for the City of Royal Oak (where I live) in 2011 and gave it to City officials. This project was a result of Dr. Strate’s “Policy Analysis” graduate course at Wayne State University. I was very pleased to see the City of Royal Oak adopt some of my recommendations. You can see Royal Oak’s economic…
Interlude: Citizens United accomplished making campaigns a market. Much to the chagrin of republicanism (small r); liberalism has been very successful in fusing democracy and capitalism into American politics. Republicanism would create many structures for deliberation between the people and their government for the purposes of solving collective action problems based on nondomination. Liberalism advocates…
Online Teaching and Learning Method Click link above to gather how I arrange and administer my “HyBrid Introduction to Social Sciences” (freshman-undergrad) course (in 2008 at Montcalm Community College). I have also taught PS 1010 Online at Wayne State University for 2 semesters. Briefly, a HyBrid course is half of the time online; half of the…
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