Category: Political science

The goal of the research paper is to introduce you to the process of writing a research paper and for you to think critically about the American political system, (i.e. the laws, government, participation rates). There are no assigned topics for your paper so that you can choose something that interests you. The possible topics can be voting, elections, public opinion, or even current events. You will need to use at least 5 academic sources that you can find in your library database and write at least 5 pages plus a works cited page.
This is not a position paper where you explain the positions for and against a political issue and it is also not a historical paper. A research paper starts with a research question and a thesis which is an argument that answers your research question. The academic sources you use will support your thesis. You can include other sources like news reports to give context to your topic but they do not count as one of 5 academic sources.
For this assignment propose the topic you would like to write your research paper on and why it is important for political science. Also, include a potential thesis statement which is the argument that you are planning to support in the paper with your sources. 

( Political Science 456)
National Security
Course Paper Assignment
(40 points)
According to some scholars and analysts, the United
States should replace its “unnecessary, ineffective and expensive”  strategy in international affairs with a more
“restrained” one. Others accuse advocates of American “restraint” of
“overstating the costs of the post-Cold War strategy and understating its
benefits.”
Making maximum
use of ideas and specific examples from the reading assignments/lectures/documentaries,
write an analytical essay discussing major arguments in the debates about American  national security and grand strategy.
Make sure to relate your analysis to
the key themes discussed in the readings  and class lectures such as realist and liberal
insights about international security,  evaluation
of national security doctrines and foreign policy records of different administrations,
the return to great-power rivalry in global politics, as
well as the future of America’s global position.
Paper Guidelines
1.    
Make maximum use of ideas and specific examples from
your reading assignments/ lectures/documentaries. The minimum number of  sources you are expected to use is 15.
2.     Focus on the assigned course material. If you want to use an outside source,
please consult me first.
3.     Paper length— around 15 pages including references.
4.     Papers should be double spaced, using a  font like Times New Roman, 12pt 
5.     Avoid lengthy direct quotations. It is always better
to put ideas/examples from the readings in your own words.
6.    
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. When you use ideas and examples from the readings,
please make sure to cite your sources by one
of these methods:
a.     Putting the name of the author, the year of
publication of the book/article, and the page number immediately after the
sentence that refers to the idea/example from the reading in question. (If you
cannot determine the page number, do not include it.)
Example:  (Mearsheimer and Walt 2016, 75)
or
b.      Putting full
name of the book/article and page number in the footnote/endnote following the
sentence that refers to the idea/example from the reading in question:
Example:  John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “The Case for
Offshore Balancing. A Superior U.S. Grand Strategy,” Foreign Affairs 95, 4, 2016, 75.
7.    
Include the alphabetical list of sources used as a
separate page at the end of the paper.
8.    
Post your paper in Word  on Canvas by Friday, May 17, midnight
NOTE TO WRITER: Greeting’s Dylan I have attached all sources and lectures for this paper assignment.  Please use what you require, however 15 sources MUST be used.

In Barron v. Baltimore (1833), the Supreme Court suggested that the first eight amendments in the Bill of Rights served only to limit the powers of the national government and did not apply to the state governments. By 1925, however, the Court suggested that the free speech and press protections of the first amendment did apply to the state governments. Write an essay addressing the following questions: (a) Prior to the Civil War and Reconstruction, why did the Court tend to apply the Bill of Rights only to the national government? (b) How exactly is it that, by the middle of the twentieth century, the Court had reasoned that many protections in the Bill of Rights protected individuals against abuses of power by the state governments? (c) Using the readings in the course thus far, identify and discuss a few cases which illustrate this changed understanding of the Bill of Rights.
For this assignment, you will write one essay. Your goal is to demonstrate a good grasp of the relevant readings and course themes, and to analyze and evaluate these things in a coherent and insightful fashion. Your essay should be clear, well-argued, and firmly grounded in the relevant texts. You should offer competent citations to the course readings when appropriate (parenthetical citations with a page number are sufficient). Essays that fail to meet these criteria will be heavily penalized.
There is no need to employ any sources outside the readings assigned on the course syllabus. As long as you are employing course readings, there is no need for a works cited page.

This is the description for this assignment: Each of you will write a research paper (10 pages/3500 words including bibliography and references, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12) on a topic of their choice relating to the course materials and making use of literature. You should use at least 7 texts from the syllabus and at least 3 texts outside the syllabus.  
You can choose to write on topic of your own interest in consultation with me provided that it is relevant to the general topic and discussion of the class. You should demonstrate a thorough research in preparing for the essay. A minimum of 10 sources (books and/or journal articles) should be used, and these sources should be referenced and cited using either APA, MLA, or Chicago. You can use any citation model as long as you are consistent. A late paper can only be accepted with a written medical excuse. 
MY PAPER TOPIC: Misinterpretation of jihad and correlation with 9/11 attacks and rise of Islamophobia
Below, I have attached my paper proposal on the topic and some sources that can be used. These are sources from the syllabus additionally: 
 Aydin, Cemil, The Idea of Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History, Harvard
University Press, 2017.
 Roger Allen, Shawkat Toorawa (eds.). Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2011.
 Black, Antony, The History of Islamic political thought: From the Prophet to the present.
2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
 Armajani, Jon. Modern Islamist movements: History, religion, and politics, Wiley-
Blackwell, 2012.
 Ayoob, Mohammed. The Many faces of political Islam: Religion and politics in the
Muslim world, University of Michigan Press, 2007.
 Euben, Roxanne Leslie and Muhammad Qasim ZAMAN (eds.), Princeton readings in
Islamist thought: Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden, Princeton University
Press, 2009.
 Gerhard Bowering (ed.), Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction, Princeton
University Press, 2015.
 L. Hamid W. McCants, Rethinking Political Islam, Oxford University Press, 2017.
 J. L. Esposito & N. J. Delong-Bas (eds.), Shariah: What everyone needs to know, Oxford
University Press, 2018.
 Volpi, Frederic (ed.), Political Islam: A critical reader, Routledge, 2011.
 Mandeville, Peter, Islam and Politics, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2014.

Instructions attached. Question #4 can be a bit difficult. THe course is American Judicial System and the text for context is attached as well. 

Write 4-5 different Liturature reviews on the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Vs white Student Attainment Gap, also find sources on university experience between different racial gorups.( Reach review should be 150-200 words each) 
Instructions down below
write in essay liturature style 
Haravd style referencing

The objective of the final essay is to develop a story about what is happening in the political, economic, and cultural spheres of the United States in this day and age based upon the themes discussed and texts read in this seminar. This is the moment where all of the material we have covered has to come together. This is it! How this is to be organized is entirely up to you, so think about how to weave together the course materials in a coherent, analytical, and intelligent
manner. This is a comprehensive essay, keeping in mind that comprehension also means understanding.
Assessment will be based on excellence in three fields:
• Competency in understanding the readings assigned;
• Critical content; developing arguments that are logically consistent, clear, and persuasive;
• Creativity, both with respect to how the argument is presented as well as the style of your writing; this has to be used to draw the reader in, to make the reader engage in the text you are presenting. 
Byung-Chul Han focuses on how we may never be able to escape from a system that generates inequities of many kinds
because we are trapped in a world of “psychopolitics.” He says that “a further paradigm shift is underway. The digital
panopticon engineers not a disciplinary society along biological lines but a transparency society along psychopolitical ones (pp.
77-78). What does Han mean and what will become of a socius wrapped in neoliberalism for the past half-century? At one level,
society has been persuaded to believe in the virtues of non-democratic behavior, as Heather Cox Richardson points out; at
another, the judicial system has been used to protect property regardless of how it was acquired. Some scholars like David
Harvey imagine a burgeoning class consciousness that will lead the majority to overthrowing the power and authority of the
minority—the ruling class. Is that model still viable? Is class struggle dead? Are we headed toward an authoritarian and/or
fascist political future instead? How has socio-cultural power in the United States worked against class interests and making sure
that everyone and everything be defined as individually as possible? Think in terms of what Jason Stanley says but also think
about what Han says.

First, I am posting a series of long quotes from Wolin that you can refer to in your answers.  You do not need to use all of them, but in some of your answers where I ask you to include Wolin’s analysis, you should at a minimum make use of some of what is in these quotes.
Second, below you will find four questions that I would like you to answer as you final writing assignment.  Each answer will be worth 15 points for a total of 60 points.  Each answer should probably be two pages (double spaced, 12 point font, paragraphs).  If you have more than two pages to write, please do so.  If you refer or quote something, include the parenthetical citation with author and page.  If you are using Wolin and McAlevey, you do not need to include a bibliography, the in text citation will be enough.  
Include your name and the course on the first page, number the answers and please number your pages.
1. Discuss and describe the methods of organizing and of “sloughing off political passivity” (as Wolin writes) that McAlevey outlines in Chapters 5, 6. Using an example of one of the people whose story McAlevey tells, evaluate Wolin’s statement that creating a democracy requires “the democratization of the self.”
2. First, McAlevey recites many of the reasons why criticism of unions are incorrect.  In terms of what Wolin defines as democracy (see quotes), how are unions democratic and what might that mean for the one place where our democratic rights are absent, the workplace?  Second, evaluate how McAlevey establishes that unions have actually failed in their duty to be democratic organizations and what examples does she give us that show how unions can and have become more democratic?
3.  McAlevey asserts that the work of shifting power in workplaces so that workers have greater respect, dignity and a share in the resources of a workplace builds democracy as a political project.  In other words, democracy is a situation where power is not concentrated in the hands of one group of people.  Using Wolin and McAlevey, what is the relationship of workplaces and political citizenship?  Then either argue for or argue against the idea that citizenship and employment are mutually reinforcing in the political society that we have in the United States.  I’m asking you to choose one position or the other and explain that position and its justification or argument.
4.  Read the account of the LA teacher’s union and their campaign in 2014 (Chapter 6).  First, how were the two key ingredients of union organizing, leader identification and structure tests, used by UTLA to organize for a new contract?  Second, what were the teachers not fighting for and why were charter schools seen by UTLA as such a problem?  Third, what have you learned about public schools, teachers and democracy from the story McAlevey recounts about the LA schools?

You’ll be writing an essay that critically examines the usefulness and limitations of theories related to urbanisation in explaining a contemporary social issue in the Asia Pacific region. You can choose an issue we’ve discussed in class or explore a broader transnational concern. Your essay will need to delve into how theories of globalisation, migration, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) apply to the chosen social issue. You’ll need to evaluate how these theories help us understand the issue’s complexities and where they might fall short in providing a comprehensive explanation.
For your methodology, you’ll employ a mix of theoretical analysis and primary sources related to the chosen social issue. You should use at least 5 sources provided by me. Additionally, you’ll need to include at least 8 additional primary sources relevant to your chosen social issue. These could include government reports, academic studies, media articles, or firsthand accounts. The goal is to offer a thorough analysis of the issue, grounded in both theoretical frameworks and real-world evidence, to provide a nuanced understanding of urbanisation’s impact in the Asia Pacific region.
Sources:
1. Everyday knowledge, education and sustainable futures : transdisciplinary approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region
Book Author: Robertson, Margaret
2. The Location of Cultural Authenticity: Identifying the Real and the Fake in Urban Guizhou
Author: Kendall, Paul
3. Important but De-centred: ASEAN’s Role in the Southeast Asian Human Rights Space
Author: Davies, Mathew
4. China’s Shanzhai Culture: ‘Grabism’ and the politics of hybridity
Author: Chubb, Andrew
5. Sharia, charity, and minjian autonomy in Muslim China: Gift giving in a plural world
Author: ERIE, MATTHEW S.
6.The invention of tradition
Author: Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.),
7.The Location of Cultural Authenticity: Identifying the Real and the Fake in Urban Guizhou
Author: Kendall, Paul
8.The Gift Economy and State Power in China
Author: Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui
9.Taming Tibet : landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development
Author: Yeh, Emily T. (Emily Ting)
10. Mirror of modernity : invented traditions of modern Japan
Author: Vlastos, Stephen 
Attached are 2 examples of high-quality essays. This is the level pf quality that i am looking for

outline for paper 
Introduction
Overview of how money is involved in politics 
Brief overview of the documentary 
Background of American Politics 
A brief overview of the government / political parties and their roles
How they have shaped America 
The money
Who runs really America
How they/ their money affects politics 
The documentary 
Explain the case study 
How it relates to reality 
Critiques and controversies 
Why some see nothing wrong with the money involved in politics 
Critiques on the Documentary 
Conclusion
Recap of American politics and how money runs it 
Recap of documentary 
Final thoughts 
Two sources: 
Li, Zhao. “Game Changers: How Dark Money and Super PACs Are Transforming U.S. Campaigns.” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 136, no. 3, 2021, pp. 580–81, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.13221.
Whitehouse, Sheldon. “DARK MONEY AND U.S. COURTS: THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS.” Harvard Journal on Legislation, vol. 57, no. 2, 2020, pp. 273-.
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