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Political Science
What is the relationship between liberal political ideology and the practices of colonial expropriation and slavery?
Compare and contrast: Locke, Coates, Honig
Compare and contrast: Locke, Coates, Honig
Political Science
How has Rawls’s theory of justice (a) been developed by Rawls himself in terms of specific institutional arrangements, (b) been extended by Reeves and Carens and (c) criticized by Nozick?
Political Science
What claims, if any, do outsiders (nonmembers) have on a political community?
Compare and contrast: Walzer, Carens, Honig
Compare and contrast: Walzer, Carens, Honig
Political Science
When we reason about rights and justice, should we seek to “rise above” our cultural contingencies (values, prejudices, social background and class position) to reach a more objective and universal position? Or is attempting to transcend our particularities a problem?
Compare and contrast: Burke, Rawls, Carens, and Walzer
Compare and contrast: Burke, Rawls, Carens, and Walzer
Political Science
How do each of the following theorists conceptualize the unjust and illegitimate state? (What are its key features and how, if it all, can it be overcome or transformed?)
Compare and contrast: Locke, Marx, Friedman, Coates, Brown
Compare and contrast: Locke, Marx, Friedman, Coates, Brown
Political Science
What is the relationship between an ideology’s conception of human nature and its vision of what a good political system looks like?
Compare and contrast: Locke’s liberalism, Burke’s conservatism and Marx’s socialism
Compare and contrast: Locke’s liberalism, Burke’s conservatism and Marx’s socialism
Political Science
What is the role of private property and its relationship to justice and a well-ordered political community?
Compare and contrast: Locke, Marx and Rawls
Compare and contrast: Locke, Marx and Rawls
Political Science
What are public interest groups?
Political Science
What are the important features of Indian Constitution?
Political Science
For purposes of this assignment, you are to run the simulation three separate times so that you can observe the outcomes through the lenses of the three broad policy preferences provided in the game. They are:
The “centrists”: strengthen national defense, invest in the future, rein in entitlements
The “conservatives”: rein in entitlements, shrink government, tax cutter
The “progressives”: reduce inequality, invest in the future, strengthen the social safety net
How did the policy choices differ among the three preferences?
How difficult was it to pursue your goals while also hitting the debt target?
Did the policy options have the impacts—either on your fiscal target or governing goals—that you expected?
Did some choices have bigger or smaller impacts on the debt than you had anticipated?
What do you think the political obstacles would be to enacting your plan?
What did you learn from doing this exercise?
The “centrists”: strengthen national defense, invest in the future, rein in entitlements
The “conservatives”: rein in entitlements, shrink government, tax cutter
The “progressives”: reduce inequality, invest in the future, strengthen the social safety net
How did the policy choices differ among the three preferences?
How difficult was it to pursue your goals while also hitting the debt target?
Did the policy options have the impacts—either on your fiscal target or governing goals—that you expected?
Did some choices have bigger or smaller impacts on the debt than you had anticipated?
What do you think the political obstacles would be to enacting your plan?
What did you learn from doing this exercise?
