Provide a minimum one paragraph explanation/analysis of how the current event relates to the majoritarian, pluralist and elitist models of power and/or explain how these models apply to this current event.

1.4 Current Events Discussion

POLS’ 101: Introduction to Political Science

Details
For this discussion, you will need to synthesize the materials on politics and models of power in this module.

Step 1- Under the ”Models of Power” subsection in the reading ”Do we need a government?” from the Primer on Politics, the theories of majoritarianism, pluralism and elitism are explained. Please read this section over.

Step 2-For this current events discussion, you must: find a news article or editorial that is no older than 1-2 weeks from a reputable news source, and if you aren’t sure what counts as a reputable news source is, please follow the link (Links to an external site.), t for a non-exhaustive list. If you have a different source that is not on the list, you are welcome to check with me to confirm that it meets enough standards to be counted as a reputable news source.

Step 3-Provide an APA citation for your news article from a reputable news source (please find an article no more than 2 weeks old). If you are unfamiliar with APA citation format, please see this TCC Library Guide. APA stands for ”American Psychological Association’ and it is the preferred format for social sciences like political science, psychology, etc. We don’t tend to use MLA like other disciplines do.

Step 4- Write up a short and unbiased summary of the article/current event (this will probably be about a paragraph long) so we know the basic facts

Step 5- Provide a minimum one paragraph explanation/analysis of how the current event relates to the majoritarian, pluralist and elitist models of power and/or explain how these models apply to this current event. For example, you may consider the following questions or others related to the different models of power: Do you see evidence of elitism? Pluralism? Majoritarianism? Why? Etc.