What are the 3 things that you learned from the Frontline Documentary that was surprising for you about the “personality” or “Campaigning style” or other factors of the candidates who ran for president in 2016?

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LECTURE: Watch these videos on my lecture of “Campaigns and Elections” and then answer the following questions:

Questions: What are the 3 things that you learned from this lecture “Campaigns and Elections” video that was surprising for you and why.

Please write 3 paragraphs on the lecture assignment.

DOCUMENTARY:

Watch the documentary and answer what are the 3 things that you learned from the Frontline Documentary that was surprising for you about the “personality” or “Campaigning style” or other factors of the candidates who ran for president in 2016?

Write 3 different paragraphs for documentary assignment!

So, total of 6 paragraphs.

Define the state characteristics that you think deserves to be the focus of your paper. Define which characteristic you wish to focus on in answering how the history of state formation impacts that characteristic or characteristics you chose.

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History of a state’s formation and its  impact on character?

Define the state characteristics that you think deserves to be the focus of your paper. A state character can potentially be its regime type, sovereignty, territoriality, governance institutions, economic structure, security structure, its relationship with the population, etc.

As such, we leave it up to you to define which characteristic you wish to focus on in answering how the history of state formation impacts that characteristic or characteristics you chose. Our recommendation is that you should spend a little time in your assignment justifying why the character you chose is an important/defining feature of the state, before you delve into a substantive discussion on the impact of history on it. Due to the length of this assignment, we further recommend that you focus on one or two characteristics and draw from various examples and cases that support your overall argument.

Explain the differences and assess which ‘Europe’ better reflects the reality of the European Union

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The European Union

The European Commission and the European Council have been framed as a ‘Europe of Officials’ and a ‘Europe of States’. Explain the differences and assess which ‘Europe’ better reflects the reality of the European Union

Does illegal immigration promote terrorism? Europe: security for or against the displaced?

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Illegal immigration

Does illegal immigration promote terrorism? Europe: security for or against the displaced?

What legal action was taken based on what your state laws say about this case? What were the legal issues the court had to decide? Did the court decide for the plaintiff or the defendant? Explain the reason behind the decision?

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How the Court Address or Respect Our Right as Citizens

Choose a case from your state(FLORIDA) that involves civil rights or civil liberties that was decided by the United States Supreme Court. If your (Florida) state does not have a case that was decided by the United States Supreme Court, choose a civil rights case from another state for which the United States Supreme Court issued a decision.

Here is a brief description of civil rights and civil liberties: Civil rights refers to equal social opportunities under the law. It gives you these freedoms such as the right to vote, the right to public education, or a fair trial, among other things, regardless of your wealth or race. Civil liberties mean freedom of religion, equal treatment and due process under the law, and the right to privacy.

You should be able to go online and look up your state and famous cases decided by the Supreme Court. For example, Brown v Board of Education (1951) started in Topeka, Kansas and ended up in the Supreme Court of the United States. Another example would be Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada (2020) that started in Nevada and ended up the United States Supreme Court. A good source of information about cases decided by the United States Supreme Court is www.scotusblog.com. Other sources can be researched online using search terms for “civil rights cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.” Be sure to use a case actually decided by the United States Supreme Court, and not a case decided by your state’s supreme court or a different court. A case that is still pending before the United States Supreme Court should not be used. If you are unsure, please contact your Professor BEFORE you pick your case and submit the assignment as this is a significant part of your overall grade.

Research your court case and write an outline of the case that you will be using to prepare a presentation, which will either be a narrated PowerPoint, a Kaltura Video, or some other format as approved by your instructor. If you are unsure, then verify the presentation format with your instructor before starting work on this assignment.

This week’s assignment should include (a) summary of the case; (b) a case outline; and a summary.

A. Summary of the Case
In one or two paragraphs, provide a general overview of the case that serves as a snapshot of what the case is about and how it ended up in your state high court. A summary is using your words to write a brief history of the case. Do not give your opinion or your interpretation but stick to the facts only.

B: Case Outline
Your court case outline should include:

Title: Name of the case
Facts of the case: Provide key facts involving the case.
History of the case: What legal action was taken based on what your state laws say about this case?
Legal questions: What were the legal issues the court had to decide?
Decision or holdings: Did the court decide for the plaintiff or the defendant? Explain the reason behind the decision?
Verdict and opinion (judgement): What were the concurring and dissenting opinions? How many judges decided for the defendant and how many justices decided against the defendant? What was the final verdict from the judge or the jury, if it was a jury trial?
C. Conclusion
What was the resulting impact of the ruling? How did the citizens of your state benefit from it? Was this a good decision?

Did the effort to pass the amendment make a difference in the lives of women? Do you think the ERA is still necessary today?

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ERA

Discuss the ERA. Begin with the history of Alice Paul’s involvement and continue with Schlafly and Steinem. Discuss the struggles of attempts to pass the amendment during the 1970’s. Be sure and include pro and con arguments. Did the effort to pass the amendment make a difference in the lives of women? Do you think the ERA is still necessary today?

Write a summary and critique of the article. In the summary, be sure to discuss the experimental design, the experimental stimulus, the experimental conditions, and the type of experimental subjects used.

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Political Science Article Review

Write a summary and critique of the article. In the summary, be sure to discuss the experimental design, the experimental stimulus, the experimental conditions, and the type of experimental subjects used. In your critique, mention one strength and one weakness of the experimental study and explain why these are strengths or weaknesses. Summary should double spaced (12 pt Times New Roman font, 1 inch margins)

Write a memo in which you give the Mayor advice on how his Administration can improve the design and/or implementation of DC’s performance management system.

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Policy memo

You are a senior adviser to Mayor Williams. The Mayor believes that line managers in agencies such as the DMV and Consumer & Regulatory Affairs could make even better use of performance measures to enhance the quality of DC public services and improve life in the city. Write a memo in which you give the Mayor advice on how his Administration can improve the design and/or implementation of DC’s performance management system. Be specific in indicating what you like (or don’t like) about how agency managers have used performance measures thus far.

Identify at least two policy recommendations that follow logically from your chosen theoretical perspective. Evaluate the pros and cons of the theory you have chosen.

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Policy Brief

In this assignment, you are being asked to prepare a 5-page, double-spaced paper that critically engages with course materials by applying international relations theory to a contemporary policy scenario. The objective is to “bridge the gap” between the academic theories we are studying and the policy questions that they can help inform.

For the purposes of this assignment, students should feel free to write in a format that best suits them—whether that means writing this assignment as a traditional academic essay or as an actual hypothetical policy brief for government officials. But regardless of the format you choose, please keep the following in mind: you want to

(i) Provide a concise summary of your chosen theory;

(ii) Help your reader understand the implications of emerging multipolarity from the perspective of that theory;

(iii) Identify at least two policy recommendations that follow logically from your chosen theoretical perspective;

(iv) Evaluate the pros and cons of the theory you have chosen. Keep an eye on the relative weighting of the different components of the assignment; that should guide how much space you devote to each.

Should states be seen as the main actors in global diplomacy? Should states have a feminist or intersectional foreign policy? Should citizens’ assemblies be used in bilateral or multilateral diplomacy?

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Diplomacy

Mention references by last name or title of book.

No footnotes or bibliography.

5 or more paragraphs for each answer.

• Geoffrey Allen Pigman in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy “argues that large firms that operate across national borders function increasingly as diplomatic actors in ways analogous to governments of nation states” with a government relations office that is the “analogue to a ministry of foreign affairs” and country offices “which are analogous to embassies.” Should states be seen as the main actors in global diplomacy? (The Diplomacy of Global and Transnational Firms–Pigman).

• Should states have a feminist or intersectional foreign policy? (Yuval-Davis Reading)

• Should citizens’ assemblies be used in bilateral or multilateral diplomacy? (Bilateral Oxford/ Multilateral Oxford)