Politics Week 3

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Politics Week 3 Instructional Plan

This week

  1. Last week was Chapter 2: Ideology.
  2. This week’s key question: what is the state?
  3. Group work review: chapter 3 discussion questions, vocabulary.
  4. Logical fallacies #2 (workshop)

For next week

  1. Read Chapter 4 Democracy and Legitimacy
  2. Complete chapter 4 discussion questions and vocabulary review
  3. Review optional material

Lecture Notes: The State (download a pdf version here)

 

OTHER MATERIALS

  1. An article about education and the ruling class in England.
  2. An article about the US modern day military industrial complex, as it relates to US spending on terrorism and intelligence.
  3. A video that describes a connection between NASA, space exploration, the military and world domination.
  4. This website has a lot of information about countries around the world including political data.
  5. The World Bank also has a large data collection for countries around the world.
  6. And of course there is the IMF as well as the CIA World Factbook.