Political Science Question

Quiz1 Policy-Making Process

First select a contemporary policy (state or local) and share with the class the key elements of the policy.

Then, analyze the driving forces of the shaping and implementation of this policy.

Which theories of politics (elite, group, rational choice, or political systems) were at play and how is this evident through the policymaking process?

reading resources

• 5 Strategies for Evidence-Based Policymaking
• Bridging the divide between evidence and policy in public sector decision making: A practitioner’s perspective
• Foreign Policy Association: How US Foreign Policy is Made.
• Policy design as craft: teasing out policy design expertise using a semi-experimental approach
• Small Town policy makers
• To bridge the divide between evidence and policy: Reduce ambiguity as much as uncertainty
• US Environmental Protection Agency: US Trade and Investment Policy Making Process
• The value of the issue context approach for scientific policy advice
• Whither Are We Bound? New Insights on American Economic Policymaking

• quiz2
• Several methods have been designed to evaluate and compare presidential performance and personality, some of which are used and discussed in this week’s readings. Which one is most useful and why? Apply that system to the current president.
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• Reading Resources
• Presidential Leadership
• Presidential leadership and U.S. foreign policy
• Presidential Leadership Style and the Political Use of Force
• Presidential Leadership of Partisan News.
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• Quiz3.
• 1 First, note the formal criteria for “just war” given in the readings this week. What are the advantages and disadvantages of committing to a set of formal criteria for future decisions concerning the use of force?
  2. Second, one consequence of religious influence on ideas concerning warfare is that wars are often viewed as battles between good and evil. How might such a perception affect one side’s adherence to jus in bello rules? Should the relative rightness of one’s cause affect whether the jus in bello rules are followed? (Note: this isn’t an opinion question — be sure to look at the ways that the various writers would answer these questions as well.)Remember to pull in examples from the readings including primary sources.
• Reading resources
• Defenders of the Faith: Augustine, Aquinas, and the Evolution of Medieval Just War Theory, Saber and Scroll: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1 , Article 3
• Just war theory and private security companies.
• THOMAS AQUINAS BETWEEN JUST WAR AND PACIFISM.
• PHILOSOPHY AND JIHAD: AL-FARABI ON COMPULSION TO HAPPINESS
• Just war and virtue: Revisiting augustine and thomas aquinas
• St Augustine.
• Diego Cucarella “Jihad and the Islamic Philosophers: Alfarabi as a Case Study” Encounter no. 354 (May 2010).
  John Langan “The Elements of St. Augustine’s Just War Theory” The Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1984).
  Jon Dorbolo “Just War Theory” Oregon State University 2001. Accessed August 1, 2013, http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/jus…