Your assignment:
Reading: Political Parties in the Legislature
Reading: Electoral Systems and Political Parties Briefing Paper
Category: US GOV: Introductory Materials
On Democratization…
Listen to Zakaria’s Interview on NPR
Fareed Zakaria on the Rise of Illiberal Democracy (in case your media player does not function)
The assignment: listen to (or read) Zakaria and take notes strategically, thoroughly, and thoughtfully. You may bullet point. I will collect and assess and assess your notes.
Chip Hauss on Democratization (Hauss is the author of your textbook and a contributor to the AP curriculum)
Kropotkin Essay
“Ask yourself what you need to know to make this the kind of world you would like to live in. Demand that your teachers teach you that.”
Reading and Learning Strategies
The Political Service Project
Teaching Against Idiocy
Contemplating the root of the word “idiocy” leads Dr. Walter
Parker to explore the challenge that democratic societies
face of developing public-minded citizens. The schools,
he argues, are the most likely institutions to succeed in
that task.
Freedom House
Eugene V. Debs stated that, “years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then…while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
H.L. Mencken asserted that, “the average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.”
Freedom House has set forth to gauge the state of freedom around the world.
Your assignment is to assess the state of freedom in the one AP country study assigned to you using the data provided in the Freedom House index. You do not have to write an essay (you’re welcome). Rather, come to class with notes (which I will collect) and be prepared to present and discuss the state of freedom in the country assigned to you.
Then read the most recent FH report of the country to which you were assigned. Take notes and be prepared to present what you learned when we meet in class. Notes will be collected for homework.