Choose a country in the world that you are interested in (as this is Poli Sci 2, please choose a cou ...
Choose a country in the world that you are interested in (as this is Poli Sci 2, please choose a country other than the U.S.). Research a current event in your chosen country by looking it up in the news. You must apply what you learned from class and the textbook to the current event you found. You must use specific things that you learned from class (lecture and the textbook) to give your own interpretation of the following two things: 1) What caused the event/situation in your chosen country? 2) What do you predict/forecast will be the long-term effects of the event/situation in your chosen country? For example, if you found news about a protest movement currently going on in your chosen country, you must then use ideas and concepts from class to analyze why the protest occurred and what you predict will happen to the protest. In your own analysis of these causes and effects of the political protest, you might integrate relevant things you learned about what explains political behavior, Authoritarian Institutions, Citizens and Regimes, Contentious Politics and Regime Change, Identity, Equality, and Inclusion, Political Economy, Markets, and Globalization, etc. Try to tie in as many concepts, ideas, and arguments from class that you think are relevant to the current event in your chosen country. You are required to include specific ideas from the assigned readings in the textbook to support what you say in your essay. When doing so, you must include citations. You are free to look up other sources in addition to your textbook while researching for your essay, but you are required to at least have citations to the assigned readings from the textbook. (Having no citations to the Bozonelos et al. free online textbook will result in point deductions.) Regarding citations, wherever you write about something from any source, you must immediately add a parenthetic citation at the end of the sentence. The parenthetic citation should be in the following format: (last name of author, section number) Example: If citing an idea about "democratic consolidation" found in Section 4.4 of the Bozonelos et al. free online textbook, you will give a parenthetic citation as follows: (Bozonelos et al., 4.4.) If citing from any online resources, for the purposes of this class, simply place the author’s last name and/or title of the online resource within parentheses as a parenthetic citation. Include the full web address (URL) on the bibliography, works cited, reference page at the end. You must include a works cited (bibliography or references) page at the end listing (alphabetically by last name) everything to which you cited in your essay. For any online resource, list the author’s name and/or title, web address (URL), and the date that you accessed it. Note: your works cited (bibliography or references) page WILL NOT be included in the page count for the required 3-5 pages. Your 12 points will be based on how well you really, really explain your thoughts and examples, how much and how well you integrate specific ideas from the assigned readings (with appropriate citations), and how well you write your essay to have no spelling/grammatical errors and/or readability issues. The more that you can include specific things that we covered in class to support your arguments and the more explanations that you provide, the better you will do on this essay. Please upload your essay here to Canvas (see upload/submission directions below). Your essay must be an actual file that can be uploaded (Microsoft Word document, PDF document, etc.) to Canvas. I will not accept links to your documents stored on sharable drives, cloud storage, etc. Beware: once you upload your essay, it automatically goes through an online plagiarism check against other essays submitted for this class, for other classes at ELAC and elsewhere, as well as material found on the internet. If your essay gets a “plagiarism alert”, it will not be tolerated and will require further disciplinary action in accordance with ELAC policy.
