political science

Pick and answer four of the questions listed below. As part of each question, you will find listed a set of terms and phrases. Make sure that you use those terms and phrases in answering that question. A significant part of your grade for that answer will be based on how intelligently or meaningfully you use those terms and phrases in constructing your answer for that question. When typing your answers, please highlight those terms and phrases in bold and italic so that it is easy for me to locate them in your answers.

Each of the answer has to be a minimum of 250 words and a maximum of 500 words (please specify the word count for each answer at the end of that answer). Answers are to be double-spaced, Times New Roman; 12-point font size; 1” on left, right, top and bottom. You are required to upload your answer as a word file or a PDF file under Week 7 Exam I module, by October 21, Wednesday 11:59pm.

Question 1:

There is significant variation in states’ environmental policies, with some states having more environmental regulation than others. Discuss how the identity-based, interest-based and institution-based approaches to comparative analysis would explain this pattern. In constructing your answer, make sure to use the following terms and phrases in a meaningful way:

– Values and attitudes

– Authoritative norms

– Cost-benefit calculation

– Political actor

– Political behavior

– Interest groups

– Identity groups

– Democracy versus autocracy

Question 2:

Compare and contrast the political development paths of Germany and Great Britain in broad terms. Specifically, discuss the ways in which the two countries’ development paths are similar and different. In constructing your answer, make sure to use the following terms and phrases in a meaningful way:

– Stable political order

– Effective government

– Comparative politics feedback

– International relations feedback

– Global context

– Magna Carta

– The Glorious Revolution

– The Westminster model

– Political unification

– The Weimer Republic

– National Socialist German Workers, Party (Nazi Party)

– Two Germanys (Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic)

Question 3:

Compare and contrast the organization and power of the executive branches of government (the head of state and head of government) in Great Britain and France. In constructing your answer, make sure to use the following terms and phrases in a meaningful way:

– Parliamentary system

– Semi-presidential system

– Diffusion versus separation of executive and legislative power

– Constitutional monarchy

– Head of the government

– Head of the state

– Vote of confidence

– Cohabitation

– Emmanuel Macron

– Boris Johnson

Question 4:

Compare and contrast the organization and relative power of the legislative branches of government (parliament) in Germany and France. In constructing your answer, make sure to use the following terms and phrases in a meaningful way:

– (Weak or Strong) bicameralism

– Bundestag

– Bundesrat

– National Assembly

– Senate

– Federalism

– Relations with the executive branch

Question 5:

Compare and contrast the party systems of Great Britain and Germany, with clear references to the prominent political parties in those countries (their relative ideological positioning and political significance). In constructing your answer, make sure to use the following terms and phrases in a meaningful way:

– Two party system

– Multi party system

– Effective number of parties

– The Republicans

– The Union for French Democracy (UDF)

– The National Rally

– The Socialist Party

– The Conservative party

– The Labour Party

– The Liberal Democrats

Question 6:

Democracies and autocracies can take multiple different forms. Discuss first what separate a democracy from autocracy in general and then what separates different forms of democracies and different forms of autocracies.

– Competitive, multiparty elections

– Freedom of speech and assembly

– The rule of law

– Parliamentarism

– Presidentialism

– Semi-presidentalism

– Militaristic autocracy

– Monarchical autocracy

– Single-party autocracy

– Personal autocracy

– Fascism

– Communism

– Theocracy

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