Political science

Assignment: Personal Leadership Philosophies Many of us can think of leaders we have come to admire, be they historical figures, pillars of the industry we work in, or leaders we know personally. The leadership of individuals such as Abraham Lincoln and Margaret Thatcher has been studied and discussed repeatedly. However, you may have interacted with leaders you feel demonstrated equally competent leadership without ever having a book written about their approaches. What makes great leaders great? Every leader is different, of course, but one area of commonality is the leadership philosophy that great leaders develop and practice. A leadership philosophy is basically an attitude held by leaders that acts as a guiding principle for their behavior. While formal theories on leadership continue to evolve over time, great leaders seem to adhere to an overarching philosophy that steers their actions. What is your leadership philosophy? In this Assignment, you will explore what guides your own leadership. To Prepare: ·         Identify two to three scholarly resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments. ·         Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review. ·         Reflect on your results of the CliftonStrengths Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits. ·         Download your Signature Theme Report to submit for this Assignment. The Assignment (2-3 pages): Personal Leadership Philosophies Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following: ·         A description of your core values. ·         A personal mission/vision statement. ·         An analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile ·         A description of two key behaviors that you wish to strengthen. ·         A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be specific and provide examples. ·         Be sure to incorporate your colleagues’ feedback on your CliftonStrengths Assessment from this Module’s Discussion 2. ·         Note: Be sure to attach your Signature Theme Report to your Assignment submission.

Dear International Strategic Management Executives: This year, we have in the United States of America one of the MOST COSEQUENTIAL Presidential Elections not just for the United States but also for the world … . This coming Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 at 9 PM EST, we have in the United Stated of America the 2nd Presidential Debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. between:  . The President of the United States: Donald J. Trump from the Republican Party and former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden from the Democrat Party. . Given the relevance of this event for the outcomes of the US Presidential election, and the impact that it will have in business, the world, and on all of us, it is extremely important we are on top and first hand well informed about the topics and positions of each candidate even if you are not US citizen and therefore elegible to vote.  . For this reason, I am granting you with the possibility to EARN 5% Final Extra Points in this class if you watch and develop the following Learning Assignment about the US 2nd Presidential Debate Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 at 9 PM EST. . Please analyze, discuss, and respond in great detail …: . During this 2020 Presidential Election in the United States of America: . * What issues are most important to you and your friends, parents, family members? * How closely have you been following this election? * What have you noticed so far?  . During – after watching the US 2nd Presidential Debate Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 at 9 PM EST: . * What are 5–6 words or phrases that describe your thoughts and feelings about the debate? . * Given the issue(s) that is(are) most important to you, how would you rate each candidate’s position on that issue(s)? . * What issue(s) do you think needed more exploration? . * If you could ask a question of the candidates (that wasn’t asked) what would the question be and based on your knowledge of the candidates, how do you think they might respond? . * From which exchange did you learn the most? What was the issue? What did you learn? . * What was the most contentious or interesting part of the debate and why? . * What was a memorable moment in the debate and why? . * After watching the debate, what candidate most impressed you and why? . * Did the debate make you feel hopeful or fearful about the future of the United States of America and the world? Please explain. . * Do you think the debate focused more on personality and character than on substantive issues and topics? In what ways is this positive and negative? .  expect high caliber responses with top analyses and interesting insights and discussions Kristen Welker, moderator of the Oct. 22, 2020 presidential debate, has selected the topics for that debate. Subject to possible changes because of news developments, the topics are as follows, not necessarily to be brought up in this order: Fighting COVID-19 American Families Race in America Climate Change National Security Leadership The debate will be held on Thursday, October 22 at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. The debate will start at 9:00 p.m. ET and run for 90 minutes without commercial interruption.

Lots of people are frustrated with politics in America today.One common complaint is that they two-party system is at fault. People making this complaint worry that, for example, political views not represented by the two parties – Republicans and Democrats – are excluded from political discourse. Or that having only two parties limits the choices available on election day, and if neither candidate is desirable, there’s no one left to choose.But there is another view, as you’ve read. This other view is that blaming the two-party system for today’s problems is misguided. This argument says, among other things, that citizens of other countries with multi-party systems are no more satisfied with the state of their politics than Americans are with ours. We blame the two-party system, they say, because we think “the grass is always greener on the other side,” when really it’s not.And, they argue, we don’t really have a two-party system, anyway. As recently as 1992, a third party, the Reform Party, got almost 19% of the national popular vote in a presidential election. But is this a good argument when, having earned 19% of the popular vote, the reform party got no electoral votes?Given what you’ve read, what do you think about the two-party system? Should we do something to change it? If so, what?Remember you need to make your “Initial Post” of at least 250 words and you need to complete

you need to complete at least two responses “the “Final Posts”) of at least 200 words each to classmates by the dates shown in the course schedule.Q1/ In my opinion, constitutions, in short, are frameworks for making politics possible. The text of a written constitution contains different kinds of legal norms that create the basic framework. These norms include rules, standards and principles. Rules and standards exist along a continuum. Rules are norms that don’t require very much practical reasoning to apply.Like standards, principles may also have abstract and vague terms; the difference is that when principles apply to a situation, they do not always apply conclusively, but may be balanced against other considerations.A constitution contains a mixture of these different kinds of norms. They serve different functions. For some purposes, rules are better than standards or principles. Otherwise presidents would tempted to try to stay in power forever, and this might undermine democracy. But some constitutional goals cannot easily be achieved through rules. That is why human rights provisions in constitutions are usually expressed in terms of standards and principles. These are open-ended, abstract, or vague terms that necessarily require construction and implementation by later participants in the system.Constitutions use rules, standards, and principles and to channel and police government action, to establish rules of succession to power, to create institutions that perform government functions, to divide powers among different actors and branches, and to set institutions in competition with each other in order to diffuse and check concentrations of power. Because constitutions not only use rules but also standards and principles – and because they are sometimes silent on certain questions – they are elaborate systems of constraint and delegation to the future.I believe that we must be faithful to the original meaning in the sense of the original semantic and communicative content of the words. But it does not follow that we must apply the constitution’s words in the same way that they would have been applied by the people who wrote them. Thus, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees equal protection of the laws. These words have pretty much the same semantic meaning as they did in 1868. But the people who wrote them did not expect that the words would require modern notions of sex equality. In applying the Equal Protection Clause today, we are bound only by the original meanings of the words – which in this case is the same as the contemporary meaning – and not the original expected application.Because a constitution is a framework, it must be built out over time, and different generations must participate in that project. As each generation gets involved, change inevitably occurs. Moreover, many different people and groups in society participate in the construction of the constitution– not only judges and lawyers, or politicians, but also members of civil society and ordinary individuals.These groups participate in official ways: for example, by creating laws and judicial doctrines. They also participate in unofficial ways: for example, through social influence, political organization, and cultural change. To understand constitutional development, we must take account of both the official and the unofficial contributions to constitutional construction.Q2:Anyone approaching the topic of constitutional interpretation inevitably encounters the question of whether it has some specific trait that distinguishes it from other objects or forms of legal interpretation. Whatever the theory of legal interpretation to which one adheres, whether one regards it as a function of knowledge or as a function of the will, one necessarily presupposes that the constitutional interpretation is a species of the genus “ legal interpretation ”and one seeks to distinguish it from other species of the same genus, the interpretation of laws, that of international treaties, administrative acts, or contracts of private law. But, if the question is always the same, the type of answer one gives depends in part on the theory of interpretation on which one relies.Thus, those who believe that interpretation is a function of knowledge are obviously tempted to seek the specificity of constitutional interpretation in the specificity of its object. As the constitution is not a text like any other, constitutional interpretation is different from the interpretation of laws or treaties. In this regard, theorists who adhere to an intermediate or mixed theory agree with the proponents of interpretation-knowledge theory. According to the intermediate theory, in fact, interpretation is an act of will by which the authentic interpreter chooses within a frame among several possible meanings, while the determination of the frame would result from an act of knowledge.Americans constitutional theory presents an opposition between, on the one hand, the arguments in favor of a living constitution capable of adapting to change, and, on the other, the demand to restore the original meaning of the constitution. these two positions stem from a common observation: the recognition of the disappearance of the world which produced the old constitution. This experience of constitutional modernity gives rise to equal and opposite tendencies: the need to cling to the past, its symbols, and its concrete manifestations on the one hand and, on the other hand, the need to transcend the past through adaptation pragmatic to a world that is no longer the same.

I uploaded the print direction in the file. there are 3 links need to be click in to read. – the paper should consist of at least 5 paragraphs (2 pages in length) following this format: 1. Introduction Paragraph: Summarizes the purpose of the paper, uses an attention-getting devise to draw the reader in. 2. Paragraphs 2-3: Provide a summative analysis of federalism, tracing its evolution throughout U.S. history to where we are today. 3. Paragraph 4: Provide an analysis of a current topic or issue pertaining to federalism. A. Describe the issue or topic b. Describe the relationship to federalism (I.e. what are the states doing vs. What is the federal government doing?) c. Describe why the issue is controversial regarding governance 4. Conclusion paragraph: Summarize the paper and tie it all together.

Due: Tuesday, 12/22/2020 11:59 PM (EST) Instructions Using your favorite search engine, locate the federal budget and your state budget for the current fiscal year. Compare and contrast both budgets in an essay consisting of no less than 500 words, and include the following: Discuss the budgeting tools utilized by both government types. Discuss the impact of market inefficiencies on both government types. Discuss the use of rainy day funds by the state and whether or not something similar would work for the federal government. If you feel it would work for the federal government, please explain how you think it would work. If you do not think it will work, please explain your reasoning. For more information on Public Finance And Budgeting read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Budgeting_%26_Finance

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:What are the ethical and practical issues that complicate the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques? How can these be overcome or minimized? Explain and provide specific examples to support your rationale.

Write a paper addressing conflict intervention and recommendations for the Patton family conflict that is at least 700 words. Before starting the paper, the team will have to identify the issues facing the Patton family. You may use the case study found in the Week Two materials as a resource.Use Ch. 14, 15 and 16 of The Mediation Process to help guide the responses to the following statements and questions in your paper.Will you address every issue?Will resolution of some issues help resolve other issues? Explain.Do you see a logical solution to the major issues?Explain how this solution address the major issues presented by the parties.How will you explore this idea(s)/solution(s) without suggesting/advising the partiesDescribe the areas you feel support a compromise or collaboration?The Patton family case study is attached

Answer ONE essay from EACH GROUP (for a total of two). Each essay should be 3-4 pages, typed, double-spaced, and rigorously apply a standard academic source citation style. Be sure to address all aspects of the questions, to relate your answers carefully to course material and any other supporting evidence. You should submit this as a single Word document, and you can used a combined Bibliography or Works Cited at the end of the two essays. Please note: Your answers should not overlap significantly with previous written work for the class (e.g., past Response Papers). These midterm essays are due in the Moodle submission portal by Wednesday, March 17, by 12:00 noon (Wooster time).Group I: Answer ONE of the following questions (worth 50 points): 1. What is a disaster, and how should governments respond to them? Develop a detailed essay that firstdefines disasters and draws strong connections to course readings and theories. Next, critically analyze the political and moral implications to respond to disasters that flow from such a definition. For the last third of your essay, apply these arguments to analyze developments in the Iceland-Z crisis simulation2. What does the theory of bureaucratic politics tell us about disaster response? What are the implications ofSchneider’s arguments about bureaucratic and emergent norms in this context? For the last third of your essay, apply Schneider’s framework to analyze developments in the Iceland-Z crisis simulation.3. Critically analyze all dimensions of the following claim: “Democracies provide the most effectiveresponses to disasters.” Develop a detailed essay incorporates arguments from Tilly, Hannigan, Fenner, Kleinfeld, and others to speak to this question. Finally, relate these arguments to our experiences in the Iceland-Z crisis simulation.4. Which is more essential to effective disaster response—leadership or public trust—and why? Develop anessay in which you champion one of these dimensions over the other based on your studies of comparative public policy, and draw in detailed examples and arguments from course material. How did these perspectives inform your experiences in the Iceland-Z crisis simulation?Group II: Answer ONE of the following questions (50 points): 5. Develop an essay that compares and contrasts the following two comparative public policy theories:Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and the Advocacy Coalition Framework theory. What are the primary arguments or assumptions of these theories? Who are the most important actors that they study? How are they similar or different? Finally, describe how one of these theories works to provide sound analysis in a mini-case study.6. Which is a more serious disaster: COVID-19 or climate change—and why? Develop a carefully constructed comparative public policy analysis of this question by drawing on arguments from Dodds, Hannigan, Harrison, and other readings.

Essay: The United Nations SystemsInstructionsPrint Start WritingThe United Nations Security Council is the world’s primary body for maintaining international peace and security through a multilateral institution. It is the only organization within the United Nations system that has the authority to make binding decisions and to enforce those decisions through the use of force. Yet the Security Council has long been criticized for its ineffectiveness and outdated membership structure.Recall that the structure of the United Nations Security Council reflects the distribution of political power at the end of World War II. The Security Council has five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly on a geographic basis for a two year term. Security Council resolutions must be approved by 9 of the 15 members, and a no vote by any of the permanent members automatically defeats any resolution (the veto power).Suppose you were asked to recommend changes in the structure of the Security Council—particularly with respect to its membership composition and voting structure—intended to make the organization more effective. What changes would you propose? What obstacles to your proposed reform might you anticipate?( 500 – 700 wors)