Assignment for Thursday, 10/4

Read Shively's Chapter 9, "Constitutions and the Design of Government" and Chapter 3, "The Modern State." We will go over them in that order. We will also go over exam questions, as your mid-term exam is the following week.

Also, please remember that this is your LAST CHANCE to submit your second summary! You may summarize EITHER chapter, but not both.

Assignment for Thursday, 9/27

Read Chapter 2 in Shively, "Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy." (This is your LAST CHANCE to submit your required summary for September, so I expect to see a lot of them.)

Assignment for Thursday, 9/20

Please read the following two chapters in Shively:
-- Chapter 7, "Authority and Legitimacy: The State and the Citizen:
-- Chapter 8, "Democracy and Autocracy"

If you choose to submit a summary this week, and I STRONGLY encourage you to do so, please summarize only ONE of the chapters.

Assignment for Thursday, 9/13

For next time, read the following:

• Chapter One in Shively, "Politics: Setting the Stage." Some of this chapter will reinforce topics we talked about on September 6, but much of the chapter concerns the concept of power, which we will discuss next time. Please remember that if you have trouble getting the textbook, it is on reserve in the library.
  

• The following sections from Aristotle's Politics:
  
• Book 3, chapters 6 & 7
• Book 4, chapters 8 & 11

The Aristotle text is available from a number of online sources. A hypertext version is available here; you can use this to print out the appropriate chapters. A PDF copy of the entire text is available here. Finally, a number of formats are available here (click on "The Politics vol 1" to access them). FYI, all sources provide the Jowett translation.