This is a multi-part essay assignment. You can answer each section separately or combine the questions into a single essay format.
1. Examine the “Science of Politics” Power Point (in your Week 1: Ch 1: Introducing the Ancient Debate Canvas Module), on the three main sources of “truth” (authority, personal reflection, or science). While I make the case that science has clear advantages (the scientific method, falsifiability, etc.), why does authority as a source of truth continue to have such a powerful impact on the contemporary political world? Why is this the case? Relate this to Lakoff’s “Don’t Underestimate Trump” from
Chapter 6 of your “American Government Examined: Reader” Give a contemporary example. Is it justifiable for politicians to lie or mislead constituents because the politicians are confident in the overall “truth” of their agendas?
2. Drawing on Chapter One of your Novel Approach to Politics, the corresponding power point lecture outline (in your Theories and Ideologies Canvas Module), and lecture or video lecture clips, compare and contrast three different ideologies. Explain how are they similar and different. Which do you find most compelling? Why?
Joe Biden, and at least one other candidate. Using the ideologies presented in your Novel Approach to Politics textbook, how would you classify your ideology as well as the ideologies of the three candidates you examined?
