POS 203: Introduction to Political Science 11122008

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POS 203 Introduction to Political Science
11/12/2008

• Course status.
• Midterm returned last week.
• Paper assignment 2
• Returned via e-mail.
• Paper assignment 3
• Due next week.
• Presentations send me final version of power
  points.
• Course Agenda
• Presentations.
• Landman Chapter 11 and Hauss Chapter 10 China.
• Video Tiananmen Square 1989.
• Limits of reform in PRC.
• Discussion Questions.
• Apply Landman Chapter 11 to Hauss Chapter 10.
• Hauss Critical Thinking Exercise 7 China has
  reformed its economy but not its political system
  perestroika without glasnost. Has it worked
  better than reform in the former Soviet Union?
  Why (or why not)?

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• Communist States and Transitions.
• Video 1 Gate of Heavenly Peace.
• Case Tiananmen Square.
• Democracy Movement/Student movement.
• Repression.
• Attempts to restore legitimacy.
• Video Questions.
• What does this video demonstrate about the limits
  of reform in the PRC of the late 1980s? Lessons
  still relevant for understanding PRC in 2008?
• Any concepts from Landman Chapter 11 that are
  demonstrated in the video from many, few, or
  single country studies?

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Next Class November 19th

• Discussion Questions.
• Apply Landman Chapter 11 to Hauss Chapters 11 and
  12.
• Hauss Critical Thinking Exercise p. 322 Question
  4 Many less developed countries have had trouble
  building a sense of national identity or other
  cultural values that could lend legitimacy to
  their states. Why is this the case?
• Hauss Critical Thinking Exercise p. 360 Question
  5 India is one of the most ethnically and
  religiously diverse countries in the world. How
  has that affected its political life since
  independence?