Political Engineering

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Political Engineering

• Taylor, et al. C1 and C2

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American Exceptionalism

• Informal
• Formal
• As it relates to Comparative Politics

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Political Science

• the systematic study of human interaction,
  especially as it pertains to governing large
  populations of human beings (6).

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Political Science

• We are seeking to identify and explain
  specifically the way by which differing
  configurations of institutional structures within
  a state function together in democracies, and to
  compare a set of democracies to demonstrate how
  differing structures affect political behavior
  and outcomes.

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Political Engineering

• The application of the lessons of political
  science to specific settings.
• Relationship to institutions.

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Political Engineering Federalist 1

• It has been frequently remarked that it seems
  to have been reserved to the people of this
  country, by their conduct and example, to decide
  the important question, whether societies of men
  are really capable or not of establishing good
  government from reflection and choice, or whether
  they are forever destined to depend on their
  political constitutions on accident and force.

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Democracy and Delegation

• Democracy v. Republic
• Principals and agents
• Hierarchy and Transaction

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Madison, the Constitution and Political
Engineering

• The problems with the Articles.
• Madisons theory of factions
• The Virginia Plan
• The New Jersey Plan
• The Great Compromise