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sections of POSC 100 also have seats available. Priority will be given to graduating seniors who need to complete this course in order to graduate. Interested students should give your name and student # to one of the class TA s.
George
s:
POSC 100 is required of all students, every effort will be made to make the course manageable, with consistent grading procedures.
goal of the course grading system is to enable you to pass POSC 100 with the highest grade possible.
The
attendance
Your
course grade will be based on four test grades There will be a total of five exams given: four regular exams and a final exam The exams will be held at the end of each unit, and will have both essay and objective questions Each exam (incl. the final) will count equally The Final Exam will be comprehensive The best four grades on these exams will be averaged to compute your course grade
[EXAM GRADES]
(or CR)
No
talking or disturbing others during lectures No leaving before class is dismissed (without prior permission) Professor George will add one point to every students next exam score for every class session in which no one leaves early and no one is talking during lectures (This will change most students grades by a full letter grade).
Class rules
Slides
These They
LECTURE SLIDES
Some
of the material for exams will NOT appear on posted lecture slides. You will have to actually attend class to get that material
struggles among organized groups over resources, wealth, and power process of deciding how to resolve controversies among groups
The
Powers of government
the people of the United States, in order to perform a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity
peoples rights Make and enforce fair laws Interpret the law and judge cases
Ensure
treatment
action
Justice
Criminal
includes
This
means both reducing crime and nurturing a peaceful and orderly society etc.
Part
Another
part involves government responsibility to address peoples grievances before they lead to conflict and violence
laws to regulate, protect, and ensure the interests of people and groups
Develop
and implement policies to support and improve the general well-being of the people
and spend money to fund these programs
Raise
Regulate
Levels of government
Federal (national) government State governments Local governments
include groups of people with different backgrounds, values, and who live in very different circumstances these people have to live together and get along under a common government
But
Different
groups of people are going to disagree about what that governments laws and policies are going to be the governments plan for dealing with a particular problem or problem area:
Environmental Foreign
What What What
Policy:
to do about global climate change to do about Iranian efforts to get nuclear weapons to do about the price of gasoline, financial crisis
policy
policy
Economic
policy
Different
groups are going to disagree about what the governments laws and policies are going to be
Some
Global
groups will call for reductions in fossil fuel usage Some will call for government to let the market decide what changes will be made
climate change:
Iranian
Some
will call for diplomacy -- using carrots and sticks -- to persuade Iran not to develop nuclear weapons Some will favor military action to destroy Irans nuclear production facilities
nuclear weapons
The
problem is that the government must choose one course of action for dealing with each of these problems and use the power of the government to implement that policy among groups who favor different and incompatible environmental policies, foreign policies, and economic policies give rise to political controversies
Political controversies
Disputes
The three Is
Political
Implementing
instruments
Coercive instruments
Persuasive instruments
anyone If leaders can persuade opponents to join together, it can build solidarity and strengthen patriotic loyalty.
Disadvantages: If it doesnt work,
or hurt
the government must resort to other means anyway Persuasion and propaganda often involve government deception and manipulation of the people
Economic instruments
Modern
governments today rely primarily on economic instruments to accomplish their goals history
GDP
Modern The
Economic instruments
Most
How money collected by the government can be used for public purposes
Tax
cuts: it can be returned to be spent by citizens for their own private consumption and security expenditures: It can be spent by the government on military, police, prisons, etc.
Military
Public
civilian services and social programs: education, health care, economic safety net, national parks, museums, etc.
federal government had $330 billion left over at the end of the fiscal year and the president had to decide what to do with these funds
Congress
of the tax cut went to the top 8% of Americans (those earning more than $140,000 per year)
Americans received approximately $400, or approximately $1 per day
Most
government could have instead paid off that years defense budget
($350
billion) This money was going to be spent This money thus had to be borrowed, and we still owe it it will be paid out of future taxes, in addition to The annual military budget for each year ($350 billion per year)
health care for all uninsured children in the US up all the remaining large toxic waste pollution sites in the US
PLUS
Paid
for all the additional emergency response personnel for the war on terrorism the California state budget deficit
Eliminated
size
Provided Provided
Provide
health insurance for all 9.2 million uninsured American children: $13 billion Provide health insurance for all 41 million uninsured Americans: $98 billion Close all state budget gaps and reduce state taxes: $78 billion End homelessness in 10 years: $13 billion
Here are the federal government programs that would have totaled $330 billion
Clean
up all major toxic waste pollution sites: $3 billion Provide Head Start for all 2 million kids who are currently eligible but dont receive it: $25 billion Prevent blackouts and energy price surges: $4 billion Reduce 90% of the food poisoning and disease in the US: $1 billion
Provide
housing and income support for all victims of domestic violence: $1 billion Hire 1 million new public school teachers: $30 billion Hire 1 million new child care providers: $22 billion Provide transportation, delivered meals, and cleaning help for all US seniors: $4 billion
Provide
assistive technology and medical equipment for 1 million disabled Americans: $4 billion Pay for income gap for Reserve and National Guard personnel called up for active duty in Iraq: $2 billion Vaccinate all Americans: $5.6 billion
rights in Maine
The
Modern