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Problem
Looking back, how has your engagement with the material this semester altered your thinking about politics? Explain the changes (or lack thereof) with reference to texts, assignments, lectures, discussions, and/or conversations you have had this semester.
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Discussion posts: To be a good statesman, must a state official also be a good person? Does virtue (good character) matter when assessing the conduct of public officials?
Think of a public issue where the negative freedom of citizens is in tension with their positive freedom. Explain how the two are in tension in this instance with careful reference to the definitions of these two concepts. How should public policy reconcile this tension and why?
Of the problems mentioned by Dahl, which do you think are the most difficult problems for republican democracy to solve and why? How might this problem shape the evolution of current democracies?
Essays topics written: Compare and contrast Locke and Hobbes' respective accounts of the state of nature. how do these depictions influence their respective theories of government?
Are citizens in American today competent enough for collective self-government?
Texts: Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes John Locke, Second Treatise on Government Robert Dahl, Democracy and its Critics