Category: Political Science

Watch the movie Casino Jack (2010) and CBS 60 minute

Instructions
Watch the movie Casino Jack (2010) and CBS 60 minutes clips linked above.
Then, in an essay, answer below two questions.
REQUIREMENTS: MINIMUM 1,500 WORDS / Microsoft Word document / 12-points font size & SINGLE space / Proper Citation, if necessary (either APA, Chicago, or MLA).
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Restrictions on Interest Group Lobbying
Under current congressional rules, members of Congress and their staffs are severely limited in the size of gifts they can receive from lobbyists. Similar restrictions had existed for decades but were tightened in the mid-2000s after it was revealed that former congressional staffer-turned-lobbyist Jack Abramoff had used “golf junkets, free meals at the restaurant he owned, seats at sporting events, and, in some cases, old-fashioned cash” to lobby members of Congress. The current restrictions limit members and their staffs to accepting gifts only if they are valued at less than $50—moreover, the total worth of the gifts that any lobbyist can give to a particular member of Congress or staffer is limited to $100 per year. Are these restrictions fair? Do they help or hurt the political process?
Keep the rules, and maybe tighten them.
Supporting this option seems like a no-brainer. These regulations are based on a sensible intuition that laws are needed to prevent well-funded, unscrupulous lobbyists from offering inducements to members of Congress and their staffs in return for policy change. Simply put, groups that can send people to Washington to wine and dine members of Congress, congressional staff, and bureaucrats, might gain a significant advantage over those who are unable to do so. Even if a fancy lunch doesn’t buy a legislator’s vote, it might help with access—that is, give the group a chance to make their arguments and perhaps change some minds. In this way, rules that allow even small gifts create an advantage for some interest groups (those that can open a Washington office or hire lobbyists) and a disadvantage for others. As a result, many reform proposals would go further, preventing lobbyists from giving anything to a member of Congress, legislative staff, or bureaucrat—even a cup of coffee.
Relax the rules (a little).
Some argue that worries about interest group influence seem a little overstated. Suppose an interest group takes some congressional staff out to lunch or invites them to an evening reception. Nice treatment might increase the chances that the staffers would meet with the group’s lobbyists or look at the group’s proposals. But congressional staff and the legislators they work for are going to support a group’s proposals only if they help the member’s constituents or if they move policy in a way the member favors, not just because of an interest group’s free lunch. Also, the targets of lobbying know what’s going on—they’re not going to think a lobbyist is their new friend and ally just because of a small gift.
Finally, there are downsides to tight controls on these gifts and perks. The current rules on lobbyists’ gifts create a lot of paperwork for members and their staffs, who have to file reports on just about anything they receive from a lobbyist, even if that individual is a former colleague, neighbor, or friend. The rules are also extremely complicated—for example, legislators are allowed to eat the hors d’oeuvres provided at a reception, but they cannot sit down to a full meal without violating the gift restrictions. The disclosure requirements are also a burden to smaller interest groups and firms, which have to document everything they do on complex forms. As a result, members of Congress, their staff, interest groups, and lobbying firms spend considerable time and effort on documenting small gifts that are unlikely to have any effect on policy outcomes.
1. To what extent do you think current congressional rules limiting the size of gifts that members of Congress and their staffers can receive from lobbyists have curbed illegal behavior by interest groups?
2. Are these rules aimed at exceptional cases or average interest groups?

Classroom Discussion of Public Problems, Causes, and Effects

PPP – 01 Classroom Discussion of Public Problems, Causes, and Effects
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About
Problems can be classified as private or public. Private problems are problems that effect a single individual, while public problems effect many individuals or an ecosystem. Public problems can emerge when private problems spill into the public sphere or consciousness.
For example, a person with an aliment could be viewed as having the private problem. However, if many people are discovered to have the same aliment, then it may enter the public sphere. The public sphere will ask who, what, when, where, why, and how: Who has the aliment? What is the aliment? When were they diagnosed with the aliment? Where were they living or working or visiting? Why do they have the aliment? How did the aliment emerge?
Discussing public problems involves face-to-face and online interactions between individuals.
Estimated Time
An estimated 2 hours is needed to complete this activity.
Classroom Discussion
“I got 99 public problems…”, but in reality, there are a multitude of “public problems” in our neighborhood, community, city, county, region, state, nation, hemisphere, and mother Earth.
The goal of this discussion is for you to post a Public Problem and reply to at least 2 peer’s posts.
You are welcomed and encouraged to go above and beyond the minimum requirements by replying to a third peer’s post.
Step 1: Post a public problem
State a public problem.
Share why you think it is an important public problem to focus on.
Explain what at least one cause of the public problem is.
Explain what at least one effect of the public problem is.
Step 2: Reply to a peer’s public problem
Validate your peer’s justification for focusing on the public problem.
Add one additional cause of the public problem.
Add one additional effect of the public problem.
Step 3: Reply to a second peer’s public problem
Validate your peer’s justification for focusing on the public problem.
Add one additional cause of the public problem.
Add one additional effect of the public problem.
Above and Beyond: Reply to a third peer’s public problem
Validate your peer’s justification for focusing on the public problem.
Add one additional cause of the public problem.
Add one additional effect of the public problem.
Rubric
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RubricCriteria
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Post: State a Public Problem
Yes
No
5
0
Post: Share Why Public Problem is Important to You
Yes
No
5
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Post: Explain at least 1 Cause of Public Problem
Yes
No
5
0
Post: Explain at least 1 Effect of Public Problem
Yes
No
5
0
Post Quality: Subjective evaluation by Professor
01 – Superb
02 – Excellent
03 – Great
04 – Good
05 – Insufficient
0
0
0
0
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Reply 1: Validate Peer
Yes
No
5
0
Reply 1: Offer Additional Cause of their Public Problem
Yes
No
5
0
Reply 1: Offer Additional Effect of their Public Problem
Yes
No
5
0
Reply 1 Quality: Subjective evaluation by Professor
01 – Superb
02 – Excellent
03 – Great
04 – Good
05 – Insufficient
0
0
0
0
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Reply 2: Validate Peer
Yes
No
5
0
Reply 2: Offer Additional Cause of their Public Problem
Yes
No
5
0
Reply 2: Offer Additional Effect of their Public Problem
Yes
No
5
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Reply 2 Quality: Subjective evaluation by Professor
01 – Superb
02 – Excellent
03 – Great
04 – Good
05 – Insufficient
0
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0
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Above and Beyond: 3rd Reply
Yes
No
0
0

Discuss Lyng’s concept of edgework (pp. 220-226), broken down into the following parts: edgework activities; edgework skills; edgework sensations.

Reading Assignment 5
Labeling, Resistance, and Edgework
Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson /
Beyond Mead: The Societal Reaction to Deviance, Edwin W. Lemert /
Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking, Stephen Lyng /
Resistance as Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug-Involved Women, Rajah Valli /
Connections: Labeling, Resistance and Edgework through Parkour, John J. Brent, Critical Thinking Questions /
Deliverable Length: 2-3 pages
Answer two questions:
1. Discuss Lyng’s concept of edgework (pp. 220-226), broken down into the following parts: edgework activities; edgework skills; edgework sensations.
2. What do you think is the most important contribution of edgework as a model of voluntary risk-taking?
3. Rajah expands the concept of edgework as risk-taking into the area of resistance to violence and control in the intimate relationship. Evaluate the success of this theoretical expansion regarding risk thresholds and the rewards of resistance as well as examples of edgework resistance (pp. 234-240).
4. According to Brent the activity of parkour (i.e., free-running) is at once an emerging popular culture component and also a deviant label. Critique the apparent conflict of this emerging activity through the related concepts of resistance and edgework. Do you think parkour will become more or less popular in the near future?

Please watch the video and provide a detailed and thorough 1-2 page single-space

Please watch the video and provide a detailed and thorough 1-2 page single-spaced typed response to the follow queries. Your response must only use the examples, definitions, and commentary as provided in the video. In addition, ALL material from video used in your answers must be sourced with the following items: Title of video, person quoted or speaking, time stamp in video; example (AMPU, Peter Sagel, 3:44). Submissions without sources or not sourced as proscribed may only receive partial credit.
How does Federal law affect state law?
How does the Commerce Clause affect state and national power?
How does state power lead to “experiments” in policy?
What are some of the problems with Federalism; is there a downside to different state policies?
How does the Federal government affect our lives?
Why did the expansion of Federal power happen during the Great Depression?
https://www.pbs.org/video/constitution-usa-peter-s…

Thomas C. Schelling claimed that nuclear weapons rendered war “unthinkable.” Sho

Thomas C. Schelling claimed that nuclear weapons rendered war “unthinkable.” Should the world ban the possession and use of nuclear weapons, or should it trust the nuclear powers themselves to control these weapons? Should non-nuclear states have a voice in what nuclear states do with their own weapons? How do disarmament and arms control differ from each other? How well have disarmament and arms control agreements worked in the past?
Before midnight, March 2, post a thread in either the Complete Disarmament or the Arms Control threads, using historical facts to support your argument.

Thomas C. Schelling claimed that nuclear weapons rendered war “unthinkable.” Sho

Thomas C. Schelling claimed that nuclear weapons rendered war “unthinkable.” Should the world ban the possession and use of nuclear weapons, or should it trust the nuclear powers themselves to control these weapons? Should non-nuclear states have a voice in what nuclear states do with their own weapons? How do disarmament and arms control differ from each other? How well have disarmament and arms control agreements worked in the past?
Before midnight, March 2, post a thread in either the Complete Disarmament or the Arms Control threads, using historical facts to support your argument.

To receive credit for post, Original post must be 300-400 words long. I need a q

To receive credit for post, Original post must be 300-400 words long. I need a question for the title and the answer, and also work cited.
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Public opinion polls are conducted and evaluated by investigating three current

Public opinion polls are conducted and evaluated by investigating three current polls and viewing the short film “The Poll Dance.”
Polls inundate people on social media and in the news, particularly during election season. “The Poll Dance” will introduce us to important aspects of valid polling. After viewing “The Poll Dance,” you will examine important aspects of valid polling and evaluate three polls.
Learning objectives
Essential Question
What do people need to consider when evaluating public opinion polls?
Assignment:
Complete the attached polling-pitfalls-Handout1.pdf after watching “The Poll Dance”
https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-poll-dance-video/we-the-voters/

No CHATGPT, AI, chatbots, etc…
Thomas C. Schelling claimed that nuclear weapon

Thomas C. Schelling claimed that nuclear weapons rendered war “unthinkable.” Should the world ban the possession and use of nuclear weapons, or should it trust the nuclear powers themselves to control these weapons? Should non-nuclear states have a voice in what nuclear states do with their own weapons? How do disarmament and arms control differ from each other? How well have disarmament and arms control agreements worked in the past?
Post a thread in either the Complete Disarmament or the Arms Control threads, using historical facts to support your argument.
Must have a works cited in MLA format.