2-page, double-spaced paper comparing and contrasting readings of your choosing from the week.
Reading Sources:
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, “The Constitution, Social Change, and the Progressives,” in Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency(New York: Basic Books), 2016, pp. 16-46.
David Kamens, “The Collectivist Moment,” in Kamens, A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism(Palo Alto: Stanford University Press), 2019, pp. 61-73.
Paul Pierson, “Madison Upside-Down: The Policy Roots of Our Polarized Politics,” inJeffrey Jenkins and Sidney Milkis, eds., The Politics of Major Policy Reform in Postwar America(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2014, pp. 282-301.
Suzanne Mettler, “20,000 Leagues Under the State,” Washington Monthly, July/August 2011.
Emily Badger, “The Outsize Hold of the Word ‘Welfare’ on the Public Imagination,” New York Times, August 6th, 2018.
Vesla M. Weaver, “The Only Government I Know: How The Criminal Justice System Degrades Democratic Citizenship,” Boston Review, June 10, 2014. http://www.bostonreview.net/us/vesla-m-weaver-citizenship-custodial-state-incarceration