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American Studies Readings & Questions for Class & Class Briefs

Questions: 1. What image/message are each of the monuments trying to put forward? How do they compare? 2. What do they reveal about how Americans remember their wars/leaders? 3. Do mentalités drive American actions or do American actions create the mentalités? 4. Do mentalités actually exist or are they an ex post facto imposition by […]

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Shutdown Articles

Anatomy of a shutdown Winners and Losers Economic Divides and the Shutdown. (courtesy Erica T., and Roslyn J.)

Preliminary Schedule for Class Briefs (American Experience)

October 31: Eva & Stephanie November 7: Mike & Carolyn November 14: Adrian & Alex

American Studies Readings for 10.17

Wilentz, to the end. Pivot to the Asia-Pacific Strategy Guidance Document (not Obama speech). Questions for class (bring your own, as well): 1. What should the American role in the world be? 2. What would Mazower think of Wilentz’s book? Wilentz of Mazower? 3. Is the concept of a “failed state” problematic? Why or why […]

Public Policy Readings for October 17

Edmund Malesky, Abrami Regina, and Zheng Yu, “Institutions and Inequality in Single-party Regimes: a Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China,” Comparative Politics 43, no. 4 (2011). van Evera on Case Studies.

Senate/House Hearings & DC Linktank

Senate Hearings House Hearings Linktank

PubPol Readings for 10.10

Article on Economic Policy Voting. Manheim, 11-12 and introduction to qualitative data section.

Am Ex Reading for 10.10

War on Terror Speech Mazower, 7-12.

Historiography Paper Hand In For American Studies Class

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