readings

Question 1

All week topics are covered except weeks 9&10

Answer 1

O’Neil (2021)

Question 2

Politics as a vocation

Answer 2

Weber (1919)

• types of political domination… charismatic, administrative, legitimacy
• week 3 the state

Question 3

The french Elections of 2017: shaking the disease?

Answer 3

Durovic (2019)

• Macron created a central party (LREM) from left and right and completely shifted traditional French political dynamics
• hard to form majority anymore so laws and reforms are hard to establish thus French system and Macron’s government is weaker
• week 6: electoral systems

Question 4

The Electoral system of Israel

Answer 4

Shugart (2021)

israel has an extremely electoral system

week 6- electoral systems

Question 5

Comparing state policies towards citizens of palestinian and kurdish descent in Israel and Turkey

Answer 5

Griogiardis et al. (2021)

• wimmer: ethnic boundary-making strategies

1. expansion
2. contraction
3. inversion
4. repositioning
5. blurring

week 7- apartheid

Question 6

Forceful Federalism against American Racial Inequality

Answer 6

King (2017)

the federal government’s engagement with racial equality is cruicial but inconsistent and frequently challenged by opponents of racial progress

week 7- apartheid

Question 7

Is Gender like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups

Answer 7

Htun (2004)

gender is crosscutting. women typically receive candidate quotas within political parties

ethnicity is coinciding. usually get reserved seats in the legislature

week 9- gender, identity, and sexuality

Question 8

Europeanization, national party systems, and queer rights: the cases of estonia, latvia, and lithuania

Answer 8

Pelz (2015)

estonia: more progressive to queer rights

latvia and lithuania: more resistant to queer rights

all very similar cases

the party system explains the difference because Latvia and Lithuania has small far-right parties disrupting the party system by demonizing queer people so moderate parties won’t move from the issue

week 9- gender, identity, and sexuality

Question 9

why so many sexual predators at indian residential schools escaped punishment

Answer 9

Hopper (2021)

estimated 5,000 people comitted sexual crimes within the residential school system

lack of background checks

protection of roman catholic church

Question 10

all things coerced sterilization

Answer 10

Hansen&King (2013)