Last Day of Fall ’16 Class, Thurs 12/8

by admin - December 7th, 2016

For Thursday, Dec 8 — Review your course notes in light of the final exam study guide, and read / think about these two recent articles that talk about the health of Western democracies. Can you connect these back to Bellamy’s book from the beginning of the semester? Because of what you’ve learned in this course, how informed an interpreter are you of news items you might run across, such as these?

Remember: Response Paper #6 is due in class. See the post below for writing prompt, addressing the course learning outcomes.

Amanda Taub, “How Stable Are Democracies?” New York Times 11/29/2016

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Eric Voeten, “That Viral Graph About Millennials’ Declining Support for Democracies? It’s Very Misleading,” Washington Post 12/5/2016

Bonus, if you feel like digging deeper (as I know you will): the article from which they’re both citing data 

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