POL 201 - Narrative and Reflection Writing Reminder

Like all papers, your narrative must have an argument.  It doesnt for a narrative - what claim can you state about the alumni which can be supported by your data? Is he or she a success? a rolemodel?.

For the reflection papers, what did you learn about visiting the institution?  Then you will relate this learning to a current events issue.

ALWAYS WRITE IN 3RD PERSON.

Comparative Politics in Transition - Content Guidelines for Paper and Defense

Note that this is only a guideline.  Do not expect that quetions here will be the only questions.

It all boils down to proving that the method matches the hypothesis.  You can be done in many ways, but the standards are:

1. Does your hypothesis' core objective match the objective of the method you use?  (will you use regression in a correlative hypothesis?)
2. Does the data gathering procedure that you propose satisfy a) your hypothesis if the hypothesis is turned into a question (does authoritarianism lead to development?).  b).  Is the procedure (survey, interview) the one that is used in your method?
3. Do your proposed questions lead to the right answer (findings) that will prove your hypothesis?

The research that you did also proves to me how well you know the method.

In general:

1. What are the parameters of your variables?  Sample what are the parameters of political participation as a variable? Does it only include voting? how about rallying? How about membership in a party?  How about talking about issues?  If qualitative - how can these be described.  If quantitative - how can these be counted or measured?

If qualitative:

1. How many selections (people to interview)?
2. How is data analyzed (in a phenomenology, in a case study, in a narrative)?
3. What are the data gathering methods or procedures that you will use? (interview, focus group, etc.)
4. What are the available sources of data?

If quantitative:

1. How many respondents (people to survey)?
2. What scale (range of numbers for rating) did you use? 1-5? 1-3, 1-7?  What does the range describe (effective? corrupt)?
3. Are your variables nominal? Ordinal? Are there dummy variables?
4. Are there available sources of data.

POL 201 Tasks for Groups 3 - 6

For submission on Friday October 24, 2014.

Each group will hold a parliamentary session.
In each group, 1 member will function as chair, 1 as secretary, the rest as regular members.  Your group must accomplish specific parliamentary actions.
The session will be recorded as an mp4 video by the secretary.  A camera phone, tablet or better camera may be used.  The entire session should be 8-12 minutes.  Secretary will make a minutes of the meeting which will be uploaded.  The Video will be burned on a CD, with a cover or label:
Parliamentary Practice Simulation
Olympia or Argos or Corinth (number)
Members in alphabetical list, surnames 1st.


For Olympia, Argos, and Corinth 3: each of these groups will meet separately as a new political party in the Philippines with strong liberal-right (idealogy):

Your agenda is to discuss the question of: what platforms should your government offer the people for the next national elections?

Parliamentary actions:

1. Main motion must be debated on.
2. The body must vote to approve or dismiss the main motion.
3. Each member must discuss/debate at least once (2 minutes following standards).
4. There will be 2 Main motions.  The 1st must be objected to succesfully,
5. Main motion must be amended as necessary.
6. There must be a successful motion to limit debate.
7. 2nd motion must be successfully referred to committee.
8. The groups decision along with justifications must be in the form of a resolution.

For Olympia, Argos, and Corinth 4: each of these groups will meet separately as an NGO with authoritarian-left ideology:

Your agenda is to discuss the question of: what steps should be taken for the successful lobbying in support of a plastic bags regulation act?

Parliamentary actions:

1. Main motion must be debated on.
2. The body must vote to approve or dismiss motion that need such procedure.
3. Each member must discuss/debate at least once (2 minutes following standards).
4. The main motion must be objected to and replaced by a new motion.
5. There will be a motion that is already on the table that can address the question.
6. The motion on the table must be successfully taken from it.
7. There must be a motion for recess during which opposing members discuss plans with their allies.
8. The groups decision along with justifications must be in the form of a resolution.

For Olympia, Argos, and Corinth 5: each of these groups will meet separately as the United Nations Security Council:

Your agenda is to discuss the question of:  what actions can be done to stabilize secutirty around the West Philippine Sea / South China Sea?

Parliamentary actions:

1. Main motion must be debated on.
2. Each member must discuss/debate at least once (2 minutes following standards).
3. Main motion must be amended as necessary.
4. China will not object to deliberation but will participate in the debate.
5. There must be a failed motion to suppress debate.
6. An ally of China must successfully suppress the vote by a motion to postpone indefinitely.  
7. There must be a question of privilege.

For Olympia, Argos, and Corinth 6: each of these groups will meet separately as a war council composed of members with a majority of high tenderness political attitudes:

Your agenda is to discuss the question of: what conditions should the body demand of an allied state which calls us to help in a war?

Parliamentary actions:

1. Main motion must be debated on.
2. The body must vote to approve or dismiss motion that need such procedure.
3. Each member must discuss/debate at least once (2 minutes following standards).
4. Main motion must be amended as necessary.
5. There must be a successful motion for a division of the assembly.
6. There must be a motion for recess during which opposing members discuss plans with their allies.
7. The groups decision along with justifications must be in the form of a resolution.

Upholding Justice in the Race

Reposting that the SOMEONE may know:

It has come to my attention that alumni Ms. Clare Fevidal has already been registered here under comment:

Nuvi Dela CruzOctober 9, 2014 at 10:26 PM
DELA CRUZ, Nuvi Maecy H. (1POL2) - Ms. Clare Fevidal

Yet SOMEONE still interviewed her and took the opportunity from Nuvi Dela Cruz.

THAT "SOMEONE" IS HENCEFORTH FORBIDDEN TO SUBMIT MS. FEVIDAL'S INTERVIEW. TO SUBMIT AN INTERVIEW OF MS. FEVIDAL IF YOU ARE NOT NUVI DELACRUZ MERITS FAILED IN POL 201 SINCE YOU DID NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AND RESULTED TO CHEATING ANOTHER STUDENT.

AND ANYONE WHO SUBMITS AN INTERVIEW OF AN ALUMNI PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED BY ANOTHER STUDENT, THUS RESULTING TO STOLEN OPPORTUNITIES WILL MERIT THE SAME PUNISHMENT.

POL201: Instruments in Determining Political Behavior - Your Ideologic Leanings

Take the tests.  Print the results.  Bring to class.

Political Compass

http://politicalcompass.org/test


Moral Compass

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~aaronson/alitest/aintro.html


Political Values Test

http://slackhalla.org/~demise/test/socialattitude.php

Comparative Study: Current Events Reading

It's an audio file. Video and written transcript are also available.

Here's the link:

http://www.cfr.org/russian-federation/conversation-mikhail-khodorkovsky/p33568

Addendum to Survey (easier to fill up form) POL 201

Here's a fillable pdf form.  Easier to answer for your alumni.

Don't forget to fill in the filename before sending.

DOWNLOAD PDF FILLABLE FORM

Survey Questionnaire for POL 201

Here is the Survey Questionnaire for your Amazing Race.

For this task, you need two (2) alumni's.  The qualifications must be.  Graduated within 2009-2013.
EMPLOYED OR UNEMPLOYED.  If your interviewed alumni falls in the same time period, then you can survey the same alumni, then add a new one.  Alumni's for survey are to be listed here in the comments area.  Again, no repetition.

For this task, there's no need for a narrative report.  All you need is that your alumni is able to fill this up.  Hence there must be two survey sheets in the cd.

Edit the file name before sending to your respective alumni.

File is offered in both word and pdf for convenience.

Guides for alumni answering in soft copy:

Adobe reader XI has a "Fill and Sign feature" which will facilitate the checking boxes and input of text.

For those who will use word, you can just highlight and change the color of the boxes.  Then just type text as usual.

The form can also be printed, answered, then scanned for submission.


DOWNLOAD WORD FILE

DOWNLOAD PDF FILE

POL 201 - Tasks for Groups 1 and 2

Each group will hold a parliamentary session.
In each group, 1 member will function as chair, 1 as secretary, the rest as regular members.  Your group must accomplish specific parliamentary actions.
The session will be recorded as an mp4 video by the secretary.  A camera phone, tablet or better camera may be used.  The entire session should be 8-12 minutes.  Secretary will make a minutes of the meeting and upload the video in eleap.


For Olympia, Argos, and Corinth 1: each of these groups will meet separately as a constitutional committee:

Your agenda is to discuss the question of: what institutional or behavioral problem is the root cause of corruption?

Parliamentary actions:

1. Main motion must be debated on.
2. The body must vote to approve or dismiss the main motion.
3. Each member must discuss/debate at least once (2 minutes following standards).
4. Main motion must be amended as necessary.
5. There must be a point of order.
6. There must be a failed motion to lay on the table.
7. There must be a successful motion for recess during which members meet to ally for the vote..
8. There must be at least 2 points of inquiry.

For Olympia, Argos, and Corinth 2: each of these groups will meet separately as a constitutional committee:

Your agenda is to discuss the question of: should animal rights be considered in the making of human laws?

Parliamentary actions:

1. Main motion must be debated on.
2. The body must vote to approve or dismiss motion that need such procedure.
3. Each member must discuss/debate at least once (2 minutes following standards).
4. Main motion must be amended as necessary.
5. There must be a failed motion for the previous question.
6. There must be a successful motion to expunge or rescind.
7. There must be a successful motion for the previous question thus suppressing further discussion.
8. There must be a motion to adjourn.

POL 201 Update

1st years who need formal letters to their alumni's must write their letters following regular standards of formal letters, with a "noted by" (after the closing and your signature part) for me to sign.

Groupings (PGC and POL 201)

For PGC documentary groups, sign up sheets are already available in eleap (groups button).  Just have a member choose a vacant slot and input the members.

For POL 201 parliamentary practice simulation groups, you have already been randomly assigned by eleap.  Just check out your groupings.  Assigned tasks / topics will be announced in class.

POL 201 Amazing Race Interview Questions

Here are 8 interview questions.  You may rephrase, but you will not remove a question.  You may add questions and follow-up questions specially if such questions will better enrich the original set.

1. How would you describe academic life when you were taking the political science program at AB?
2. What do you do in your line of work / job / career?  How would you describe your current professional life as it contributes to you personally? Economically?
3. (Using ranges of tens of thousands 10,000-19,000; 20,000-29,000) What is your current range of salary?  How does it compare to your initial salary?
4. Did you work immediately after graduation?  How long before you started working?  Did you initially get your target career?  How can you describe the steps that you took in order to get where you are now?
5. What was the reason for your choosing your job or line of work?  What made you continue or change jobs (if there were career shifts)?
6. What is your source of job satisfaction?
7. What competencies gained in college were useful in your job or career?  How did such competencies help you?
8. What lessons gained from AB, Political Science endured after graduation?  How did such lessons impact on you and your professional life?

POL201's Amazing Race - Future in the Discipline

WARNING - ACTUAL START OF RACE (SPECIFICALLY THE POSTING OF NAMES) IS ON OCTOBER 7, 2014 8:00 A.M.  But you may speak with potential interviewees before such date.

We began with an introduction of your past, and your ideas of why you are here in the Political Science program.  Your final exam will include this very special activity.

A search and interview of UST-AB Political Science alumni now already in their professional practice.

By definition in this activity, professional practice means that the alumni is already in a as Goodin mentioned "a relatively high status of occupational trade."

The first task in the race is to search for leads.  Go and seek professors and your ate's and kuya's in TPSF for contacts.  This can be skipped if you already know someone.

Second, is to visit and make an appointment with the chosen alumni.  Also inform that you need a fully updated copy of his or her curriculum vitae.  You will also need to take a picture of the alumni.  Either take a picture or ask for one in his/her best.

Third, since this is a race, you will immediately reserve the alumni in this blog by posting in the following format:

YOUR SURNAME, First Name Middle Initial (SECTION) - Your Alumni's First Name Middle Initial Surname

 Example: CASTILLO, Ronald M. (1POL4) - Renato C. Corona.

The interview must be recorded preferably in an audio file [required file format is either mp3 (1st choice) or wmv (2nd choice)].  You can also have it recorded as video.  Skype is definitely acceptable.

The audio recording must begin with the student speaking the following syntax for file identification and authentication:

Future in the Discipline.  Prototype Tracer Study.  Mr. / Ms. / Mrs. Atty. (use appropriate title of the person) Name interviewed by Student Name of section.  Date and Time.

Example: Once you press the record button.  First say to the recorder: Future in the Discipline. Prototype Tracer Study. Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago interviewed by Ronald M. Castillo of  One Political Science Four.  October Fourteen, Twenty-fourteen, Ten-thirty a.m.

Interview guide will be distributed in class.

Once done.  You will use both interview data and curriculum vitae to make a single page (long bond paper) narrative description of the life, achievements, and profdessional practice of the alumni.

Format will be similar to the CV that you first made in class.  But the title, instead of Curriculum Vitae, will now be:

  

On (Deadline) October 27, 2014.  Students must submit in class:

The printed narrative will be collected by the class president following the same protocols as was done in the first class activity (compile it in a clearbook).

A CD containing:

1. Soft copy in PDF file format of the narrative.  Filename - "Interview Section (1POL1) Student Surname - Alumni Surname"
2. Soft copy of alumni's curriculum vitae.  Filename - "CV Section (1POL1) Student Surname - Alumni Surname"
3. Audio or Video file of interview.  Filename - "Interview Section (1POL1) Student Surname - Alumni Surname"

The Big No-no's in the Finals Paper

Committing the following will merit an automatic zero / 0 for the finals paper:

• Poor bibliographic list.
• Bloated bibliographic list.
• Missing in-text citations.
• More than one unnecessary direct quote.
• Uncreative title.
• Did not follow format.
• Plagiarized work.  - Unparaphrased but cited material is plagiarized.  And this time, no more second chances.  It's already the second chance (final paper).
• Work does not fit the required content (argumentative paper must be argumentative, not simply descriptive.).
• Grammatical and compositional errors that span across the entire paper.

Quantitative Analysis Method for Compa

Here is a link to a supplementary reading that can help in quantitative analysis.


https://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wider.unu.edu%2Faboutus%2Fpeople%2Fresident-researchers%2Fen_GB%2Fnino-zarazua-miguel%2F_files%2F88595805175415092%2Fdefault%2FNino-Zarazua-10-2012.pdf&ei=qwstVLGCGsrW8gXar4H4Dw&usg=AFQjCNEHB0bgJoK7dZuFiBa98UhZfp-jPA&bvm=bv.76477589,d.dGc