UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE SPRING 2016 POL 4993: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE (CRN# 28269)

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE SPRING 2016 POL 4993: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE (CRN# 28269) Professor: Dr. Jan C. Hardt Class Meets: Wednesdays, 2:00 4:45 pm in LA 140 Office Hours: MWF 8:30-10:50 a.m., MW1:00 1:50 p.m., T 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m., and other times by appointment. Just ask! Office and Phone: 974-5840 in LA 102D E-mail address: jhardt@uco.edu (preferred method of communication) Catalog Description: This is the capstone course for political science majors. Themes and topics addressing the scope and operation of politics within democratic societies will be critically examined. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. Course Objectives: To provide some structure to the major, by providing students with a common experience at the end of their studies in political science. As part of that common experience, the political science department gave this course the theme of democratic governance, because democracy touches on almost all aspects of political science. To give students the opportunity to use the skills they have acquired during their course work at UCO, both in the political science department and in other departments. To refine the writing skills learned in other courses, to gather data to enhance an argument and to improve presentation skills. To engage students in critical thinking, research, and writing. Thus, your work in this course, as you probably know by now, will culminate in a major research project and presentation. Meeting University Goals: The University of Central Oklahoma is a learningcentered organization committed to transformative education through active engagement in the teaching-learning interchange, scholarly and creative pursuits, leadership, global competency, healthy lifestyles, and service to others. Please note that the Political Science Department is committed to furthering the academic mission, vision, goals, values, and philosophy of the University community as outlined in its Academic Mission/Vision 2009. See: http://www.uco.edu/academicaffairs/missionvision2009.pdf This course directly incorporates the following Transformative Learning Goals: Discipline Knowledge of Government/Political Science by a thorough review of the theories and processes of democracy and democratization. Leadership examines various countries, including the United States, and how the leaders in those countries have or have not aided in the process of democratization. Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities requires the production of 35-page research paper which includes the use of 28 sources. There is also a 1

20-page literature review which requires the student to analyze sources and integrate them into an essay as well as eight initial article reviews, a midterm exam, and a 30 minute PPT presentation based on the paper. Service Learning and Civic Engagement Activities by acquiring the knowledge to become an informed voter, and the motivation to become an active participant in one s community. Global and Cultural Competencies by examining democracy and democratization in all regions of the world Requirements of the Course: You will notice below that I have spelled out the requirements of this course in some detail. I have done this so that you will know what I expect from you and what you should expect of yourself in this course. For this reason, I have given the deadlines for all activities in this syllabus, as well as how these requirements are weighted in the final grade. Please read these requirements carefully, and if you have any questions about them, I will be glad to answer them. Just stop by after class or during my office hours. 1. PARTICIPATION IN CLASS: This class will be conducted differently than other classes you may have had in the political science department. The department wants this class to be conducted as closely as possible to resemble a senior seminar. Thus, during the reading weeks, students will be expected to come in having read the assigned readings. During the presentation weeks, all students will also be expected to see all the presentations. This is only possible if there is 100% attendance in class. There will also be times when this class does not meet. Because of that, 100% attendance is expected as much as possible during both the reading weeks and the presentation weeks. During the presentation weeks, students are expected to be on time. It is both disruptive and disrespectful to enter a presentation class after it has begun. As a result, once the door has been closed, no one will be allowed to enter while a student is giving a presentation. Your seminar participation and attendance will be worth 5% of your final grade. 2. EXAMINATION: Because of the substantial research project, there will only be a midterm exam in this class. For those students who prepare for this midterm, this should give them a chance to take some pressure off their presentation/major project. This midterm exam will cover your class notes, the democracy readings, inclass presentations, and any movies we see during those weeks. This exam will be mostly essay. This exam will be worth 20% of your final grade. If you neglect to take this exam, it will be recorded as a 0, not an F. This can make a difference in final grades, often meaning an F instead of a C. Make-up policy for the midterm exam is as follows: Students with legitimate excuses -- i.e. serious illness, death in the family, etc. -- must notify me that they will not be able to take the exam and explain why PRIOR to the scheduled exam date. You can e-mail me (the preferred way), call the department office, my office (X5840), or have someone leave a note outside my door. It is under rare circumstances that I will allow a student to make up an exam without prior notification. This is done to be fair to all students. If I consider the reasons for missing an exam to be justified, a make-up will be given. Make-up examinations should be taken promptly. The midterm exam will be held: March 30, 2016, in class. Bring a blue book (or two!) to the class. 2

3. WRITING ASSIGNMENTS: A) ARTICLE REVIEWS Students will produce EIGHT article reviews to begin the research for their final projects. There is a grade sheet for the article reviews found on the website for this class. Please read it carefully so you can see what is expected of you. Each article review should: 1. Be from academic sources. These sources should be articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Of all your sources, these articles should come from the best academic journals and should be of sufficient length. You should check the list on my UCONNECT site to see the best political science journals. These should NOT be review articles. Please see me if you question what constitutes a proper source. 2. Not be from popular magazines or journals such as Time or Newsweek. These also do not count as sources for the paper itself. 3. Not be historic documents (the Constitution, Federalist papers, Declaration of Independence, Court cases at any level, etc.). These also should not be included in the total number of sources counted for the paper itself. 4. Be from a source at least 10 pages in length. Note: 10 pages is the minimum but will not get you full length points. The length of the source may be considered when grading, and thus really short articles are not recommended. Any article shorter than 10 full pages will lose the content points for that article. 5. Be from sources dated 2006 or later. Any source before that time will not count as an article review and will be returned. 6. Be double-spaced, typed in Times New Roman 12 font, with one inch margins. 7. Be 650-700 words when done in the required Times New Roman 12 font with one inch margins, not counting the citation for the source. (This is approximately 2 1/2 double-spaced pages in length). 8. Should include the citation for that work at the top of the first page, singlespaced. That citation should be done in the required format, with NO indenting. The required format is the APSA style format for citations found in the following document: http://www.apsanet.org/media/pdfs/publications/apsastylemanual2006.p df 9. Be sent to on the date that it is due, as well as a paper copy being turned into the class for grading. 10. Be stapled with the grading rubric on top that has your name and the numbr of the article review being submitted. 11. Include a clear statement of the author s thesis, a brief discussion of the author s evidence and/or arguments, and in several paragraphs evaluate the information, writing, and conclusions. At the end, you should provide a sentence or two that describes how your article relates to democracy (only if you have not made that clear already) and how your article will help with your paper). 12. Your words describing and discussing the source. Do not use long quotations. In fact, even short quotations should be kept at an absolute minimum. Any quotations used or any paraphrasing should be cited properly using a parenthetical citation, i.e. (Sorensen 2008, 10). This is an exercise for you to discover the essence of what an author is trying to communicate. This class utilizes so all article reviews must be turned in TWICE, once online and then in person to me when they are initially turned in. Your 3

article reviews will be worth 15% of your final grade. All late article reviews will be penalized 2.5% (or 25 points) per each day of MTWTHF, so late article reviews are highly discouraged. After a certain point, late article reviews can still be submitted, but will receive a grade of 40% if they are complete. This will allow you to receive some points and may prevent an F for the final course, but obviously is not recommended as a general practice. Don t let a missing article review or two decide your final grade in this course! B. THE SEMESTER PROJECT The end result of these article reviews will be to produce the information to help you complete a successful semester project. Your final semester project is a paper between 35-40 pages (yes, there is a 35 page minimum!). The 35 pages include all regular text pages (i.e. not acknowledgement, title, bibliography, charts, graphs, etc.). It should be noted at the outset that the article reviews only provide the material for the paper they are NOT the paper itself! Once you have finished the article reviews, it will be your job as a student to use these article reviews to make a cohesive argument, complete with a thesis statement, in some organized manner. The semester project will consist of two parts: 1. THE LITERATURE REVIEW Submit a 20 page literature review, which discusses the existing research related to your question. An effective literature review accomplishes two goals: (1) it summarizes and evaluates the state of knowledge on a particular subject; and (2) it situates the proposed project in relation to the existing research and highlights its value. In sum, your literature review will provide an overview of the scholarship most pertinent to your research interests and explain how the proposed research will add to or alter the existing body of knowledge. A successful literature review will: 1. Use the article reviews to create a structured argument about the state of knowledge on a subject. Your literature review is not merely a series of article and book summaries. 2. Be selective. It will only discuss those articles/books (or parts of articles/books) that help you demonstrate how your research will make a contribution to the literature. 3. Be structured in a way that makes sense given the kind of contribution you think your project is making. Think carefully about the order in which you will discuss existing research on your topic so that it will be clear to the reader by the end of the review how/why your project is important and original. 4. Include at least 20 scholarly sources, three of which are the textbooks for this class. Scholarly sources can include books, academic articles of at least 10 pages in length, etc., using the above guidelines for the article reviews in choosing sources. You will be evaluated on the quality of sources that you choose. 5. Include a bibliography that includes all the sources cited in your literature review, and no additional sources. 6. Probably include your introduction to your entire paper along with your thesis statement. If added this part will not be graded, but will be commented upon, thus giving you the chance to see my comments before the final paper is turned in. 7. Be at least 20 pages (entirely to the end of the 20 th page with no charts, tables, bibliography etc. being counted as pages), and no more than 23 pages, doublespaced, in Times New Roman 12 font with one-inch margins. Note that page 1 starts on the first page of full text (no name at top). 4

DUE DATE: Due by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, and also to at the same time. Any late literature review submitted after the April 6 th due date will be subject to a 4% penalty (or 40 points) per each day of MTWTHF to be fair to all students. THE UGLY STUFF: If you choose NOT to submit the literature review and only submit the final paper, you should be aware that the 15% of your grade devoted to the literature review will automatically be given a score of 40% -- no exceptions! On top of that, you will not have the benefit of any feedback from me about your paper, and so you will be going into the grading process totally blind. Students who have done this in the past have typically received a D or an F for the final grade in DG. Needless to say, this is totally NOT recommended! Those who DO choose to submit the literature review will receive a complete set of comments/feedback from me which can be used to improve the final paper, and therefore almost always results in a higher final score on the final paper. 2. RESEARCH ESSAY -- Complete a research essay between 35-40 double-spaced pages (1 inch margins; 12 point Times New Roman font). The 35 pages (and this does mean a full 35, not 34¾), should just be text, so this does not include the cover page, any acknowledgement page, bibliography, tables, charts, etc. This includes the 20 page literature review, which you have already submitted and hopefully have revised according to my comments. Your research essay should do the following: a. Specify a research question, identify your dependent variable (and any independent variables), and the unit of analysis. b. Answer the so-what question explain why the question is important, policy relevance, etc. c. Clearly establish your contribution to the scholarly study of politics i.e. see #s 1-7 above. d. Include a revised literature review, which incorporates any new literature relevant to your question you have discovered and/or any changes in your understanding of the nature of your contribution to existing research. e. Identify and define each of the concepts discussed in the theories or hypotheses you intend to examine. Remember that your definitions should build on definitions in the extant literature. If you are conducting an inductive study, you should conceptualize your dependent variable. f. Select and defend your choice of measurements for the variables in your study, making certain to address possible sources of measurement error. Discuss why your measures are valid and likely to be reliable. Discuss the level of measurement you will employ and why. g. Specify and describe the method of inquiry you will use in your study. Describe and explain your choice of data collection techniques. In other words, if you plan to conduct an experiment, explain why and discuss its design. If you plan to conduct a large-n analysis, explain why and discuss its design, including the origins and construction of the datasets will you use and likely method of analysis. If you plan to conduct one or more case studies, explain why and justify your choice of cases and how you will collect your data, etc. Note you can also combine methods. If you choose to do so, explain why and describe your design. 5

h. Discuss the major limitations of your research (what objections might a skeptical reader raise?) and, when you can, briefly address them. i. Show your results. Depending on whether or not your research is quantitative in nature or not (and it certainly does not have to be!), provide the results of your research. This may be data, case studies, a combination thereof, or something else. j. Conclude with a discussion of what you believe your research will add to our knowledge of politics. Treat this as your final chance to make the case for why your study is original and represents a scholarly contribution. k. Make sure that your essay follows the tips provided on the last page of this syllabus with regard to plagiarism, organization, proofreading, etc. l. Should include a total of 28 sources, three of which are the textbooks for this class. Your articles for the article reviews can obviously count as sources, but popular magazines, Wikipedia, court cases, government documents, many Internet sources, etc. cannot. DUE DATE: Wednesday, April 27th, at 11:59 p.m. to and in class with two printed copies. Please make sure that you do not put your name and page number on every page, i.e. Hardt 1, Hardt 2, etc. Just the page number will do! Otherwise, an industrial sized bottle of white out might be needed! All late papers will be penalized 8% PER DAY (or 80 points) including Saturdays and Sundays to be fair to all students. C. POWER POINT PRESENTATION As the paper is being completed, one of your last activities in this class (and maybe your last academic activity at UCO if you are a graduating senior!) will be to prepare a power point presentation to give to the class. These presentations should be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes afterwards for questions. Time will be kept so it is really important for students to practice the presentations to make sure they are within the required time guidelines. The power point presentations will be given the last classes of the semester (including what ordinarily would have been the final exam date) as shown on the syllabus. We will randomly pick the dates for the presentations during a class so that each person will know who is presenting on each date. On these presentation nights, class may go later than the required time for the class! Out of respect for your fellow students on presentation days, if you come late to the class, you will only be allowed into the class during a break between presentations. On the date you present, please bring more than one copy of your presentation (i.e. on a flash drive, CD, floppy disk (yikes!), etc.). Please also bring a paper copy of your power point presentation for me. It is also HIGHLY recommended that you e-mail yourself a copy of the presentation just in case. A student must present his/her power point presentation to an audience in order to pass this class. During the class, we will be sharing tips about how to create a good presentation. The political science department strongly believes that the Democratic Governance class is a departmental experience. Hence, other professors in the department will be strongly encouraged to attend these presentations. If they do so, they will also be asked to fill out a judging sheet, and those marks will be included with mine to help create your final grade for the presentation. A sample of handwritten comments written about the student s presentation will be typed and given to the students with all names removed and these will be seen only by the student and me. The power point presentation is worth 15% of your final grade. 6

4. OFFICE HOURS: My office hours are listed on the front page of this syllabus. Please feel free to use my office hours if you have questions about the class itself, the readings, the exams, or the written assignments. If you have questions, it will be up to you to take the initiative to meet with me in my office hours. If my office hours are not convenient, I am willing to make other arrangements so just stop by during my office hours or after class and ask. 5. GRADING: Let's look at how your final grades for the course will be calculated. Your final grades for the course will be calculated in the following manner: 90% and above=a, 80% and above=b, and so forth. I will use the following percentages to calculate grades: Midterm Examination Attendance/Seminar Participation/Mini Assigns Literature Review Research Essay Article Reviews Power Point Presentation 20% 10% 15% 25% 15% 15% Most students completing all the above should receive an A, B, or C in this class. However, you should also be aware that professors teaching this course in this department (including me) have given other grades. If you are seeking to avoid one of those other grades (a D or an F), there are several ways to do this: 1) Make sure that YOU ARE REGULAR in this class i.e. turn in your article reviews routinely on time and attend most classes. One or two slightly late article reviews will not have negative consequences, but 5 or 6 might. As stated above, please do not let a missing article review or two decide your grade! 2) Take the midterm. 3) Turn in both the literature review and the final paper, each with its required length, the required number of sources, the required number of pages, on time, and make sure that those papers do not engage in plagiarism; 4) Take the literature review with the comments from me and react to those comments by making improvements to your paper; and 5) Make sure that you do not become a phantom in this class, meaning that you disappear from this class, providing no information about your disappearance whatsoever. 6. BONUS POINTS: Each week at my discretion, a simple quiz on the readings will be given at the start of class. These questions will require that you have read the chapter to be able to answer them; however, they will not be difficult. Unless stated differently on the quiz, each question answered successfully will be worth a point toward your article review grade. These quizzes serve several purposes. First, they will encourage you to do some of the reading for that week. Second, they will be useful to study for the midterm exam. Third, they should help to stimulate class discussion. Fourth, I typically use them to get a sense of who is doing the readings in the class. Finally, and probably most important from a student s perspective, the quizzes will enable you to pick up a few bonus points if you have read the material. 7. OUTSIDE WORK AND ACADEMIC HONESTY -- The Dean s office asked that these statements on outside work and academic honesty be included on all syllabi. A. OUTSIDE WORK: Based upon the Oklahoma Regents Statement on Course Workload and Homework [OSRHE II-2-34], a college student should expect to spend 7

3 hours, on average, on outside work for each hour spent in class. The message the OK Regents are trying to communicate is that if you have a full time job (30-40 hours) you should not simultaneously expect to maintain a full-time academic schedule (15 hours). If you expect to do well, expect to put in the time! B. ACADEMIC HONESTY: Academic dishonesty includes, but is not confined to: plagiarizing; cheating on tests or examinations; turning in counterfeit reports, tests, and papers; stealing tests or other academic material; knowingly falsifying academic records or documents of the institution; accessing a student s confidential academic information without authorization; disclosing confidential academic information without authorization; and, turning in the same work to more than one class without informing the instructors involved. Each student is expected to engage in all academic pursuits in a manner that is above reproach. Students are expected to maintain complete honesty and integrity in the academic experiences both in and out of the classroom. Any student found guilty of academic dishonesty will be subject to disciplinary action. More information concerning this policy can be found on page three of the UCO Student Code of Conduct located at: http://bronze.ucok.edu/ssvp/ucostudentrights.pdf C. TURNITIN.COM UCO subscribes to the Turnitin.com plagiarism prevention service. Students agree that by taking this course, all required assignments may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted assignments will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com restricted access reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such assignments. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com website. Turnitin.com is just one of the various plagiarism prevention tools and methods which may be utilized by your faculty instructor during the term of the semester. In the UCO Student Handbook, there is a process for contesting any plagiarism allegations against you. More information about this will be provided during class, but you will be asked to submit your work in paper format, and through on-line submission. TURNITIN.COM ID: #11324215 Password: ilovedg 8. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION: If you have special circumstances about (can t see the board, can t read my handwriting, break out in hives during tests, etc.), please let me know as soon as possible. For example, if you need to miss some classes, please inform me as soon as you can so we can work out a schedule for you to complete the assignments. Also, you might have difficulty taking certain kinds of exams. If you are an athlete, etc., who will travel, let me know. The University of Central Oklahoma complies with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Students with disabilities who need special accommodations should make their requests by contacting Disability Support Services at 974-2549. It is the student s responsibility to contact the instructor as soon as possible after the DSS has verified the need for accommodations to ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion. If these circumstances or others applies to you, please see me and we can make the necessary arrangements. 8

9. REQUIRED READINGS: Assorted chapters on D2L there are only six of these but they are important. Bridoux, Jeff and Milja Kurki. 2014. Democracy Promotion: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge Press. Gelvin, James L. 2015. The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Should Know. New York: Oxford University Press. Sorensen, Georg. 2008. Democracy and Democratization: Processes and Prospects in a Changing World. 3 rd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. APSA Style Manual available online make sure it is ingrained in your memory or print out a copy and have it handy when you create your citations. The website: http://www.apsanet.org/media/pdfs/publications/apsastylemanual2006.pdf 10. THE SCHEDULE FOR THIS CLASS: WEEK THE DATES THE TOPIC(S) ASSIGNMENTS/READINGS (D=democracy) 1 January 13 Introduction -- Getting a topic, Picking the Right Sources, Citations, Plagiarism, and Bridoux and Kurki, Introduction Why Study D Promotion Today? 2 January 20 What is democracy and how is it measured? Doing article reviews; Thesis Statements, Introduction, Body, and Conclusion Topic/List of 8 sources due in class Have signed in to for this class. Sorensen, Ch. 1 What is D? Norris, Ch. 1 (pp. 15-17 only) on D2L Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 2 Who does D Promotion and How? 3 January 27 The Value of Democracy/ The History of Democratization (Dion) How to Make a Theoretically Informed Argument Article Review #1 Due paper & -- Start off on the right track turn in your first article review today! Thesis statement DUE in class. D s March Through History on D2L Sorensen, Ch. 2 Processes of Regime Change Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 3 Is D Promotion about Defense of Values or about the Safeguarding of Interests? 9

4 February 3 The Processes of (Dion) Oh No! The Literature Review, Author- Date System, etc. Article Review #2 Due Sorensen, Ch. 3 From Transition to Standstill Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 1 Critical Theory and D Promotion Theories of Regime Effects on D2L 5 February 10 Democracy: Internal Factors The Research portion of the paper Article Review #3 Due paper & Presidential and Parliamentary Governments on D2L How Elections Matter on D2L Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 5 Is D Promotion Context-Sensitive? 6 February 17 Democracy: Internal Factors Article Review #4 Due paper & Sorensen, Ch. 5 Domestic Consequences of D: Growth, Welfare, Rule of Law, & Civil Society? D, Growth, Equality, and Famines on D2L Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 4 Is D Promotion Regime Change? Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 6 Is D Promotion Limited to Political Reform or Does it Aim to Advance Liberal Economic Reform? 7 February 24 Democracy: Peace, Human Rights, FP, Globalization, etc. Power point presentation! Article Review #5 Due paper & Sorensen, Ch. 6 Internal Consequences of D: Peace and Cooperation? Bridoux and Kurki, Ch. 7 Is D Promotion Reflective of and Constructive of Hegemonic Power Relations? 8 March 2 Democracy: From the Outside, including the role of the US Article Review #6 Due paper & Sorensen, Ch. 4 Promotion of D from the Outside Bridoux and Kurki, Conclusion Rethinking D Promotion International Factors on D2L Article Review #7 Due paper & Gelvin, Chs. 1-3 9 March 9 Democracy Elsewhere: Arab Spring 10

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 March 23 Democracy Elsewhere: Arab Spring continued Midterm Exam Review Article Review #8 Due paper & We will take the ACAT today. Anyone missing class today will need to take the ACAT before the semester ends. Gelvin, Chs. 4-6 March 30 Midterm Exam Midterm Exam Study for it! April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27 May 4 No class today! Get your literature review turned in today! PRESENTATION DAY #1 PRESENTATION DAY #2 PRESENTATION DAY #3 PRESENTATION DAY #4 Literature Review Due by 11:59 p.m. 1 paper copy and 1 submission -- Any late literature review submitted after the November 9, 2015, due date will be subject to a 4% penalty (40 points) per each day of MTWTHF to be fair to all students. Start presentations. Each student should see me this week or next. Research Paper due by 11:59 p.m. 2 paper copies & 1 to 8% penalty (80 points) PER DAY INCLUDING WEEKENDS for late papers to be fair to all students. NO FINAL EXAM FOR THIS CLASS! -- Please note: This is FINALS week. Emergencies During Finals Statement: If a university emergency occurs that prevents the administration of a final examination, the student s final course grade will be calculated based on the work in the course completed to that point and the faculty member s considered judgment. Final exams will not be rescheduled, and a grade of I will not be given as a result of the missed exam. For other important information about dates, schedules, final exams, etc., please see the student information sheet located at: http://www.uco.edu/academicaffairs/files/aa-forms/studentinfosheet.pdf 11