Each student is required to write a 5-6 page paper, double-spaced, with standard 1” margins, addressing one of the prompts below. To address the prompt, students should refer to the ideas of at least 2 authors from the course text, and utilize at least 2 outside peer-reviewed sources. The ideas of the (at least) four sources must be directly referenced in the text, using either parenthetical notations or footnotes. References should include page numbers. The paper must include a bibliography, which does not count toward the page requirement. The paper is due via Canvas Sunday, December 14 by 4pm. The paper is valued at 20 points.see the additional document with potential sources to use for the paper. You may use these sources or find your own, but the outside sources must be peer reviewed and sources from either political theory or political philosophy. The purpose of the paper is to allow students to investigate one of these questions in depth, including additional political theory readings beyond the course readings. Please keep in mind this is a political theory class, not a history class or an empirical political science class, and the focus of the paper must be consistent with the focus of the course. Any recognized citation style is ok as long as it is used accurately and consistently.
1) Equality of opportunity is a key requirement of a just society in liberalism. Why is equality of opportunity so important to liberalism? What is at least one problem with achieving equality of opportunity in a liberal society? How is the concept of equality of opportunity relevant in U.S. political ideas today?
2) The concept of property is understood differently in different theoretical traditions and at different times in APT.
Choose one view of the concept of property, represented by an author in the course. Explain this view of property, provide support and critique of this view of property. Finally, discuss how this view of property is relevant or applies to U.S. politics today.
*** TEXTBOOK: American Political ThoughtIsaac Kramnick and Theodore J. Lowi ***
