Political institutions vary in the degree to which they promote accountability to voters and the representation of the voters. They also differ in terms of policy efficiency (measured by a degree in which institutions flexibly respond to policy demand for changes) along with policy effectiveness (measured in the level of policy commitment to agreed policies). Among various political institutions, including but not limited to presidentialism, parlaimentarism, authoritarianism, electoral voting systems, select one type of political institution, and conduct an in-depth institutional analysis. Focus on analyzing how the institution of your interest encourages (or may discourage) accountability, representation, efficiency, and effectiveness. Draw examples from the class reading, but you may certainly use authors and theories from the outside of the class reading. Country examples should be used in your research. This research consist of two components:
< First short writing assignement – Institutional Analysis Writing >
Choose one type of political institutions and discuss its strength and weakness in terms of accountability, representation, efficiency (policy responsiveness), and effectiveness (policy resoluteness). Address its institutional variations around the world. Country examples should be used in your paper. We will learn several institutions including democracy (in general), autocracy, consensual democracy, and majoritarian democracy. We will cover presidentialism and parliamentary governments as well. Select any of these systems for a country or countries and characterize its or their institutional feature(s) in terms of accountability, representation, policy efficiency and effectiveness. Below is my suggestion with respect to the paper structure and its contents.
Describe a political institution of your pick
Section 2 (a paragraph or two): How would accountability be addressed to it? Does accountability play strongly or weakly as a key institutional feature? Why and why not?
Section 3 (a paragraph or two): How could representation be addressed to it? Does representation play strongly or weakly as a key institutional feature? Why and why not?
Section 4 (a paragraph or two): Is this institution more efficient (being able to make a quick decision making) than effective (resolute and strongly committed to a policy once determined) or vice versa?
Section 5*(a paragraph): Can you see any international variations around the world for the particular institution of your choice?
Conclusion (a paragraph) – Provide a summary of your main arguments and a further discussion question.
Include a page of “work cited” at the end (Citation style is not restricted to any specific one as long as it is consistent). *Recommendation: you can use a figure or a table to make your points.
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