Political Economy: The emergence of welfare states

See the attached documents, which include the professor’s instructions for the assignment and my previous paper.

Readings:
1. Read: Dickovick & Eastwood (2019): Chapter 3.
Dickovick, Tyler J. and Eastwood, Jonathan. Comparative Politics: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Cases. 3rd. Ed., Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780190854867.

2. Read: Dickovick & Eastwood (2017): Chapter 3.
Dickovick, Tyler J. and Eastwood, Jonathan. Comparative Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings 1st Ed., Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780199730957.

3. Read: Martin: Chapter 3
Martin, Glenn. Prevailing Worldviews of Western Society Since 1500. Triangle Publishing, Newton, MA, 2006. ISBN: 9781931283168.

Professor instructions:

In our first three weeks, we focused our attention on foundational ideas, concepts, and methodologies associated with the study of comparative politics. This week we will begin to engage specific substantive topics. Our assignment this week focuses on political economy. Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that politics and economics are separate from one another. In reality, politics and economics have a symbiotic relationship, both in domestic politics and international politics. Your assignment this week is to write a 5 – 7-page research paper addressing the emergence of welfare states. Specifically, your paper “should: 1) identify and explain the factors that contribute to the emergence of welfare states within different systems; and 2) in light of the Martin textbook readings, evaluate the role that worldviews such as a Judeo-Christian worldview and Marxism may play in the emergence of welfare states.” Your paper is due no later than 11:59 p.m. [ET] on Sunday, April 16. Your reading assignments are listed in Module/Week 4 under “Course Content.” You are also to cite three additional scholarly sources in your paper. While you do not need to cite these specific sources, I’d like to highly recommend Marvin Olasky’s The Tragedy of American Compassion (Regnery Publishing), Charles Murray’s classic, Losing Ground (Basic Books), and Amity Shlaes’s Great Society: A New History (Harper). Also, the American Enterprise Institute has many good resources related to the welfare state. Here is one link: http://www.aei.org/tag/welfare-reform/. . Relatedly, I would also highlight this insightful recent documentary on the life and work of economist Thomas Sowell:

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