Political Science 101

Lab III

For next week preview the web site for Arguing the World at:

http://www.pbs.org/arguing/

Political Ideology

Are you liberal or conservative? A libertarian or socialist? An anarchist?

Not sure?

Then examine the web sites listed for chapter 2 of your text. (Some of the broken links have been repaired on the class page.) Other sources are also listed on the class page including journals of political theory. Find groups or individual political theorists who come as close as possible to your own views and identify those groups and their ideas. Explain why you have adopted this view of politics and how influential you think these ideas are in modern American society.

The result of this assignment should be a brief essay (one-two pages) in which you identify

your political philosophy and identify sources of information related to your views.