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My assignment for Comparative Politics is annoying. It's long and I knew it was long because it was three sections and there's a lot asked in each of the sections. I felt like they were all somewhat easy but that there were some iffy parts.
I've done most of it now -- I just have to describe the political institutions of a post-civil war democracy (I've chosen El Salvador) and of a post authoritarian democracy (Poland!) and to talk about their electoral rules, the internal structures of their government -- whether or not they are decentralized, how they divide power and how they share power, etc. I don't want to do this part. It requires outside research which sucks because he's already assigned us a shitload of reading and really, if he wants us to do both, he should really draw it from the reading.
It's taking me a long time too. The first two parts were somewhat easy -- the first section very easy. The second was for the most part okay but there's just so much I could say! It asks us to design the Iraqi Consitution and to advise on how to structure the government and their electoral systems. My biggest problem is that we haven't covered centralization versus decentralization and unicameral versus bicameral legislature at all so I had to make guesses... :\ Also, like I said before, there's just so much that can be said! We're only allowed two pages double spaced for each section and that's like nothing!
When I read that it was supposed to be six pages, I thought that was a bit long since my last two assignments have only been like two or three pages. One guy in my recitation actually said that it would be nothing and at the time, I thought he was crazy. But then I realized that it needed to be double spaced and that changes everything! My last assignments were single spaced so I guess I was pushing it back with those too... I'm finding myself having to be much more succinct that I want to be and having to cut out some of the more irrelevant stuff so I can get the good stuff in.
And this researching thing? So not my thing. :\ I think I found an okay site for El Salvador, but I don't know exactly what they want us to say about it so I'm just going to throwing everything in it until I run out of room. The way I see it, I have about half a page each to devote to El Salvador and to Poland which is good. I think I might cut it to about 1/3 each though -- I think the second part of question 3 needs work since it's only two sentences... :\ But I really don't have that much to say about Yorubaland or the Yorubas so I don't know what I can throw in there...
Okay, back to work. Then sleep. My eyes are getting kinda beady so hopefully this won't take too long. :\
I've done most of it now -- I just have to describe the political institutions of a post-civil war democracy (I've chosen El Salvador) and of a post authoritarian democracy (Poland!) and to talk about their electoral rules, the internal structures of their government -- whether or not they are decentralized, how they divide power and how they share power, etc. I don't want to do this part. It requires outside research which sucks because he's already assigned us a shitload of reading and really, if he wants us to do both, he should really draw it from the reading.
It's taking me a long time too. The first two parts were somewhat easy -- the first section very easy. The second was for the most part okay but there's just so much I could say! It asks us to design the Iraqi Consitution and to advise on how to structure the government and their electoral systems. My biggest problem is that we haven't covered centralization versus decentralization and unicameral versus bicameral legislature at all so I had to make guesses... :\ Also, like I said before, there's just so much that can be said! We're only allowed two pages double spaced for each section and that's like nothing!
When I read that it was supposed to be six pages, I thought that was a bit long since my last two assignments have only been like two or three pages. One guy in my recitation actually said that it would be nothing and at the time, I thought he was crazy. But then I realized that it needed to be double spaced and that changes everything! My last assignments were single spaced so I guess I was pushing it back with those too... I'm finding myself having to be much more succinct that I want to be and having to cut out some of the more irrelevant stuff so I can get the good stuff in.
And this researching thing? So not my thing. :\ I think I found an okay site for El Salvador, but I don't know exactly what they want us to say about it so I'm just going to throwing everything in it until I run out of room. The way I see it, I have about half a page each to devote to El Salvador and to Poland which is good. I think I might cut it to about 1/3 each though -- I think the second part of question 3 needs work since it's only two sentences... :\ But I really don't have that much to say about Yorubaland or the Yorubas so I don't know what I can throw in there...
Okay, back to work. Then sleep. My eyes are getting kinda beady so hopefully this won't take too long. :\
