IS THERE A CRISIS IN THE AIDS? In the big picture, what is going on? When was America great (or at least exceptional by a couple of measures) For class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo As you watch this, think about what this means to you personally… how you study and approach your professional life…and not just its ramifications for political and economic life in the AIDs. One huge take away: Thus far, globalization is not a zero-sum game, instead, it appears to be a positive-sum game with impacts on relative growth rates. A longer version if you’d like more analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKocxP1YEek

WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? What is globalization?: One defn: The process through which the constraints of geography are less important. Another idea: it is the post-WW2 emergence of dense, intense linkages bw states, societies, and economies that link them to global affairs What is globalization’s impact on domestic economic, social, political, and cultural arrangements? How is globalization impacting the way that individual states interact with other governments, supra-state organizations, and substate interest groups?

IS ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION APROBLEM FOR THE AIDS? Kupchan: “Globalization is producing a widening gap between what electorates are asking of their government and what those government are able to deliver” Do we have to choose between growth and democracy? Is capitalism… or at least state capitalism… expanding globally at democracy's expense? Do democracies make good economic decisions? (Kupchan and the Economist) Does globalization undermine the ability of states to regulate their economies to meet their own economic priorities (e.g., IMF and austerity)? Or does it provide opportunities to deal with complex collective action problems (EU as example)? Does global capitalism inevitably undermine the ability of socially democratic states to provide “fair” benefits and to collect the taxes necessary to pay for them? Is the “race to the bottom” inevitable or is it a choice? What are the alternatives (e.g. protectionism) and why is it hard for nations to pursue them? Will the rise of China provide another model of what’s best?

WHAT’S THE GOVERNABILITY CRISIS WHAT’S THE GOVERNABILITY CRISIS? A more positive view Pharr, Putnam, and Dalton & others Demands have changed with globalization What are the impacts of the communication revolution? What is post-materialism? How are identity politics changing the world? Why are we seeing a global decrease social capital? Why does it matter that we have a homogenization of the media? How is campaign technology changing politics everywhere?

WHAT’S THE CRISIS?, CONT. Pharr, Putnam, and Dalton State capacity is changing with globalization How is globalization impacting state capacity? How is democratization? Are interest groups overloading democratic states? What happens when political parties and other mediating agents lose their centrality in a political system?