Political Engineering Taylor, et al. C1 and C2

American Exceptionalism Informal Formal As it relates to Comparative Politics

Political Science “the systematic study of human interaction, especially as it pertains to governing large populations of human beings” (6).

Political Science “We are seeking to identify and explain specifically the way by which differing configurations of institutional structures within a state function together in democracies, and to compare a set of democracies to demonstrate how differing structures affect political behavior and outcomes.”

Political Engineering “[T]he application of the lessons of political science to specific settings.” Relationship to institutions.

Political Engineering & Federalist 1: “It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend on their political constitutions on accident and force.”

Democracy and Delegation Democracy v. Republic Principals and agents Hierarchy and Transaction

Madison, the Constitution and Political Engineering The problems with the Articles. Madison’s theory of factions The Virginia Plan The New Jersey Plan The Great Compromise