IS THERE A CRISIS IN THE AIDS? In the big picture, what is going on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKocxP1YEek 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

WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? What is globalization?: One defn: The process through which the constraints of geography are less important. Another idea: 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? Do we have to choose between growth and democracy? Is capitalism is expanding globally at democracy's expense? What is the connection for 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? How can looking variations among the AIDS help us to answer these questions? Some of them still have much higher taxes than others

WHAT’S THE GOVERNABILITY CRISIS? 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 may have changed with globalization How is globalization impacting state capacity? Are interest groups overloading states? What happens when political parties and other mediating agents lose their centrality in a political system? How does rapidly expanding democracy impact state capacity?