Curriculum VitaePeter F. Burns
Associate Professor, Political Science
Loyola University, New Orleans
6363 St. Charles Avenue
Campus Box 86
New Orleans, LA 70118
pburns@loyno.edu
(504) 865-2299
Fields of Study:
Current Classes (Spring 2005)
Race and Ethnicity
As of 4-12-05, the Race and Ethnicity Paper is due on April 28th.
Race and Ethnicity – Paper 2
The papers must follow the writing tips located on my website (http://www.loyno.edu/~pburns/). You will lose points if you do not meet these requirements. In order to write this paper, you must also use this course’s readings and outside readings, including books, scholarly articles, and newspaper reports. You need to start on this paper as soon as possible. You need to incorporate the answers to the questions below into a sound and coherent paper with a thesis that you support throughout the paper. You will also lose two points for each spelling mistake and each grammar mistake.
1. To which extent do whites,
African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans work together to pursue
so-called minority interests?
a. To answer this question,
you must consider how these groups work together through conventional and
unconventional channels.
2. In which areas have these
groups worked together and why?
3. In which areas have these
groups opposed each other and why?
4. Which factors facilitate
inter-minority group politics and why?
5. Which factors hinder inter-minority
group politics and why?
6. How important are bi- or
multiracial coalitions for the substantive representation of minority interests
and why?
7. Based on your research, how
much cooperation or competition will occur among these groups in the future
and why do you feel this way?
You must also use either MLA Citation Style or The Chicago Manual of Style to cite your sources. Points will be deducted if you do not follow the writing tips and the style requirements.
This paper should run about 7 pages but it can be longer or shorter as long as you answer each part of the question.
The paper is due Thursday April 21st.
Public Policy
Introduction to Public Policy
Thoughts on Presentations
Each oral presentation will last for 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and answers.
The presentation cannot be longer than 10 minutes, but it can be shorter than 10 minutes.
In the presentation, you will educate the class about the policy you chose for the research paper.
The presentation will be graded on the following components. I will provide more instructions as we approach the presentation time. You will receive a zero if you miss your assigned presentation date.
A. Clarity
B. Style
a. You cannot read your presentation. Only notes are allowed.
C. Ability to explain the policy
D. Detail and thoroughness
E. Ability to answer questions
from the class and professor
F. Ability to educate the class
G. Ability to demonstrate critical
thinking
H. Ability to apply concepts
Elements you may want to include in the presentation:
1. Describe this policy and the law it replaced. What are the provisions of the policy?
2. Who supported and opposed your policy and why? Which interests won and lost and why?
3. Which values underlie this policy? According to this policy’s proponents, which values does this policy support? Please provide examples.
4. Which values does this policy reject? According to this policy’s opponents, which values does this policy reject? Please provide examples.
7. In which ways does this policy support or contradict what have you read in the selected chapters from Reich’s book? Please provide concrete examples.
9. Who made this policy? Please use the various models to explain how this policy was made. Which models are the most and least valuable for explaining your particular policymaking process and why?
10. Which factors caused this policy to reach the public agenda?
11. What were the intended consequences of this policy?
12. To date, what are the effects of this policy? How are the effects measured?
13. How would a policy analyst evaluate your policy? Please be specific.
16. Based on your research of this policy, to whom does the United States gear its social policies and why?
This assignment is to be slipped under my office door (537H Monroe Hall) by 1:30 p.m. on May 12.
Political Science A494-001
Spring 2005
Order of Presentations
XIII.
Tuesday April 5
No presentations
Thursday April 7
Margaret Morley – Education of
Children with Disabilities
Elliott Sanchez – Concealed
Weapons
Jacob Segall – Living Wage
Oral Presentations
XIV.
Tuesday April 12
Kamal Dieck – Death Penalty
Kaitlin Horlander –
Oral Presentations
Thursday April 14
Test
XV.
Oral Presentations
Tuesday April 19
Christopher Leal – Immigration
policy, along US-Mexico Border
Hampton West – Minimum wage
Patrick Weems – Hydrogen fuel
cell bills
Thursday April 21
Oral Presentations
Laura Ashley Clayborn-Quinton
– Death Penalty
Scott Weston – Legalization
of Casino Gambling
Sarah Mackota – Three strikes
law
XVI.
Oral Presentations
Tuesday April 26
Lauren Andrews – Affirmative
Action
Meghan Petchel – No child left
behind
Oral Presentations
Thursday April 28
Mary Hayes – Federal Marriage
Amendment
Daniel H. Green – State Takeovers
of Local School Districts
XVII.
Oral Presentations
May 3
Mary Lanaux – stem cell research
David Hayes – assault weapons
Urban Process
Attention Urban Process Students: Below is a list of the articles that have already been taken. Student's initials in parentheses (updated 3-16-05; 4:35 p.m.)
For those of you who have not gotten me your articles or have had your article rejected, please get me your article in advance so I may approve it. The longer you wait, the more likely it is that your article will be taken.
Review #1
1. "Metropolitan Latino Behavior"
(GL)
2. "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime:
Homelessness, Panhandling
and the Public" (BP)
3. Determinants of Homelessness
in Metropolitan Areas" (CWi.)
4. "Crime Creep: Urban and Suburban
Crime on Local TV News"
(CWa.)
5. "New Estimates of the Demand
for Urban Green Space:
Implications for Valuing the
Environmental Benefits of
Boston's Big Dig" (AK)
6. Race and racial attitudes
a decade after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (HW)
7. "Hitting Below the Bible
Belt: The Developement of the Gay
Rights Movement in Atlanta"
(RP)
8. "The Effect of Adolescent
Neighborhood Poverty on Adulthood Employment." (LG)
9. "Racial Transition and White-Voter
Support for Black
Candidates in Urban Elections."
(CJ)
10. " The Determinants of Candidates'
Vote Share and the
Advantages of Incumbency in
City Council Elections " (AY)
11. "Looking Back to Look Forward:
Reflections on Urban Regime Analysis" (LD)
12. "Crossing the Great Divide:
Race and Preferences for Living in the City Versus the Suburbs" (JR)
13. "The Changing Occupational
Structure of Large Metropolitan Areas: Implications for the High School
Educated." (KP)
14. "Community Foundations:
What Do They Offer Community
Development?" (JG)
15. "Governance in Houston:
Growth Theories and Urban Pressures" (MZ)
16. "Regime theory, State Government,
and A takeover of Urban
Education" (CM)
17. "Moving from public housing
to homeownership: percieved
barriers to program participation
and success" (JF)
18. "Urban Governance, Competition,
and Welfare" (MC)
19. ""Displacement or Succession?
Residential Mobility in Gentrifying Neighborhoods" (SM)
20. "Obstacles to Regional Housing
Solutions: A Comparison of
four Metropolitan Areas" (KA)
21. "Applying Black Threat Theory,
Urban Regime Theory, and Deracialization: The Memphis Mayoral Elections
of 1991, 1995, and 1999." (CG)
22."The Nation-State and Urban
Governance" (JD)
Review #2
1. "Latino Neighborhoods and
Latino Neighborhood Poverty." (GL)
2. "Mental Life and Metropolitas
in Suburban America:
Psychological Correlates of
Metropolitan Place Characteristics" (BP)
3. "Recent Evidence of the Continuing
Causes of Black-White Residential Segregation" (CWi.)
4. "Terrorism and Governability
in New York City" (CWa.)
5. "Deracialization and Urban
Racial Contexts" (AK)
6. Race-based coalitions among
minority groups Afro-Caribbean
immigrants and Afro-Americans
in NYC (HW)
7. "The Meds and Eds in Urban
Economic Development." (LG)
8. "Needs and Impediments for
Local Government Reform:
Lessons from Israel" (RP)
9. " Citizen Demands and Urban
Services: The Distribution
of Bureaucratic Response in
Chicago and Houston" (AY)
10. "Neighboring and Community
Mobilization in High-Poverty
Inner-City Neighborhoods" (LD)
11. "Does the Shoe fit?: Testing
Models of Participation for African-American and Latino Involvement in
Local Politics." (JR)
12. "What we Argue About when
we Argue About Regionalism" (KA)
13. "Toward a social geography
of the city: Race and dimensions
of urban poverty in women's
lives" (JF)
14. "The Challenges of Agenda
Conflict in Higher-Education-Community Research Partnerships: Views from
the Community Side." (JG)
15. "City Managers: Do They
Promote Fiscal Efficiency?" (MC)
16. "The Politics of Alternative
Economic Development: Revisiting Stone-Imbroscio Debate" (NW)
17. "USING HOUSING VOUCHERS
TO MOVE TO THE SUBURBS." (CJ)
18. "THE POLITICS OF BREAD AND
CIRCUSES
Building the City for the Visitor
Class" (SM)
19. "Attachments, Grievances,
Resources, and Efficacy: The Determinants of Tenant Association Participation
Among Public Housing Tenants" (KP)
20. "THE LIMITS OF OUT-MIGRATION
FOR THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS" (CG)
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Classes (Fall 2004) ~ Click on Course Title for a Copy of the Syllabus
Introduction
to State and Local Politics