POLI330N Week 1: Determining Democracy

ENTIRE CLASS WEEK 1 – 8:

POLI330N – Political Science

POLI330N Week 1: Determining Democracy

Initial Post Instructions

For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:

• Option 1: Does democracy require equality of income or wealth? Discuss why democracy might make a country more or less egalitarian?
• Option 2: Healthcare is a shared power between the federal government and individual states. Outline and describe a federal healthcare policy and contrast it with one policy in the healthcare system of the State in which you currently reside. (These can be any policies as long as they are healthcare policies).

Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.

SOLUTION

Option 1

“Democracy’s central idea is that ordinary people want to rule themselves and are capable of doing so” (Greenberg & Page, 2018). Egalitarian is defined as all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. “Inherent in the idea of self-rule by ordinary people is an………………….purchase the solution at $5