Class Notes for Political Science at University of California - Berkeley

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Lecture 23 111518 Three Strikes Law Jerry Dewayne Williams case - pizza Explanations for mass incarceration Racial appeals groupiness Michelle Alexanders arguments about attracting (poor) white voters and national politic...

Lecture 22 111318 Does sentence length deter crime? - Length of sentence doesnt seem to deter - Why? - People who are likely to choose criminal activity have a poor understanding of the actual penalties they might face - V...

Lecture 16 102318 400 words for longer question Index crimes - part 1 crimes, official crimes that cities report to the FBI - Chicago: decline in crime from 93 to 09, then a huge decline when Rahm Emanuel became governor a...

Lecture 15 101818 Retrospective Voting Voters may reward politicians for good performance, punish them for poor performance Most studied area: performance on economy, income Income after government transfers, taxes, and in...

Lecture 14 101618 Midterm: Several short answers and one longer one where well need to make an argument NCVS is the most credible Lead? Guns? What causes the increase in crime in the 60s and the decrease in crime in the 90...

Lecture 13 101118 Guns versus Drugs National crime victimization survey 1973-2015 Excludes homicides because it requires interviews on violence Serious violence rate per 100,000 Weak state and guns When people are stuck in...

Lecture 4 9618 Scared Straight - documentary that scared trouble teenagers by taking them to jail How to study this: Randomized longitudinal study where we look for ONLY how the delinquents changed over time in their crime...

Lecture 3 9418 Why are people violent? - Central question of the course Remember to look at reading questions before doing the readings 20th century Seemingly unprecedented violence Terrorism Higher levels of violence? Pre...

Lecture 2 82918 Police shooting Arguably the most important public good is public safety For public safety to be effective Are the US police too violent? Media coverage of events has a well-known but not well understood bi...

Lecture 1 82318 Introduction What should we hold politicians accountable for? What should democracies provide their citizens? What should government provide?: - Healthcare - Education - Access to information - Basic commun...

StudentLearningCenterx PoliSci2ReadingSummaries Week3:Democracy Syllabus Reading Questions: Considerhowthereadings,takenasawhole,informourconceptionofwhatdemocracyis,howitemerges,whetheritcantakerootanywhereintheworld,...

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