(Fall 2019) Public Policy POL 211- A01

Elayne Guzman Roger Daniels, “LBJ and the End of the Quota System” in Guarding the Golden Door; Samuel Huntington, “The Hispanic Challenge”; Douglas Massey, “People and Places: The New American Mosaic”; Massey, “Why Does Immigration Occur? A Theoretical Synthesis”; Roger Waldinger, “How the Other Half Works”        Why does immigration occur?   A theoretical synthesis by Douglas S. Massey Quote: “In advanced industrial societies, the source of entry-level workers have shrunk over time because of some fundamentals socio demographic trends; the rise in female labor force participation, which has transformed women’s work into a career pursued for social status as well as income, the rise in divorce rates, which has transformed women’s job into a source of primary income support” Meaning: Women over time were primarily involved in helping manage the housework and raising the children at home. However, the traditional role for women began to change ...

Elayne Guzman   Seyla Benhabib, “Introduction” in Democracy and Difference: Changing Boundaries of the Political; Jürgen Habermas, “Three Normative Models of Democracy”; Carol Gould, “Diversity and Democracy: Representing Differences”   Quote: “Democracy is not about where the political is located but about how it is experienced” Meaning: Citizens make the future of the country, many things depend on us citizens, and it is our duty to do everything we can to live in better conditions. The vast majority of democratic theory and deliberative democratic theory in particular, either implicitly or explicitly assumes the need for widespread citizen participation. It requires that all citizen possess the opportunity to participate and also that they take up this opportunity, however, many citizens do not participate or do not have the meaningful opportunity to participate in anything like the numbers that they believe is necessary; which has resulted in a decline in c...

Elayne Guzman David Harvey, “Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction”; Robert W. Cox, “Global Perestroika” Neo-liberalism as Creative Destruction”; Robert W. Cox Quote: “ To turn the neoliberal rhetoric against itself, we may reasonably ask, in whose particular interests is it that the state take a neoliberal stance and in what ways have those interests used neo-liberalism to benefit themselves rather than, as is claimed, everyone, everywhere” Meaning: For Harvey, neo-liberalism is a theory of political economic practices that human well being can be advanced by the maximization of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterized by private property rights, individual liberty and free trade. Harvey states that there was a drastic shift in the share of income and wealth away from labor and secondly, politically, that neo-liberalism was a reaction to the rising social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Harvey called this shift of share “The restor...

Marshall Berman, All that is Solid Melts into Air Elayne Guzman Quote: “To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, and everything we are.” Meaning: Being modern in the preset sense is to use technology and doing it in a smart way, smarter and cooler ways to lead once life. It’s about freedom showcase. As we try to do what makes us happy by being modern, it is showing the world what each of us is capable of doing. Be being modern we detached ourselves from our history, our ancestors; we somehow forget our traditional cultures and values, what we stand for as human beings. We start focusing more on being modern and being up to modernism in order to fir within society, changes that in fact threatens our true identity, our true values. Chosen: I chose this quote because that ...

Excerpts from: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim; Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior Elayne Guzman Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim Quote: “So then, a pregnant widow, still young, with no one to turn to, she never succumbed to terror, despair. She had an enormous strength, not unusual in women, to bear adversity,…fate did not make her bitter; that was left t friends and neighbors, these very neighbors who so intimately shared the summer night..But after the tragedy of losing her husband, the face of the world showed itself” Meaning: This quote means that people will show their true face, how of good friends they really are when you are the most vulnerable and when you need them the most. Some circumstances in our lives makes us valuable or not to the so call “friends”, especially if you are a female. Females tend to be portray depending on the moment and the circumstances they’re going through, as a valuable friend or not as long as that female does not ...

Elayne Guzman BEYOND TOCQUEVILLE, MYRDAL, AND HARTZ:  THE MULTIPLE TRADITIONS IN AMERICA  ROGERS M. SMITH Yale University  Analysts of American politics since Tocqueville Quote: "Many adherents of Ascriptive Americanist outlooks insisted that the nation's political and economic structures should formally reflect natural and cultural inequalities, even at the cost of violating doctrines of universal right" Meaning: It means that there is a growing attention to human rights in debates on cultural inequalities concerning the disproportional impact in political and economical structures. For about a century, economic and political inequality has been measure on a scale from one to zero. The growing income inequality is responsible for all manner of political instability, as well as for the slowing economical and political growth. In inequalities in all its forms is the defining global problem and increasingly the defining political problem of this era. Chosen: I...