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Jeremy Tyler
Sujian Guo
PLSI419-011 November 2011
Analytical Essay Topic Proposal
Research Question: Is there an inverse correlation in the quality of standard of living
and the potential for manifestation of political violence?
Thesis: The current standard of living in the United States is comfortable enough to
prevent significant political violence, or revolution away from the capitalism that has
helped produce the comfort.
Why: The recent "Occupy Wallstreet" demonstration has highlighted certain Liberal
practices of business and government that have allowed increasing wealth disparity. But
nothing has manifested into anything significantly violent, even though radical solutionshave been voiced by some of demonstrators. Moreover, the vast majority of U.S.
residents still enjoy a historically high standard of living in terms of food, shelter, andsanitary security. If these standards can be maintained, is the capitalist political economic
system safe from change?
Method of solution: I will review the unnatural deaths that significantly threaten thestandard of living (famine, infectious disease, murder, work-place deaths, and deaths
from severe climate) over the last 100 years in the United States, and compare them to
significant manifestations of political violence during the same period. But I will useaverage life-expectancy as a proxy to the amount of unnatural deaths occuring. If the
severity of political violence has declined with the death rates from the listed threats(measured in a increasing life-expectancy), then there could be some correlation andevidence for my thesis. I will also examine political violence in other countries
throughout time to make sure the the unnatural deaths I've listed weren't present before
significant political violence.
Sources:
Prezorski, Adam et. al. Political Regimes and Economic Growth. Democracy and
Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 200), pp. 142-74.
Skocpol, Theda. France, Russia, China: A structural Analysis of Social Revolutions.
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 18, no. 2 (April 1976), pp. 175-203.
Crenshaw, Martha. The Causes of Terrorism. Comparative Politics, 13, no. 4 (July 1981),
pp. 379-99.
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Margalit, Avishai and Buruma, Ian. Occidentalism. The New York Review of Books,
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Lipset, Seymour Martin. Economic Development and Democracy Political Man (GardenCity, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960), pp. 31-35.