Understanding Your Country's Political System for a Debate

Background

In order to represent your respective countries, you’ll have to know something about them. Some of you will have been assigned well-known countries that you have a large amount of knowledge about. Others may even end up with a country that you’ve never even heard of.

While it is impossible to learn everything about a country in such a short paper, there are some specific areas that will certainly help.

Having a broader understanding of your respective country will aid you for Step 3, where you will outline your strategy for the mock debate. The understanding that you develop here will help you design your appropriate response to the Resolutions that we will debate.

What is your political system like? ( FRANCE )

1. Are you a democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, communist regime, etc?

2. Provide a brief description of how the political system works.

3. Is your population united, or do you have to deal with internal conflict?

4. Do you have a stable political system?

5. What are a couple/few of the big political issues in your country right now?

Like all essays, it should include:

• A title page (Including: Title, Name, Date, Course Code, Prof Name)
• A clearly defined thesis statement outlining what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it
• Properly formatted (Indentation, Double Spaced, Numbered Pages, Size 12 font maximum, Etc.)
• Spelling and Grammar Count!
• Times New Roman Font
• Consult the GAS Style Guide for further direction
• Proper References: APA consistent throughout the paper
  • Any paper that does not have in-text citations will not be accepted and assigned a 20% late penalty
  • If you have ANY concerns about your referencing, then please contact me and we can sort it out!
  • You must use at least 4 academic(!)sources
• Proper conclusion
• Bibliography page
• Length of the paper must be a minimumof 3 pages, not including cover page or bibliography

Consult the grading rubric found in the Course Information section of BB for a description of how the essay will be graded.

This paper is worth 30 marks and ¼ of your group project mark