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L09 Country Group Discussion

L09 Country Group Discussion

Q Country groups will read current events articles that they find about the country they are studying. Each student will summarize one article in one paragraph. Each person must choose a separate article. In a second paragraph they will apply the information learned about their country to one of the aspects of majoritarian versus consensus democracies taken from Lijphart which is being used as the framework for the rest of the semester.

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