Follow up to state strength and legitimacy
Chapter one of the textbook discussed three broad answers to the question of what explains political behavior: individual motivation, culture and ideology, and underlying structures. In our initial discussion in week one, you were asked to describe which of these three was most intuitively appealing to you. What specific evidence/learnings in the course can you point to that affirm your original selection? If you would NOT make the same choice any longer, what specific learnings from the course changed your mind?
