Assignment: Webpage

Create a webpage that offers advice to political leaders and citizens. Use Hobbes, Locke, Madison, Rousseau, Mill and Marx and Engels to devise answers to problems of your specification that involve delegation of political authority, challenges to existing political power, and questions of fairness in the distribution of benefits and burdens.

The scale of organization for which you are offering advice can be national, international or local. You can present the information in whatever format you like, including photographs, quotes, FAQ's, best practices,
mission statements, etc.

The webpages require reflection and discussion to consider the kinds of political problems political leaders and citizens face for which political theory is useful. Your website should not just be a series of Wikipedia-like entries on who the political theorists are and what their major points were.

The project asks you to apply their ideas. You set the parameters for how to do this. One possibility is to consider a particular set of problems - the crisis in Syria, the emerging democracy in Myanmar, the establishment of a new political party in the United States, the consolidation of a global political order to address environmental problems and the resource use that contributes to them.

Feel free to draw on your experiences (in the military, diplomacy, in neighborhood associations) in thinking about political organization.