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Questions:
1. How have changes in technology made polling more difficult?
2. When should political leaders not follow public opinion, and why?
3. What recommendations would you make to increase voter turnout in the United States, and why?
4. Should states continue to allow ballot initiatives and other forms of direct democracy? Why or why not?
5. Using your course materials, highlight the main ways conservatism and liberalism have changed over time. Then, looking at what you see today (among your friends, in your family, in the media you consume), how do you think the meaning of conservatism and liberalism might be shifting nowadays? Which pieces of the "bundle" do you think will become more salient? Which pieces might become less central to the meaning of these terms?
Nelson, B.R. (1996), "Conservatism" Western Political Thought, (Waveland Press), 259-278
Alan Ryan, "What is Liberalism?" The Making of Modern Liberalism, (Princeton University Press, 2012) 21-42