What kinds of causal relationships are at issue?What kinds of data are used?Are the models idealized?

This is for my Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Capstone course: Reasoning with Models

The topic I’ve chosen is voting systems (I.e. First-past-the-post voting, ranked-choice voting, single transferable vote, etc.). It needs to make considerable reference to models and should have 7-15 sources.

Attached, in order,have put the assignment description, my professor’s writing advice and pet peeves, an example of an argument analysis I wrote that I got a 92% on, and two readings from our class that my professor said would be helpful given my topic.

Below is a breakdown of the assignment I’ve copied from the assignment description document:

1. Within your “home discipline,” find a scholarly controversy or debate about some issue. It could be from a previous class you’ve taken, or just something you’re just interested in.

2. Find at least two (2) papers within that debate. Obviously, these papers should represent at least two positions within the debate. They should disagree with one another. Remember, what’s important is that you lay out two positions, and not necessarily just write about two papers.

3. Articulate, in detail, the research question at issue. What are they disagreeing about? Why is it interesting?

4. Lay out, briefly, each position you’ll be considering.

5. What strategies are used to answer the research question you’re considering? In detail: How do they understand the issue? What kind of models do they use? What kinds of causal relationships are at issue? What kinds of data are used? Are the models idealized? How? Do different sides of the controversy take different strategies? Why?