MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME
WORKSHEET
BARTERTOWN QUESTION SHEET
Part I. Evaluate Bartertown (BT):
Is Bartertown a Community as defined by Easton?
What appear to be the primary goals of the Citizens of Bartertown?
What are the apparent Political Propensities of the Citizens of Bartertown?
What is the general Regime or Collective Value System which would approximate these
goals and expectations?
What is the Social Contract or dominant Ideology of this Community?
What institutions or individuals perform the System Functions of Bartertown:
Articulation? Recruitment? Socialization?
What is the Gate? What defines the Gate? What institutions or individuals are part of the
Gate?
Do the Citizens of Bartertown Participate in the decision-making process? How?
What institutions or individuals perform the Process Functions of Bartertown:
Aggregation? Policy-making? Adjudication?
What is the State? What defines the State? What institutions or individuals are part of the
State?
What institutions or individuals perform the Policy Functions of Bartertown: Regulation?
Extraction? Distribution?
What is the Bureaucracy? What defines the Bureaucracy? What institutions or individuals
are part of the Bureaucracy?
Do the Citizens obtain Feedback from the State? In what way?
Does the Structural /Functional analysis you have done support your original
identification of Bartertown’s dominant ideology? Why or why not?
In your opinion, is this an effective political system? Is it functional or dysfunctional: can
it Adapt? Achieve? Maintain?
Diagram Bartertown using the Easton paradigm.
THE CRACK-IN-THE-EARTH QUESTION SHEET
Part II. Evaluate The Crack in the Earth (CE):
Is the Crack-in-the-Earth a Community as defined by Easton?
What appear to be the primary goals of the Citizens of Crack-in-the-Earth?
What are the apparent Political Propensities of the Citizens of Crack-in-the-Earth?
What is the general Regime or Collective Value System which would approximate these
goals and expectations?
What is the Social Contract or dominant Ideology of this Community?
What institutions or individuals perform the System Functions of Crack-in-the-Earth:
Articulation? Recruitment? Socialization?
What is the Gate? What defines the Gate? What institutions or individuals are part of the
Gate?
Do the Citizens of Crack-in-the-Earth Participate in the decision-making process? How?
What institutions or individuals perform the Process Functions of Crack-in-the-Earth:
Aggregation? Policy-making? Adjudication?
What is the State? What defines the State? What institutions or individuals are part of the
State?
What institutions or individuals perform the Policy Functions of Crack-in-the-Earth:
Regulation? Extraction? Distribution?
What is the Bureaucracy? What defines the Bureaucracy? What institutions or individuals
are part of the Bureaucracy?
Do the Citizens obtain Feedback from the State? In what way?
Does the Structural /Functional analysis you have done support your original
identification of Crack-in-the-Earth's dominant ideology? Why or why not?
In your opinion, is this an effective political system? Is it functional or dysfunctional: can
it Adapt? Achieve? Maintain?
Diagram Crack-in-the-Earth using the Easton paradigm.