41257PART 2: What is "Public Writing" and why should we study it? Define "Public Writing" in your own words. This should test your paraphrasing abilities nicely. More importantly, it will also give you some creative room to explore and build on your own, understanding of...
41241Referencing the article readings, analyze three public administration issues. Choose an issue, identify the stakeholders, gather the facts, find additional analysis from several perspectives (conservative, liberal, etc.), address any underlying theories or other context (social/political/historical), then identify the next set of action steps you predict...
41240Referencing the article readings and other sources, discuss the various types of local government, which is the most effective and why. Be sure to discriminate between city and county governments. Week 5 Articles: Carpenter, D; Krause, G. A. (2015). Transactional Authority and Bureaucratic Politics, Journal of Public...
41150Review the readings on the Course Outline in the syllabus. Please review the DOD IG report at https://media.defense.gov/2017/Dec/08/2001854487/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2018-035.PDF. The DOD IG report on Fingerprint care submission by the FBI is more of a program analysis than an evaluation of one specific function. This is an...
41147Referencing the article readings, discuss the pluralism movement in America today. Reference examples from the recent past as well as today. Readings: Perceptions of Threat, Demographic Diversity, and the Framing of Illegality: Explaining (Non)Participation in New York's 2006 Immigrant Protests A Pragmatist Reading of Mary Parker Follett's...
40749Your first Lesson Report Essay: I chose Lesson 5 for your first report because I want you to pay careful attention to the worldviews and the ideas about the purpose of government, as you will need that information for the rest of the semester. When you...
40225Identify and describe a current issue (this could be a controversy or just an issue of importance) (Not same sex marriage, or health care reform act) in American Government. Explain in 1-2 pages how one of the modern philosophers (Sartre, Arendt, Rawls) would respond to...
40198 Emerging nations are generally defined as those countries working to become industrialized (such countries include Cuba, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, etc…). Research and identify one emerging country and discuss why Marxism might be an attractive option for that country and its leaders. In addition, based on...
40184Aquinas and Augustine The course project requires you to research and write an analytical paper comparing and contrasting the political views of two philosophers on one of the following areas: a. Human Conflict - the nature and causes thereof. b. The best or best possible cooperative social arrangements, capable of...
40114Select one of these three philosophers (Rousseau, Locke, Hobbes) and write a 1-2 page paper in which you analyze the significant ways in which their ideas differ from those at work in modern democracies. What could we gain from following their ideas more closely, and...