Third Assignment, Spring 2025

Choose one:

1.  Explain how a specific federal policy or program has directly affected you or someone close to you.  Was your experience typical?

2.  Explain how a specific judicial decision has directly affected you or someone close to you. Was this experience typical?

3. With a focus on DOGE, write a brief update to chapter 7.  In what ways would the textbook authors have to revise their analysis of bureaucracy? 

4.  Courts have blocked or delayed many of the current administration's executive actions. Pick one such case.  Explain the arguments on each side with reference to the concepts of "judicial activism" (Lowi 265) and judicial review (Lowi 255).  Which side is likely to prevail in the end?

Instructions:

• Document your claims. Do not write from the top of your head. Cite the specific rules, statutes, or judicial decisions that you are discussing.
• Essays should be double-spaced and no more than three pages long. I will not read past the third page.
• Essays should be in the form of Word documents.  Do not submit pdfs or Google docs.
• Cite your sources with endnotes in Chicago/Turabian style. Endnote pages do not count against the page limit.
• Do not use ChatGPT or any other generative AI. Misrepresenting AI-generated content as your own work is plagiarism.  It will result in a referral to the Academic Standards Committee.  
• Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you.
• Turn in essays to  Canvas by 11:59 PM,  Monday, April 7:  note the extra time. (If you have trouble with Canvas, simply email your essay to me as an attached Word file.) I reserve the right to dock essays a gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.