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Final Research Paper Topics: Note You may create a topic and submit it for my approval
Note : 5 to 8 Pages , Typed Double Spaced, Justified Margins, MLA Format, Bibliography with 5 to 8
citations. Please use scholarly academic primary source texts, academic peer reviewed journals /
periodicals and scholarly based web sites not Wikipedia or Google.
1. Why has the federal bureaucracy grown so incredibly in this century?
2. What is meant by the term welfare state? What is the relationship between
the welfare state and the federal bureaucracy? Welfare Reform.
3. Discuss the evolution of the civil service system. Patronage / Spoils
system etc. Andy Jackson, later Progressive Reforms Merit Based etc.
4. Define and discuss the three functions of the federal bureaucracy.
5. Define political socialization, and discuss the social factors that
determine and influence it.
6. Discuss the social factors that influence public opinion.
7. What is the nature and state of American public opinion?
8. Discuss the evolution of the American Party System. (6 Party Systems)
9. Discuss the history of voting in the United States. Who participates?
10. Explain the operation of the Electoral College and its impact on the
presidential contest. What were the original intentions of the framers of
the Constitution in creating this strange entity? Were those intentions
carried out? Should the Electoral College be abolished? Why or why not?
11. Discuss campaign finance reform. Will the legislation passed in 2002 make
a difference? What loopholes remain? Discuss “clean” campaigns.
12. Discuss student protests of the last half-century. How do protests today
differ from those of the 1960s? In what ways are they similar? Are student
protests effective? Why/Why not?
13. What are the different types of interest groups? Analyze in detail.
14. Discuss the Enron case. What went wrong? Did the Bush administration
involve itself in any of the wrongdoing? How can such a situation be
avoided in the future?
15. Discuss the tactics used by interest groups to influence lawmakers.

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16. Analyze some common grass-roots activities. Use historical examples.
17. Discuss iron triangles and policy networks. Use Examples Research it.
18. Is the media biased? What is the “myth” of a liberal media?
19. Discuss the means by which the national Bill of Rights has been applied
to the states.
20. Discuss the role of the Supreme Court in structuring the relationship
between the government and religious organizations.
21. What limitations have been placed on the exercise of speech and press?
22. Discuss the history of gay rights in the courts. What protections/rights
have gay persons in America been given? What protections/rights have they
been denied? Does a double standard exist? Why/Why not?
23. Discuss the evolution and constitutional basis of civil rights.
24. Discuss America's history of legal segregation.
25. Discuss the Civil Rights Movement. What have been its greatest
achievements? Where has it failed?
26. What has been the role of the Supreme Court in the advancement of civil
rights?
27. What is affirmative action? How has it been received by the American
public?
28. Discuss the future of civil rights in the United States.
29. What new challenges will the 9/11 attacks on America and the war on
terrorism bring to race relations in the United States? Will there be an
inevitable setback? Why/Why not?
30. Distinguish between regulatory policy and social welfare policy.
31. Describe and discuss the policy-making process.
32. Discuss the life cycle of policy making.
33. Discuss American social welfare policy.
34. Take a major current national issue and apply the life cycle model of the
policy-making process. Explain how that issue has moved from being a
condition to a problem to being placed on the public and formal agendas.
35. Describe welfare policies that help the poor as well as policies that
benefit the general public. How does the Welfare Reform Bill change the
welfare system?

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 Final Research Paper Topics: Note – You may create a topic and submit it for my approval Note : 5 to 8 Pages , Typed Double Spaced, Justified Margins, MLA Format, Bibliography with 5 to 8 citations. Please use scholarly academic primary source texts, academic peer reviewed journals / periodicals and scholarly based web sites not Wikipedia or Google. 1. Why has the federal bureaucracy grown so incredibly in this century? 2. What is meant by the term welfare state? What is the relationship between the welfare state and the federal bureaucracy? Welfare Reform. 3. Discuss the evolution of the civil service system. Patronage / Spoils system etc. – Andy Jackson, later Progressive Reforms – Merit Based etc. 4. Define and discuss the three functions of the federal bureaucracy. 5. Define political socialization, and discuss the social factors that determine and influence it. 6. Discuss the social factors that influence public opinion. 7. What is the nature and state of American public opinion? 8. Discuss the evolution of the American Party System. (6 Party Systems) 9. Discuss the history of voting in the United States. Who participates? 10. Explain the operation of t ...
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