PADM 475 Midterm and Final Essays
You will submit 2 essays in this course: a Midterm and a Final. The prompt you must answer for the Midterm and Final are provided below.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Your essays should include the following:
- Ideas, arguments and discussion shows consistency and logical connection between content and commentary.
- The development of ideas, arguments, and discussion shows logical connection. Language used is sufficient to say exactly what is intended and is easy to understand – concise.
- A sufficient number of public administration concepts are used to analyze the situation discussed.
- A variety of pertinent scholarly references were sought and obtained in preparing the paper.
- The main points are stated clearly and follow a logical sequence.
- Proper spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation is used.
- Essays use Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1-inch margins from left to right and top to
bottom, and double spacing.
- Current APA formatting is used.
Essay: Midterm Assignment Prompt:
“It is believed that there are two functions of government: Politics and administration. Politics has to do with the policies or expression of state will. Administration has to do with the execution of these policies.” Critically evaluate this statement in light of modern public administration.
Essay: Final Assignment Prompt:
How can bureaucrats and bureaucracies be held accountable? By whom and by what means can they be held accountable? Describe the steps and the measures that can be taken to increase bureaucratic accountability. How do the judicial, the executive, and the legislative branches of government hold bureaucrats and bureaucracies accountable?