PLSC 497 Public Policy and Agenda-Setting, Spring 2006
- Click here to download a spreadsheet of the Federal
Budget in Constant 2003 dollars.
- Click here to read some extremely
useful notes for the first exam.
- Click here to read a useful paper: Schneider, Anne, and Helen
Ingram. 1993. Social
Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics
and Policy. American Political Science Review 87
(2) 334-47. This may be useful to many of you in thinking about
your papers. It introduces the idea of how the political system
reacts to different "target populations" depending
on whether the group in question is powerful.
- Click here to read a report
on education spending from the US Department of Education,
National Center for Education Statistics. (Original URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002025_6.pdf)
- Click here to see a paper
by Baumgartner on another topic that you might use as a model for the
FORM and PRESENTATION of your term paper. Note the use of a title page, headings
and subheadings, tables and figures, and the bibliography. Make your term
paper look like this; professionalism matters!
- Go to the US
Census web page for lots of information about poverty.
- Click here to read some extremely
useful notes for the second exam.