The social security act of 1935
The final paper will be 10-12 pages, which excludes the reference section. Please use 12-point font with the appropriate margins. A good way to make sure you do not miss any of the requirements listed below is to use subtitles to guide you through the paper.
Paper expectations:
1. You are able to conceptualize and specifically identify public policy issues discussed in class and the readings.
2. You have identified the actors/players :
Franklin d Roosevelt
Frances Perkins :
Commissioned hopskins to join the committee
Harry Hopskins
proposed job assurance program placed economic agency in the hand of the worker because Roosevelt’s federal relief administrator believed that relief did not improve status of the worker; only the security of an assured wage could do this.
and their interests both within and outside government. How does each view the problem and the policy solution based on their beliefs and values? What kind of indicators, persuasion or evidence did the players use to push their positions?
3. You are able to accurately apply and meaningfully discuss Kingdon’s theory : Kingdon’s Three stream theory coupling
a. How did the issue progress to the policymakers’ agenda? In other words, how did the problem become a public problem needing immediate attention?
Industrial revolution- families left their farming life for industrial jobs in the city
Coupling:
Focusing Event: Stock market crash of 1929
– production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value.
-Among the other causes of the stock market crash of 1929 were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated this led to the :
Great Depression
– worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
– Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers.
– By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed.
The coupling of the above events led to a problem window being opened .
b. How was the problem defined?
4. What was the policy solution?
5. What was occurring in the political stream?
6. Finally, whether you think the policy created actually addressed the problem.APA StylePlease utilize the APA style guide for your final paper. You may refer to the APA manual for formatting and citation requirements. Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab is a good source for general APA guidelines and can be found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01. In addition, two useful Web-based tools that may be used to help generate citations include:Son of Citation Machine – http://citationmachine.net/index2.phpThe KniteCite Citation Service – http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
