Last Assignment, Spring 2023

  Pick one of the items below.

• Pick any chapter in Cigler or Holyoke and do a 2023 afterword.  What has happened since 2020 that would either illuminate the analysis or require revision?
• Choose any proposed reform from Schatzinger, ch. 7.  Then ask ChatGPT to identify arguments for and against the proposal.  Pick one of those arguments and analyze it critically.  Does it make sense?  Would it persuade the relevant policymakers and the general public?  Add the ChatGPT answer to the end of your paper.  It will not count against the page limit.
• What is the most important thing about interest groups that you learned in this course? What do you know now that you did not know in early January?

Instructions:

• Document your claims. Do not write from the top of your head. 
• Essays should be typed (12-point), double-spaced, and no more than four pages long. I will not read past the fourth page. Please submit papers as Word documents, not pdfs or Google docs. 
• Cite your sources with endnotes in Chicago/Turabian style. Endnote pages do not count against the page limit.  No bibliography is necessary.
• Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you. 
• Turn in essays to the class Sakai dropbox by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, May 3. I reserve the right to dock papers a gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.