Challenges and Solutions of Public Administration in United States Paper

Challenges and Solutions of Public Administration in United States Paper

Please respond to the following scenario in a paper of NO Less than 10 pages in length but no more than 15 pages in length. The paper should be double-spaced in Times New Roman size 12 font (cover page, endnotes and bibliographies do not count toward that 10 page minimum):

The host of NBC’s Sunday morning program, Meet the Press, has invited you to be a special guest on his show. He asks you to identify the challenges facing public administration in the United States and recommend steps that should be taken to strengthen our governmental system and our society.

Your response must include references to each of the eight books you have read for this class this semester and you must use established protocol for citing references within your paper. Citation example (Green 2014, 13). Original work only, citations are a must from the 8 books listed.

Grading Rubric
The Final Paper is designed to enable students to apply the concepts learned from all the textbooks and the previous assignments to a real-world scenario.
An excellent response will include:

  • a consistent theme which incorporates the various public affairs concepts and theories addressed during the course;
  • citations from each text and previous assignments; and
  • proper use of grammar and punctuation.

The 8 books are:

1.Title: Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo 3rd

Authors: Brian R. Fry; Jos C. N. Raadschelders

-2. Title: American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare

Author: Jason DeParle

3. Title: The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management

Author: Peter F. Drucker

4. Title: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Authors: Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum

5. Title: The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts About It

Authors: Terry L. Jordan

6. Title: The Healing of America

Authors: T.R. Reid

7. Title: The State of Citizen Participation in America

Authors: Hindy Lauer Schachter and Kaifeng Yang

8. Title: Democracy in America and Two Essays on America

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville