2-page, double-spaced paper comparing and contrasting readings of your choosing from the week.
Reading Sources:
The Bureaucracy 
Terry Moe, “The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure,” in John E. Chubb and Paul E. Peterson, eds., Can the Government Govern? (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press), 1989, pp. 267-85.
John Cassidy, “Anatomy of a Meltdown: Ben Bernanke and the Financial Crisis,” The New Yorker, December 1st, 2008.
Andrew Prokop, “How Barack Obama is expanding presidential power — and what it means for the future.” Vox. 9 Sep 2014.
Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilpern, “How Scott Pruitt Turned the EPA into One of Trump’s Most Powerful Tools, ” The Washington Post, December 31st, 2017.
The Courts
Federalist Paper #78
Cass R Sunstein, “Judges and Democracy: The Changing Role of the Supreme Court,” in Kermit A. Hall and Kevin T. McGuire, eds., The Judicial Branch (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2005, pp. 32-59.
Keith Whittington, “Is the Supreme Court a Court?”
Jack M. Balkin, “From Off the Wall to On the Wall: How the Mandate Challenge Went Mainstream,” The Atlantic, June 4, 2012