public administration

"The Political Context of Public Administration"  Please respond to the following. Note: Online students, please respond to two (2) of the following four (4) bulleted items.

• From  Chapter 1 of the textbook, President Wilson asserted that it is “harder to run a constitution than to frame one.” From the first e-Activity, suggest two (2) examples of difficulties that exist in either the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government today that bolster Wilson’s assertion

• Organize the three (3) basic forms of government from the point of view of a public administrator. Suggest two to three (2-3) common goals and interdependencies of the forms of government in question. Provide a rationale to support your response.

• From the second e-Activity, select two (2) new policies that the Obama administration is presently implementing. Next, from the third e-Activity, speculate on whether or not the policies that you have selected would have positive or negative impacts on the new federalism. Justify your response.

• Analyze the main types of federalism. Debate two to three (2-3) advantages and two to three (2-3) disadvantages of federalism as it relates to intergovernmental relations. Provide a rationale to support your response.