Government Failure

Writing and Reading
Deadline: Sep 23, 2013 at 11:00 PM 18h left
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The stories and essays contained in the JPG are titled A Conflict of Values. Write 250-500 words about the contents.
In each section, a story is presented first, then essays. Consider the following questions and use them to shape your response:
What are the different effects of fiction versus essay in how you respond to the writings?
What do you think accounts for that difference?
Read the LAST Word piece, Government Failure in the News, in Chapter 17. Investigate the use of special-interest lobbyists for some of these articles. The process of lobbying legislatures is itself a big business. State legislatures are under the same kind of pressure from interest groups as the Senate and the House of Representatives. Provide an example to discuss how special interests can succeed in perpetuating policies that are opposed by the majority of voters because the costs of organizing and motivating groups to take political action increase with group’s size.