Author Question: Using the framework adopted by the authors of the text, explain why our elected officials do little ... (Read 68 times)

dbose · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Using the framework adopted by the authors of the text, explain why our elected officials do little to address persistent poverty in America.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

With respect to the new Constitution, if you wanted to understand what the framers thought were the strengths of the document, where would you look?

a. minutes of the Constitutional Convention
b. TheFederalist Papers
d. Treatise on Government
d. Declaration of Independence

softEldritch · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

An ideal response will:
1, Discuss how, at the structural level, Americans' core beliefs about individualism, initiative, and opportunity make it difficult for proposals to help the poor to gain traction.
2, Explain that, at the political-linkage level, the poor are politically invisible and have few organized interest groups to push their interests.
3, Explain how, at the government level, proposals to help the poor do not help politicians get reelected.
4, Discuss how this has led to the national government providing some social safety nets but no major poverty-elimination programs.

Answer to Question 2

b