Per the instructor, the thesis or topic of the paper should be stated in teh first paragraph and should be written as: “This paper will demonstrate that denying non-United States citizens voting rights is an approrpiate public policy.”
This is the purpose of the paper provided by the insructor:
“This assignment will help students become familiar with the leading theories and concepts used to describe policy making in America and be able to apply these theories in discussing specific issues; understand how policy-making processes can vary with regard to key dimensions such as the amount of conflict, the level of participation, and the dynamics of decision making; become familiar with the leading perspectives on particular aspects of policy making such as agenda setting, implementation, and evlaution, become familiary with the various democratic and technical criteria that are used to evaluate the policy-making process and be able to apply these criteria in discussing specific issues; and be able to think critically and analytically about the character of the policy-making process as it relates to practical issues of effective and ethical public servce.”