Posted: February 10th, 2016

What are the weaknesses and strengths in policy analysis? Please use the readings to support your response.

Gutmann, A. & Thompson, D. (2006.) Ethics and Politics Cases & Comments (4thed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

The questions as follows:

Chapter 4
1. Do the advertisements go too far in manipulating voters?
2. Was Lyndon Johnson the “master manipulator” and was Al Gore morally self-
indulgent? Please discuss.

Chapter 5
1. Compare and contrast the Otepka and Ellsberg cases.
2. Is George Shultz a moral contradiction?
3. Was Agent Rowley disloyal to the government because she was a whistleblower?
4. Should the Columbia mission have benefitted from the Challenger’s failures vis-à-vis
blowing the whistle? Please explain.

Chapter 6
1. What are the weaknesses and strengths in policy analysis? Please use the readings to support your response.