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A Legislative Case Study Assignment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

David W. Winder*
Affiliation:
Valdosta State College

Extract

In an article entitled “Teaching the Congress and Legislative Process Courses,” L. Sandy Maisel found by examining the syllabi of such courses that about half of them involved legislative case study assignments. He suggested that further exploration of these assignments would be appropriate. Since students are so commonly required to do case studies of bills in legislative courses, a description of this type of assignment and discussion of how to implement it would be useful. In this paper, I will cover my use of this type of assignment in a course on the legislative process. In describing this legislative case study requirement, sections on background information, the case study assignment, and student reaction to the assignment, together with a brief conclusion, will be presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1987

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References

Books Assigned for the Course

Fiorina, Morris P.Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment. New Haven: Yale Universty Press, 1977.Google Scholar
Randall B., RipleyCongress: Process and Policy. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1983.Google Scholar