Unit 7 AS: Final project – Step 7: Identification of problem and situation analysis

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Unit 7 AS: Final project – Step 7: Identification of problem and situation analysis

Write up a policy analysis on the current situation, identify existing challenges, and provide solutions or suggestions to improve the practices in intergovernmental relations. The policy report may analyze an actual situation or even discuss the hypothetical situation (if you cannot find a relevant case or data). The objective of this assignment is to offer an opportunity for students to connect the knowledge they obtained from the lecture with empirical cases and practices in the public arena (even at a hypothetical level). This assignment intends to raise the analytical capability of students to assess the situation from a political, economic, and societal perspective. Students are required to identify empirical data and case for their policy analysis paper. Students will have to clarify how the selected cases and data contribute to addressing specific public policy issues and problems from an inter-governmental relation point of view. Students may choose to address a specific grant program, public policy, or regulation. The public policy issue can be local, state, or federal government levels. The case can be either a U.S. case or an international case from a comparative perspective.

This assignment is composed of the following two sub-sections:

In the first sub-section, students will have to examine the connection between selected public policy topic and the themes covered during this PA 3110 Inter-governmental Relations Course. In examining the public policy case, students may focus on the main features, aspects, or structure of inter-governmental relations (e.g. federalism, constitutions, finance, the relationship of executive-legislative-judicial branches, criminal justice, metropolitics). (A length of the first sub-section is maximum 500 words)

In the second sub-section, students will have to summarize the findings from the previous analysis section and generate implications. (A length of the second sub-section is maximum 250 words)

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Public Policy Analysis
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The public policy that is to be analyzed is the Federal Drug Policy of the United States of America. The policy was mainly against the rise of the use of drugs, such as heroin, Marijuana, and Cocaine in the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s. This often led to the idea of imposing strict jail time for the use of drugs. In the 1980s, the use of drugs mandated a sentence that had been a minimum of 5 years (Ruhm, 2018). It had been both the idea of the Reagan and the Nixon administration’s efforts to control the use of drug in the USA, with campaigns such as the idea of “War on Drugs” being the main campaign that they sought. The policy of the administrations was removed, primarily because the prisons had started to overflow with users of drugs. More than 1 million inmates in the country had been incarcerated for drug-related offenses, and many prisons could not keep up with the flow of inmates.
Drug-related offenses were also often related to the race of the person, and the way that the criminal justice system had created. It had been noticed that African-American drug-users were receiving longer sentences, and had less chances of being represented in court properly, without any biases, than a white person (Volkow, Poznyak, Saxena, Gerra & UNODC‐WHO Informal International Scientific Network, 2017). Thus, it was a fault of the judicial system as such that had led to the increase in representation of the African-American population in jail,

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