USC The Provision of Adequate Child Care for Working Mothers Paper
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Choose a policy area or problem or issue found in advanced industrial societies. Examples of
possible topics might include the provision of adequate child care for working mothers, the
perverse incentives of the tax system, the different societal spending on youth and on the elderly
or the design of the health care system.
Compare the policies developed to address this problem or issue in two or more countries. For
each country, you should identify a legislative bill that has been passed or that has failed to pass
and develop a case history of what factors shaped the outcome.
Offer a broader theoretical explanation for the cross-national differences and generate an
argument about the significance of your comparative analysis for some larger theme of the class.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ORGANIZING THE PAPER
I.
Introduction:
First you identify the CENTRAL QUESTION of the paper. Try to be very clear about what
you want to explain. Usually the CENTRAL QUESTION includes both a counterintuitive
empirical problem and a larger theoretical or thematic question to which it relates.
Next in the introduction you identify your ARGUMENT that explains both the empirical puzzle
and gives insight into the larger theoretical question.
II. Literature Review
In this section you present a theoretical debate, setting forth how scholars have thought about this
problem. Try to come up with at least three different views.
Critique each author and set forth what one should expect to find in the case if each author were
right.
III. Case
Here you should present the empirical information about your case. For each country, please
identify the measure taken (or attempted) and discuss the factors that contributed to the
outcomes. Organize this information in a way that tests each of your contending theories. Pulling
this off is a real art form. You don want to give the reader a long, boring narration (everything I
ever wanted to know about the Greens but was afraid to ask). But you also don want the story
to be too jumpy.
IV. Conclusion
Here you restate the question, argument, and key case details in case we missed them the first
time around.
Remember to footnote everything that you read in a book, even if it is not a direct quote.
Paper should be based on at least 8 to 10 sources. Plagiarism is grounds for automatic failure, so
be sure to review the Academic Conduct Code.
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