{"id":7944,"date":"2023-03-05T06:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/texas-government-writing-assignment-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T06:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T06:03:38","slug":"texas-government-writing-assignment-2","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/texas-government-writing-assignment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"texas government Writing assignment 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Select&nbsp;<strong>ONE<\/strong>&nbsp;of the following topics to answer for Writing Assignment 2. The writing assignment should be a minimum of 750 words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the 2020 COVID pandemic,&nbsp;Governor Greg Abbott was criticized by members of&nbsp;both parties&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;by the Democrats for inadequate restrictions and by the Republicans (his own party) for having too many restrictions.&nbsp; In response, a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/04\/13\/texas-legislature-governor-power-emergency\/\"><u>constitutional amendment<\/u> <\/a>was proposed in the 2021 Texas legislative session that would limit the powers of the governor in a pandemic or other crisis.&nbsp; What restrictions on the governor&#8217;s powers were proposed?&nbsp; What were the arguments for and against these restrictions?&nbsp; What happened to this proposal during the regular session?&nbsp;&nbsp;Do you believe that the governor exceeded his authority during the pandemic or do you believe the governor&#8217;s actions did not go far enough?&nbsp; Be sure to explain your position in detail.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How are state judges selected in Texas?&nbsp; Discuss <strong>two<\/strong> different methods used in <strong>other states<\/strong> for selecting judges. What are the arguments for each of the selection methods you discussed?&nbsp;&nbsp;How do you think that Texas judges should be selected?&nbsp;&nbsp;Explain your reasoning.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How does being appointed or elected affect the accountability and independence of judges?&nbsp; How informed do you think the public is about judicial elections and judicial candidates?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Chapter 11 in the textbook.&nbsp; Texas is considered to have one of the most regressive tax structures in the nation.&nbsp; Define &#8220;regressive&#8221; and &#8220;progressive&#8221; taxes.&nbsp; What makes the Texas tax system &#8220;regressive?&#8221;&nbsp; How might Texas make its tax system more &#8220;progressive?&#8221;&nbsp; What would prevent Texas from having a more progressive tax system?&nbsp; Is it the job of the tax system to promote equality of taxation across all income groups?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read about Welfare Policy and Medicaid and Health Care Policy&nbsp;in Chapter 12 of your textbook. Also, review Sections 2 and 5 of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/texaspolitics.utexas.edu\/blog\/poverty-texas\"><u>Poverty in Texas<\/u><\/a> content by the Texas Politics Project and the <em>Texas Tribune<\/em> article &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/09\/13\/texas-poverty-census-2017-lowest-levels-decade\/\"><u>Poverty in Texas drops to lowest level in a decade<\/u><\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp;Why does Texas have such a high poverty rate (when compared to other states in the U.S.), and what steps might the state government take to reduce the poverty level?&nbsp; How does the political culture of Texas (refer back to Chapter 1) influence the government&#8217;s response to poverty?&nbsp; What are the conservative vs. liberal explanations&nbsp;for poverty (see section 5 in the &#8220;Poverty in Texas&#8221; content)?&nbsp; What role do you believe the state and federal governments&nbsp;should play, if any, to reduce the poverty rate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss how the racial\/ethnic makeup of the overall prison population and the death row population in Texas compares to the racial\/ethnic breakdown of the general population in Texas.&nbsp; (Review&nbsp;\u201cWho are Texans?\u201d &#8211;&nbsp;Chapter 13)&nbsp; What might explain the racial\/ethnic makeup of the prison population in Texas?&nbsp; Which regions of the country have higher incarceration rates and death penalty usage?&nbsp; (Review&nbsp;\u201cTexas and the Nation\u201d&nbsp;&#8211; Chapter 13)&nbsp; What do you think explains the differences in the regional patterns of incarceration and death penalty usage?&nbsp; After reading Chapter 13, how do you feel about the fairness of the Texas criminal justice system?&nbsp;&nbsp;To respond to crime in Texas, should the state decriminalize certain behavior, reduce sentence lengths, invest in crime prevention (such as drug and alcohol rehabilitation), or build more prisons?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Select&nbsp;ONE&nbsp;of the following topics to answer for Writing Assignment 2. The writing assignment should be a minimum of 750 words.&nbsp; During the 2020 COVID pandemic,&nbsp;Governor Greg Abbott was criticized by members of&nbsp;both parties&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;by the Democrats for inadequate restrictions and by the Republicans (his own party) for having too many restrictions.&nbsp; In response, a constitutional amendment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[203],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/7944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/7944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}