Assignment task: Write two hundred and fifty to three hundred words for your response to each question.
Respond to both of the following questions (your response should be a total of five hundred to six hundred words, or two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fifty words per question).
First, identify which executive branch and bureaucratic agencies might be involved in the work to combat climate change. Second, explain how climate change might constitute a collective action problem and how it can be difficult to encourage individuals to fulfill a social responsibility of this type.
Explain the Median Voter Theorem and how politicians will do best in the election if they identify the median voter's position in whatever constituency they are appealing to. Why does this strategy sometimes result in a candidate seeming to change his or her positions when moving from a primary to a general election? Now, give an example of a situation where you think a candidate either attempted to follow the median voter, or a situation in which he or she did NOT attempt to move to the median voter's position. Do you think the candidate in your example behaved strategically? Do you think he or she behaved ethically?