Final Paper Assignment The primary goal of your final assignment is to critically analyze the specific topic ( The Affordable Care Act 2010 ) regarding American national government. You have been preparing for this final assignment each week by constructing an Annotated Bibliography (Week 2) and a detailed outline of the Final Paper’s main points (Week 3) in which you focused on the following: Historical and constitutional basis for the American Government’s structure The system of checks and balances The various roles (e., public opinion, media, special interest groups, etc.) concerning public policy and elections The voting system and election process. In addition, you have read the course text and course readings, reviewed videos, and researched additional material for each week’s assignments and this paper. This week, you will put all of those outlines, readings, reviews, and research together to evaluate policymaking and government program administration into one Final Paper. Reflect on what you have learned about the key structures, systems, roles, and processes that embody our national government. Think about the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages, and positive and negative impacts of these aspects of our democracy. Use what you have learned so far to evaluate a specific policy of our national government and recommend ways to enhance what works and repair what is not working well. It is important that your Final Paper utilizes your previous research and assignments, including the feedback that you received from the Ashford Writing Center in Week 4. The assignment should also showcase what you have learned in the course. While your previous assignments will serve as a strong base for this assignment, it is very important that you implement feedback from your instructor and the Ashford Writing Center, as well as further expand on the material. Appropriate transitions and headings are needed to ensure a cohesive Final Paper. The Final Paper should utilize the POL201 Final Paper template which will be attached and should be at least six pages in length (not including title page and references) and based on your previously submitted assignments. It is important to utilize APA Style Elements (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. headings for major sections of your paper in order to ensure that the paper is easy to follow. Scaffold your paper around the following outline: Title page (see Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. ) Introduction (half page) (see Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. ) Describe the paper’s overall thesis. Provide an overview of main points. First Main Point (one to one and a half pages) describes the historical and Constitutional basis of American government’s structure and how this relates to the policy. Describe the main point. Support the main point with resea ...

1. Final Paper Assignment
The primary goal of your final assignment is to critically
analyze the specific topic (
The Affordable Care Act 2010
) regarding American national government.
You have been preparing for this final assignment each week by
constructing an Annotated Bibliography (Week 2) and a detailed
outline of the Final Paper’s main points (Week 3) in which you
focused on the following:
Historical and constitutional basis for the American
Government’s structure
The system of checks and balances
The various roles (e., public opinion, media, special interest
groups, etc.) concerning public policy and elections
The voting system and election process.
In addition, you have read the course text and course readings,
reviewed videos, and researched additional material for each
week’s assignments and this paper. This week, you will put all
of those outlines, readings, reviews, and research together to
evaluate policymaking and government program administration
into one Final Paper.
Reflect on what you have learned about the key structures,
systems, roles, and processes that embody our national
government. Think about the strengths and weaknesses,
advantages and disadvantages, and positive and negative

2. impacts of these aspects of our democracy. Use what you have
learned so far to evaluate a specific policy of our national
government and recommend ways to enhance what works and
repair what is not working well. It is important that your Final
Paper utilizes your previous research and assignments,
including the feedback that you received from the Ashford
Writing Center in Week 4. The assignment should also
showcase what you have learned in the course. While your
previous assignments will serve as a strong base for this
assignment, it is very important that you implement feedback
from your instructor and the Ashford Writing Center, as well as
further expand on the material. Appropriate transitions and
headings are needed to ensure a cohesive Final Paper.
The Final Paper should utilize the
POL201 Final Paper template
which will be attached and should be at least six pages in
length (not including title page and references) and based on
your previously submitted assignments. It is important to utilize
APA Style Elements (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
headings for major sections of your paper in order to ensure that
the paper is easy to follow.
Scaffold your paper around the following outline:
Title page (see
Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
)
Introduction (half page) (see
Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site.
)

3. Describe the paper’s overall thesis.
Provide an overview of main points.
First Main Point (one to one and a half pages) describes the
historical and Constitutional basis of American government’s
structure and how this relates to the policy.
Describe the main point.
Support the main point with research.
Second Main Point (one to one and a half pages) explains how
the policy is involved within the process of checks and
balances.
Describe the main point.
Support the main point with research.
Third Main Point (one to one and a half pages) describes how
the policy relates to public policy and elections and how the
policy is portrayed by the media.
Describe the main point.

4. Support the main point with research.
Fourth Main Point (one to one and a half pages) explains how
the policy impacts voting and the election process.
Describe the main point.
Support the main point with research.
Conclusion (see
Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site.
)
Review your main points.
Review your overall thesis.
References page (see
Formatting Your References List (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site.
)
The Final Paper Assignment

5. Must be at least six double-spaced pages in length (not
including title and references pages) and formatted according to
APA Style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least eight scholarly sources in addition to the
course text. A minimum of five of the resources must be from
peer-reviewed scholarly sources from the Ashford University
Library.
The
Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to
an external site.)Links to an external site.
table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If
you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a

6. specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center.
***REFERENCES USED IN PRIOR ASSIGNMENTS:
Barrilleaux, C., & Rainey, C. (2014). The politics of need:
Examining governors’ decisions to oppose the “Obamacare”
Medicaid expansion.
State Politics & Policy Quarterly
,
14
(4), 437-460.
Fine, T. S., & Levin-Waldman, O. M. (2016). American
government (2nd ed.). Retrieved fromhttps://
content.ashford.edu/
Foster, R. S. (2010).
Estimated Financial Effects of the'Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act,'as Amended
. DIANE Publishing.
Hendricks, J. A. (2014). The new-media campaign of 2012. In
R. E. Denton, Jr. (Ed.), The 2012 presidential campaign: A
communication perspective (pp. 133–156). Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield.

7. Major, M. (2014). The unilateral presidency and the news
media: The politics of framing executive power. New York, NY:
Palgrave Macmillan
McCombs, M. (2014). Setting the agenda: The mass media and
public opinion (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Oberlander, J., & Weaver, R. K. (2015, April). Unraveling from
within? The affordable care act and self-undermining policy
feedbacks. In
The Forum
(Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 37-62). De Gruyter.
Rowling, C. M., Sheets, P., & Jones, T. M. (2013). Frame
contestation in the news: national identity, cultural resonance,
and U.S. drone policy. International Journal of Communication,
7, 2231– 2253. Retrieved from
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2202/1011