1. There is a growing perception that government should do more to protect individual privacy and security to ensure that individual records and files are fair and accurate. What basic issues are involved in this debate, and how might such privacy guarantees be instituted? Compare the Pentagon Papers with current incidents of the release of classified information such as the WikiLeaks case. How are they similar? How do they differ (if they do)?
2. What expectations, interests, and behavior patterns might be said to characterize newly installed political appointees in formal positions of leadership in executive agencies? How do many, if not most, appointees interact with the senior career officials in their respective agencies? With the chief executive who appointed them. Discuss.
3. What differences exist among the three major levels of government (national, state, local) in terms of types of employees that have been organized, proportions of employees that have organized, the provisions and atmospheres for conducting collective bargaining, and the percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements?