BLOG POST: Critically reading policy
On February 7, you read an earlier chapter of the Streeter book ("Inside the Beltway") and wrote a blog entry about it. For this blog entry, please read the current chapter of the Streeter book ("But Not the Ownership Thereof") and answer the question: How does this current chapter (chapter 6) apply the ideas introduced in the earlier chapter (chapter 4)?
There are many ways you could do this. For example, you might re-read your blog post about "How to be a policy expert" (about chapter 4) and consider how the roles and conventions of policy as theater appear in this chapter about spectrum allocation (chapter 6). A different approach might be to compare this chapter (chapter 6) to the April 6 reading "The Spectrum and its Utilization." Both readings are about the same thing but they are written very differently and emphasize different aspects of spectrum history. One difference might be the concepts introduced in chapter 4. You could ask yourself, what is gained by analyzing expertise and using terms like "interpretive community" and "corporate liberalism" (from Streeter Ch. 4)? Alternatively, you could decide that Streeter does a poor job of applying the concepts he introduced earlier in chapter 4, and explain why.
Post an answer in your blog that is at least 200 words.
DEADLINE: 1 p.m. -- one hour before class begins.