Economic policy 

    Government policy -- Law and order, Defining rules of property, Enforcing contracts, Governing rule of exchange, Setting Market Standards, Providing Public Goods, Creating a labor force, Ameliorating externalities, Promoting competition (antitrust policies)

        Federal Reserve -- relationship between inflation and employment, Interest Rates, Reserve Requirements, open-market and other fiscal policies

        Taxation -- progressive and regressive taxation, redistribution policy

        Discretionary, entitlement, debt service spending

Social welfare policy

    Social Security Act - contributory (Social Security, Medicare, prescription drug benefit) and noncontributory act (AFDC, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Goldberg v Kelly, definition of entitlement)

    Pros and Cons on welfare -- moral hazard

    Welfare reform (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act)

    Future of Social Security

    Education-- GI Bill, National Defense Education Act, No Child Left Behind

Foreign policy

    Sources of foreign policy -- President, Congress, Bureaucracy (State Department, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff),  media, special interest groups.

Realism, Liberalism, Neo-conservatism, pre-emption