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The Submerged State: Case Study

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Robert Robinson III
The Submerged State Advocacy Paper
Case Western Reserve University
SASS 470 Social Policy
10/17/2017
Dr. David Miller

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This paper will discuss Mettler’s book, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy. It will use resources from the book to answer the following questions. First, it will summarize the author’s key point. Seconds, it will discuss the three takeaways from the book. Third, it will examine the ways the submerged state help or hinder the advancement of social welfare safety net programs for the poor. Fourth, it observes how the information and themes contained in the book facilitate and inform my advocacy efforts. Fifth, I will give specific recommendations …show more content…
Many citizens generally believe their interaction with the government is primarily receiving social benefits. However, this is not the case due to the emerging practice of the submerged state. A submerged state is the existing policies that lay beneath the surface of U8. market institutions and within the federal tax system (2011, Miller, p. 4). The submerged state has led to citizens having little to no knowledge of how the government functions because of these social benefits being embedded in the tax code. With this in mind, this paper will discuss Mettler’s key points in The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, three takeaways from the books, how the submerged state hinder the advancement of social welfare and some specific recommendations and advocacy strategies I would employ to educate the general public about the benefits of the submerged …show more content…
For example, government officials tend to operate with the mindset of quid pro quo. Politicians are passing legislations on behalf of who is investing in their campaign instead of serving the interest of the population. Politicians must take the public needs into consideration and find ingenious ways to gain interest groups’ support while still managing to curtail their power in critical respects (Mettler, 2011, p. 114). If politicians were to passed legislation that benefit the population instead of various interest groups who are deeply rooted in their pocket, laws could be passed that would help the population. Instead, money played a major factor in how political campaign turns out and who will get elected which would create problems for fixing these types of

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