• Evaluate the impacts of statist intervention and efforts to pursue "cosmic justice" on various public policy outcomes.
• Compare and contrast the merits of the Roman Catholic notion of subsidiarity and the Reformed perspective on covenant and sphere sovereignty as ways to reduce elitism and crony capitalism.
• Evaluate the above in light of Biblical principles of government and statesmanship.
• Connect concepts of "Statism, Subsidiarity, and Spere Sovereignty" to your identified academic and/or professional interest in public policy.