This government seminar focused on the ways in which the policy process is affected by elite politicians, the media, and the public, and to what extent a feedback loop exists among those three spheres.
The course culminated in a final paper analyzing a specific policy change that occurred, and how the media, the politicians, and the public made it happen. I wrote mine on California Proposition 16, a failed ballot measure aiming to reinstitute public affirmative action programs in the State of California. That essay can be found here.