1. If you were the Secretary of the Department of Labor with the questions of regulation posed in the benzene case, what would you decide? How would you make the decision? How would you explain it to court reviewing it?
2. In what ways does the separation of powers affect administrative decision making? Does it promote the rational-comprehensive approach, incrementalism, or is it neutral?
3. Describe "ideal" street level administration from the traditional managerial, New Public Management, political, and legal prespectives. Which perspective most closely conforms with your idea of an "ideal" street level administrator?