The main individual assignment is a theory paper based on your study of the classics and extensive literature review, which can be used to guide research design to address a major issue affecting public administration in your master’s thesis. Once you have identified such a major issue with specific questions and tentative answers based on your interest, experience, previous studies and literature review, your theory paper should focus on providing justification to your hypotheses (or causal models) for use in your Capstone or a major research project. The paper should be about the length of an article for a scholarly journal (at least 4,000 words including minimum of 15 references) to satisfy the requirement of a major writing project
