Political Science Politics can very well be defined as the study of who gets what, when and how? The principal reason for such a definition is that politics conflicts between the demands for certain satisfaction and this conflict contributes to the Continue Reading...
Political action in representative republics has been defined over the course of the last several hundred years by the interpretation of classical and enlightenment principles. Among them are liberty, equality, and justice. These principles, deemed " Continue Reading...
John Stuart Mill's concept of liberty professes to be liberal but ends up with a distinctly 'non-liberal' feel when analysing the details. This paper endeavours to define exactly what Mills' notion of liberty is and how it should be regulated by stud Continue Reading...
Public Relations Introduction: Public Safety The aim of the public safety sector is the provision of products and services geared at safeguarding individuals and their property. Over 286,000 individuals are employed in this sector, which can be segre Continue Reading...
Iron Triangle Public policy in America can be neatly visualized with the Iron Triangle, in which government, special interest groups, and the bureaucratic systems interact. Congressional committees, special interest groups, and bureaucracies are the Continue Reading...
Indigenous populations in Republican Rome (ca. 500 BCE -- 31 BCE) Citizenship in colonial era IV Comparison and Contrast The issues citizenship of indigenous populations in the Roman Republic and during the colonial era in Europe provides comprehe Continue Reading...
Senator Rodney Ellis Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis, a Democrat representing District 13 in Houston, has been a member of the Senate since 1990. He graduated from Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Arts; he received his M.P.A. (Master of Continue Reading...
Philosophy of Public Administration Policy Making Process Policymaking is the act of making laws or setting principles for a business or a government. The process includes the essentials of agenda setting, decision making, implementation of the pol Continue Reading...
Door Politics Politics is a lucrative business, as the federal government is constantly handling billions of dollars, and making big decisions that have implications for dozens of industries across the country. It is no wonder, then, that politicia Continue Reading...
Power Struggle, it would not be wrong to say, is one of the oldest struggles in the world. It has continued through centuries, however the tactics might have been changed. But the end result, the desire is always the same, and that is to be on the a Continue Reading...
Its Scripture-based tradition holds that a man cannot serve God and wealth at the same time. It strikes a fair balance between present abundance and need. All nationalities and origins become one in Christ Jesus. All believers would sell their posse Continue Reading...
Ohio's Senate Bill #5 -- a Good Idea When first-term Ohio Governor John Kasich signed Senate Bill 5 into law on March 31, 2011, he was doing what he thought was best to help his state deal with an estimated $8 billion budget deficit. But he was also Continue Reading...
One of Kilby's contentions, however, was that Australia's hypothesis that increased economic growth would result to poverty reduction is a framework that is not responsive to the realities of poor, developing countries, which are almost always the r Continue Reading...
It gives the government the ability to enforce its own cultural and legal norms on others without public objection. This is the key argument that Brown makes throughout the body of the work. Tolerance protects the beliefs and ideas of others, yet at Continue Reading...
Another point of interest for the Congressman is the issue of the environment. The district he is representing deals with a lot of environmental challenges related to the condition of the ports, of the waters and the living creatures present there. Continue Reading...
One of the most crucial areas that they have helped develop is the integration of Asian development into the world arena. The current explosion of economic growth and social change within Asia has had a profound affect on world politics; Annan has b Continue Reading...
nature of consensus. This is a process through which a group of people can reach a common agreement on a course of action. It is important to note that the entire group comes to an agreed course of action. Here the ideas and contribution from all pa Continue Reading...
John Locke, who was a near descendant of Hobbes, differed most strongly in his political opinions and indicated that the 'state of nature' of which Hobbes talked would be preferable to having a sovereign government or absolute ruler and therefore b Continue Reading...
France and Poland: A Study in Contrasts France and Poland: Study in Contrasts Few countries in Europe have such widely differing modern histories as France and Poland. Both began the modern era as ancient Catholic monarchies. Each nation covered a Continue Reading...
Introduction The 911 attacks in New York City triggered a paradigm shift in how acts of violence as well as catastrophes were viewed in the US. It became apparent that dealing with these vices is relevant and should not be taken lightly. One year fol Continue Reading...
By the stipulation that a prince ought to surrender his territories if he altered his faith an obstruction was positioned in the manner of an additional increase of the Reformation. The announcement that all objections or rejections by whoever decla Continue Reading...
The technological and otherwise evolutions of the 1970s decade are linked to the Cold War "fought" between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But by 1980, the vision of an American nation united by the same po Continue Reading...
S. Congressman or U.S. Senator or possibly as State Governor. The information gained in the course of the interviews in this study is important and specifically reflects the considerations of the individual in any of the aforementioned capacities in Continue Reading...
'Squatter' families on public lands were also often ignored, giving peasants another means of survival. However, when railways began to be rapidly snake across the nation, the potential for making profits off of the land seismically increased. From Continue Reading...
While the system is not exactly the same as that described in We, the result is much more dramatic, since a far greater number of Americans are disenfranchised. As I mentioned above, We was not the first dystopian work that I encountered. However, Continue Reading...
The historical problems associated with upholding the treaties centers on the Canadian legal systems confused view of them -- it is not clear whether the treaties amounted to legally binding contracts with the established Canadian government or not Continue Reading...
In traditional terms lobbying represents a democratic means of expressing the legitimate interest in a certain affair that is the matter of debate on the legislative forum. Groups of interests and businessmen have the right to support their interes Continue Reading...
Features of Modern / Post-Modern Period Most historians term the era after the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, i.e., after the mid-18th century as the Modern Period in history; a period that has seen tremendous changes in politics, science Continue Reading...
Iraq War: Humanitarian Intervention? No news item garners more interest and more debate today in America and around the world than the impending second war against Iraq. President George Bush led a coalition in a war against Iraq over a decade ago Continue Reading...
The private security industry will become generalists in the next century. The industry must be well versed in a number of disciplines. It must base its operations and decisions on demographic and economic trends, and rapid technological changes. Tra Continue Reading...
Party Machines and Immigrants For more than a century, party machines dominated the political process in many parts of the United States where William "Boss" Tweed and his Tammany Hall henchmen and their ilk controlled the outcomes of elections in m Continue Reading...
Jacksonian Democracy and the "Common Man" Jacksonian politics of the first half of the nineteenth century became a battle for the common man. For the first time in American history voting rights extended to most all white males; rather than relegate Continue Reading...
He would sometimes be wheel chaired to the door through which he would enter to make a public appearance, but once at the door, his leg braces would be put on him, and he would rely on his son's arm for support and balance (43-48). Later, with his s Continue Reading...
576). He proved to be an astute campaigner for the nomination in 1960, particularly in his use of television, most notably in a decisive debate against Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy selected Lyndon B. Johnson from Texas as his runn Continue Reading...
" While the editor of the Tribune must acknowledge the need to maintain peace and order in the city of Chicago, he or she fails to credit the labor movement with championing the rights of workers and for denouncing endemic inequality. Nevertheless, t Continue Reading...
African Wildlife Federation: Function, Purpose, and Methods When most people think of "special interest groups," they immediately call to mind their negative connotations -- sneaky, manipulative, perhaps "buying off" politicians I order to further Continue Reading...
Evolution of South Korea's Politics And Economy South Korea (official name: Republic of Korea) was proclaimed as a separate country in 1948 following World War II and the partitioning of the Korean peninsula between the occupying forces of the Unite Continue Reading...
Why are tribunals very important among two or more countries? If a nation is involved in claims with another nation, the question of how far each nation respects the independent sovereignty of the other and the integrity of its own judicial system ar Continue Reading...
