A study of e-government initiatives in Canada by Ayert, for example, found that, "Each department valued its own information system, its own database, and its own information culture. Malevolence was not involved; rather, the systemic goal was perce Continue Reading...
Toward the end of the decade, Wall Street investment firms began hiring PhDs in mathematics and physics to create incredibly complex algorithms capable of modeling elements of the stock and futures markets. In most cases, the creators of these algor Continue Reading...
Leisure May Be the Death of Europe Economics Time to Kill In his article, Time to Kill - Europe and the Politics of Leisure, Steven Muller examines the efforts of Europe to reconstitute itself in the aftermath of the Cold War. By analyzing such fa Continue Reading...
Political Science Canada: Comparative Politics Canada, like any other nation suffered terribly from the effects of the global financial crisis. The economic impacts from Global Financial Crisis were resolved through Canada's political and provincia Continue Reading...
Community Leadership Excerpts from a Community Organizer's Tale (Mike Miller, 2009) The article by Miller is a classic and practical example of the daily challenges that organizations dealing with the community face on a day-to-day basis. It highli Continue Reading...
I believe that I am grounded and possess realistic perspective of my capabilities and limitations. Enemies may call me opinionated, friends may call me ambitious, but I believe that I am driven by a strong need to make a change in the world -- the w Continue Reading...
Live I live in a world where every day the headlines are filled with doom and gloom. In my world, a government doesn't blink at the idea of lying the country into war. And in my world there are politicians who take rewriting history to the level of Continue Reading...
Interconnectedness and Complexity Order Number Interconnectivity and Complexity Interconnectedness and Complexity Given the new challenges facing today's planners, the technical aspect of planning is becoming ever more dominant in my analysis. Thu Continue Reading...
Sociology Politics The Day of the Locust, Version 2009 "In December of 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research - the department responsible for categorizing our economic condition - finally acknowledged what most of Americans had known for Continue Reading...
Indeed, the reference to "institutional sclerosis" concerns the fact that virtually every conceivable interest in contemporary society is protected by a variety of laws that provide for extensive advising, participation and appeal procedures, a proc Continue Reading...
American Foreign Policy Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics -- Joseph S. Nye What are the strengths of Nye's arguments? By suggesting that a strategy of "soft power" (using America's substantial strength of influence, international Continue Reading...
The Liberal and Conservative parties are therefore in a battle to "out-do" each other, in terms of producing the most workable, viable and therefore, acceptable, policy towards these issues, at any given time during their time in office, or their el Continue Reading...
Proposed Stopgap Spending Bill Budgetary changes are common in the public administration field. Governments make budgetary changes as part of public governance based on various factors relating to serving the interests of the public. However, the pro Continue Reading...
American Revolution and Taxes There has always been an uneven and uncomfortable relationship among politicians, taxation, and the American people. The old saying, that death and taxes are the only certainties in life, remains nevertheless true. Taxa Continue Reading...
French Quebec Nationalism A major turning point in the history of Canada was the fall of Quebec which resulted in the transformation of a French colony into a British colony. Had it not happened, English would never have become the first language o Continue Reading...
That said, Goodhart believes that global governance, if pushed too far into sovereign nations' doings, can in fact undermine popular sovereignty as "a viable conception of democracy" but it is not doing that and in fact, in a globalized world that i Continue Reading...
During the last week of the Convention the delegates added a few refinements, raised some serious concerns, and discussed what they agreed to over the four months of deliberations. Mason expressed the wish that "the plan had been prefaced by a Bill Continue Reading...
Parties -- through their platforms, through their leaders, through their policies -- offer simple answers. Don't know what to think about abortion/gay rights/climate change? No need to worry. Just vote straight ticket. One can certainly see the app Continue Reading...
In other words, the power and the wealth could easily fall in the hand of the few privileged ones, and their rights would be better served, than those of the marginalized, powerless and poor population (Paribatra, 1999). 6. Conclusions and Recommen Continue Reading...
"Lingering concern persists about the incorporation of 10 mostly East European countries last year, which some feared would dilute EU prosperity" (Rice-Oxley 2005). When Turkey desired to join the EU, member nations questioned its ability to be inte Continue Reading...
Community Power and Social Distribution: A Debate Over Social Stratification and Elitism from Hunter Onwards Floyd Hunter was a sociologist whom identified himself as part of the early stages of a movement to enact greater systems of localized, comm Continue Reading...
Sustainability More About Politics Than Science? The environment is a word which refers to the natural effects around us including the atmosphere, seas and oceans, rocks and mountains, plants, ice formations, human beings, stars and several others. Continue Reading...
United Nations, the Unwanted Nobodies and this tells you much about its status in the world. The UN has been implicated in a good deal of corruption and scandal. It has been said to be political, to be bigoted, to evidence cowardice and fail its re Continue Reading...
Zimbabwe The PBS program entitled "Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies" discusses the major difficulties which are happening in present-day Zimbabwe under the rule of President Robert Mugabe. The man Robert Mugabe helped push Zimbabwe into a state of indepen Continue Reading...
Australia What steps did the Rudd government take to lessen the impact of the global financial crisis? Why do you believe they took these steps? The global financial crisis has had a profound impact on nations around the world. I applaud Rudd in hi Continue Reading...
Demo Obstacles Democratic Obstacles to Liberty: Evidence from the Occupy Protests Already a distant memory to most of the nation, if indeed they registered as more than the faintest blip on someone's field attention in the first place, the Occupy p Continue Reading...
Military/Industrial What is the military-industrial complex? Which president first expressed concern about this trend and why? Lately the world has seen an increase in conflict and war. This is because war and armed conflict is increasingly being u Continue Reading...
This notion usually applies to the idea that none of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial) assumes too much power in the democratic system. In this example, the idea of checks and balances was used to imply that the cit Continue Reading...
The contention that politics by innuendo, unethical conduct, and moral decay are somehow strictly modern phenomena is patently false. If anything, increased public scrutiny, partially made possible through new technologies, may make it more difficu Continue Reading...
org)"none of the men had actually served on the Swift boats that Mr. Kerry commanded." There is much more in the way of empirical evidence to show that this attack campaign was false, but the point is made that lies wrapped in glossy TV commercials d Continue Reading...
The economic divide is of primary concern because it has become a point of embittered debate. The average French citizen makes ten times that of the average North African immigrant. Industries such as hospitality and retail are almost completely clo Continue Reading...
2091). Today, the European Union is an international organization comprised of 25 European countries that governs common economic, social, and security policies. While it was originally restricted solely to the nations of Western Europe, the EU has Continue Reading...
California's Electoral System of Today -- No return to the New York Tammany! It would be tempting to view the defeat of the Tammany Hall Political Machine by the opponents of political corruption as the clear triumph of good over evil. But the victo Continue Reading...
Social and Political History How do the functionalist and conflict theories relate to the conceptualizations of government and sovereignty presented by Heywood? How much is enough government? What level of government do we need to get our collective Continue Reading...
Virtues and Liberalism For several decades, many politicians and professors have been promoting the belief that the fate of liberal democracy in America is correlated with the quality of citizens' character (Berkowitz, 1999). President George W. Bus Continue Reading...
Communism & Nationalism Communism Communism is a society without money (For Communism) 1, without a state, without property and without social classes. People come together to carry out a project or to respond to some need of the human communit Continue Reading...
Political chiefs (zucama) from a few powerful families dominated Shici politics into the 1960s and continued their control through extensive support networks. The authority of the zucama varied on their clients' support, but by the 1960s hundreds of Continue Reading...
Free Are American Media Events occur and become news, news circulate all around the globe. In early times it was almost impossible to convey these happening with in short period of time but with the advent of time technology grew exponentially and Continue Reading...
Drug Tests and Government Benefits Recently, there has been discussion regarding government benefits, such as unemployment. This discussion has focused on a new, potential requirement to receive benefits such as welfare: drug testing. People who are Continue Reading...
Public Private Comparator Public Sector Comparator (PSC) in the Public-private partnership (PPP) Process Increased global financial pressures have caused many government entities to cut costs in any way possible. One way is to outsource services or Continue Reading...
