999 Search Results for Government Intervention and Public Policy
The Justification of Government Commerce and Trade Regulation
When viewed from the micro level, it is easy to understand why government regulation and exercise of authority over jobs, wages, industry practices, and the importation and exportation Continue Reading...
" (Assessing, Selecting, and Implementing Instruments for Government Action, 2007) Questions that must be asked are those as follows: (1) Is the issue one where government can act alone? (2) Is the issue one where external actors can act alone with s Continue Reading...
S. General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates' in 1991 stated that nearly 30% of those incarcerated had used drugs daily in the month before committing the offense for which they were in prison. By the year 2003 there were approximately 6.9 million in Continue Reading...
Public Policy and Health
Increasing premium costs for managed care have considerable influence for America's workforce. The rise in the financial burden on the workforce to contribute to their health care plans to assist offset increasing premiums p Continue Reading...
British policy style?
As one begins to consider British policy, both foreign and domestic, one conjures pictures of the Queen-mother and her regal adherence to British tradition. In this way the Queen-mother stands as an icon of everything that is 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...
government intervention through examining the meaning of market failure, reasons the market under-produces public goods, how externalities result in distortion of market outcomes, how market power prevents optimal results, and policy options for gov Continue Reading...
Public Schools vs. Private Schools - Culturally appropriate education
Review of the literature
Education and culture
Teaching dispositions
Outmoded educational model
Would vo-tech be a better public school goal?
Developing the person instead of Continue Reading...
Black Women in White Male Industries
Revise and Resubmit
You have chosen in this paper a topic that has both national and international significance. How indeed inclusive, fair, and just are so called "inclusion or set-aside" initiatives? How open Continue Reading...
countries impose barriers to stop or hinder the import of cultural products (film, movies, etc.) or offer subsidies to promote their production and distribution
"This memo is in response to your request for input regarding the debate of whether cou Continue Reading...
Government intervention can also extend to public goods that cause the private-decision rule to fail in terms of the efficiency rule.
According to Julianle Grand (1991, p. 426), externalities are the focus of market failure, in that they focus on a Continue Reading...
They see alternatives and their consequences as costlier and pay very little attention to them. Rationality exists less in public than in private organizations. A public agency's ends often compromise incompatible interests and neither occasionally Continue Reading...
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The work of Crenshaw (1981) makes the suggestion that the occurrence of terrorism is most likely where the masses are passive and:
elite dissatisfaction coincides; when discontent is not generalized or serious enough to provoke the Continue Reading...
Public Policy in DemocraciesThis saying, attributed to Thomas Jefferson, represents a certain philosophy. Explain.According to Volokh (2017), this phrase, often attributed to Thomas Jefferson emanated, is commonly associated with Henry Thoreau in his Continue Reading...
Canada Public Policy: ADHD and Education
Canadian Public Policy, Education Learning disability A.D.H.D
Struggle by Human Rights Groups and Parents
Public Policy Canada: An Overview
Policy Implications
It has been estimated that almost five perce Continue Reading...
Tobacco industry has seen significant government intervention since at least the New Deal. Tobacco farmers have typically received subsidies for their crops and the benefits of marijuana prohibition but in more decent decades they have also faced inc Continue Reading...
Mandatory Sentencing
Public policy, crime, and criminal justice
Mandatory Sentencing: Case Study Critique
The prime grounds of mandatory sentencing laws are utilitarian. The laws come with long prison sentences for recidivists, drug dealers and is Continue Reading...
Regulation and Deregulation
Prior to the 19th century, most people would have voiced their support for the "concept of laissez-faire, a doctrine opposing government interference in the economy, except in" the maintenance of law and order (U.S. Depar Continue Reading...
Ethics and Public Policy
Ethical Dilemma
This paper discusses the application of the major ethical theories of consequentialism (utilitarianism), deontology, and virtue ethics to a specific policy question, namely how to improve the nutrition of th Continue Reading...
Abstract
This paper looks at the public policy of R2P and humanitarian intervention abroad, which serves as a major drain on American resources and benefits a foreign country more than it does the U.S. The money spent on these wars waged under the ba Continue Reading...
Monopolies and Trusts:
Appropriate Areas for Government Intervention?
Capitalism is the economic system that has dominated the United States virtually since the day of its independence. A social and economic system based on the recognition of indiv Continue Reading...
Introduction
Since 1986, the World Health Organization has promoted a Healthy Communities/Healthy Cities initiative, also known as the Alliance for Healthy Cities, with hundreds of participating municipalities across the world (Hancock, 1993; World Continue Reading...
Government Role in Health Care Policy
Describe the characteristics of the uninsured? Additionally, why are concentrated interests and diffuse costs important when predicting legislative outcomes?
The uninsured are usually less wealthy, less healthy 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...
A micro considers the interests and rights of the individual company as the primary concern. Both of these views are valid depending on the lens that one wishes to use. The problem arises when the government is forced to develop policies regarding p Continue Reading...
Government Subsidized Student Loans Have Economic Costs but Political Benefits
Higher education has become increasingly important in the contemporary world scenario today where globalization has led to a higher need for a skilled labor force that is Continue Reading...
Patton (1990) identifies six steps for policy analysis. Firstly, we must verify and define the details of the problem. This initial step ensures that objectives are clarified and any ambiguity resolved. Secondly, the evaluation criteria are created Continue Reading...
Public Sector Unions
Public-Sector Unions in United States
HISTORY OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS
COSTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS OVER THEIR BENEFITS
DEMOGRAPHICS OF LABOR IN AMERICA
EDGE OF PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS OVER PRIVATE ONES
THE HIDDEN COSTS OF PUB Continue Reading...
Petersburg, would not discuss in detail SRI's other work for agencies such as Special Operations Command, but said he hopes this work eventually will amount to a $36.5-million Navy contract. U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-St. Petersburg, who has used his c Continue Reading...
Government Role
Renewable energy and sustainable development
Why Australian Government should lead the initiative?
Governmental initiatives
Supply side interventions: Rebates and feed-in tariffs
Renewable energy is derived from sources that are Continue Reading...
" (Bissessar, nd) the evidence showed, however "that the choice of 'new' methods of management had become a regional fad. Indeed the universality of NPM could not be disputed." (Bissessar, nd) New Public Management had been introduced in many countri Continue Reading...
Public Health
The rate of Caesarian sections has skyrocketed in recent decades in the United States, placing it far ahead of other industrialized nations.
Historical overview of C-section rates in the U.S.
Breakdown of C-section rates by race and Continue Reading...
It relies on the vision of the state you choose to subscribe and it depends upon the costs and benefits of a few highly imperfect social institutions: market trends and the public sector. (Bovaird, Loffler, 2003, p. 25) The public sector is a ubiqui Continue Reading...
Public Administration vs. Private Personnel Administration
Theories of public personnel administration as compared with private personnel administration have arose in recent decades as a result of the emergence of trends in business management. Publ Continue Reading...
social policy and economic policy?
Social policy refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that concern the way that humans live and interact. According to the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University it refe Continue Reading...
Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve ("the Fed") is responsible for formulating and implementing the nation's monetary policy. Monetary policy is government actions to increase or decrease the money supply and change banking r Continue Reading...
Some position papers are too open-ended to become white papers because position paper can mean "We believe x," and nothing else. A white paper means "We believe x and therefore we recommend y and z." A writer would transform an open-ended position Continue Reading...
Dyslexia as a Specific Learning Disability
Classified under the broader rubric of specific learning disabilities, dyslexia is a severe reading disability known to have a neurological basis (Taylor, Smiley & Richards, 2009, p. 92). Because reading Continue Reading...
Big Brother Watches America
When Orson Wells wrote his famous novel about government surveillance taken to the extreme, the world he described seemed very unrealistic. However, at the turn of the new millenium, the world that he describes is not so Continue Reading...