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Administration and Public Sector Organizations

micromanagement cycle or procedural rules (Behn, 1995). Such rules, he points out, prevent public agencies and entities from movin...

Health Policy and the Role of Public Health Nurses

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

Greed in the Corporate Sector

to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...

Questions on U.S. Immigration Answered

racism to paint this ethnic group as being less than human and, therefore, worthy of exclusion from the US. 3. Why, according to ...

The Function of Unelected Officials in Policymaking

focus of interactions with interest groups, yielding, for the sake of simplicity, two possible approaches: a pragmatic focus and a...

Senior Citizens and Public Policy

forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...

Public Policy and Business Interests

Public policy is made primarily by elected officials who propose laws. In the White House for example, the president and cabinet m...

Public Policy Views Contrasted

is that policy formulation should employ a "craft" perspective. By "craft," these authors indicate the skillful application of a s...

Public Policies, Politics, and the Airline Industry

2002). What it comes down to between the airline industry and politics/public policies is the concept of economics: Because...

Public Policy and Compromise

Yet, there are ways to reconcile environmental protection with business interests. For example, environmental groups are highly ...

UK Contract Law's Doctrine of Intention

individual to get out of a contract, merely by saying I did not mean to create legal relations (McKendrick, 1998). It can also be ...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

Environment and Public Policy

States EPA 1997). During the past thirty-five years, there have been several amendments to the original Clean Air Act, including...

Public Policy, Strategic Advantages and Environmental Issues: Considering the Gulf War

side a clear winner, but with Iraq heavily in debt, a debt that Kuwait refused to forgive (Rushefsky, 2002). In addition, Iraq and...

Internet Censorship and Schools

get around filtering programs by proxy tunneling and this strategy must be taken into account and blocked (Losinski, 2007). On the...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

STEP CHILD CARE IN L.A. COUNTY: A PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS

the younger one under his/her wing. The articles premise, basically, is that leadership can be taught, so long as the pers...

The Traveling T-Shirt and Public Policy

This 4 page essay reviews the book "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy" by Rivoli and the effects of cotton on public ...

Risks and Opportunities in Public Health Provision

will have suitable clothing compared to areas that are not acclimatised that the lower temperatures (Sanders, 2010). Where severe ...

Health Care Policy Development and the Roles of Interest Groups and Public Opinion

ability to provide politicians with useful information to which they might not otherwise have access. By joining these groups tha...

Making Public Policy by Steven Kelman

In six pages this text by Steven Kelman is analyzed with views from other critics also considered. Three sources are cited in the...

Agendas Alternatives and Public Policies by John C. Kingdon

In three pages this text that discusses the development of policy proposals and the role played by political events are examined i...

The Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy by William J. Wilson

This sociological text by William J. Wilson is analyzed in a paper consisting of six pages. There are no other sources listed....

A Bakersfield Public Policy Case Study

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the 1970s case of Kern County is discussed as it relates to public administration. A grant for a...

Elite Theory and Understanding Public Policy by Thomas Dye

and without duress, and is competent. At least two physicians must agree that the patient is likely to die within six months. Th...

Public Policy and Health Care

In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...

Health Policies and Public Education Comparison

This paper consists of seven pages and compares Europe, Japan, and the United States in terms of their healthcare and education po...

Public, Policy, and Affirmative Action

This paper contains ten pages and considers the failure of the Affirmative Action program to effectively serve the public and incl...

Public Policy and Affirmative Action 2

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument that the policy of Affirmative Action is beneficial for society is presented. Th...