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Democracy and Public Administration

in fact, last summer when the governor of New Jersey appointed a "friend" to the position of state homeland security. The "friend"...

Similarities and Differences Between Private and Public Management

there are definitely similarities between public sector and private sector management on a basic level, on other levels, the diffe...

NYC Schools and Vouchers

about systemic change" (Domanico, 1993). Their idea was school choice, not vouchers (Domanico, 1993). The difference is that paren...

NEPA and the Political Climate That Led to its 1969 Passage

In seven pages this paper examines the passage of the National Environmental Protection Act from a public policy analytical perspe...

Frequency Spectrum Scarcity Theory

Spectrum Scarcity Theory. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is one negative reflection of the Frequency Spectrum Scarcity ...

'Uniforms in the Closet' by Jennifer Egan

This means that they are obliged to live a totally celibate life while serving, or participate in a loose "underground network" of...

NYC and Teen Curfew Implementation

other cities handling the problem? Curfew times in one particular county for example are that those who are 12 or under must be h...

Grandparents and Their Changing Role

and influence and that "alternative" family structures "spell the downfall of American youth" (2003, p. 471). While it is true tha...

Public Policy and Marketing Ethics

both of which are legal and sold in large quantities (Kotler, 2004). (Illegal drugs are also in this category but as theyre not f...

Anti Semitism History in the United States

such as France, actively participated and even facilitated the deportation of their Jewish citizens to death camps (Grobman, 2005)...

Administration and Public Sector Organizations

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

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 ...

UK Government Policies and Market Failure

If we look at the role of government and government failure we can look to the UK and the way public policy...

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...

Development of Social Work

p. 130). Figures from the early part of the century reveal that "50 to 66 percent of working families were poor and that a third ...

Private Housing and Social Housing Development Process Characteristics in the U.S. and Singapore

to enforce special rules called CC&Rs (covenants, conditions and restrictions) and to raise money through regular and special asse...

Public Policy and the Conspiracist

of conspiracist ideas resulted in the "political constituency that supports official investigations such as those of special prose...

Decreasing Low Birth Weights and Decreasing Infant Mortality

the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...

The Year 2050 and The Greenhouse Effect

moment, the indications are far more likely for a bleak future. Ironically, it was roughly one year before the Antarctic ice shel...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

Childhood Obesity and Public Policy

issues on that front? First, it should be said that although the government does have policy on health related issues, some compl...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

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 ...

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...

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...

Views on Affirmative Action

that this job was "whisked away and handed to an unqualified black" (i.e., Wilkins) (Wilkins 639). On checking out this story, Wil...