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Marijuana Policy

This research paper/essay presents an overview of the issues pertaining to current marijuana policy, both in the US and aboard. Th...

Urban and Public Policy Evaluation

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at urban and public policy. Impact evaluations are carried out with an emphasis on res...

Public Policy and Religion, Morality, Worldview

This essay considers how public policy is affected by religion, morality and worldview. Three pages in length, four sources are ci...

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...

Policy Recommendations for Community Policing

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at community policing. A review of public opinion and statistical data is used to genera...

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...

Administration and Public Sector Organizations

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

American Criminal Justice Policy and 'On the Waterfront'

Malden), the movie offers viewers a glimpse into the underworld dealings of crooked unions and the infiltration or organized crime...

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 ...

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...

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...

Overview of Public Sector Organizations

In three pages this paper defines the public sector and its role in a consideration of various organizations....

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...

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...

Making Policy and Lance Leloup and Steven Shull's The President and Congress

These factors apply to both the President and Congress and are influential in the decisions they reach. Later examples will highl...

Public Policy Implementation Methods

zero intervention are the voluntary instruments with the compulsory instruments at the opposite end of the scale and mixed instrum...

United Kingdom's Public Services and Voluntary Sector's Changing Role

the level and commitment of government. For example, Cush?man, Lowi, and Dahl and Lindblom who made very broad generalisations and...

Pharmaceutical Industry and European Think Tanks

care issues will explore the relationship between European think tanks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies, specificall...

U.S. Miltary Public and American Foreign Policy

There is no question that a significant number of tax dollars have been used to militarize the Middle East, in addition to the pay...

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...

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...

UK's Doctrine of Adverse Possession and Whether or Not It is Justified

In effect it was assumed that where the scenario for adverse possession arouse the title owner had abandoned or dispossessed the l...

Public Policy Views Contrasted

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

Global Poverty

so that greater benefits are transferred to the developing country....

Suffering in Crime and Punishment

Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

Refocusing Housing Public Policy: An Environmental Impact Study

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

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...