The Sources Of Public Policy
.... and administrative agencies, for they extend and apply the statutory law in greater detail.
4- Budgets of all governments, for they set the levels and objectives of spending as well as the amounts and sources of revenue.
b. Another key source of public policy is international relations:
Some policies cross national borders, taking the form of treaties and less formal working agreements between governments.
Ex: American relations with other countries and with private foreign enterprises. Making and adjusting such policies require negotiations with those governments, and will shape domestic policies in such as labor .....
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The FBI And Its History
.... kidnapping statute. In 1934, numerous other federal criminal statutes were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms.
The FBI's size and jurisdiction during World War II increased greatly and included intelligence matters in South America. With the end of that war and the advent of the Atomic Age, the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House and other government agencies, as well as probes into internal security matters for the Executive Branch.
Civil rights and organized crime became major concerns of the FBI in the 1960s, as did counte .....
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Is The Prime Minister Too Powerful?
.... PM could be described as 'primus inter pares' - first amongst equals - because, although he was the leading memberof the Government and its chief spokesman, it was the Cabinet rather than the PM that dominated the decision-making process.
Almost 100 years later, when Richard Crossman edited 'The English Constitution' and wrote its Foreword, he was able to state that the doctrine of Cabinet Government had itself been replaced by one of Prime Ministerial Government. Later in his 'Diaries', Crossman was able to develop his original theory that the PM dominated the decision-making process.
The PM's powers have grown over t .....
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Articles Of Confederation
.... delegates from each state; each state had one vote, according to its size or population. No executive or judicial branches were provided for. Congress was charged with responsibility for conducting foreign relations, declaring war or peace, maintaining an army and navy, settling boundary disputes, establishing and maintaining a postal service, and various lesser functions. Some of these responsibilities were shared with the states, and in one way or another Congress was dependent upon the cooperation of the states for carrying out any of them.
Four visible weaknesses of the articles, apart from those of organizat .....
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Solidarity-A New Hope Of Breaking Communist Ruling
.... it happened Polish people were rejecting it, even if it meant creating the use of violence by the government (Brown 158). In June of 1976, the prime minister of Poland whose name was Gierek, was trying to raise the prices on basic foodstuffs. The increase of prices was necessary because the government was spending more on food subsidies than ever before, and the disproportion between the money in circulation and the consumer goods available had grown. The action to increase the prices was one of the worst moves performed by Gierek. Right after the unexpected 60 percent price increase, immediate strikes started to take place t .....
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The Effectiveness Of Local Crime Prevention Funding
.... job done. Those tools include adequate funding for program evaluation, and a structure of federal program funding that permits controlled testing of crime prevention effectiveness.
In order for Congress to learn whether DOJ programs are effective, it must provide a more balanced approach to program funding and evaluation. The latter cannot be accomplished without some small compromise in the principle of State and local control over how most of the federal funding is spent. While this principle may have many merits for the federal support of State and local operations, it is a roadblock to federal production of sound guidan .....
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Government Intervention Of The Internet
.... banning techniques that could eliminate the need for regulation. Censorship of the Internet threatens to destroy its freelance atmosphere, while wide spread encryption could help prevent the need for government intervention.
The Internet differs from broadcasting media in that one cannot just happen upon a vulgar site without first entering a complicated address, or following a link from another source. “The Internet is much more like going into a bookstore and choosing to look at an adult magazines.”(Miller 75).
Jim Exon, a democratic senator from Nebraska, wants to pass a decency bill regulating the Internet. If the bil .....
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Nationalism: Art Of 19th Century
.... Such countries as France, Germany and Italy were all experiencing nationalism through people and government. "Liberty leading the people" (by Delacroix) reveals the feeling of freedom and fight for the country. People killing others, lead by one thing liberty (nationalism) in order to make their country proud. Many people were killed in this ordeal, but to die in such way was considered an honor. Artists showed the pride of the people who were to be killed, standing up for freedom and glory. "The Shootings of May 3, 1808" by Goya show the soldiers killing the revolutionaries. One man is standing in the middle in white wit .....
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Campaigning
.... today do not have the initiative to research a candidate's platform or his prefence on issues. Jim McKay was eventually elected with no political experience but was elected based on his good looks and communication skills. In the most recent presidential election between the incumbent Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, one of the main reasons Dole did not win the election was because of his appearance. Dole was over seventy years old and the public voters did not see this as an advantage. Neither did Dole possess the charisma like that of Clinton.
McKay runs as a democratic nominee on the issues that he feels are important to so .....
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Theodore Roosevelt's Impact On The Presidency
.... hunter, crime fighter, reformer, and cavalryman. His active and colorful lifestyle made him famous the world over. He was given his initials, TR, to identify himself. Born into a wealthy family in New York, TR was raised to be a leader. TR was very studious. In 1876 he entered Harvard College, where he became increasingly interested in history. After graduation, TR married Alice Hathway Lee and began to study law. On one tragic day in February 1884, TR lost both his wife, who died in childbirth, and his mother, who died of typhoid. After moving west to run away from these horrible deaths, he started work on his most importan .....
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Federalist And Anti-Federalist Views
.... to have struck a chord more influential in the minds of the citizens. This not only because their attempts to rally a political consensus on their behalf seemed to have been a step ahead as well as more organized, but possibly more so because the Anti-Federalists failed to substantially prove that small republics were better able to sustain individual liberties than were large republics.
The Anti-Federalists were defiantly opposed to any ratification of the Constitution. Supporting this view were several different authors who composed stringent papers that reflected the Anti-Federalist belief; however, because of the int .....
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Leading By Example: Drugs And The Presidency
.... broadcast to other countries. This should concern you, the reader, because the president’s image is all some foreigners know of our country. For instance, consider the disgrace brought upon the United States by the President Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal. This issue was the primary focus of the news for months. Although that scandal was not drug related, it still represents the type of distraction created when a leading media figure dabbles in immoral acts. There’s no doubt that citizens and leaders of other countries were appalled at the fact that our leader had lied to the country about his personal involvement’s. In this .....
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