Essays on Coalitions

Part 1

Of the many borrowed principles which are currently in use in the professional nursing world, the social exchange theory has proved to be very crucial as regards to the relationships which care providers have with their patients. The stability of relationships between different persons in the society is based on the interactions which they have amongst themselves. Furthermore, the benefits which an individual stands to gain from their relationships are what make them enter into coalitions (Cook et al., 2013). A balance in the relationships between different parties is the primary goal for people forming such coalitions. The core ...

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

Introduction

Riverside County has registered an increase in tobacco use over the previous one decade with the department of public health expressing its grave concerns on its effects to the community. The infamous electronic cigarette is the bond of contention due to its increased use even by the underaged who find it convenient as its symptoms are not easily noted. The adults, however, remain the most affected with most efforts getting futile so far. The smoking issue was marked as critical at the time when the National Institute on Drug Abuse raised the alarm on the increased public smoking habits ...

The Implementation of the IOM Plan in the Field of Nursing

The field of Nursing reveals a summative view of future of development with the documentation of this report. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine authored the comprehensive and innovative report entitled The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (Altman, et al., 2015). This report is a response in some respect to changes in nursing which also came with the Affordable Care Act, and concerns for the protection of patients (Altman, et al., 2015). The report includes ten recommendations that effect the nursing industry, diversity in nursing, cultural awareness, and many other factors (Altman, et al., 2015). This report ...

Impact of the RWJ IOM report in New York State

The role that nurses play in ensuring that the needs of patients have been satisfactorily addressed cannot be understated. These are the individuals ensure that only the best in terms of care, medically, spiritually; mentally ands physically has been achieved. It is important that workable strategies be put in place to assist in achieving these outcomes on patients. A key element that has to be taken into consideration is by ensuring that customized form of care is created to address the needs of each specific patient. To oversee such an objective, nurses play a significant role in improving the ...

In most cases, health issues are usually too complex for individual advocacy. In such cases, healthcare practitioners see it effective to establish a coalition to help in advancing policies and practices. This paper discusses the idea behind coalition building from a nursing perspective. It further differentiates effective strategies of coalition building that serve as vital in shaping health policy in nursing practice environments. Contemporary nurses practice in a period of major health care reforms. Such situations require nurses with the ability to influence both political and professional entities. These efforts would call for effective coalition-building strategies. Coalitions are temporary ...

The complex healthcare system has faced a range of challenges over the past. In this regard, the most affected group of healthcare providers in the industry are nurses. According to the Institute of Medicine (2010), nurses represent the biggest segment of providers in the healthcare industry, totaling to more than 3 million practicing nurses. In this regard, the complexities and barriers existing in the system hinder the effective performance of nurses in healthcare delivery to the population. In an effort to improve the quality of healthcare, the government, through the 2010 Affordable Care Act, aimed to introduce drastic changes, ...

The general assembly of UN approved an arrangement for dividing Palestine in 1947, which offered a chance for the establishment of Jewish State, as well as Arab State and Jerusalem, left under worldwide status. The Jewish and the Arab States rejected such an arrangement. The United Kingdom dropped its mandate or control on Palestine, which led to the proclamation of Israel state. As a result, the Palestinians with the help of Arab States declared war on Israel (Koops et al., 2015). Israel also fought many wars with other states; however, this paper focuses on factors causing internal conflicts within ...

Introduction

It is important for human beings to make good use of the market forces while at the same time regulating and modifying our natural reliance on it to be able to secure the environmental and social values. However, this has not been the case over the years as companies and international corporations went ahead to violate environmental and human protection rights. Organizations and businesses have a responsibility of ensuring that they protect the environment from destruction while at the same time adhering to the human protection laws and principles. In regards to the above information, the paper answers questions ...

So long as the dynamics of international relations are changing, then the complexities of domestic politics will continue to change. While there are many trends in the evolution of comparative politics, one of the most far reaching concerns the potential consequences of the dissolution of the European Union, or, at the very least, the continued erosion of its political solidarity. I believe this issue will have drastic consequences for the next five years of comparative politics for three reasons: firstly, that the EU is a major political actor and any changes in the EU will have international consequences; secondly, ...

General background

The western supremacy which has persisted for the past two hundred years is slowly depreciating due to the shift of power towards the eastern region. The western states are losing the authority to sustain a multilateral order based on the set rules. In 2008 during the wake of great brash, the G20 leaders took initiative steps to reinforce the multilateral order, which included the reinforcement of the IMF and the World Bank governance. This was to reflect an increasing weight of the economy of the developing countries. It will be shown that the reforms at the IMF and the ...

INTRODUCTION

With starkly different cultures and histories, the two countries have been recently pitted against each other regarding issues of austerity following the credit crises. This essay will attempt to evaluate and analyze the two countries’ electoral systems. In this endeavour, the text will attempt to confirm how each system addresses the issues of proportionality, representation of religious and ethnic minorities, durability and accountability. The essay is divided as follows. First is a theoretical discussion of electoral systems followed by a brief analysis of the two electoral systems in questions. Then a comparative analysis will attempt to classify the two ...

Introduction

Nowadays, the rise of women empowerment has provided a huge lift towards the promotion of gender equality and independence. For the past several decades, men are always considered as more dominant human beings. They hold political power, provide the basic necessities for the family, and are able to handle certain issues at work with ease and confidence. They are even much stronger and tougher than women in terms of their physical attributes. Nonetheless, the mark of their liberation and equal human rights has provided each and every woman a glimpse on how to act and be equally related with ...

Multi-party System in Egypt

Introduction A discussion on party systems is based on the distinctions that exist between dominant one-party, two-party, and multiparty systems. Party families such as socialist, Christian democrat, agrarian, liberal, conservative, regional and ethnic parties, and other new parties characterize democracies of the world (Deth and Newton 276). Party systems have similar features as party families because they are based on the social and economic structure of society. Party systems such as two-part system, multi-party system, dominant one-party system exist as part of party families (Deth and Newton 276). Multi-party systems are evident in countries where governance is based on ...

Today many firms have resorted to the use of multichannel marketing in order to reach their target markets better. The integrated use of the hybrid distribution strategy can improve the adaptability of the company to the changing needs of buyers (Webb and Hogan 338). Typically, companies who make use of this new emergent trend are able to combine Internet resources, such as websites, webstores, mail orders, etc., into their marketing campaign. This form of multichannel distribution allows firms with different product lines to target their potential customers more effectively. However, in order to ensure that the whole system works ...

Will Restricting Emissions Damage the Economy?

Will Restricting Emissions Damage the Economy? Restricting emissions will not damage the economy. I most agree with Aaron Ezroj that emissions will have no damaging effects to the economy. Paul Cicio and Aaron Ezroj have differing opinions concerning the effects of emissions on the economy. Whereas Cicio suggests that emissions will have damaging effects on the economy, Ezroj disagrees by suggesting that the emissions will not damage the economy. Cicio argues that the capping of the greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector will have negative effects on jobs and investments, and increase the imports. He argues that ...

Question One: Public Budgeting

The budgeting process goes through different stages. It goes through five strands namely the decision making, revenues, processes, balance and implementation. In all these process, Rubin asserts that the chief tension would often be between public accountability and public acceptability. While public accountability refers to the implementation of the budget through expenditure as agreed in the budget, public acceptability refers to the concept of incurring expenditure as per the wishes of the people, that is, the taxpayers. However, the budget process is complex and complicated making the interface between public acceptability and public accountability uneasy. It is on that ...

Introduction

Smoking is universally accepted as one of the main problems affecting the modern society. This is a problem which does not come from nature. This is a problem which is created by us. Smoking is an activity which is voluntarily taken up by people of different ages, races, caste, creed and religion in full knowledge of its harmful effect. This not only affects the person who smokes but also indirectly affects the person nearby. Smoking is a source of an array of health hazards including cancer, respiratory problems and cardiovascular diseases. Smoking during pregnancy can cause serious birth defects in a child. This ...

The need to have to have an international body that addresses the issues of nations, led to the formation of international bodies like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (Chasek et al., 2012). However, the formation of these bodies would not have been successful without the engagement of multilateral negotiations. The term multilateral negotiations, refers to any dialogue that is conducted simultaneously by many nations, usually under the auspices of an organization. It is through multilateral negotiations that has facilitated the establishment of international bodies whose main objectives are to address issues affecting member states. However, effective ...

Question 1.

The strict father model and the nurturant parent models are two paradigms suggested by the political thinker George Lakoff. If one views the government as the parent of the family-nation, then the strict father model is a metaphor for conservative politics.

There are several tenets that undergird the strict father model. One is that children gain knowledge through a system of rewards and punishments, also known as operant conditioning. Another is that strict parents yield children who are more self-disciplined and more self-reliant. The third is that the father’s job is to deliver rewards for “good” behavior and negative ...

Partisan Polarization in United States

Introduction This paper will support the ideology, that political partisan polarization in the United States, usually causes inefficiently and uncertainty in policy making. Not only because of the unusual significant levels of ideological polarization, among lawmakers or voters that produce very large variance in policy making. Reasonably, the problem of extreme gridlock in a unique form of two presidential party democracy in which the status quo changes frequently thus, requiring defections from the opposing members of legislation (Lawrence, 2010). This study paper will evaluate the argument that it is hard to achieve these defections, not because of the increased ...

Introduction

Contemporary studies view parties as alliances of politicians whose ultimate objective is to win electoral office. Parties make promises on behalf of their candidates about what they will do if elected, and help improve chances of reelection for incumbents through their records of implementing their programs (Bawn et al. 571). It is plain to see how these parties might serve democracy. Citizens can give more effective direction to government by voting for a party instead of an individual. They create an incentive for responsible governance by holding an entire party rather than a single politician accountable for government actions (Bawn et ...

Coalition involves the temporary partnership or alliances formed in order to enable people achieve their similar or share goals and objectives. The parties with similar values come together in order to achieve various goals and objective jointly. The aspects of coalition building are brought out well where the three political parties come together in order to form a coalition with the aim of campaigning for elections jointly as well as serving the interests of the people jointly. The issue where this coalition is formed is the political influence and forces. The similar political issues and goals of the political parties ...

DEFINITION OF SUSBSTABCE ABUSE.

Different people use different substances such as alcohol, tobacco, or drugs for complicated and varied reasons. The level of use of these substances causes substance abuse. Substance abuse refers to a harmful pattern of using any substance or drug against its prescription for alteration of moods. Abused substances intoxicate the users leading to alteration of judgments, lack of physical control, reduced attention, or development of different perceptions (Freeman 2001, pp. 63). This impacts on their performance either at school, work place or home. Substance abuse relates to suffering of many relationships, having trouble with the law, or loss of lives. ...

Complexity science is the investigation of complex adjustable frameworks, "the numerous patterns of relationships inside them, how they are supported, how they self-compose, and how results develop" (Zimmerman 2001). Complex adjustable frameworks are densely joined networks of co-operating agents who acclimate by changing their principles, and subsequently their conduct, as they increase experience. Specialists have been creating multifaceted nature based public health and health care administration devices, and methods drawing on a bigger literature of many-sided quality based organizational administration hypothesis. Complexity science is still in its early stages, and is multi-faceted, reflecting distinctive roads of study. The avenue ...

Short Answer Questions

1. Minority nationalism is a phenomenon that exists in minority communities within larger, more homogenous populations. For instance, in China, most of the population is Han Chinese, but the minority groups are very cloistered and self-contained. These types of groups can also be seen in the United States and Europe, within cities or countries that have relatively sequestered minority populations (Bale 2013). In places where there is a large majority population and a number of smaller, less well-represented populations, minority nationalism is a form of self-defensive nationalism (Bale 2013). In countries where democratic parties are often split down ethnic or cultural lines, ...

Article review

As we have witnessed in the institutions that include the schools, businesses, hospitals work place and government agencies, there differences in the way we perceive race, gender and class. I concur with the writer that social institutions are mostly controlled by white elites. The symbolic dimension comprises of the use of stereotyping and image control in description of diverse class, race, and gender. The masculine are considered to be aggressive, leaders, intellectual rational and strong as opposed to the passive, follower, emotional, and week feminine. Aggressive black and the Hispanic are not expected to show such behaviors although, are masculine. ...

In Biofuels Data and Social Accounting Matrices Prepared for Policy Assessment Models based on the GTAP 7 Data Base, Xin Zhou and Satoshi Kojima argue that “liquid biofuels have a potential to contribute to a wide range of policy objectives” playing a crucial role in the mitigation of GHG emissions. Their comprehensive economic and environmental report outlines the development of global biofuels benefits in terms of considering the “foreign exchange savings by reducing the volume of” unrenewable imports. While their predictions and purposes offer a constructive overview of eighteen major global biofuels’ production data and consumption figures, this discourse addresses the following areas ...

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IRPS220A September 23, 14 Slavery is one of the issues that was, is and has been a major concern in the world. The nature of contemporary slavery is unknown, but estimates show that there are millions of victims of slavery across the globe. Slavery covers a wide variety of human rights violations such as sexual mutilation of men, women and children, child prostitution, sale of orphans, child pornography and many others. On the other hand, human trafficking is an area of concern that involves recruiting, transporting, buying or selling a person by means of force or fraud for the purpose ...

Urban regimes have been the subject of discussion in various discourses and characterizes the kind of politics present in urban areas. Urban regimes according to Leo influences the social and economic life of people in the cities. The urban regime theory has been developed by scholars and it includes all related factors of a specified circumstance and its focus is on the impact of certain situations to the relationships of members in associations or alliances. In political science, different articles have been written by scholars either in agreement or disagreement about the existence of these regimes. Such scholars include Timothy ...

Zimmermann Telegram was a telegram used by US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson to justify the declaration of war in Germany at the end of the First World War; was published in the press and caused outrage of Americans. In late 1916, German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann has developed a plan to bring Mexico to the side of Germany in the event of war with the United States. On the eve of the war in Europe there were two opposing coalitions - the Allies and the Central Powers. The position of these two coalitions were very different. By 1914, the Central ...

Introduction

This paper hypothesizes that the traditional Westphalian state will continue to perform minimal traditional functions. Its relevance will not be washed away despite emerging transnational elites and technological innovations that suppress sovereignty and legal boundaries. As the power of the state reduces, key functions in security, economic and technological sectors will remain relevant. Scholars, studies and policy makers in international relations have predicted about the fate of future inter-connectedness in the global village. They assert that there shall be no hegemonies. There shall be multi-polarity, but no mono-polarity or bipolarity led by mega powers like US, EU and ...

International Political Economy

International Political Economy

Introduction

Interest groups, domestic politics, and institutions, both domestic and international, are important factors that determine the foreign economic policy of a given country. Interest groups perform certain obligations, based on their capability to regulate competing industries to ensure safe and free trade. Besides, political leaders are required to execute some demands from the voters as pertains to the economy of the country to secure them a win in next elections. Finally, institutions form a link between countries undertaking international trade as they sign treaties to facilitate this trade. Economists have come up with some theories, which illustrate the interplay ...

First of all, in the scope of this paper, it is essential to put an emphasis on the fact that there is a set of scientific researches, dedicated to the investigation of the question of whether the difference between parliamentarism and presidentialism matters. This question is considered to be critical for the set of the issues - such as the major reasons for democratic collapse, whether democratic consolidation is more likely to be promoted by certain institutions or not and whether regime type matters for governability and policy output (Samuels and Eaton 2). While conducting an analysis of the ...

In the past football and medicine could not fit together while recently that has changed since people can reflect on a healthy future by being part of a football community. Professor John P Kotter provides eight principles for strategic change that resonate in diverse settings that include public traded companies, as well as private firms. This paper will discuss the relevance of the principles in light of Federation International de Football Association (FIFA) Additionally the paper proposes a model that other global sporting organizations and the national federations can adopt. The paper looks at the eminent change management model by John P. ...

It is sickening that still there are some forms of slavery. It is the twenty-first century, and alarming issues have concerning slavery should not be happening. Slavery was a normal and common practice in the past. However, hearing about it in the present is absurd. Recent studies indicate that almost thirty million enslaved worldwide. Romania tops the list for the third consecutive year. This is worrying; therefore, Romania’s key stakeholders and the government must do a lot in an attempting to reduce human trafficking. Contemporary slavery in Romania happens in the form of human trafficking. Human traffickers exploit victims ...

Introduction

Conflict in many cases seems to be a fact of life. Situations have been witnessed where different people with different goals and needs end up into a conflict. In many of these situations, personal animosity that is often intense result. It is, however, not necessarily bad for a conflict to exist. It can lead to professional and personal growth if it is resolved effectively. Effective resolution of conflict can go a long way in determining the outcomes of the conflict: whether positive or negative. By effectively resolving the conflict one can solve numerous problems that these conflicts bring to the surface. Communication between ...

Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders

Abstract Business and the society are interrelated enterprises that work together to achieve their desired goals and objectives. Members of the society engage in business activities in their daily endeavors through being social. We engage between each other through products and currencies in which we interact with each other. All over the world, organizations are created by human beings, which make it relative to the society, but separated by boundaries. As mentioned in the textbook “business activities impact other activities in society and actions by various social actors and governments continuously affect business.” Theories have been used to ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ Chinese American Identity In American society, Asian immigrants are viewed as the ‘model minority’ and are placed under a homogeneous group labeled as hard working and timid, despite the various cultural differences that exist among them. Race and ethnicity is a complicated subject in the US and the various stereotypes associated with minority groups create many cultural and ethnic tensions. The stereotypes directed towards ethnic minorities and the resultant racial profiling, poses unique challenges to the identity of Chinese Americans, and there is a need for multiracial coalitions to combat the evils of racial profiling. The United States ...

Introduction

Effective and efficient decision-making in service delivery can be compromised by non-involvement of key personnel or over-involvement of lower-echelon employees, which leads to a slowed-down process. The problem is how to determine the trade-offs to make in this situation as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional, top-down approach versus the horizontal approach. This question is especially important today because, in the recent past, decision-makers in the public and private sectors have made a high number of poor decisions. An example of this is the securitization of subprime mortgage loans or using credit default swaps to hedge risk. This ...

Domestic violence is a behavioral pattern wherein a person or a partner attempts to exert control of power towards the other person by inflicting physical force, threats, and intimidation. The behavioral pattern includes emotional, psychological, sexual, verbal, spiritual, financial, physical abuse, and stalking or threatening behaviors. Any person can be a victim either rich or poor, racial or ethnic group, educational background, sexual orientation, age, and religion. Domestic violence abusers come from all backgrounds as victims do. Abusers share their characteristics that they attempt to justify their behaviors as abusive. They fail to take proper responsibility for the abuse, use the same ...

Introduction

There are several organizations that make up the addiction counseling field. Each of these organizations is tasked with a specific role in addressing matters that may be related to the issues in the community that are brought about by the addiction problems. Although the addiction professionals work in several varied disciplines, they share some basic understanding as far as the addictive process is concerned. They go beyond the boundaries of being limited to the specialties that they confine themselves into. This is because even if their skills and proficiencies vary a lot depending on the specialization an individual may undertake, the ...

I shall be applying the political approach to this current disposition. This approach was conceptualized by Bolman and Deal. This approach is based on sound and thorough knowledge of all the facts in play as well as sound understanding of current events in relation to the issue at hand as well as a predictive ability of multiple scenarios that may result from certain actions and sound knowledge and desertion ability as to which of this outcomes is desirable and which is not wanted and unacceptable (Bolman, Deal, 2008).this approach has an extremity notion and might even result in coercion ...

Innovation is a key business and organizational success driver, hence there is a need to have foresight on issues affecting the industry operations and devising innovative strategies to take up the arising opportunities and address potential threats. In that respect, this analysis seeks to demonstrate how strategic planning can be used to address changes in order to foster organizational success. To achieve the objective, the analysis reviews a publication relating to the healthcare industry and identifies changes addressed in the article which forms the basis of the strategic planning overview of an organization in the industry. This has been done by reviewing ...

Introduction

Political contests should be peaceful processes which do not divide people along ethnic lines or worse still- cause violence. In parts of Africa this is not always the case. Rampant populism in Africa in political competition has led leaders to mobilize across ethnicities (Eifert, Miguel and Posner 494) even leading to post-election violence in countries like Kenya. There is a deeper perception of other factors surrounding ethnicity as a cause of violence such as historical economic injustices, faulty electoral system, voter numbers and political influence as well as political disagreements (Eifert, Miguel and Posner 495). This makes political victory to have ...

Introduction

With the evolution of the new communication technologies, political campaigns have been revolutionized in a way that even after politicians win elections, they continue in a ‘campaign mode’ during their governance. The continuous campaigning is aimed at gaining a political advantage in the following election (Heclo, 1999). The leaders are now able to reach the public in more effective and extensive ways through the internet, broadcasting medium, as well as old fashion printouts. This situation has been referred to as the ‘permanent campaign’. The phenomenon is witnessed in most countries of the world, including the United States of America. Continuous political campaigns ...

- Does the case study "Expectations" illustrate a type of what Light calls a particular "tide" of reform? How should Bennet have better crafted his reorganization strategy before he implemented it? Learned more about the community that Manual served? Communicated his ideas for change more effectively? Considered what power (per Long's article) he could draw upon and what power to oppose his reforms was available? What are the seminal lessons in this case regarding effective planning for administrative reorganization in order to ensure success? Light discusses in the Chapter that there are certain “tides” of reform which lead to organizational ...

Introduction

The war in Iraq has been seen to have been there for a long time. The wars have been speculated to have been caused by the strife to have oil in the two countries. This has been seen to have effects on the relations of Iraq in the UAE. This paper will focus on the history of the wars in Iraq.

Persian Gulf Wars

The first episode of the Gulf War was in the year 1991. This took place between January and February that year. This was a conflict of the armed forces between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations. The coalition included the ...

The Marion County

The research on tobacco prevention was in Marion County in Indiana State, which is one of the counties found in the United States of America. Marion County found in Indianapolis states with Indian being the capital of the Indianapolis State, which is the largest city in the whole region. The county covers approximately 403.01 square miles or 1,043.8 kilometers square. The county is 98.34% covered by land and the rest 1.66% is water. The population in the county as seen in the previous census reflected a 903,393 figure rendering it as the 55th most inhabited county among all ...

Introduction

Controversy has always characterized the study of international relations, particularly in terms of politics. The complexity of such field has enabled the applicability of many theoretical models in studying politics in the international arena. There could be no “one-size-fits-all” approach, as there is an understanding that several theories have attempted to explain phenomena within international relations. Three theories – neorealism, neoliberalism and classical realism, stand out as among the most prominent ones applicable in studying international relations, with each tending to construct distinctive interpretations. This study seeks to establish that of the three aforementioned theories, classical realism stands out ...

According to Gallos (2008), organizational frames are used to describe the organization and to create an understanding of how it functions as well as their way of doing things. In this frame organizations are viewed as political ecosystems and managers as politicians. The political frame of leadership views organizations as an arena filled with unending differences. In the political frame conflicts are a common occurrence as well as negotiations for power including formations of coalitions. This frame also holds that resources are scarce and there is always an issue of who will be allowed to control what. Gallos (2008) ...

The Marion County

The research on tobacco prevention was in Marion County in Indiana State, which is one of the counties found in the United States of America. Marion County found in Indianapolis states with Indian being the capital of the Indianapolis State, which is the largest city in the whole region. The county covers approximately 403.01 square miles or 1,043.8 kilometers square. The county is 98.34% covered by land and the rest 1.66% is water. The population in the county as seen in the previous census reflected a 903,393 figure rendering it as the 55th most inhabited county among all ...

Introduction

The provision of safe, clean and all user friendly roads in towns and cities requires a careful and strategic urban planning process by various involved stakeholders. A carefully implemented urban plan where the ideas obtained from various stakeholders are reviewed carefully will ensure that the needs of all the urban dwellers are put into consideration. Urban planning foresees the needs concerning safety, security and welfare of all citizens in terms of improving infrastructure, provision of abundant water, lighting and energy sources among other necessities. The relevance of urban planning process which aims at improving and improvising roads and streets ...

An interest group is an organized group of people who share the same goals and constantly try to influence the direction of public policy. Interest groups include but are not limited to professional associations, labour unions and intergovernmental unions. The membership of interest groups varies from hundreds to millions. The ideas and views represented by interest groups are often a representation of the interests of citizens. In the United States of America, the interest groups often exist because of the weakness of the political system in which the legislative and the executive branch operate as separate entities. In the recent ...

Constitutional Conflicts between the US Executive and Legislature

The framers of the American constitution created a document which ensured that no dictator would rule the country. The founding fathers guaranteed this by mapping out various the arms of the government. Each arm of the government has its own responsibilities, such that no arm is subservient to the other. However, in an attempt to provide enough checks and balances for the presidency, the constitution creates instances whereby the functions of the president and those of the congress overlap. In such circumstances, the unclear separation of power has led to frequent fights between the congress and the presidency. The overlapping ...

Interest groups and factions have existed since the beginning of the United States, as James Madison recognized, and political parties throughout American history have been coalitions of interest groups. Corporations and lobbyists representing the upper classes and various big business interests have always been a major influence on Congress and the entire political system, particularly since the nation began to industrialize after the Civil War. They have been well-represented by the Federalist, Whig and Republican Parties for over 200 years, while in the past the Democratic Party was led by the Southern slaveholding interests and also claimed to represent lower-class ...

Explain how war can be “Better than a Bargain”. Fromkin and Doyle.

War is a form of conflict that usually arises whenever there is a disagreement between individuals, states or even nations. It results into a hostile relationship, and for example, in armed conflict, mortality rates become high. Furthermore, it impacts negatively on the economy and leads to widespread problems. Sometimes war can be beneficial besides its negative attributes. This is detailed as war being better than a bargain, and it may act as the best option amongst two parties with conflicting needs (Fromkin 8-18).

The end of the Cold war acted as a signal that both the Western and world war had also come to ...

The Syrian Opposition

The Syrian revolution differs from the other Arab Spring revolutions in various ways, but what is the most curious is why the Syrian opposition is in such disorder and how it managed to be formed at all? The answers to these questions lie not in the current uprising but in the Syrian half-century history. Before the supremacy of the current Ba’ath Party, Syria was characterized by continues chain of coups and fighting between various political and religious groups, which were approaching their own internal and external goals. When Hafez al-Assad seized power during the 1970 Correction Revolution, his ...

During the existence of the Napoleon's French Empire there emerged a couple of revolutionary war against the regime. These wars were perpetuated by organized coalitions that had the common ain of disbanding this French Empire. One of the reasons as to why these series of opposition wars became significant is because European nations at the time had began to develop their weapons using modern technology therefore resulting in massive and large scale destruction of the affected areas. After a long struggle between the Napoleon Empire and the opposing coalitions, there was growth of a nationalistic feeling between nations as they felt the ...

Introduction

The radical conception of power is the failure to keep normative and analytical questions which means that some scholars mistakenly confuse the critique and identification of power relations. In this paper, the argument is that the definition suggested by several authors does not meet their intention. The fundamental conception of power may be made to work within the terms originally expressed by the authors and they are forced to draw a challenging comparison between objective and objective an interest, which makes the identification of third dimensional power value burdened and irrational. At the same time places the analyst in the ...