Essays on Devolution

Austerity Policy Measures in the UK

Introduction The process of putting into place strategic measures with an aim of reducing of deficit and increasing economic growth in the United Kingdom has taken a paradigm shift from various aspects. The government of UK has put deficit reduction measures, which entail a series of strategically sustained reductions in public expenditure, undertaken towards a reduction of the government budget deficit and the UK’s welfare state. The design of this research paper is structured towards assessing the rationale on which the UK’s austerity policy is based with regards to deficit reduction and stimulation of economic growth (Burns, ...

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General overview of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with regard to its political history and the concept of its geopolitics.

Max Webber’s concepts on the state and how they apply in Nigeria How John Stuart Mill’s Concepts on nationality are reflected in Nigeria 2) Geopolitical characteristics of Nigeria

The main geopolitical zones and their historical origin

The basis for the division of these geopolitical zones based on John Stuart Mill’s concepts on nationality How Max Webber’s concepts on the state apply in Nigeria How the country’s political, economic, and educational resources are shared effectively within these zones How different the geopolitical zones are compared to the zones that defined these regions in the past. 3) The source of economic power ...

Analysis of Energy Sufficiency, Sustainability and Conflicts of US Forests

Abstract The focus of the paper is to analyze the economics of US forests. In particular, the paper analyses the energy sufficiency, sustainability, as well as potential conflicts regarding this essential us natural resource. Concerning forest sustainability, the paper will consider issues such as how the US can use and retain forests to meet different human needs, how it can preserve and promote healthy forests, and how the country can make ethical choices concerning forests. Key findings in the paper reveal that although the United States has shown some efforts in creating sustainability concerning forests, there is still much ...

One of the cornerstones of the UK Constitution is parliamentary sovereignty. Parliamentary sovereignty makes the UK parliament the supreme legal authority in the country that is charged with the role of creating or ending laws. The parliament sovereignty doctrine has stood for a considerable period in the UK constitution. Although it has managed to stand solidly, some constitutional developments have, however affected this sovereignty. The parliament has itself passed some laws that have limited the application of this principle. These laws have been a reflection of the political developments both within and outside the United Kingdom. The aim of this paper ...

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Universal suffrage is one of the cornerstones of democratic governance. Suffrage enables people to exercise their democratic rights without any contravention. One of the primary democratic rights is that of voting. A truly democratic nation is one where all citizens have the freedom to vote in any way that they like and for any candidate that they desire without oppression. In the United States, one issue of concern in regard to this democratic right has risen up in recent years. The issue has been subjected to intensive debate across the political divide as well as in the society. The ...

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This paper is on the topic of Language variation and social identity in relation to the world of social media. In the first section of the paper will discuss the morphological analysis of some new words in the English language and the compounding of these words. The second section will discuss the how social media helps in creating social identity of the language speakers.

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Diverse demographics like Age or gender demonstrate significant variation in the use of language, especially in case of informal contexts like social media. Any language spoken between group people of has different ways of referring ...

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This research aims to develop a definition of innovation in an NGO with a new strategy that has no abstract understanding and or interpretation on the concept of innovation. Due to the fast growth rate of the NGO the Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer both require that innovation should be incorporated in the operations of the NGO especially as it expands into other regions nationally and internationally. Both the CEO and the CFO have ideas about innovation that are quite differentiated in their approaches to innovative ideas. Nonetheless, both the CFO and the CEO agree that the NGO’s expansion ...

The immigration history in America can be studied from four viewpoints namely: the colonial era, the mid nineteenth century, early twentieth century and after the year 1965. All the above brought into America a different yet distinct ethnicity, race and group. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw an approximated 175,000 Englishmen migrate into colonial America; half of which arrived as servants (Deege, Robert, Jon and Genovese 133). The 19C immigration was dominated by an incursion from Northern Europe, the 20th Century was characterized by Southern and Eastern European immigrants and the era subsequent to 1965 saw immigrants mostly originating ...

After the American colonies won their independence from the British, the thirteen colonies became the current thirteen states on America. These states have formed a league that enables them to work together in harmony. The Article of Confederation was a document that described their system of government, where the state governments had most of the power than the national/federal government. However, this contradicted the government under the King that placed the national/federal government above the state governments. The constitution was written in order to replace the Article of confederation, which the founding fathers thought to leave the nation too weak. The ...

Historical development of Intergovernmental relations leading to the development of the DREAM ACT

Executive Summary The federal government has always been on the forefront in developing policies to control and govern the alien population that is in the country. Initially, the government of the United States did not have any enacted policy that allowed the approximately 65,000 undocumented minors to be citizens of the country. The lack of legal status for this immigrant jeopardized their dreams of working in the country and exposed them to deportation. There has been growing agreements in the congress over the last decade to formulate policies that could allow the aliens minors to be incorporated ...

After every four years, any liberal American citizen always has to make a choice between supporting either a republican candidate or a democratic candidate for president. These two parties have varying core beliefs. This paper seeks to compare and contrast these two essential players in the American democracy. Despite the fact that each party has a solid fan base, each party has to do a lot of campaigning each electioneering year to make itself more popular than the other. They go around the country selling their philosophies and that of their candidate. While there are few areas that these parties share in ideals, there ...

Speech to Businessmen on Launch of Election Campaigns

I will begin by thanking all of you for offering me this opportunity to make an outlay of the programs and policies that the conservative party has developed with this country in mind. I believe, and I am sure that this is a belief shared by all of you in attendance today, that the conservative party of Canada presents the best choice for the people of Canada to live up to their ideals of a just society. This, my fellow party members, is an ideal which we hold dear, and which we will work tirelessly to ensure that we deliver upon ...

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The standard theory of Parliamentary Sovereignty set out by AV Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution has often been referred to as the ‘orthodox’ theory of Parliamentary Sovereignty, and taught to generations of law students ever since the 19th Century. Dicey’s proposal was later regarded as the ‘basic principle’ of the British constitution: that a statute is to be taken as being the highest form of law within the British constitutional structure (Loveland, 2006, 23). Therefore, this implied that the British Parliament alone, is the sovereign lawmaker in the country, and no ...