Essays Tagged: "Public policy"
HIV and AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ical scientists and health-care providers. HIV infection and AIDS represent among the most pressing public-policy and public-health problems worldwide.COSTSI think that the AIDS epidemic is having a p ... the AIDS epidemic is having a profound impact on many aspects of medicine and health care. The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that in 1993, the lifetime cost of treating a person with AIDS from ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Comparison of Political Machines and the Reform Movement
This paper compared the roles of these two organizations in public policy and opinion Well writtenCompare and contrast political machines and the reform movemen ... terms of their views of the purposes of politics and government, the role of the average citizen in public affairs, and the appropriate processes of decision making.Urban machines and the reform movem ... vement whose two of its major goals were the moralization of politics and the de facto dominance of public over private interest. Furthermore, reformers believed that corruption could be reduced and g ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
The Government and Environmental Policy
The Government and Environmental PolicyPolitical Science 215The purpose of the United States' public policy law is to implement restrictions in an effort to solve problems,which can be seen with ... o implement restrictions in an effort to solve problems,which can be seen with the Clean Water Act. Public policy has also been employed to reform the Endangered SpeciesAct of 1973. Although the Unite ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Freedom of Speech in Mass Media: Why should it be protected?
sion and radio after 1997 in Hong Kong? And more people participate in the open forum discussion of public policy? All these reflect people in Hong Kong are more eager to express their opinion and mor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Managing people in the new century
cted prevailing beliefs and attitudes held in society about employees, the response of employers to public policy (for example, health and safety and employment legislation) and reactions to trade uni ... R.P., Thatchenkery, T.J. (1996). Postmodern Management and Organization Theory, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications..2002 New dictionary and thesaurus service. Older News... Burrell, G (1993). "Modernism ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Homefront U.S.A. America during World War II by Harlan Davidson
le of what went on in America during the war. He really focuses on the popular mood of the time and public policy of the time. The book is split up into four chapters. The first chapter deals mostly w ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Death Penalty.
t it should be avoided to the utmost.Morally, socially and economically, the death penalty is a bad public policy. Do we really need to kill in order to punish criminal and protect society? There is a ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Sprawl .
stly negative response. However, after researching sprawl and more specifically, urban planning and public policy, my opinions began to shift. I clearly stated shift, and not change. I still feel that ... studies such as one performed by Samuel R. Staley, Director of the Urban Futures Program for Reason Public Policy Institute, suggest otherwise. Dr. Staley shows that over 90% of U.S. land is currently ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Political Ideologies play a significant role in determining the direction of leisure and tourism policy.
logies on them. Different ideologies have different views on subjects related to leisure policy and public policy in general. Firstly I will look at different theories of the State, which might reflec ... icies I will use Lowi's (1972: cited in Henry 2001) method. He outlines four types or categories of public policy; distributive policies - benefiting all or most of the citizens indiscriminately; redi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Religious Discrimination - Muslims
Claims of religious discrimination are becoming increasingly recognized as an important public policy to address.In my opinion, religious discrimination can be also described as a harassme ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The need for new approach to the management of people in order to reflect the way in which organisations are evolving at the start of the 21st century.
cted prevailing beliefs and attitudes held in society about employees, the response of employers to public policy (for example, health and safety and employment legislation) and reactions to trade uni ... R.P., Thatchenkery, T.J. (1996). Postmodern Management and Organization Theory, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 06.Oct.200319,000 Essays and growing! Older News...Burrell, G (1993). "Modernism ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Conflicts with the V-Chip, and how it effects Parents, children, and the Government.
for television broadcasts so that the viewer's rights are not violated.I believe the V-Chip is good public policy because I feel that there is a need for a certain amount of restriction on the content ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
What impact will the Human Rights Act (1998) have upon public policy immunity?
t on many areas of law which deal with these rights and civil liberties. Among the affected fields, public policy immunity stands out as a theme that is controversial even without the impact of the HR ... me that is controversial even without the impact of the HRA, and one that has now become doubly so. Public policy immunity is a traditional policy under which workers who perform public duties are exe ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
A Troubled Future for America: Health Care and Social Security Reform
l Lind. Authors are founders of the New America Foundation, one of the nation's most successful new public policy think tanks. Discusses chapter two of the book.(The Radical Center by Ted Halstead and ... und an all encompassing solution to this problem. "The solution is mandatory self-insurance, with a public health insurance safety net for the genuinely needy." (p.75) Because personal health care cov ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
Should Sixteen Year Old be able to Vote?
o give serious consideration to the needs and opinions of youth, and, get attention when developing public policy, and it can cause different benefits too.At the age of sixteen, there's not a very big ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
The Federal Government
tter how unpopular their views, all people should enjoy the freedoms of speech, press and assembly. Public policy should be made publicly, not secretly, and regularly scheduled elections should be hel ... their opinions about issues, therefore making democracy less legitimate. Private interests distort public policy making because, when making decisions, politicians must take account of campaign contr ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Stem Cells and Public Policy
Stem Cells and Public PolicyBy: Natalie WhitneyStem cells are a steady rising topic in public policy here in the Un ... ning, or destroy possible embryos in order to get stem cells for their work (Porter).Stem cells met public policy in 2001. On August 9th 2001, President George W. Bush announced that federal funds may ... zanne, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2001.Jennings, Peter ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
This is an evaluation of affirmative action. In the essay, I argue that affirmative action is no longer an effective means in achieving racial equality
AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGEAffirmative Action is a public policy dealing with discrimination in regards to equal opportunity. President Lyndon B. Johns ... mination in regards to equal opportunity. President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced affirmative action public policy to Americans in 1965 in the hopes that the policy would create a more equal society. E ... popular belief, the non-supporters of Affirmative Action do not entirely consist of conservative republican white males. Many Black and Hispanic groups are against the Affirmative Action policy. They ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
How do institutions shape policy? Neo-Institutional theory and Parliament and Cabinet
d shapers' of policy.Attempting though, to understand the relevance and impact institutions have on public policy without defining the terms 'public policy' and 'institutions' would be imprudent. Like ... do nothing are just as much policy as are decisions to do something. William Jenkins' definition of public policy is as 'a set of interrelated decisions taken by a political actor or group of actors c ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Sex education
or the others who seek for guidance when they need it most only to find no one there.In some places public policy made it clear the need for young people to be educated in responsible sex, in hope tha ... e information that can easily be forgotten over a short period of time.In conclusion, this piece of public policy which intended to educate the young people and help them act responsibility so that th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality