Public Article Reviews Samples For Students

Economic transformation has led to tremendous change in the role, scale and meaning of major urban airports worldwide. The major gateway airports are attracting spatial concentrations of commercial activities, leading to transport induced growth (aerotropolis). In Australia, airports are becoming major business centers and are being leased off to private companies by the government. The airports are no longer public goods but profit oriented ventures. As a result of development of these airports by these private companies, complications arise which relate to land use, environmental impacts and implications, infrastructural transport and stakeholder relationship. The impacts of airports are a challenge to ...

Introduction

There are fundamental gender differences in organizational management styles, values, leadership strategies and policy preferences, which constitute barriers to women’s ascendancy to the highest levels of leadership. These differences not only condition women’s leadership/managerial styles, but also shape the effectiveness of any such styles, which in turn reflect on their participation in public administration. This paper distils the existent conceptual, theoretical and empirical models on public administration, gender disparities, and underlying factors that prevent women’s upward mobility as well as the subsequent effect on organizational outcomes. Ultimately, however, management and leadership styles in any context continue ...

Jane Addams. Problems of Municipal Administration. January 1905.
Thesis: According to Jane, the problems of municipal administration, and the shame of the cities in America is a result of the reformers’ persistent and over-reliance of outmoded ideas of the eighteenth century. The reformers have no or little faith in the people; hence rely on these ideas used in the ancient times. The author views those who draft the state constitutions and municipal regulations as the kind of authority who loves the people without seeking to know them.
“A man of this generation easily discerns the crudeness of that ...

Charles E. Lindblom, The Science Of “Muddling Through, 1959

THESIS: In the view of Charles E. Lindblom, limited policy analysis is used by the executive bureaucracy of U.S. The department uses rational approach to formulate the public policy. He also emphasize that the decision making process takes a long time to draw the conclusion. The decision making process includes three steps i.e. is addressing the policy issue, identifying and analyzing the alternatives, and implementation of the selected alternative. In the view of Charles E. Lindblom the enhancements and adjustments is the solution for speeding up the decision-making process for public administration policy.
A decision is considered as ‘correct’, ‘ ...

Introduction

Observing good ethics especially in public administration is essential in the modern society. Ethics inform individuals’ daily life decisions making providing them with standards for delineating between the right and wrong. Ethical societies promote coordination and transparency without deception. Ethics in public administration includes values such as loyalty, honesty, integrity, openness, fair-mindedness, respect and forthright communication. It involves defending, systematizing, and recommending notion of right and wrong behavior (Geuras & Garofalo, 2010). A successful public administration practitioner needs to make intelligent decisions on circumstances that present with ethical predicament. It is important to balance serving the best wellbeing for a client ...

American Nurses Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Practice vs. Public Health Nursing (PHN) practice Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing

American Nurses Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Practice vs. Public Health Nursing (PHN) practice Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing
Like most professional associations, nurses organize themselves into groups of practitioners to not only perform functions they cannot accomplish as separate individuals but also influence policy making in their area of expertise and adjudge one another as equally and professionally competent (American Nurses Association (ANA), 2010). In such associations, the practitioners also create, establish, and ...

“Elbanna, S. 2013. Processes and impacts of strategic management: Evidence from the public sector in the United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Public Administration, 36(6): 1-14.”

In this article, the author investigates the processes as well as impacts of the strategic management in the United Arab Emirates public sector. In particular, the article surveys how public organizations in United Arab Emirates formulate, implement, and assess their strategic plans. According to the author, the fluctuating effectiveness and popularity has affected strategic management negatively in its numerous guises. It was very popular from mid-1960s to mid-1970s but suffered a ...

The three key points from Cooper’s reading are linked to the implications of modernization on public administration. The first concept is the political nature of public administration which asserts that politics should be put aside from public administration to ensure proper service delivery on public goods and to enhance the performance efficiency. Secondly, it points out on separation of public administration and citizen’s roles. This indicates that there should be a division between the roles played by the public administrators and the citizens. This is due to the fact that these dual roles can result to conflicting situations ...

Numerous industries in the United States have adopted the quality improvement policy in order to enhance certain practices as well as their outcomes. Among these industries is the health care industry whereby quality improvement strategies play a vital role in relation to supporting the public health system as well as improvement of outcomes. Due to this, leaders of public health are coming up with certain quality improvement approaches that are to be applied in public health settings (AH, 2009). The increase in demand of quality improvement in public health has led to growing accountability expectations. The quality improvements in ...

Morton Grodzins, The American System as a Single Mechanism, 1966

THESIS
In the view of author, the US government is involved in complexity due to the involvement of all three layers of government in all the functions. The three layers are working or functioning with unclear or undistinguished roles. The division of authorities and responsibilities among all the tree levels is the main issue in the US system. In the author’s opinion, governments have to appropriately divide the authorities and responsibilities among all the three layers to avoid overlapping of functions.
The great number of governments does cover complication of activities. Distribution is not appropriately administrated ...

Parker et al. (2014) identifies dimensions a public policy on science and technology to enable development. Complex issues in the policy identify emerging issues to prepare and make plans. The scanning exercise uses modified Delphi technique to necessitate public engagement as the policies are developed. Some of the interest group in the policy includes academics, private sector, policy advisers, practitioners, and policy makers. The stakeholders in the policy prioritize issues in the areas of government, healthcare, national security, infrastructure, population, public safety, and technology. Parker et al. (2014) argue that an effective public policy on development will not only require ...

Charles E. Lindblom. The Science of “Muddling Through.” 1959.
Thesis: According to Charles, the United States bureaucracy uses bounded rationality and limited policy analysis in formulating regulations. He states that root analysis is a more comprehensive approach for decision-making than branch analysis. Charles, however, argues that policy makers lack the intellectual capacity to accomplish a root analysis, hence the lack of policy developments in organizations. The author states that a rational decision-making approach is not possible and explains why political maneuvering in decision-making was favorable.

“In the United States, for example, no part of government attempts a comprehensive overview of policy” (165)

“Limits on human intellectual capacities and on available information set definite limits to man’s capacity ...

Jane Adams, Problems of Municipal Administration, 1904

Theory: Adams discusses the inadequacies of the municipal administration and the reasons for these inadequacies in this essay article. Adams breaks down the reasons and tries to bring forth the possible remedies of these problems.
The article is a long essay on the failures and breakdowns in the municipal administration and the remedies that can be put forward to bring a change in the structure and functioning of the municipal administration.
The reader gets an ample number of technical reasons and arguments to understand as to why the municipal administration and the democracy of the United States are failing ...

Article Review One – Date of Submission

For PAD 3003 Introduction to Public Administration

Benjamin I. Page, previously connected with the University of Chicago, currently teaches as a professor at Northwestern University, where he holds the Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making title and Faculty Associate of the university’s Institute for Policy Research position. He earned his PhD at Stanford University and JD at Harvard Law School.
Robert Y. Shapiro teaches as a professor at Columbia University. He served as the former chair of the university’s Department of Political Science. He held the National Opinion Research Center Study Director position of the University of ...

In the past, the public has been educated and sensitized to say something in a situation where they see or hear something unusual. After the tragic bombing during the marathon Police, Commissioner Davis instructed his officers to utilize the social media to inform the people of the events that had taken place as well as the precautions to be taken. The people were warned to watch out for possible perpetrators who were armed and dangerous. The use of social media and especially Twitter made it possible for people also to post their perceptions. The confusion over the cause of ...

Section One

Wyandotte County is situated in the US and is bordered by Johnson on the shores of river Missouri. The county has an average of 156 miles and is one of the smallest counties in the city, and this reason has forced residents to work or reside in the neighboring areas. As indicated by the county's population statistics, it is evident that the county had a steady growth but later declined during the ‘80's and ‘90's. However, it is worth noting that the decline in population growth negatively affected the economy of the county, but its revival in early 2000 ...

First, I understood that Antony Downs (1968) explains that bureaucracy is a pivotal element of the society in decision making. Instead of elected leaders making decisions, bureaucrats actually make the most decisions that affect the society. Antony Down (1968) also reasons that bureaucratic officials are, like all other sectors of the economy motivated by their own-self interest. In the end effective public administration policy, is a delicate balancing act that requires the understanding of people’s wishes as well as the needs of the citizens.
Second, I also became aware that it is important to be understood that there is ...

Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of Muddling Through, 1959

Thesis: This article discusses about the various nuances related to choices in policy making and introduces two different approaches to workout choices for policymaking. The article discusses about the advantages and disadvantages of using different methods of policy making in Public Administration and tries to find out the best way to help create modifications in policies in accordance with the changing trends.
“It would not, as in the first method of policy-making, approximate a more mechanical process of choosing the means that best satisfied goals that were previously clarified and ranked.” (Page 159)
“Accordingly, I propose in this ...

Lydon and Garcia in “The Next American City and the Rise of Tactical Urbanism” provide captivating information about the phenomenon of Tactical Urbanism and its features in America (63-86). It has to be noticed that, though the trends described within the book by the authors are rather familiar for me, the term “tactical urbanism” has been rather new for me. The authors smartly define four primary trends influencing on city life: returning of people to the city, Internet’s rise, the Great Recession, and increase of disconnection between citizens and government; all these tendencies indeed take place in modern ...

Introduction

The Ghomeshi’s case has affected the image and credibility of CBC radio. While the case has is under the authorities, the Board needs to take some measures to avoid any negative consequences y that the company may suffer from. The Board needs to ensure that there a strong internal control, but be cognizant of the fact that Ghomeshi has a right to privacy. While investigating the case further, the must avoid instances where Ghomeshi’s private information maybe leaked to the media. The internal investigations as stated in the press release must be professional and legal. This will require them to ...

Article Research

Introduction
In the late 1820’s, the Northern Carolina became more industrialized as the Southern remained non-developed. The Congress had passed a high protective tariff in 1828 that made the southern states more furious because they thought the tariff only benefited the northern states. The southern claimed that high tariff on imports were imposed to them leading to increased costs of importing products. Bradley Hays saw the Southern states sympathy to South Carolina’s position on the tariff rejected as the cause of federalism (Hays 221). Eventually, the doctrine of nullification was introduced that provided an insight to the ...

Willoughby, W. (1918). The movement for Budgetary Reform in the States. New York: D. Appleton and Company for the Institute for Government Research.
Thesis: The article discuss about the budget laws which are adopted by several states. The author expresses that budget is the essential tool of public administration. With the provision of comparative study the author also provided some criticisms of the main aspects of budgetary laws of the states. It is being emphasized in the article that an executive budget could not work successfully until the government of state becomes too much reorganized that it’s ...

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Introduction
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that is related to serious types of traumatic incidents in life. This disorder got special attention in 1980 and since then scientists are working on this problem. PTSD is one of those considerable public health issues that affect women more than men. It is also common in combat veterans and people who have experienced physical injuries. The U.S. population surveys show that lifetime PTSD prevalence rates range from 7% to 8%. Most important factors in the development ...

William F. Willoughby. The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States, 1918
Thesis: According to William, there are several problems encountered when making a budget. The government and the states’ Union have taken measures to introduce a budgetary system. William traces the origin of the association pushing for budget reforms in America. The body of the article gives a detailed description of the steps that each state has taken towards these reforms. Several states have assumed budget laws; this is the most significant contribution of the article to budgetary reforms.
“A new spirit in American politics is manifesting itself in ...

William F. Willoughby, The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States, 1918

Thesis: In this article Willoughby discuses about the reforms and the spectrum to which such reforms can be applied in the political scenario from the budgetary perspective. The budgetary has been defined in this article as the tool for implementing democracy and correlating Legislature and the Executive of the United States of America.
“A new spirit in American politics is manifesting itself in the powerful movement for the reform of government organization and procedures” (Page 40)
“It is a canon of administrative science, however, that when discretionary powers and authority are increased a corresponding increase should be made in ...

- Introduction
This paper is entitled Digital Government and Citizen Participation in the United States. It is co-authored by Marc Holzer, Lung-Teng Hu, and Seok-Hwi Song. All of the three authors are from Rutgers University-Campus at Newark, USA. The overarching theme presented in this paper is that digital governance has been adopted both within and without the United States. Despite its success in enhancing democratic accountability with governments and citizen participation in democratic processes, the fact remains that digital governments are structured in such a way that they benefit the immediate interests of government public sectors, but the general ...

English Composition

The three articles that this paper took into consideration are Against School by John Taylor Gatto, The End of White America? by Hua Hsu and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid. I choose these three articles because they shed light into matters that have been ignored in our society yet they are or much importance to the people, and I can safely argue that the findings were what I expected in the response.
Everybody, parents, elders, influential people in the society, our president and his cabinet plus teachers, as well, all advocate for education as a vital key to a brighter future ( ...

InstructorQUANTIFYING THE CONSENSUS ON ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING IN THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE: A CRITICAL REVIEW

The subject of climate change has been a topic of research among several scholars. Cook et al., (2013) in their article “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature” focus on the subject of Anthropogenic Global Warming by analyzing scientific studies on the subject. The researchers analyze literature from 11,944 abstracts from 1991-201. The abstracts analyzed express both support and dismissal of AGW, but one of the primary consensuses is human population actions are the primary source of global warming. This critical review analyzes various aspects of the articles such as aims, approaches, and arguments ...

In his book information and the Crisis Economy, Herbert I. Schiller contends that the current proliferation of information activities and increasing sophistication of information technology they demand are the result of efforts to control the political, economical, and cultural strains produced by a general crisis in the world market system. This is a review of chapter seven of the book ‘The prospect for democratic communication.’ Schiller opens the chapter by stating that the communication process could serve constructive motives if it could draw the attention of people to the problems they face as well as offering a channel for the presentation ...

This report focuses on understanding immigration policies and migrant security while living in the U.S. throughout the report, the author opted to use casual design in understanding the different reasons that lead to migrant’s death and the desire to migrant to America. This design is used in scenarios where the aim of research is to come up with facts of an effect of a specific action where assumptions have been used to state the reason behind why an action occurred. Historically, immigrants have been associated with crime in that whenever they died the death was usually associated with crime.
...

Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

Summary
The article, “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage” by Paul Krugman highlighted that the government’s decision to privatize prisons and related public services, such as halfway houses, has come to face its consequences—escaped prisoners committing crimes all over again, sometimes even worse than what they have been convicted for. Krugman cited The New York Times’ investigative reports on this issue and case stories on what has been taking place in the state of New Jersey. These studies reveal that such private facilities are inadequately managed, with insufficient number of personnel, and poor prisoner monitoring equipment. However, Krugman also ...

Abstract

The article is about writing and critical thinking in the workplace. It covers issues on changing organizational environment, comparisons of traditional and new principles as well as understanding of public relations. The authors present these topics to how they affect the perception of technical communications amidst an increasingly demanding complex environment. They also show the adjustments that can be applied to help professionals adapt to the workplace.
Keywords: changing organizational environment, public relations, new principles, technical communication, professional adjustments, curriculum design, technical writing and higher education.

Introduction

Media personalities and CEO recognize the importance and the value of quality technical ...

Chapter 1

- Why are communication skills important to your career?
Communication skills for one on one communication help one in taking a job interview. It enables you to be brief and interesting, but yet convincing increasing the chances of securing a job. Oral communication skills are very important in the job market as being a good communicator enhances the way you communicate with your co workers as well as the public.
It helps one to learn how to speak to his audience such as in court, at work, in school among others.
It equips the leaner with communication skills that ...

Article Abstract:

William D Coplin; Astrid E Merget; Carolyn Bourdeaux “The Professional Researcher as Change Agent in the Government-Performance Movement” Public Administration Review; Nov/Dec 2002; 62, 6; ABI/INFORM Global

Abstract
Performance monitoring plays a crucial role in management practices to both practioners and government agencies. It is credited as a factor that improves government responsibility and not merely an accountability metric. In the recent days, the performance is taken as a policy development strategy rather than a management factor. Therefore, perfortmance management can be undertaken as a democratic force that interlinks government and citizens. This helps to bring unity and operation efficiency in a specific state. ...

Reading about the Philippine president’s State of the Nation Address or SONA will make people realize especially the international community that the Philippines and its leader is serious about cutting down the abuse of authority of its government officials. One thing that I am very much interested with in relation to my area of interest is Politics and prevailing common policies. The state of the nation address is like a general status report of the president to its people regarding the things that the government has accomplished within the year of office as well as future initiatives. In the ...

Introduction

This work is about the implementation and use of the Human Resource Information Systems (HRISs) in various organizations. It investigates the effectiveness of HRISs and how the systems meet the demands of the users. The study was conducted by TNS on behalf of the CIPD’s and 317 organizations were involved.

A questionnaire was sent to 4000 Human Resource professionals and only 317 respondents were received. This means that only 8% of the sample responded. Statistically, this is a misrepresentation, and the findings cannot be taken as perfectly representing the actual ground situation. The study explored various uses of HIRSs, ...

Analysis of “On Terror,” by Philip E. Devine and Robert J. Rafalko

Introduction

There have been several views on terrorism. However, research on terrorism differs from the standard social science research. As one is dealing with underground organizations, often there is little or incomplete data. Terrorism is like a war in the shadows that creates massive publicity. For the majority of researchers, it can be dangerous to do investigative research in danger zones, and therefore, majority of the research is carried out on the basis of reports released by the government and media news stories. Research on terrorism has more often ...

Analysis on terrorism

Introduction
There have been several views on terrorism. However, research on terrorism differs from the standard social science research. As one is dealing with underground organizations, often there is little or incomplete data. Terrorism is like a war in the shadows that creates massive publicity. For the majority of researchers, it can be dangerous to do investigative research in danger zones, and therefore, majority of the research is carried out on the basis of reports released by the government and media news stories. Research on terrorism has more often been criticized as it is believed that most of the ...

The journal “Public Health Nursing Vol. 25 No. 4” was written by Terri Rebmann, Ruth Carrico and Judith F. English. It focuses on demarcating the lessons learned by public health professionals from past disasters and resources found to be lacking in previous disasters. The authors undertook to understand what public health professional had learned from dealing with precedent calamities and what steps they would take in case of reoccurrences or other disaster. They diversified their field of study to cover as much ground as possible.

The authors opted to use the qualitative design of study as their research methodology. ...

Article Review

Introduction
Smoking is the most common drug dependence during pregnancy, and it is associated with a plethora of problems, which may encompass; fetal growth retardation, premature delivery, and low birth weight. In light with this, maternal smoking is not only harmful during pregnancy, but has a long term impact on the baby after birth. Over the decades, public health officials and the government have been in the fore front in the pursuit to control or correct the issue of smoking during pregnancy. Moreover, different medical researches on smoking during pregnancy have been carried out, and they have contributed monumentally to ...

Instruction:

David Colander presents a journal known as eastern economic journal in 2016. A set of rules are important to organize the teaching of introductory economics. These rules offer an advantageous instructions and suggestions, which provide a platform for further discussions to unify. If a teacher follows all these efficient rules, then they make grading easier and students can remember all material related to the course. Many Economists argue that our way of teaching is not well and we are teaching the wrong directions as well. Every teacher should keep in mind that every principle is a tool not a ...

Political cartoons are a common way for many artists to make a social commentary without sparking a national debate. In the past they have been used to represent issues of the time within the social context, and were published in journals and newspapers. These newspapers circulated all over the country, with different variations per province, and were used for mass media production of ideas and messages. An important message circulating through the press in Canada in the early twentieth century was the suffragist movement, during which women fought for their right to vote and be recognized as equal citizens ...

Maps: (image 5)

The maps are to be taken while the research projects and for the reason of certain places of the human beings and civilizations. These are believed to be the main source of information as these were created under particular conditions and the cultures. The maps are made under specific factors, weather and the perceptions; these are gathered by the historians as needed by the researchers. Maps are used for the understanding of the situation at a particular point of time and under particular conditions and polishes. The maps are the grounds and the first hand knowledge of the person who ...

Article Critique: Jakarta needs Metro to avoid traffic gridlock

Article Analysis
The article explains the development of Indonesian public transportation infrastructure through construction of new metro rail systems. The news article also addresses the need to implement rail transit infrastructures. The limitations of alternative modes of transportation in Jakarta make the populace’s life more of a hassle, as they have to endure countless hours of being stuck in traffic. Therefore, the transportation sector must put solutions in place to avoid further worsening of traffic conditions in the streets of Jakarta. One major solution proposed is the development of metro rail systems in Jakarta. It aims to address ...

Max Weber, Bureaucracy

Thesis: The main focus for Weber in this article was to convey concrete ideas about the office and the office management in all the jurisdictional areas. He has also enlightened the reader with the old and the modern ways of holding office and office duties. Weber lays stress on following rules and laws in the office. He also calls holding an office as an occupation towards which an employee shall be inclined to order to survive.
“ There is the principle of fixed and official jurisdictional areas, which are genrally ordered by rules, that is , by laws or administrative ...

American Public University System

Abstract
This paper provides a clear understanding of two main disaster response initiatives: the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program and the State Media Social Sites. To a great extent, the paper discusses the benefits of both programs, and the inherent barriers that affect the delivery of the outcomes envisioned by the framers of the two initiatives. As it shall be seen in the paper, both programs were necessitated by Hurricane Katrina. Despite the minor flaws in the workings of the two programs, the initiatives are a major leap from the past and they have set the bar higher for future disaster response ...

Comparing the 2008 Us Crisis with the Japan’s “Lost Decade”

Both the Japan’s lost decade and the 2008 United States and the world financial crisis were caused by excess savings and inflation of huge asset bubbles. By 1980s many Japanese resorted to a lot of savings on their income as they expected to retire. This translated negatively on the economy as it lowered the Gross Domestic Product and weakened local demand of commodities. Furthermore, much savings simply meant that the Japanese citizen had foregone consumption. However, this problem was disguised in the Japanese poor finance policy as well as financial technology. Inflation therefore arose from poor regulation of the ...

Introductory section

- Does this material define the primary government? The document has defined the primary government in which the city operates under as the council manger form with six members who are elected for a four year term.
- Does the introductory section discuss the government’s financial condition at the balance sheet date? The introduction briefly discusses the financial position of the government where it states that on a government wide basis, the city’s net assets grew by $19.6 million in that fiscal year which was generated by governmental activities it continues to state that the city’s combined ...

Institutional

Key Points from Cooper reading
The chapter 7 in cooper’s book examines the problem associated with upholding responsible behavior in the context of a manager. Firstly, Cooper broadens the chapter by widening the irresponsible behavior to comprise the traditional immoral conduct and the intentional poor work performance. Secondly, the chapter also focuses on the conflict that occurs between the internal and external controls as the major causes of the irresponsible behavior. Finally, the chapter also discusses on the major elements of the ethical conduct, and Cooper identifies four major elements that constitute ethical conduct.
The first element ...

Public safety

The article ‘What do the greatest crime fighters have in common?’ by Mark is aimed at explaining why the public safety agencies are effective in preventing crimes and specifically terrorism in the United States. The article shows the various ways through which the missions of the public safety agencies such as the policemen have been improved through the use of modern technology.

The article argues that the policemen usually undergo a training that makes them able to know what is in mind of a criminal. The training enables these people to identify a criminal which is important in prevention of crime occurrences. ...

LEED Neighborhood Development (ND) rating systems such LEED-ND are designed for the certification of exemplary neighborhood development projects which show exemplary performance in relation to smart growth, green building, and new urbanism. Contextually, such development projects include whole neighborhoods, multiple neighborhoods, and even parts of neighborhoods. By reviewing the Pilot version of the LEED-ND 2007 certification document, it is evident that LEED-ND systems are designed to drive the marketplace towards acknowledging the central doctrine of green building i.e. the simple fact that our personal, economic and environment health is significantly influenced by our immediate surroundings which include the places ...

Introduction to Research Article

Before embarking on the search process, it was important to evaluate the area of interest for research, which would help towards development of keywords that would be utilized in the research process. The area of interest for this article review was biomedical informatics, which is an area of health care technology highlighted within this research article. The database used in this particular search was EBSCOHOST to find an article that would suit the topical area for the research process. The search strategy utilized in this process involved having to consider the validity of the research information published as a ...

Article Summation

Burns et al., (2014), in their research work, offer a critical appraisal on the uptake of health care services for childless low income adults who have just been enrolled into a public health insurance scheme. Eligibility for Medicaid (the U.S a governments’ insurance program) witnessed an expansion for eligible adults to include adults who fall below the federal poverty level (FPL) of 138%. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling which made this cap an option for states rather than an obligation meant that states could now extend the limit for persons to be covered under Medicaid Insurance. Among these ...

INTRODUCTION

Poor quality of daily diet intake makes one out of every two adult Americans victims of chronic disease of one kind or another. The Federal Government, in addition to issuing dietary guidelines to the public, sets various benchmarks that would help Americans to streamline their eating habits towards living healthily. This research studied the current consumption patterns of the American public and the dietary value of the food intake, and compared the data with the benchmarks set for achieving the Healthy People 2020 target. In light of the Health and Human Services and the Agriculture Departments of the US ...

In the article Chicago Schools’ Financial Controls Assailed in Report, Caroline Porter discusses how mismanagement and inefficiencies are draining the cash strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This is evidenced by the financial report that had been released for the fiscal year 2013. According to the Chicago Board of Education’s oversight office, there were a number of deficiencies in internal controls and a number of cases of detrimental employee misconduct. In a particular instance, the report showed how a former technological worker had been suspected of embezzling more than $400000 from the schools. Consequently, Porter set out to identify the failure of management ...

Abstract

The ratification and finally, the implementation of the details and provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or what is more popularly known as the Obamacare have been the topic of the hottest news and cause of public and private debates not just nationwide but also worldwide. The objective of this paper is to look at and review the PPACA in light of the important principles and concepts about public policy decision making presented by Lindblom in his highly influential work.

Obamacare and the Science of Muddling Through

Charles Lindblom authored one of the most influential articles related to policy making and public ...

Written by Robert V. Remini, “The Jacksonian Revolution” revolves around the ascension of Andrew Jackson to Presidency and in turn, the launch of American politics’ transformations. After a History in which only the societies’ aristocrats governed the political sphere of the country, Jackson’s decision to vie for the presidential seat was shocking to most Americans (132). In addition, Jackson's decision was defilement of all of the Founding Fathers’ expectations about the country (132). Thus, otherwise dubbed the “Age of Jackson”, the “Jacksonian Era” of between 1828 and 1848 (132) saw the American government pay more heed to the ideologies ...

Introduction

In the competitive business environment, business must employ strategies that will ensure its survival and relevance in the market. The business must make sure its products reach all its consumers both rich and poor in the society. Additionally, it must assess the market to evaluate how its previous strategies have position the business in the market and check whether to employ a new strategy or not. Thus, if the previous strategies have not brought any significant improvement of the business in the market, then it would be wise to change tactics of doing business. One of the strategies a business can ...

Introduction

Facebook is widely known social network tool that is used by different users for different purposes across the globe. Facebook attracts 845 million users globally. These statistics shows that; there are more Facebook users in the entire globe, and these users use the social network tool for different functions. Facebook attracts individuals as well as corporates to reach out to the outside world. These functions include; marketing, relay of important information, and enlightening the public about some life based issues.

Marketing through Ads

Facebook group allows users to use the site freely. It has free entry, free exit policy that does not ...

Introduction

The book Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement is a collection of 9 essays edited by Irvin D. S. Winsboro to reconceptualize the impression that Florida was more temperate than other southern states in regard to its relationships with civil rights leaders and the Blacks’ demands for equal rights. The author accomplishes this by exploring multiple racially motivated events, including black agency, racist assaults and political stonewalling to put his point across.
The time frame of this volume ranges from 1940s to the late twentieth century. The other contributors whose essays ...