This hypothesis again points to the United States responding quicker than South Korea, Mexico, or Russia. When comparing the GDP of each nation, I compared the GDP of each nation in the year in which each spill occurred.
The third variable that this study will look to investigate is political gridlock. For this study political gridlock is defined as a situation in which passing laws becomes difficult, this occurs when the ratio between bills passed and the agenda of the legislature decreases. Political gridlock occurs most often in democracies, for example, the United States experiences gridlock frequently, as one party controls the House of Representatives and the Senate is controlled by the opposite party. I would expect that in the case …show more content…
This alone, would not have a direct impact on the government responding to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, as the Executive Branch could have been capable of responding to the crisis. Except, during the response to the spill, the legislature was asked to release funds to send extra resources towards the clean-up efforts (Farrington 2014, 19). Since the Executive called for a release of funds, the legislation was brought into the picture. With the split legislature, it took nearly three weeks for a budget to be agreed upon. This would suggest that the United States response to Deepwater Horizon should take longer, than the other three cases since none of these countries were experiencing …show more content…
Government corruption can be defined as the sale of government property for personal gain (Shleifer and Vishny 1993). An example of this would be a government official collects bribes or money in return for providing permits or licenses to individuals or businesses (Shleifer and Vishny 1993). While government corruption is widely recognized as a criminal activity, I theorize that in this case there may be benefits to government corruption. For example, if a government is in political gridlock and no progress is being made in regards to government response; government corruption then may have a positive impact on the getting resources where they need to go. At the same time, it has been proven that corruption has negative effects to the economy so while corruption may help in the short-run, it may also cause long term economic issues. While a small amount of corruption may lead to quicker response times, if a government is heavily corrupt this can lead to short-term consequences. If a vast amount of government officials are handing licenses to business to perform certain clean-up activities, there can massive amounts of disorganization within the clean-up efforts, which in turn would lead to an increase in government response time. Therefore, corruption has a negative impact on government response time the more corrupt a country
The third variable that this study will look to investigate is political gridlock. For this study political gridlock is defined as a situation in which passing laws becomes difficult, this occurs when the ratio between bills passed and the agenda of the legislature decreases. Political gridlock occurs most often in democracies, for example, the United States experiences gridlock frequently, as one party controls the House of Representatives and the Senate is controlled by the opposite party. I would expect that in the case …show more content…
This alone, would not have a direct impact on the government responding to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, as the Executive Branch could have been capable of responding to the crisis. Except, during the response to the spill, the legislature was asked to release funds to send extra resources towards the clean-up efforts (Farrington 2014, 19). Since the Executive called for a release of funds, the legislation was brought into the picture. With the split legislature, it took nearly three weeks for a budget to be agreed upon. This would suggest that the United States response to Deepwater Horizon should take longer, than the other three cases since none of these countries were experiencing …show more content…
Government corruption can be defined as the sale of government property for personal gain (Shleifer and Vishny 1993). An example of this would be a government official collects bribes or money in return for providing permits or licenses to individuals or businesses (Shleifer and Vishny 1993). While government corruption is widely recognized as a criminal activity, I theorize that in this case there may be benefits to government corruption. For example, if a government is in political gridlock and no progress is being made in regards to government response; government corruption then may have a positive impact on the getting resources where they need to go. At the same time, it has been proven that corruption has negative effects to the economy so while corruption may help in the short-run, it may also cause long term economic issues. While a small amount of corruption may lead to quicker response times, if a government is heavily corrupt this can lead to short-term consequences. If a vast amount of government officials are handing licenses to business to perform certain clean-up activities, there can massive amounts of disorganization within the clean-up efforts, which in turn would lead to an increase in government response time. Therefore, corruption has a negative impact on government response time the more corrupt a country