Lobbying in the United States

receive from my home institution of Ball State University. This experience as further enhanced my understanding of political organizations and the base definition of politics provided by Dr. Brandon Waite in POLS 237, “Politics is who gets what, when, and how”. Over the summer I realized that it is impossible to accommodate every program and bureaucratic budget through the 1.1 trillion dollar budget and cuts are always being proposed given the current state of the national debt. This experience…

In the ten days following the 2016 United States presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights and legal advocacy organization, recorded almost 900 incidents of hate-motivated harassment, intimidation, or violence in the United States. This “outbreak of hate” was primarily directed toward ethnic, racial and religious minorities, and perpetrators often invoked President-elect Donald Trump’s name during their assaults. These incidents were self-reported, thus it…

There has been a deep seeded relation between drugs and crime in the public’s mind; one that has cost the United States more than just the $2.5 trillion dollars estimated for the War on Drugs (Andrade & Mellen 2011). However, nowadays drugs are being associated with health and medicine. Now, strong advocacy for harm reduction, as well as decriminalization from people like the Global Commission on Drug Policy, are starting to put pressure on the American policy makers. Prohibition didn’t work,…

recapture even a hint of its former glory. It can be argued, however, that of all these imitators none came as close in spirit as the United States of America. But while America’s adoption of Roman ideologies helped it mirror the latter’s rise to power, disturbing parallels are coming to light between the state the Roman Republic was in before its fall and United States today. The similarities between America and Rome stretch back to both nations’ beginnings; both were formed in revolution…

It comes as no surprise to anyone that America is in a financial crisis. Socioeconomics and chronic health issues such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer amongst Americans and especially in the state of Texas has become a hot debate. Research on the study of behavior at the individual level has shown individuals with low political efficacy are connected to socioeconomics and dependency on low-income support services. While there is a time and place for low-income support services…

need a chief leader, a person who can do the country plenty of good, like a Prime Minister, King/Queen or a president. In the United States, we need a president, and the man for that job is Bernie Sanders. He is one of the democratic nominees for the 2016 presidential election, and he is running as a self-proclaimed “Democratic Socialist”. The democratic socialist ideology states that a country deserves a democracy within a socialist economic system. This ideology is key for the U.S, especially…

The GEO Group is a corporation that specializes in providing correctional, detention and community reentry services. For more than 30 years the GEO Group has profited billions of dollars from federal and state policies that have in concert increased incarceration and detention in the United States; half of the prisoners in the GEO Group’s privatized prisons are non-violent offenders for drug offences, the Geo Group have recently began expansion in immigration detention.…

Exam 2 1. Impeachment is the accomplishment of calling into examination the honesty or validity of something. There is a two-step process to the impeachment process. It is looked upon by the House of Representatives, and must pass a simple majority of those present and voting. Upon pass being approved, the offender has been impeached. It’s stated in Article II that the President, Vice President, and all public officers of the U.S shall be detached from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction…

Racial inequality has been a reality in the United States for its entire history and presently continues to be a force that creates division among Americans. Many Americans believed that racism ended with the Civil Rights era in the 1960s, during which figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X led the movement for equality. However, it was not until 2014, with the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man at the hands of a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, that racism…

received from the United States government to build the Keystone Pipeline gives then the power to use eminent domain to acquire land where the pipeline would be built on. As with any case of eminent domain, many property owners complained that the company cannot use eminent domain to acquire their land, especially since TransCanada is a Canadian company. How can a Canadian company force the sale of private land of a United States citizen? Many landowners complained to their local and state…