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    Founding Fathers Problems

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    While creating the foundation for the great country we know today, the Founding Fathers faced many challenges. They couldn’t change their citizens sinful ways so they tried to make a constitution that would keep the madness at bay. They also pondered on representatives to help their people be heard more effectively and efficiently. The people also must be satisfied with the government, so the Fathers had to provide them the things that a government is responsible for. Some other critical issues…

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    Interest Groups Essay

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    Suraj Gamal GOVT 2350-73002 John Hitt Interest Group Strategies An interest group, in general, are people that seek to influence public policy based on a common interest or concern or in a more political sense an advocacy group, lobbying group, pressure group, or special interest. To overcome the obstacles forming such group, first, a strategy has to be passed along with a clear and concise proposal, a group has to agree upon a common objective of the interest group from different sectors. As…

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    Basic Cultural Conflict

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    while teachers are active, thus creating a power imbalance in the classroom. Like the ideologies Fox criticizes, the “banking concept” diminishes the richness of students’ cultural language. Subsequently, the classroom reflects and perpetuates the political structures of the outside world, where certain groups, the poor, minorities, immigrants, et cetera, are oppressed by a dominant majority group. Fox describes a very similar paradigm when he addresses the power dynamics created by the theories…

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    Committees are messy. Few, if any, routinely reach mainstream media attention (see Section V). Less generate political traction. And when committees become important, they not so infrequently become televised, more politicized, and then largely ignored by stakeholders. Consequently, when deciding on a normative lens, the study of House of Commons committees should rely on Deborah Stone’s polis model specifically because of its focus on realpolitik instead of the idealism rejected in the…

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    A human resources policy manual, also colloquially known as an “employee handbook,” is a document which sets the tone for the company’s overall employee relationship philosophy. This document informs employees of the policies and procedures of the company who has hired them and some of their rights and responsibilities to this company (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2016; Guerin & DelPo, 2005; Lawson, 1998). There is no particular law that requires an employer to publish a policy manual. That…

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    My motivation for pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC San Diego (UCSD) emanates from my lifelong goal to be a leading scholar in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the…

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    in politics as formal institutions. Throughout the article Helmke and Levitsky provide us with similarities and comparisons of both institutions and a definition for each institution. According to both researchers, it is not possible to explain political performance without focusing on both institutions as we can sometimes view them as a cause and effect. For example, an informal institution might develop due to the inefficiency of a formal institution and vice versa. However, informal…

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    Mireille Paquet’s article “The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada” published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science issue. 47, September 2014. Speaks about the institutional changes between 1990 - 2010 in the Canadian governments immigration and integration of policies between the federal and provincial government. Paquet is a professor in the social science department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and has written many articles regarding immigration. Her…

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    always known I wanted to get a PhD in political science or even that I was certain of my decision once I began my graduate studies. In reality, the path that led me to pursue a PhD has been a long and somewhat unexpected one. I began my undergraduate career as a biochemistry major, but by the end of my first year, I discovered that I was more interested in studying human behavior and interactions and switched my major to psychology with a minor in political science. After receiving my…

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