...Completing a series of analysis including: whether polarization has any effect on the public’s views on the presidential candidate’s character traits, Democrats and Republicans view on the candidates and specific policy issues, and how ideology and party impact trust, I found an overwhelming amount of data. The data reveals how Democrats and Republicans tend to have negative feelings towards each other and in turn do not form a consensus on many things, whether it is policy or attitudes towards presidential candidates. The findings from the analyses support Hetherington and Rudolph’s theory on polarization along the party lines and how it subsequently leads to a decrease in political...
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...Post Secondary Education In Prisons: Today many Americans are facing economic and government uncertainty. With the growing prison population and increased recidivism rate, it is time for a change in correctional policies. To spark the change in correctional policies recent studies have indicated that post secondary education programs have a significant correlation to reducing recidivism rates, prison costs, and prison population issues (Chappell, Cathryn A. 2004). Currently America makes up 5% of the world’s population, but accounts for more than 25% of prisoners incarcerated across other nations (Carson, A. & Sabol, W. 2012). This is a result of the political stance “get tough on crime”, a campaign that was started in the 1980’s that focused law enforcement agencies on combating drug crime (Spangenberg, 2004). This political stance is still prevalent today and has caused several problems for correctional facilities across the country. Prison facilities are unable to accommodate prisoners because of the lack of space for prisoners and lack of funding for beneficial programming” ( Erisman & Contrado 2005). Furthermore, prisoners are released from jail with no formal education or qualified job skills which typically leads them to resort back to criminal activities for economic gain; which causes high recidivism rates (Institute for Higher Education Policy 1994). Despite these issues Maryland and its neighboring states have began to implement cost effective Post Secondary...
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...shift in public opinion, advocates for climate change are hopeful that the paris talks could be a turning point. Poll Results • 63% of Americans including a bare majority of republicans support domestic policy limiting carbon emmisions from plants • 75% of Americans polled said global warming was already having a serious environmental impact • Nine to Ten democrats agreed , compared 58% of Republicans • One third of republicans said it will never have an impact • 50%of all Americans said the government should take steps to restrict drilling ,logging and mining on public lands, compared to 45% who approved restrictions. • Among democrats support for limiting mineral extraction on public lands rose to 58% • One out 5 Americans favored increasing taxes on electricity as a way to fight global warming • Six in ten opposed, including 49% for Democrats • 36% support increasing taxes to curb global warming • 51% of respondents worried about global warming • Among adults under 30 the number of adults it was 30% it was 54% for democrats • 68% of respondents under 30 supported taxing companies and fewer ¾ of democrats • 54 % as opposed to 34 % believed a sacrifice must be made to protect the environment • In 2007 52% supported protecting the environmentas opposed to 34% for the economy. The poll was conducted nationwide from 18-22...
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...on decision support systems to identify potential swing voters. Obama’s team carefully monitored contested states and congressional districts, where as few as 2,000 voters could prove decisive—a tiny fraction of the voting public. Both presidential candidates hired technology wizards to help sift through mountains of consumer and demographic details to recognize these important voters. Ten “Tribes” Spotlight Analysis, a Democratic consultancy, used political micro-targeting to analyze neighborhood details, family sizes, and spending patterns to categorize every person of voting age—all 175 million—into 10 “values” tribes. Individual tribe members do not necessarily share the same race, religion, or income bracket, but they have common mind-sets about political issues: God, community, responsibility, and opportunity. Spotlight Analysis predicted the influence of a particular morally guided (but not necessarily religious) tribe of some 14 million voters, dubbed Barn Raisers. Barn Raisers are of many races, religions, and ethnicities; about 40 percent favor Democrats and 27 percent Republicans. Barn Raisers are slightly less likely to have a college education than Spotlight’s other swing groups. They are active in community organizations, ambivalent about government, and deeply concerned about “playing by the rules” and “keeping promises,” to use Spotlight’s definitions Spotlight believed the...
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...In the 1800’s, America faced an issue: what was going to become of America? They were newly independent, free of tyranny England. America knew that everyone as citizens had equal rights, and that the central government should not have too much power. What they did not know, however, is how much power the central government should have. The founding fathers each had two different ideas: federalism and democracy/republic. The Hamiltonian federalists believed much different things than Jeffersonian democrat/republicans, and each idea has shaped America into what it is today. The Federalist Party formed during the redrafting of the Articles of Confederation. The Federalist Party was started predominantly by Alexander Hamilton, and represented...
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...A Rebuttal to "Democrat Budget Proposal is Unrealistic" The budget deficit of the United States has exceeded over $1 trillion and debate is raging over how to reduce the budget deficit without further negative impacts on the economy, business, and jobs. As the federal government approaches the borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion, the Democrat argument is to raise the debt ceiling in order to allow for continued borrowing and meet current financial obligations or default on its debt or risk financial collapse as a result of decreased creditor confidence (Toomey, 2011). Republicans have countered that they will not allow debt ceiling increases without substantial cuts in spending and without increases in taxes (Toomey, 2011). The article, “Democrat Budget Proposal is Unrealistic,” posted on www.caldwellteaparty.org, provides as its’ central thesis that government spending should be decreased to 2008 levels and claims that the current Democrat-led administration as having “recorded and performed the most gargantuan, massive, unconscionable, ruinous, explosive, erratic, careless, extreme, astronomical increase of the deficit EVER in U.S. History” (snaketread, 2011, para. 7). This article is examined and a rebuttal provided to its various claims. Analysis and Rebuttal The central thesis of the article is that government spending should be reduced to 2008 levels and that the recent budget deficit issue is the result of gross overspending of the current administration’s policy...
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...December 8, 2015 Dr. ____________ Smalls What is the problem: Wide Partisan Gap over How Best to Reduce Poverty? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Information to Analysis JANUARY 23, 2014 Most See Inequality Growing, but Partisans Differ over Solutions 54% Favor Taxing the Wealthy to Expand Aid to Poor http://www.people-press.org/2014/01/23/most-see-inequality-growing-but-partisans-differ-over-solutions/ There is broad public agreement that economic inequality has grown over the past decade. But as President Obama prepares for Tuesday's State of the Union, where he is expected to unveil proposals for dealing with inequality and poverty, there are wide partisan differences over how much the government should - and can - do to address these issues. The new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted Jan. 15-19 among 1,504 adults, finds that 65% believe the gap between the rich and everyone else has increased in the last 10 years. This view is shared by majorities across nearly all groups in the public, including 68% of Democrats and 61% of Republicans. Yet there is a sharp disagreement over whether this gap needs government attention. Among Democrats, 90% say the government should do "a lot" or "some" to reduce the gap between the rich and everyone else, including 62% who say it should do a lot. But only half as many Republicans (45%) think the government should do something about this...
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...Obama administration. Later that year, the Tea Party movement would become a crucial component of the 2010 mid-year election in moving the House into Republican Party hands. The 2012 election was the culmination of the efforts of the Republican Party to regain control of the Senate and to remove President Obama from office. Almost two-thirds of the thirty three class one seats were held by democrats and almost one-third of the total seats for election were left vacant and up for grabs as a result of an incumbent not running for reelection. The Democratic Party only held a slight majority in the Senate. The expected results was a repeat of the 2010 mid-year election in which the Republican Party would make further gains in the United States Congress. The results did not go as expected for the Republican Party. The final results in November, showed Obama retaining his position as President and the Democratic Party not only holding onto the majority in the Senate but gaining seats in the process. The make up the Senate going into the 2012 election was fifty one seats held by democrats, 47 seats held by republicans, and 2 seats...
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...A Research Paper on The United States’ Health Care Policy Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) I. Delineation and overview of policy under analysis a.) What is the policy to be analyzed? The policy to be analyzed is the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or colloquially referred to as Obamacare. The PPACA Bill was passed into law after Barack Obama signed it on March 23, 2010. However, it should be noted that specific provisions in the law is designed to be effective in staggered dates, that is, not all provisions in the law is effective the moment it was signed by Obama. Some provisions in the statute is designed to be effective beginning at the year 2020. b.) What is the nature of the problem being targeted by the policy? PPACA aims to improve the coverage of healthcare insurance. Thus, to achieve this, the policy targets people who do not have any health insurance. Unless exempted for the following reasons - religious beliefs, individuals who cannot afford the healthcare coverage, taxpayers whose income is below the income threshold, or any person deemed to belong from an Indian tribe- the statute requires individuals to avail a health care insurance plan or pay a penalty. II. Historical Analysis a.) What policies and programs were developed in the past to deal with the problem? Policies that were developed in the past to deal with the same problem of limited and reluctant healthcare coverage include the Medicare (1965)...
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...Marketing *Signatures are on file in the Graduate School iii ABSTRACT Political marketing sits at the nexus of two disciplines, political science and marketing, but is not entirely accepted by either. The present research looks at the origin, development, and evolution of political marketing and examines how the adoption of a political marketing orientation is impacting the practice of political campaigns. The role of political marketing in actually changing voters’ preferences is also examined, showing that grassroots marketing efforts seem to have the greatest effect, especially with undecided voters. Finally, voter segments are derived for the last five presidential elections in the United States (1988-2004) using latent class analysis (LCA). The interpretation and implications of these segments are discussed and several avenues for future research are suggested. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................... vi...
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...publishing documents. The increased trends of documental technology via digital media has affected the business overall. A SWOT analyses conducted in 2012, identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the company in this increasing digital era. Strategic and operational plans will be discussed to reach two goals. SWOT Analysis In 2012, Xerox Corporation conducted a SWOT Analysis determining these results. Xerox’s strengths included their document technology situation in the current market in the area of multifunctional peripherals, transforming their business model into services for the business, and possessing a solid cash flow and annuity model. Xerox’s weaknesses included decrease of application in the technological area. Xerox’s opportunities included an increase in printing production, making their presence known in SMB segments, and offering services to produce an increase in mobility, cloud, and analytics. And Xerox’s threats included increased trends in technological advances in digital documents, economic interferences from businesses, and new competitors in the business (Xerox Corporation SWOT Analysis, 2012). Strategic Goal and Plan Strategic planning assists the company to choose the general direction to move toward and addresses the financial, managerial, and physical resources over an allotted time (Anderson, 2001). A strategic goal for Xerox to increase their presence in the technological document era could be; ‘Xerox as an organization...
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...A Rebuttal to "Democrat Budget Proposal is Unrealistic" The budget deficit of the United States has exceeded over $1 trillion and debate is raging over how to reduce the budget deficit without further negative impacts on the economy, business, and jobs. As the federal government approaches the borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion, the Democrat argument is to raise the debt ceiling in order to allow for continued borrowing and meet current financial obligations or default on its debt or risk financial collapse as a result of decreased creditor confidence (Toomey, 2011). Republicans have countered that they will not allow debt ceiling increases without substantial cuts in spending and without increases in taxes (Toomey, 2011). The article, “Democrat Budget Proposal is Unrealistic,” posted on www.caldwellteaparty.org, provides as its’ central thesis that government spending should be decreased to 2008 levels and claims that the current Democrat-led administration as having “recorded and performed the most gargantuan, massive, unconscionable, ruinous, explosive, erratic, careless, extreme, astronomical increase of the deficit EVER in U.S. History” (snaketread, 2011, para. 7). This article is examined and a rebuttal provided to its various claims. Analysis and Rebuttal The central thesis of the article is that government spending should be reduced to 2008 levels and that the recent budget deficit issue is the result of gross overspending of the current administration’s policy...
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...conflicting claims, drawing on both books Heath Care Reform and American Politics by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, and Overreach by George C. Edwards III. My analysis proposes a more-nuanced balance between majority and minority party influence. I will also debate the nature of presidential power in the passing of this bill. In March 2010, Congress enacted and the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act- bringing to a close a year of active political debate over health reform, not to mention nearly a century of health reform efforts (Jacobs and Skocpol 2010). Critics claim that this bill was “rammed through” the legislative process by the Democratic majority party despite the minority party’s disapproval. Jacobs and Skocpol (2010) describe how “only Democrats were to be found among the 200 or so lawmakers in attendance at the bill signing” (pg.6). Along side this; Republican officials were filing lawsuits to proclaim parts of the law unconstitutional. This divided partisan reaction to the bill was not surprising considering that the final bill received no Republican votes in either the House or the Senate. Further, in order to overcome the of opposition of Senate Republicans, Democrats in the House and Senate forged an informal arrangement- relying on a procedural maneuver. Democrats avoided the need for...
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...of particular controversy was a component that has since become the mainstay of protecting the interests of the people: the Bill of Rights (Auerbach, 2015). This paper will take an in-depth look at the nature of political parties, as well as the two-party system that has evolved in the United States since its creation in 1776. An ideological difference between political parties is the contrasting visions that constitute their distinct mission and actions as well as the electorial program. While other democracies have numerous active political parties, in the United States there are but two major parties taking part in national elections—the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The main ideological difference between Democrats and Republicans is their fundamental philosophy of which The Democratic Party is the liberal one, while Republicans are comparatively believed to be conservative (Levendusky, 2009). This leads to their respective stance on major economic, taxation/government spending, defense/military, and educational/religious issues that are described...
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...contributors or from their own pockets, they are already assured of a win in the elections. With the government structure the United States have, generalizing for all sectors of the government, particularly during the electoral races, will be quite complex. Moreover, though it is very easy to make assumptions, such arguments could start crumbling once empirical studies of various experts on the subject of political science come to light. Factors such as policy decisions, party affiliations, popularity, etc. play a role in the acquisition of campaign finances, necessitating the need for thorough analysis of how these factors affect the fund turn-out, thereby the election outcomes. That is, if the argument is true that huge campaign finances can make winning candidates. This research paper aims to give a clear presentation, backed by extensive data gathering, analysis and assessment of how, if at all, campaign...
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