...Abstract Developing countries seeking to build their economy commonly look to attracting multi-national corporations (MNCs) through low cost labor and lucrative tax incentives plans in the hopes of creating a mutually benefiting relationship between both parties. However bringing in these outside businesses poses a legitimate threat to elite special interest groups already existing and thriving in the current economic state. MNCs must due their due diligence when selecting a potential host country and then determine the best strategy to deal with these groups in order to mitigate as much risk as possible. Contents Abstract ……………2. Contents……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Intorduction 4 Literature Review 6 MNCs must determine the political environment 6 Why elite special interest groups exist 8 Strategies for dealing with elite special interest groups 9 Corupption………………………………………………………………………… 9 Assisting host government in creating a functioning economy………………… 11 Methodology 12 Conclusion 12 References 16 Multi-National Corporation’s Strategies for Special Interest Groups within a Host Country Research of developing countries has shown that economic growth is closely correlated to its cash flows and the quickest way for developing countries to increase those cash flows is through attracting new businesses. Technology has played a major role in the globalization of business and has made it much easier for corporations to reach...
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...The Significance of the Federalist Papers The Federalist Papers, is a compilation of 85 articles, advocating the ratification of the proposed Constitution of the United States. These series of articles were published by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay between October 1787 and May 1788. The overall intention of the Federalist Papers was to explain the advantages of the proposed Constitution over the prevailing Articles of Confederation. The Federalist Papers impacted the ratification of the Constitution by making some of their most important objections, including the significance of having a Constitution, acknowledging to the disagreements made by the Antifederalists, and defending conflicting arguments made against the attributes of the executive and judicial branch as specified in the proposed Constitution. Before the ratification of the Constitution, the central government under the Articles of Confederations was very weak and in jeopardy of falling apart. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, who were Federalists believed as well that the Articles of Confederation was too weak to maintain a powerful central government and needed to be restored by the U.S Constitution. The fundamental goal of the U.S constitution was to secure the rights of the U.S citizens and for the federal government to strive for the common good of the individuals. The Federalist Papers illustrates how the federal government is divided into three distinct, separate ...
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...UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 2305 RESEARCH PAPER Spring 2012 1) The purpose of this paper is to assess the leading issues in the continuing debate over the Patriot Act 1, Patriot Act 2 and Patriot Act 3 and its alleged abuse of our bill of rights by comparing and contrasting the positions between the Government need for them and the people’s rights, freedoms and liberties. By offering this assessment, you will learn a lot about what policy making was going on to achieve this type of law. 2) What are the arguments surrounding the use of these extreme policies in the U.S. or are they not extreme? And 3) What are the implications that these policies having or are not having on the lives of Americans? Furthermore, the purpose here is to enhance your researching, writing, and analytical skills. 4) Compare and contrast the leading issues in the current controversial USA Patriot Act (1,2 and 3) situation. Your paper should compare and contrast the leading issues in the current controversial USA Patriot Act situation and how it affects your bill of rights. This assessment should explain the similarities and or differences between the rights of the citizens of the United States, the U.S. Government and the State positions. In addition, you should acknowledge the entities (i.e. U.S. citizens, government civil servants, interest groups, corporate interests…) that are endorsing the controversial USA Patriot Act and how this endorsement correlates, complements or conflicts...
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...nuclear industry is not guaranteed. The lead times are long, and the costs of building new plants and developing new technologies are high. The various private sector firms that will ultimately decide the future of nuclear energy—through what they design, finance, purchase and build—all must consider the complex economics of such huge investments. This is made all the more difficult in the face of substantial uncertainties about broad government policies, specific regulatory actions and the price and availability of other energy sources. Indeed, the future of nuclear energy is dependent upon an interwoven set of decisions made by both the public and private sectors. On the one hand, private industry cannot act without clear, stable policies and active involvement from the government; on the other, the policy goals of the government cannot be achieved without private sector action. This paper, the New Millennium Nuclear Energy Summit, and subsequent working groups are providing forums for private industry, government and NGOs to develop a common understanding and vision for a near-term and multi-decade strategy to ensure that nuclear energy is a vital...
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...Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans, A new beginning in the United States North America is known to have various groups of different ethnic backgrounds and cultures. Most people in the United States if not them have ancestors who moved to the U.S for a better way of living or to escape challenges that arrived in their respected countries. According, to www.education.byu.edu Individuals of the Latin American origin contains over 14% of the population of the United States. The two groups that will be discussed in this paper will consist of American Mexicans the largest of the Hispanic groups and Puerto Ricans who are the second largest group of Hispanics in the United States. The Mexican American and Puerto Rican groups are the fastest growing group in such states as Utah, New York, Illinois, Texas, California, Arizona and Colorado. The Hispanic population continues to rise in the United States as more opportunities are given to them and this paper will introduce different challenges that these two Latino groups experienced in the United States. This paper will identify two of the largest growing Hispanic groups which consist of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans. In this research paper I will recognize who these two groups are, where they originated, why these two groups migrated to the United States, and also include the challenges that they face pertaining to work, health, education, family, and religion. Originated and Migration Mexican Americans are identified...
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...Seminar/US-VA Government Research Paper What should the federal government do about an issue facing the United States of America today? You will be writing a research position paper that will receive grades in both your English and government classes. The paper will serve as an introduction to Model Congress. Project Objectives: • Prepare for Model Congress and complete a benchmark for English 12 POS ▪ Students will select a federal policy issue which interests them and research the policy (if it is a historical topic, think about the following: did Congress pass the legislation? Why did the policy succeed or fail? Did the president approve or veto the policy?) ▪ Each public policy topic from the list may only be selected by ONE student in each class period ▪ Students will make connections between their chosen public policy and topics studied in U.S. Government. Students must choose three of the topics below to address in their paper somehow: 1) Bipartisanship or lack thereof in Congress 2) Bureaucracies (agencies or heads of agencies) 3) Divided government or unified government 4) Federalism (lobbying efforts from states) 5) Interest groups (name specific) 6) Media (advertisements – describe) 7) Presidential leadership 8) Party discipline (or lack thereof) in Congress Requirements of the Combined Research Paper 1. Thesis Statement 2. Annotated Bibliography 3. Formal Outline 4. Final Paper (including...
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...History of Politics A Research Paper Presented to The class of Miss Rhoda Mae R. Navasquez Southern Cotabato Academy, Inc. In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Subject English IV by Jeison L. Omandam December 01, 2011 INTRODUCTION Political history is the description and analysis of significant political occasions, movements, thoughts, and leaders. Typically it is developed around the nation states. It is distinguished from but relevant to other areas of history such as economic history, social history, and military history. Usually, political history discusses events pertaining to nation-states and the political process in particular. As per Hegelian doctrine, Political History ‘is a perception of the state with a guiding force beyond the material benefits of its subjects: it meant that the state was the root factor of historical change’. This differs with one, for example, social history, which predominantly discusses the events and lifestyles of common folks, or people’s history, that is historical account from the view point of a lay person. A study of political history typically centers on a single nation and its political change and aggrandizement. A few historians highlight the ever increasing drift toward confined specialization in political history over the course of recent decades: ‘wherein a college professor in the 1940s resorted to identify himself as a “historian”, by the 1950s “American historian” was the designation.’ Political...
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...request. I. COURSE OBJECTIVES: Public administration involves the "core activities" of government that are performed, for the most part, by highly trained experts and specialized organizations; its purpose is the development and implementation of public policy. This broad definition encompasses a large dynamic portion of government at all three levels of the federal system, engaging even nonprofit and private enterprise. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the environment of public administration: the structural environment, the political environment, and the social environment. The structural environment consists of the different sectors that create both synergistic and antagonistic relationships. The political environment consists of the government and legislative processes that both delimit and enable action in public organizations. Finally, the social environment consists of broader forces that are at work that are often ignored or misunderstood. This course will help students become aware of how others impact them and how they impact others. II. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will be able to understand the power and discretion you will have while working in the field of public administration and think about the best ways to use this power to help others. Students will learn to write persuasively through the case study and legislative research papers. Students will also learn to communicate effectively through various in-class negotiation...
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...& SOLUTION PAPER The Aging Society: How Can We Stop It? (student’s name) Korea University (International Summer Campus) Writing and Presentation Skills August, 2011 What is the most critical problem that the Korean society faces today? Certainly, there are issues such as the North-South relationship, the nuclear leak in Japan, and the overabundant rainfall. However, one of the most widely discussed topics in the modern Korean society is the decreasing birth rate and the increasing percentage of the older age groups. This phenomenon of the older age groups taking a bigger portion of the overall population is called the “aging society.” This occurrence has become one of the great challenges for which the Korean government has yet to find the appropriate solutions. This specific phenomenon, although it may seem very trivial at first, can cause various abnormalities and disadvantages to our society. To further explain the situation, the average birth rate in 2006 was around 1.16 births per woman aged 15 to 49, and it continues to decrease. The low birth rate could result in a decrease of the younger population, and such decrease was identified in the article by the Hankyoreh Media Company (“Korea expected to become ‘aged society’ in 2013,” 2006). With the boomer generation reaching the older generation and the life expectancy increasing, the problem only deepens. Such a drastic increase in the proportion of older age groups potentially...
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...In contrast to Among the Free, within Lucas Pope’s puzzle game Papers, Please, the story revolves around in the shoes of an unnamed lowly laborer deriving from a village in Arstotzka. The worker is assigned a government job as a bureaucrat, working along the Arstotzka-Kolechia border checkpoint as an inspector inspecting passports and paperwork, hence the name, “Papers, Please”. Although performing a government job, the character and their family can barely get by in the authoritarian, anti-democratic Communist nation. The time frame of the game takes place shortly after Artoska opens its borders, allowing its citizens to leave, and eventually to let foreigners in. This resulted from a peace deal between Kolechia and Arstotzka after a war. When playing Papers, Please, Lucas Pope distills a sense of hopelessness and desperation into the player, while still maintaining puzzle elements that keep them playing. The social commentary on dystopia is entirely up to the player, making the story very unique from differing perspectives....
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...UNRISD U NITED N ATIONS R ESEARCH I NSTITUTE FOR S OCIAL D EVELOPMENT Religion, Fundamentalism and Ethnicity A Global Perspective Jeff Haynes UNRISD Discussion Paper 65 May 1995 UNRISD Discussion Papers are preliminary documents circulated in a limited number of copies to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its work is guided by the conviction that, for effective development policies to be formulated, an understanding of the social and political context is crucial. The Institute attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect different social groups. Working through an extensive network of national research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in developing countries. Current research themes include: Crisis, Adjustment and Social Change; Socio-Economic and Political Consequences of the International Trade in Illicit Drugs; Environment, Sustainable Development and Social Change; Integrating Gender into Development Policy; Participation and Changes in Property Relations in Communist and Post-Communist Societies; and Political Violence and Social...
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...one person or group from getting too much power? Tyranny means when one person or group has too much power and they don’t use it well. The Constitution guarded against tyranny in four ways; federalism, checks and balances, separation of powers, and small vs big states. Federalism guards against tyranny by distributing the power between the two governments. Federalism has given separate states power over the federal government. The state's government and federal government also share powers such as they can borrow money or...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |HIS/301 Version 6 | | |U.S. Constitution | Copyright © 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1997, 1994 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course is an introduction to the historical, political, philosophical, and economic roots of the U.S. Constitution. It first reviews the philosophical arguments of the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, those that supported and opposed ratification of the Constitution. The course then examines milestone Supreme Court decisions and the Court’s evolving interpretations of the Constitution. This course focuses on the first ten amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, and the issues of slavery and civil rights as seen through major court decisions. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: ...
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...Introduction The Ebola virus outbreak has sparked fears among the global community due to the severity of the disease and its high fatality rate. While Singapore has not been presented with a case of the Ebola virus, the Singapore government, specifically the Ministry of Health (MOH), needs to ensure that it is sufficiently prepared to deal with the crisis. This paper seeks to identify the stakeholder involved during an Ebola crisis, the type of stakeholder group they fall under and the communication plan MOH should undertake in the event of a crisis. Stakeholders As defined by Freeman, R.E. (1984), stakeholders are parties who are involved or affected as a result of an incident occurring around an organization. It is important for MOH to...
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...to a Commonwealth form of government where the governors were also appointed and assembly members were elected by the province. Liberia is situated on the west coast of Africa and is bounded on the west by the Republic of Sierra Leone, on the east by the Republic of Ivory Cost, on the north by the Republic of Guinea and on the South by the Atlantic Ocean. Liberia declared her independence on July 26, 1847. The form of government is republican with a unitary state. It has three branches of government namely, the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Liberia economy is made up of the formal and informal sectors. The informal sector consists of petty traders whose activities are not included in the GDP and the formal sector which include both the public and private sectors. With a current population of 3.4M, the government of Liberia is the largest employer in the formal sector. The Civil Service Agency is responsible for the placement, recruitment, hiring and management of all government employees. Due to the two decades of civil war the entire system broke down and the fundamental basis of placement in government offices were ignored. Placements were made on affiliation with warring factions, political affilations, patronage and other means outside of the merit system and the civil service standing order. Because of these unmeritorious moods in the civil service of Liberia; productivity were low, inefficiency and incompetency were high among government employees. This situation...
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