Political science

Politics represents efforts by people in governmental and nongovernmental settings to secure their policy wishes by developing and using power resources. Bruce S. Jansson, Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate: From Policy Practice to Social Justice (8th ed.) Social workers are in the business of empowering people. They are also often faced with power structures that are entrenched and difficult to navigate. Skilful policy practitioners recognize the many kinds of power resources that exist, thus expanding their options in specific situations. As a social worker, you will learn various strategies that can create and expand personal networks that might be useful in negotiating your policy practice within an agency. You want your power resources to be recognized as effective ways to get things done, not as coercion and force. In this Discussion, you identify various kinds of power resources (including person-to-person, substantive, process, and procedural) that you can use to secure the adoption of a policy proposal. To prepare: Review Chapter 10 in your text, focusing on Jansson’s categorization of types of power resources in the policy-enacting task.

Choose at least three political ideologies and identify common traits as well as major differences among those ideologies chosen. Make your critiques of each of the ideologies chosen in terms of their respective values and ideals as they are related to the government and politics.

Visit the following website: https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/cost.php Based on the numbers you saw from the link provided, do you think election costs are too high? How could the cost of campaigns be lowered? Should that even be a concern? Why or why not?

Topic/Research Question: The term “nuclear revolution” refers to nuclear weapons as providing states with the ability to protect their sovereignty and independence not via direct defense but rather through deterrence. Instead of defending one’s borders or vital interests with conventional military forces, states could deter enemy attack by threatening to inflict unacceptable damage on an aggressor. As long as they possessed a secure second-strike retaliatory force, in short, they could deter attack by threatening to make an aggressor’s losses outweigh its gains. However, history has shown that countries with nuclear weapons programs still often engage in international competition and conflict. With this in mind, how does a nation’s effectiveness in developing a nuclear weapons program, as well as countries’ nuclear aspirations/restraint, effect nuclear proliferation?  Reports are 5 pages, double spaced 12 point times new roman font with 1″ margins.  The paper should be motivated by a clear research question, have a clear thesis, have consistent citations, and be relatively free of grammatical errors.

The topic must be contemporary. It is neither a history paper nor a biography. The paper must be on a domestic issue, no foreign relations, etc. The writing style must be a Position Paper. The point is that the paper is based on your research. The paper must include a “Work Cited” page (which is not part of the word/page count), not a Bibliography. Please be aware that “Wikipedia” and any foreign website are not an acceptable resource and MAY NOT be used as a source for your paper. WEB CITATIONS MUST INCLUDE THE “URL.”All citations are subject to verification by the instructor. Failure to include URL’s will result in an automatic reduction of points! WORD COUNT MUST BE ON FRONT PAGE MUST HAVE A “WORK CITED” PAGE NOT A BIBLIOGRAPHYMUST HAVE URL in all citations on Work Cited page (you may not merely cite “Web” MUST SHOW WHEN YOU ACCESSED ALL SOURCES.NO FOREIGN WEBSITES USED A SOURCES. (.uk, .ca, .au, .eu……etc.)NO SOURCES CITED THAT ARE MORE THAN FIVE (5) YEARS OLDNO ENCYCLOPEDIAS OR WIKIPEDIA CITED AS A SOURCE My Topic: Domestic issues -Jobs, my position on this issues is the imbalance between work and home life.

Review Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions and analyze how the constrained and unconstrained visions affect current political struggles, paying particular attention to this week’s reading. Critique how well you feel Sowell’s dichotomy works to describe these differing views using scholarly evidence.

http://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/finance-lobbying/the-influence-of-elites-interest-groups-and-average-voters-on-american-politics Based on the article you just read, what is your understanding of the influence that the elite/wealthy have on politics? Do you believe that the system is appropriate for the needs of American society?

 What is the difference between management and leadership? Specify some characteristics of a good leader. Specify some characteristics of a good manager. Does a good leader have to be a good manager? Does a good manager have to be a good leader Martin A. Levin distinguishes between political decisions and management decisions? What are the differences between the two categories? How they related? Provide concrete examples.

 what do we mean by the phrase”modern-day president” what are some defining features of the “modern-day president” that contribute to its uniqueness from the early days of the office of the presidency? (300 words) explain the struggle for equal rights in America specifically for black Americans. begin with the civil war amendment and then discuss two more time periods in American history/current events. your examples should be spaced at least 30 years apart. (300 words.)

5 page paper on the effectiveness of the United Nations