Author: chris

1) Have the Bush and Obama administrations gone too far in the exercise of executive power? Why or why not?
2) Does the modern bureaucracy excessively undermine the separation of powers, or is it necessary to govern a complex nation?

Explain how prolonged terrorist attacks, such as Hamas regularly launching rockets aimed at Israeli civilians, affects individuals as opposed to the affect of isolated terrorist attacks. Which is more difficult for the individual—prolonged terrorist attacks or isolated attacks? Explain why.

Describe at least three factors that influence whether or not children are affected by terrorism. Do you think terrorism has a significant impact on children? Explain why.

Locate your state’s constitution and examine the major elements and articles of the constitution.

Review its contents and functions. Search for information about the branches of government and the funding sources for your state government.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

• How are the main components of government set up by your state’s constitution?

• Which branch of your state government seems the most powerful, on paper? What evidence do you use for your choice?

• Does the state constitution contain a Bill of Rights? If so, what appears to be the most important feature?

Reflect: Our political system is characterized by certain fundamental features to include a system of laws, rights, and liberties. The laws, created and supported by the Constitutional framework, are designed to protect and secure the rights and liberties of individuals and groups throughout the U.S. However, the government also has an obligation to provide for the security of its citizens from serious internal and external threats that could cause grave or severe damage to our country. The need for homeland and national security can create a dilemma where conflicts emerge between these security needs and the demands for civil rights and liberties.

 

Write: In your initial post, explain what obligations the U.S. government has towards its citizens and how can these obligations impact individual and group rights? Provide real-world examples to support your explanation. Fully respond to all parts of the prompt and write your response in your own words. Your initial response must be 200 to 250 words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.

 

1. Define the culture of poverty.

    

    

    

    

2. How do Messner and Rosenfeld define the American Dream? How is it criminogenic?

    

    

    

    

    

3. What is relative deprivation? Provide an example.

    

    

    

    

    

4. Define middle class measuring rod and reaction formation? How do these contribute to the formation of delinquent subcultures?

    

    

    

    

    

    

5. How was social structure theory used to inform policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations?

    

    

    

    

Ethical Dilemmas, Breaches, and Leadership Consequences

Government and nonprofit leaders encounter ethical dilemmas regularly as they perform their duties. When leaders do not address ethical dilemmas appropriately, dilemmas become ethical breaches with possible dire consequences. For instance, former President Bill Clinton encountered an ethical dilemma upon meeting intern Monica Lewinsky and considering whether or not to pursue a personal relationship with her. When he decided to pursue a personal relationship with her, he committed an ethical breach. Some ethical dilemmas and breaches may be considered more subtle. Consider a seemingly minor incident such as a mayor using a city vehicle to run a personal errand or contracting family for high-paying city jobs. Understanding the full range of potential ethical dilemmas and considering the consequences of ethical breaches are the first steps to being a strong government or nonprofit leader.

 

Focus on the ethical challenges facing government leaders.

 

Identify a contemporary ethical dilemma that you heard or read about in the news confronting either a government or nonprofit leader.

 

Think about the nature and severity of the ethical dilemma and why it might be considered an ethical breach.

 

Submit 150 – 500 word response: Due by Thursday 10/15/15 a brief description of the government or nonprofit leader and the ethical dilemma he or she is confronting. Then explain the nature and severity of the ethical dilemma and why it might be considered an ethical breach. Finally, explain the actual or potential consequences of that ethical breach to the leader.

 

Journal

 

Think about when you have faced a difficult ethical dilemma in your own life. Explain how and why you made the choice that you did. Having the benefit of hindsight, would you make the same choice today? (1 page)

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you identify, compare, and contrast the policing function at the local, state, and federal organizational levels. Analyze how the organizational, management, administration, and operational functions at these three organizational levels are similar or different and why. Be sure to identify the leadership characteristics and responsibilities pertaining to each organizational level.

Select any four of these six topics for your the Assignment and address each question comprehensively:

 

1. It has been said that “a company that deserves a union gets one,” suggesting that if proper leadership and motivation techniques are employed and desirable policies devised, the workers will not want to unionize. Either agree or disagree with this philosophy. Support your position and explain what a company could do to create an environment where workers will not want to unionize.
2. Some means of resolving negotiations impasses involve economic weapons (e.g. strikes and lockouts). There are other means of impasse resolution that do not involve the use of economic weapons (e.g. fact finding, mediation, med/arb/interest arb, etc.). Select two (2) non- economic means of impasse resolution, 1) explain how each one functions and 2) discuss the relative pros and cons of each.
3. Unions have declined as a percentage of the workforce in the private sector. With this decline, have career and workplace dissatisfaction and alienation increased? If so, why is this so? If not, why not? Support your position.
4. List and discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages in using seniority as a factor to determine shift preference or overtime assignments.
5. Identify two different steps a company should take to prepare for its first round of bargaining with the union pre-negotiation activities. Explain why each of the steps you have identified is critical to achieving an initial successful collective bargaining agreement with the union.
6. Identify and explain the major ways in which the government is an important participant in the labor relations.

Locate two articles. One must describe an effective public leader and the other must describe an ineffective public leader.

Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper that analyzes the traits and styles of both leaders and determines which traits and styles made the leaders effective or ineffective.