Book review Ledwith, Margaret, Community Development: A Critical Approach, Bristol: The Policy Press. 2011, 226 p. The second edition of Margaret Ledwith’s Community Development: A Critical Approach offers a precarious and searching review of community activism and theory. It is positioned in the contemporary era of global, economic, social, and environmental crisis. Ledwith’s study is relevant in the time of accelerated world crises of social justice and environmental sustainability, and her intent
My policy brief is looking at the continued use of the death penalty the U.S. state of Texas. The use of this punishment is a violation of Article 3 and Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is also a violation of the United States constitution 8th Amendment because of the pain cause from the lethal injection. This is also a human right violation because of the amount and uncertainty of the guilt and many people that are sitting on death row today. In order for the U.S. to be
Analyze Critique State the purpose of the study and identify the problem. In the article, Macphee (2010) is studying the impact that leadership is having on a health care environment. This is designed to identify the best practices and help nurses to implement these concepts. The problem that is being studied is: how most facilities have their own policies and procedures (which will have an impact on quality). To determine the best practices, actuaries are focusing on what attributes can improve
Critical Review 3 Electricity Policy in Ontario Readings included: “Making Choices: Reviewing Ontario’s Long-term Energy Plan”, “The Development of Renewable Electricity Policy in the Province of Ontario: The Influence of Ideas and Timing”, “The Politics of Renewable Energy Policies: The Case of Feed-in Tariffs in Ontario, Canada”, “Energy, Economic and environmental discourses and their policy impact: The case of Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act”. For the sake of this review, the titles
Richard Norgaard, and Fred Block and Margaret Somers have in common? They all challenge widely accepted economic thinking and support thoughtful, progressive government action in the midst of social crises. In the 1930s, Keynes debunks a rationale for a laissez-faire system that was perpetuating large-scale human suffering and made a strong recommendation for government intervention. Norgaard then broadens Keynes’s critique of assumptions underlying free-market ideology to include all widely unquestioned
My Critique In Who Stole the American Dream? Hedrick Smith paints a clear and accessible but grim portrait of how economics, politics, power, and democracy have vastly changed in the United States. I agree with Smith that wealth and power inequality are extremely harmful. That a few individuals have prospered at the expense of the many is extremely unethical and unjust. I appreciate his critique of the current system, and historical perspective regarding how democracy has been systematically and
Canadian government prevents workplace injuries and handles workers compensation for workplace injury; who exactly benefits from the current system; and in what ways they benefit. The Content: This book takes the reader on a logical and chronological journey of the Canadian workers’ compensation system, beginning with an analysis of the Canadian government’s current injury-prevention efforts, then describing the historical development of Occupational Health & Safety within Canada, further taking
separation of powers between each branch. This means that there will be greater amounts of discussion about public policy and other issues. (Bulmer, 2010, pp. 27 39) Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of each system. The biggest advantages of the British system include: the government is more responsive to the needs of the people, it can be able to address challenges quickly and it reduces the total amounts of waste / bureaucracy. This is because government officials do not have
diaspora people can be seen making safe spaces for themselves to survive as individuals and as a part of communities. Stuart Hall’s Cultural Identity and Diaspora focuses on the current issues of identity, cultural practices and cultural representations. He analyses the visual representations of Afro-Caribbean’s and challenges the notions of identity from African and European places. Hall then goes on to explain how Caribbean cinema has chosen to both, refute and embrace European influence. He presents
Small is beautiful: Economic as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered is an influential book which disagrees with the current economic development approaches. Economics is a study focusing on the macro and micro financial aspect of the nation and individual (Shaffer, Deller, & Marcouiller, 2006). However, such a study is not really concerned with the true community economic development which rather concerns more of a social and political dimension