Margaret Stout And Jeannine M. Love: A Critical Analysis

Changing how large governmental structures function is neither an easy task nor a quick one; it will require the undoing and unlearning of a very tightly held political and economic system by all parties involved. At the center of Spade’s call for

My Introductory to Public Administration class has taught me the range that can come with public administration. Public administrators are employed in all levels of government, across various fields including social welfare, financial administration, and human resources (Denhardt, 2014, p. 1). Despite the various type of public administration jobs that exist, the one thing all public administrators are required to do is to maintain a commitment to public service (Denhardt, 2014, p. 1). In order to better understand how public administrators are responsive to public interests, I was assigned the task of interviewing a professional in public administration. I chose to interview Jeanell Emond, program manager for Central Valley Prevention Program (CVPP) and Mental Health Systems (MHS), because of my future in social work and my interest in developing and managing programs that benefit the community. Through the interview I was able to gain valuable insight on the agency and Mrs. Emond’s role as a public administrator. More importantly, I was able to learn how interorganizational partnerships, financial management, ethics, and leadership and management skills in public administration can help develop stronger communities.

When looking into the ideas of political theorists it is important to the use of political concepts that may play an important role in what the theorists are suggesting and also how they may affect the relationship between to state and the individuals living within a state. The concepts that will be looked at within this essay are: power, authority and also accountability.

Tackling some of the democratic deficiencies can help to overcome the paradox to an extent. Ortiz writes, “Despite their very different views of which features need protection, reform arguments all rest on a single fear: that, left to themselves, various political actors will transform equal political empowerment,” (239). This fear assumes a failure

Over the length of this course, we have discussed several aspects of politics. We have studied citizenship and obligations to society as a citizen, justice and what it means to us as individuals, and how to go about enacting change within a community and around the world. Some of the most important topics from this class included the characteristics, duties, and obligations of rulers of government. In addition to the concept of rulers, we also studied the notion of authority and the moral and metaphysical implications of authority to individuals ' autonomy. Within each concept of study, we read works from many authors with conflicting ontologies, constructed from their differing views on human nature.

Susan Clark faced conflict in 1868 when she was refused admission to Washington School, an all white school in Muscatine, Iowa. Victory was achieved when the case was appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court who decided school segregation was unconstitutional. This landmark school desegregation case set the stage for the future of school integration in the United States.

The article “The Fourth Branch of Government”, Thomas Helgerman discusses how direct democracy plays an important role in state governments. He presents the information in the form of an essay in which he explains his argument and analysis as a student of math and economics as well as a member a parliamentary debate team. The essay will review Helgerman’s analysis and arguments of direct democracy and how it leads to irresponsible legislation that is not subject to inspection of the US political process. In the article, Helgerman explains how direct democracy came to be used in state government and used the state of California as an example.

The sources consulted for this essay are: Ann Cooper’s TED talk: “What’s wrong with School Lunches”, where she explains the issues on how America is feeding and educating their kids about food, Mark Bittman’s TED talk: “What’s wrong with what we eat”, in which he explains the western diet’s consequences on health and environment, and from the book “Food Matters”; Brian Wansink and Collin R. Payne’s: “The Joy of Cooking Too Much: 70 Years of Calorie Increases in Classic Recipes” where we see a chart that compares increasing serving calorie numbers on classic recipes through the years, Marian Nestle’s:“Eating Made Simple” where she takes a nutrition, as well as the diagram used for the U.S. Government’s Nutritional Guidelines. This essay

In “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” Audre Lorde discusses the idea that as long as movements seeking to dismantle oppressive structures limit their tools to those created by the oppressive structure itself, actual reform will be out of reach. By using these tools, regardless of intention, one is still wielding an axis of oppression, and therefore reinforcing its supremacy.

blocks in a pyramid of self governance. Mr. Hart argues that special interest and scale of government

We live in a time in which socioeconomic factors are indicators of the quality of healthcare a person may or may not receive. Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, spent almost two decades serving on the medical faculty of a university in Zimbabwe. During her time there, Dr. Bassett witnessed an AIDS epidemic gradually break out, and at this time she took notice of the disparity between the socially marginalized and the financially stable. The health care each group received was evidently incompatible; the accessibility to various treatments for AIDS remained reserved for those who could afford it. Dr. Bassett, at the time, believed she could not speak out against the lack of humanity and the destruction

Sirianni in his book “Investing in Democracy” has examined how government can serve as a civic enabler of productive engagement and collaborative problem solving among civic associations, ordinary citizens, and stakeholder groups. He also tried to find out how the public policy and administration can be designed to help the involvement of the government. Siriannni has argued on the view that in recent era the government’s role is becoming more important due to the increasing complexity of public problems, diversity among the stakeholders, and continued erosion of civic life by the deep cultural and institutional trends. Sirianni tried to reflect the image of the government, local, state, and federal as civic enabler whose work should be to

The exercise of authority and power are facts as old as time, throughout the ages men have tried to explain and understand how and why political authority is organised. Sovereignty is a concept used to explain political power, to

Governmental policies and politics play a critical role in the realization of change in a public agency since the policies are developed and implemented at various levels (Dukeshire & Thurlow, 2002). Since these policies may range from formal regulations and legislation to informal guidelines in an agency, understanding them is important in the achievement of change in a public agency. A Public agency basically functions based on the established policies and politics in the government. Therefore, the accomplishment of the change in a public agency requires an increased understanding of the politics and policies of government.

The author has been able to fulfill the target of the book, which is to test and answer the questions raised by critics through the provision of evidence of the reason no democracy exists at the present. The author presents the arguments in a chronological way that gives a better understanding of the past, today, and prospective future of democracy. The root of the present democracy is stated in the book and lays the basis of the other arguments in the book. Dahl argues that there are conditions that any state should attain in order for it to be considered as a democratic