The Political Governance System And Demographics Of The City Of Plantation

There is a plethora of criticisms about the effectiveness of the Bureaucracy. Even during the 19th century, as Wilson writes, the Post Office “was an organization marred by inefficiency and corruption”. With an appointment standard such as the “spoils system”, where individuals or groups are granted high level positions based on political favors alone, corruption is almost a certainty. The political aspect of the Bureaucracy was prevalent in the military for over 100 years, as Wilson states “the size and deployment of the military establishment in this country was governed entirely by decisions made by political leaders on political grounds”. Political favors and factors plague our government, including the Bureaucracy. A by-product of these political favors and corruptions are stagnancy and mediocrity. An example of this, as

The politics of the southern colonies first began in 1607 during the founding of Jamestown, Virginia. This was the first British colony in America and the new world. The colonists sent to Jamestown were sent to the new world to attempt to make money and to try to find gold for the joint-stock company. The southern colony of Virginia started off as to being governed by the Virginia company. What this meant is that until 1624 Virginia would be a royal charter governed and controlled by the Virginia company. But, before Virginia would be controlled by the king and the British colonies the first British assembly in the Americas took place. The house of Burgesses in 1619 was the first representative democracy in the colonies. But Virginia was not the only colony that at one point controlled by another group other than the king, it is the colony of Maryland. Maryland was a proprietary colony giving its control to the calverts. The calverts had the right to

In his book, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies do and why they do it, James Q. Wilson’s main objective is to better define the behavior of governmental bureaucracy, believing traditional organizational and economic theory does not adequately explain their actions. Wilson believes that government agencies are doomed to be perceived as inefficient entities by the public. He gives examples of commonly held perceptions of bureaucracies and reveals how these are mostly misconceptions. He points to the environment of bureaucracy, where rules and procedures, dictate goals, along with context, constraints, values, and norms.

The population of Hispanics has had the most substantial growth, which has increased significantly since 2000 and now consists of 8.7% of the population. There are slightly more females, who compose 51.6% of the population than males, who compose 48.4% of the population (“Greenville County,” 2014). The main religious affilations of the population in Greenville consists of 50% Southern Baptists, 11% United Methodist, 8% Catholic, 6% Presbyterian Church, and 25% other affiliation (“County of Greenville,” 2014).

“The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South” by John W. Blassingame is the first book about slavery written by a historian in the viewpoint of slaves rather than slave owners. This book analyzes the experience of slaves in the South during misjudgement and confusion. Blassingame targets the different aspects that have influenced the slaves life and the way they lived it. Blassingame writes this book to encounter you in feeling the pain of the slaves but also how they had their own traditions and culture while enslaved.

The political machine is very powerful in the city and because of how powerful it is that urban United States was able to develop so much and increase in power in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. A political machine is system of political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, and political ties. Sometimes political machines have a boss and sometimes they may not have a boss, and always have a corps of workers who depend on the patronage given by government contracts and jobs. Machine politics has existed in many United States cities for a long time now, but are still in effect in some areas.

Based on English traditions, the Southern Colonies' social structure was determined by a person's lineage and wealth. On top of the structure, there were many wealthy English families, clergymen, judges, and people who owned large amounts of land; these people were able to control the workers due to their powerful status. Under the powerful people was the largest social class in the colonies; many merchants, vendors, and farmers were on this level. Although they weren't of a more powerful status such as the clergymen and judges, they were still very educated, hardworking, and skilled. These people may not have had power, but they were not treated as badly as the indentured servants and Africans. Many people struggled on these lower levels.

The demographics of St. John the Baptist Parish revealed that African Americans predominately make up 55.4%, Caucasians make up 42% and Hispanics or Latinos make up 5.4%. Two or more ethnicities make up 1.2%, Native Americans or Pacific Islander make up 0.2% while American Indian/ Alaskan natives make up 0.4 %. Lastly Asians make up 0.8% of the population. The parish is academically proficient with 81% of the populace graduating high school and 15.2% obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree or higher. To conclude the statistical data, the median household income between 2010 and 2014 was reported as $50,716 with the per capita income of

A great example of the inability to fire government workers is teacher’s tenure. Once a teacher is tenured they can essentially keep their job for the rest of their life. Factor claims, “If we got rid of five to ten percent of the worst-performing teachers, our children’s educational outcomes would improve dramatically.” In other words, because unions make it difficult to fire poor performers, the system gets clogged with employees who put out a level of work which is less deserving of the pay they receive than their better-performing

Charleston city was well known for its power and commercial dominance and was peaceful city for a while. The great earthquake that strike Charleston’s wrecked the city an eventually led to significant change in the community of Charleston’s. Particularly, the great earthquake shaken the class differences between the people of color, specifically the black working class with the white people. The black people took advantages of the opportunities provided by the earthquake, to improve their life through the demand of labor, wages inflation, and ability to express their culture.

The average household income was $59,534.00. The college education attainment was 30.9% and the unemployment rate was 4.6%. The age category age of 18 under was 17% and above was 75%. The population growth was 22%. The percentage of White/Caucasian was 50.5%, Black/African-American was 23.7% percent and Hispanic/Latino was 43.8% percent.

The plantation owners were considered the royalty of the South, with huge mansions and often had second homes in the city. The planters were the minority since the population was a very small tightly knit group of people. They were usually extremely wealthy, considered the aristocrats, and they grew thousands of acres of cotton to become that way (Schultz, Mays, Winfree, 2010). The plantation owners were very involved in the everyday happenings on their property, every aspect was subject to

During this time, there was an inefficient use land, labor and resources, which resulted in an economic slackening. Bureaucrats were paid for loyalty with

All organizations strive to streamline operations, which in turn should lead to saving money. Fighting the wasting of resources should be a top priority for any government entity and particularly for supervisors, managers, and executives. In the public sector this is particularly true because the citizens in effect supply the resources wasted. The public trust should not be abused by careless or needless spending. However, because of the bureaucratic nature of any government agency, some waste cannot readily be avoided. The laws and regulations that have been duly enacted to secure justified expenditures in and of themselves can cause waste.

The need for financial stringency in public organizations due to budgetary pressures and tax resistance coupled with the need to Managing /balancing budget deficits and provide quality services with a reduction in revenue has always been a major challenge for public organizations. The need to save money and at the same time provide quality services, had forced government agencies to privatize and contract out. Recently, there is greater involvement of the private and nonprofit sector in public service delivery. More and more government functions in service delivery are now carried out by private and nonprofit organization. This is one part attributed to the belief that private organizations can provide services more efficiently and effectively than government operated services. And the other is the fact that it is cost effective and takes a lesser time frame. These two process are indeed unarguably beneficial to the government and private sector as well as the beneficiaries, but they can be also very daunting accompanied with huge challenges especially when not executed in the rightful manner. The case of the crummy contractor by Rainey depicts such a complex situation , where the process of contracting out was poorly conducted. The case highlights the demand for privatization and contracting-out and most importantly some of the challenges of privatization and contracting in government organization. it goes on further to identify some crucial pointed to be