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    The Ballot Initiative

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    These ideas bring forth the questions of where knowledge comes from. As mentioned technical knowledge comes from institutional experiences and empirical science. Allowing for representative governors to make seemingly well informed decision as they have more access to experts (Matsusaka 2005). Within the framework of direct democracy, the average citizen does not have the same access. However, direct democracy does allow for citizens to make value judgements (Matsusaka 2005). The proletarian ability

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    The Three Streams of Kingdon Examine the three streams Kingdon has recognized where issues began. Give your opinion on which one most precisely reflects how and why issue occurs Kingdon has identified the problem, policy, and political as the three streams as to where the problems originated (Jansson 2014). The three streams are what finally changed public policy that created the momentum to moved the “government agenda” box to the “decision agenda” box that made it necessary to place an issue

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    one must develop to be effective as a politically savvy leader. Defining Political Savvy Office politics has such a negative connotation and many people just do not want

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    the across the board a majority of the participants would prefer the negatively presented news, rather than the positive; as demonstrated in What's Good for the Goose is Bad for the Gander: Negative Political Advertising,Partisanship, and Turnout and Editorial Cartoons 2.0: The Effects of Digital Political Satire on Presidential Candidate Evaluations. Regarding the control groups; Group 1 (those who viewed CNN regularly) would likely prefer CNN, however since CNN is a centrist news outlet, individuals

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    year, the half-an-hour documentary entitled ‘The Making of Malcolm’ comprises of interviews telling the story of our prime minister’s childhood and life before politics filmed in ‘09. This is merged with more recent interviews, exploring Turnbull’s political career. There’s an extreme emphasis on personal recollection and anecdotes of past events. This makes for a very personal production; one where truth takes a back seat behind the spectacular and the endearing. It also has the convenient side effect

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    This epistemological study will define the political ideology of “blowback” that occurs through the contextualism of American foreign policy and the rise of ISIS in the Middle East. The origins of ISIS in the Middle East was a historical development that occurred within the historical context of American foreign intervention in Afghanistan and other Islamic nations that involved the funding of Muslim terrorist organizations. In this contextualist conception, the history of American funding of terrorist

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    the American way of life. Pluralists themselves, however, would argue that in fact a democratic government is undesirable, seeing as most everyday people are not educated on politics, and therefore really should not have much of an influence on political decisions. Furthermore, they would argue that Pluralism is

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    However, both of these enabled me to deepen my awareness of the relevance of public affairs and how to best and positively lay out your personal message and response. Within both of these roles I learnt how to stay on top of the forever changing political world as I was tasked with supplying briefing packs to both

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    Political/Legal Home Depot receives its products from third party suppliers, with most of these products manufactured in third world countries with unstable political environments. The Home Depot faces the effects of the political situation that is taking place among the markets. As a company, Home Depot is exposed to trade embargos and increases in tariff rates. Home Depot operates in countries with different tax regulations. Yet the governments of these countries may have incentive programs

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    The Causes Of Civil Wars

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    which are caused by numerous underlying causes. Civil wars are “any armed conflict contained within the boarders’ of a sovereign state” Freeland Valerie. Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Science 220, “Civil Wars.” November 16th, 2017. Civil wars have played an important role in shaping political and historical events of states and societies. Some of the civil wars that have occurred have changed the way the world functions politically, economically, and socially. Thus, civil wars aggregate

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