Essays on Public Policy

Historians have argued the significance of Mao’s social policies for years. We can measure the significance of Mao’s social, communist ideologies by their remarkability, resonance and impact through time, also weighing up other events which may weaken or strengthen their overall significance. In 1949 the...

Currently Liberal Party dominates the Government of Canada and current Canadas Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau is also part of Liberal Party, this gives Liberal Party a lot of control to influence their ideology. Ideology is a set of ideas that explains and evaluates social...

According to Gua broken windows theory and policing strategies based on it predict that citizens’ perceptions of disorder in their communities cause fear and social withdrawal, which thereby opens the streets for serious predatory crime. ‘Broken windows’ refers to the hypothesis that low-level offenses (vandalism...

Networks (or interest groups) and stakeholders engagement in the policy making process is important as they represent the wider population that the policy will have an impact on. The input that they bring into the policy formation process helps frame the policy to best suit...

One of the central goals of development economics has been to understand how to raise the quality of life of the people. As Adam Smith (1776) made an emphasis on his book, Wealth of Nations, “No society can be surely flourishing and happy, of which...

Many people have suffered from financial and economic problems throughout the globe. The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has sparked this trend. The UBI is an actual cash payment for all people (2016), the economist states. Indeed, the idea behind the UBI is...

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors said“Robotics will take away most people’s jobs, so a universal income is the only solution.” Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates have also made similar comments to Elon’s, depicting an autonomous future that will take over jobs such as factory...

The concept of universal basic income (UBI) has been in discussion for decades and resurfaced as a preeminent leading solution in releasing the financial burdens and serves as an incremental anti-poverty intervention for United States citizens. Historical figures such as Thomas Paine (founding father of...

Universal basic income (UBI), in other literature referred as basic income, citizen’s income and unconditional basic income is a regular cash payment, paid periodically by a political community to all its members on an individual basis without means test. The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN,...

Throughout the topics of study in this course I found the following subjects the most compelling. We have studied the federal court system and judicial review, American civil liberties, and American public policy. Within the study of public policy, domestic and foreign policy are by...