The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made a number of strides in recent years, including 2011. The department’s organization and cooperation with other agencies continues to strengthen. Read the article discussing the success of the DHS in 2011 located athttp://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/20111222-dhs-progress-2011.shtm. Write a ten(10) page paper in which you:

It must be at least 10 pages with proper citation, grammar, spelling.  It must also contain a list of sources.  Please use substantive sources and do not rely on web sites such as Wikipedia as the sole basis for your information.Topic is Given the current level of dissatisfaction with government, are there any real solutions to make it function more to the expectation of the People?

Write a 2 to 3 page, double-spaced essay on the question: How would you describe American political culture?  Read the material in our text on the concept of political culture so you can define this term (political culture) and elaborate on what shared characteristics make us Americans with regard to how we interact with our political system.  Be sure to refer to what the text discusses […]

For your week #7 blackboard discussion, I’d like you to read & consider “Ethics and Internal Hiring” (pg 105-109) in “Managing Local Government:  Cases in Effectiveness”. As you heard from our guest speaker, the Human Resources disipline is a critical component of efficient and effective public sector organizations. As Gary mentioned, HR duties vary from the “transactional” to the “transformational” and City Manager’s rely on […]

The topic of essay one will be bureaucratic institutions. As you’ll find out when you read Chapter Eight of the textbook, the executive branch of the American government has many, many bureaucratic institutions which help it to carry out daily governance. Some of these institutions help organize domestic politics (like the Department of Education), some conduct foreign policy (like the Department of State), and some […]

Public administration is an essential link between citizens and governments. With the rapid pace of globalization, the public sector is under even greater pressure to increase its capacity to deal with the new challenges and opportunities that globalization presents. The relationship of globalization and governance is multidimensional. States / countries with high levels of integration with the rest of the world tend to have better […]

The final project will be a completed grant proposal for an actual or hypothetical nonprofit organization. You are to identify a community problem and nonprofit program that addresses the identified problem.  You will then assume the role as the nonprofit organization’s grant writer to complete a modified common grant proposal in response to an actual grant opportunity you will find online.  The following sections will […]

heterosexual norms represent the guidelines for determining sexual deviance. In two different cases Joran van der Sloot’s heterosexual deviance has left him as a criminal suspect in one case involving Natalee Holloway, and as a convicted murder in another case involving another woman, Stephany Flores. In this case study, you will explore heterosexual deviance as committed by Joran van der Sloot.  

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution begins with the phrase “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union …” As one reads this phrase, it is difficult to overlook the significance of the words “…in order to form a more perfect union …” What did the Framers of the Constitution mean by this proposition? Were they acknowledging the […]

For the week 6 discussion I choose to elaborate on scenario 1 which is the Affordable Care Act. This Act has been the target of many debates mainly because it is free which according to many would see an increase in health care visits which could affect tax payers pockets. To take a more indebt look at the statute I think the random field experiment […]