Please before you understand that this bid requires a forum     post  along  with 2 forum post responses below, both must be done.  The    budget  is what  it is posted, please do not try to raise the  price,    either you  will do  it or the next person will. The forum  post is due    by Thursday  and the responses by Sun; I will annotate  this posting   with […]

 Please before you understand that this bid requires a forum      post  along  with 3 forum post responses below, both must be done.   The    budget  is what  it is posted, please do not try to raise the   price,    either you  will do  it or the next person will. The forum   post is due    by Thursday  and the responses by Sun; I will annotate   this posting   with […]

Describe the difference between induction and deduction. Which approach to reasoning, in your opinion, is the “highest” form of homeland security analysis and why? To earn maximum points for this forum, you will need to thoughtfully and critically engage at least two of your fellow students. This means challenging, refuting, extending an idea, taking a new line of reasoning, for example. To earn points, you need to […]

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion question, read Chapters 5 and 6 in American Government and review Week Three Instructor Guidance. In addition, read the following articles: What Are the Arguments Made in Favor – and Against – the Electoral College?, GOP Leaders United in Defense of the Electoral College, and the ProQuest article Why the Electoral College is Bad for America.

*Topic: politics: lobbying and public policy making  *5 pages book review  based on your reading of  ((K. Godwin, A. Ainsworth, E. Godwin, Lobbying and Public Policy Making.  CQ Press/Sage, 2013.  ISBN 9781604264692.)) *The major topics of the paper should be about Answering  the following questions: 1. Discuss the case for “Neopluralism” as best for understanding interest group influence. Page 139, 140 to page 150 2. […]

Emergency recovery means to engage in efforts to return disaster-impacted areas back to functioning and, to the greatest appreciable extent, conditions that existed before the emergency occurred in the first place. There are a number of entities involved in emergency recovery including nonprofit organizations, private insurance companies, and myriad state and local governments. One of the most common criticisms of emergency recovery is that local […]

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 […]

 Once again will use a debate form for this weeks discussion question. Choose a side on the issue of accountability. Do you believe the United States governmental  System holds its elected officials accountable for their actions?  Support your point of you and debate with others who disagree. What this means is that you cannot ” straddle the fence ” you must pick a side of […]

  Instructions: Assume that you are a Department of Homeland Security staff officer who must prepare a professional development presentation for fellow staff officers. Select an actual emergency that required a government response. Select an agency that responded to the emergency and assess that agency’s actions. The agency could be a government administration or a specific agency within a particular level of government (federal, state, […]

Emergency management communications involve sharing information with the community through proper and appropriate uses of media outlets. Relationships between media outlets and emergency managers sometimes are strained and full of conflict. With this in mind it is important for emergency managers to always be cognizant of their constituents and how they deliver information to different groups. A message delivered to one group could have different […]