Assignment 1 – government and policies P1) outline the responsibilities of the different levels of government in the UK. P2) describe the roles of the government departments in relation to the public services including their responsibilities. P3) explain the electoral processes used in the UK elections. M1) explain in detail the responsibilities of the different levels of government in the UK. M2) compare the electoral processes used at different levels of government in the UK. D1) evaluate the responsibilities
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When a nation develops their government the ideas of national‚ state‚ and local governments become a point of interest. Should there be small state and local governments? Should there only be a national government? The United States of America has a federal government. Federalism is a split government system with state and local governments as well as a national government. There certainly is advantages to both levels of government. However‚ if there are advantages‚ then‚ undoubtedly‚ there are disadvantages
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U.S. Monetary Policy and What the Federal Reserve does. According to the Congressional Budget Office monetary policy is‚ "The strategy of influencing movements of the money supply and interest rates to affect output and inflation. An "easy" monetary policy suggests faster growth of the money supply and initially lower short-term interest rates in an attempt to increase aggregate demand‚ but it may lead to a higher rate of inflation. A "tight" monetary policy suggests slower growth of the money
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Comparing and Contrasting the Russian and American Government Russia and the United States have a long history of both positive and negative relations between the the two nations. It would seem as though relationships started out rather smoothly in the beginning‚ when Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for 7.2 million‚ but history has certainly caused that mutual respect to dissipate. These ever-changing affiliations can be seen in many historical events such as‚ working together as
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that have more merit than others. There are two main viewpoints‚ little government intervention and major government intervention. This very notion is one of the many reasons that the United States split into two main parties and why there are such heavy party lines today. Keynesian school of economics attributed to John Maynard Keynes‚ who wrote The General Theory of Employment‚ Interest‚ and Money‚ preaches more government interaction to rough around the edges of capitalism. On the other side of
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debate as to whether government intervention is necessary in order to preserve and regulate economic changes within an economy. In the source‚ Ronald Reagan states that “the problem is not that people are taxed too little‚ the problem is that government spends too much.” Through this source‚ it is evident that Reagan in an advocate of supply-side economics as he believes in the natural regulation of the economy through demand and production. Furthermore‚ he is not in favor of government intervention of
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Friedrich Hayek believes that the term “social justice” refers to the international distributions of economic awards by the government in different parts of the world. Hayek’s major argument is that any type of concept of social justice should be “wholly devoid of meaning or content” in the situation of an impromptu market order in which the combined circulation of resources increases as the oblique aftermath of economic activities‚ the major effects which no one aims to cause or discern. Hayek willingly
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The American Federal system is basically a system of separated powers between national‚ state‚ and local governments who share power within the same political system. All of the separate powers regulate certain laws for all individual citizens. Before the U.S. had federalism and The Constitution in 1789‚ the U.S. first created The Articles of Confederation. The problem with the Articles of Confederation is that the states had more control than the national government. States had their own permission
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Introduction Both Federal Court System and the State Court System play an important role in the criminal justice system. There are some major differences between these two court systems. A prime example of this is their jurisdiction while federal court jurisdiction is limited to the types of cases they are allowed to hear. For example‚ some cases involve violations of the United States Constitution and/or federal laws or the Congress could give them a court case. However‚ the state court has a broad
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there is government involvement in the economy‚ either through control or ownership of productive resources. Socialists believe that the government should provide basic necessities for all‚ as well it believes in competing political parties chosen to govern by majority rule‚ with minority rights guaranteed. The economic systems of nations in today’s world are not simply capitalist or socialist. Economic systems now have elements of both capitalism and socialism. They are mixed economies. Canada is
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