thics and Governance (Aspire IAS) Part 2 ****************************** Whistle Blowing and Ethics (Very Important for upcoming examination) ********************************************** How can government encourage whistle blowing? In an article about whistle blowing in a business context ‚ Lilanthi Ravishankar makes a useful distinction between external and internal whistle blowing. She argues that companies should encourage internal whistle blowing so that problems are solved within
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On september 10th 1883 ‚ president Andrew Jackson decided shut down all of the second national banks. In addition to that he was also able to use all of his executive power to remove all federal funds from the bank. And this was the beginning of a new dispute known as the Bank Wars. According to Tthe thhe bank Bank wars is a reference to the political struggle that developed over the issue of recharting the second bank during Andrew Jackson’s Administration. These steps of actions taken by the President
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Code RL31798 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Data Mining: An Overview Updated December 16‚ 2004 Jeffrey W. Seifert Analyst in Information Science and Technology Policy Resources‚ Science‚ and Industry Division Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress Data Mining: An Overview Summary Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud‚ assessing risk‚ and product retailing
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Chapter 12: Congress 1) What did the Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility Act of 2009 do and the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act do that impacts college students? 430 a) The CARD act of 2009‚ restricted credit card companies from raising interest rates on existing balances. It also prevented credit card companies from charging a fee for exceeding their borrowing limit unless these customers had explicitly requested this service. It also made it more difficult for credit card
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Similarities and differences between Parliament and Congress Huang Jiasu A congress and a parliament seem to be very similar things the legislative branches of the majority of the world’s democracies which are filled with popularly elected men and women who come together to decide the legislative issues of their home nation. However‚ despite the initial impression of sameness‚ the two are very different in two key areas: What is the constitution of them and what are their functions. This
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the Bureaucracy with funding and political support‚ the Bureaucracy provides special favors for interest groups. Interest groups provide the Bureaucracy with congressional support through lobbying‚ the Bureaucracy provides congress with policy choices and execution‚ and congress provides interest groups with friendly legislation and oversight. Interest groups that see there is a problem with a policy and begin to collect evidence on how and why it needs to be changed. They then begin to lobby the
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ballots and oral voting instructions is another. Third is the prohibition of vote dilution‚ which is the remapping of districts to suppress the minority vote. The final provision was one of the most controversial of the Act. It established the federal oversight over the administrations of elections in areas where racism and discrimination thrived. This provision of the VRA was one of the most controversial because some citizens believed it was a major intrusion of States rights. The covered jurisdictions
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Free-Response Questions from Past AP Exams 1999: 1. Is Congress effective in exercising legislative oversight of the federal bureaucracy? Support your answer by doing ONE of the following: a. Explain two specific methods Congress uses to exercise effective oversight of the federal bureaucracy. OR b. Give two specific explanations for the failure of Congress to exercise effective oversight of the federal bureaucracy. 2000: 1. The Constitution was an attempt to address problems of decentralization
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categories and reasoning. Logically he proceeds with "The Process of Rulemaking"‚ followed by "Issues and Contradictions" in chapter three. He moves on to the management of rulemaking in chapter 4. "Participation in Rulemaking" for chapter 5. "Oversight of Rulemaking" for chapter 6‚ and ending with "Theory‚ an Agenda for Research‚ and an Appreciation" for chapter 7. The book starts out strong and extremely
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wouldn’t provide a running tally to the public so it’s unlikely that anyone will know the extent of JP Morgan’s losses before the bank reports second quarter results. JP Morgan lacked risk controls – regulator * The real issue here is lack of oversight‚ reasonable standards and risk control -------------------------------------------- The bets were indeed prop trades. * Whitney (CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group) : “A credit hedge in banking should be a loan-loss provision‚ plain
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