The Establishment Clause

The Establishment Clause, one could say is the blueprint for how Thomas Jefferson viewed the relationship between politics and religion, by putting a wall of separation between them. In essence to this clause, the government cannot interfere with the affairs of the church and vice versa with the church not being able to interfere with … Read more

Existence of accountability expectation gap in public sector in Edo State

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The democratic convulsions and delusions evident in Nigeria since May 1999 when military government handover to civilian’s government presented a worrisome dimension to the crisis of development in the country and the manifestation in the flight of transparency and accountability in governance. Accordingly, democracy -promotes competitive struggle … Read more

Policy making in Nigeria

2.1. Introduction The success of any political system lies in its policy making and implementation process. Policy as an instrument of government affects the lives of each person. It involves a central position in the success of every administration, whether public, private or not-for-profit making organization. The Amnesty Programme was embraced to address the main … Read more

US and Iran relations

The relationship between the United States and Iran is undoubtedly one of the most crucial and intense of the geopolitical world today. In this paper it is argued that both powers sometimes have common interests, but working together with Iran remains very difficult for the United States. Why is that? In this paper, there will … Read more

‘The Prince’ by Niccolò Machiavelli – Modern Political Thought

Introduction Niccolò Machiavelli (3 May 1469 ‘ 21 June 1527) was born into this unstable time of shifting fortunes in the year 1469. He served in a number of minor government positions, and was banished or imprisoned at various points of his career. He was responsible official in Florentine Republic with diplomatic and military affairs. … Read more

A Changing Political Situation Affecting the Tourism Industry – The Case of Cuba

Chapter 1: Changing Political Situation US – Cuba 1.1 The Situation On the 17th of December 2014 Barack Obama, president of the United States of America, announced that he is willing and aiming to strengthen the relations between the United States of America and the island Cuba. The current president of Cuba is Ra??l Castro, … Read more

CORRUPTION IN INDIA

1. INTRODUCTION Corruption is widespread in India. India is ranked 85 out of 17 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2014. Corruption is one of the chief enemies of state and almost every time it hinders growth and development. Corruption in India is the main problem since Independence . Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi … Read more

India Israel relations

In the first place you have to start with the area of historical events. Both of the countries came from one of the great historical backgrounds. The rules of British empire stayed with its influence until late 1950`s. India gained their independence in 1940 but the great Israel go it in 1948, so eight years … Read more

Decentralisation

Over the past two decades a wave of decentralization to the local political bodies has been noticed all over the world. (Martinez-Vazquez, May 2007, p. 1) These worldwide trend towards decentralization is welcomed by the academicians and experts as a positive sign for democratic transformation and the process can be perceived in two fundamental observations,:’First, … Read more

Case study – Croatia and Yugoslavia

This is a case study on the case between Croatia who filled a case against Yugoslavia to the international court of justice for the crimes it committed toward the state between the year 1991 and 1995 for violations of the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. There is an article … Read more

The Telangana movement for statehood

To understand the significance of Telangana movement for statehood, this chapter intends to analyze its historical background of the region in three phases. For that it focus on some of the findings such as variety of causal factors which have been identified as contributors to separatism, including the sense of deprivation or exploitation, recognition of … Read more

Rational Choice Theory, Grounded Theory, and Their Applicability to analysis Islamic State (ISIS)

Abstract This study seeks to analyse the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. By using theoretical and analytical pointers from Rational Choice theory, this theory will analyse this material to indicate a general comprehension on it. Rational Actor theory in most cases establishes the structures, tactics and strategies which are important to help us to … Read more

The Hutton framework

The Hutton framework is a descriptive framework to detail and classify reimbursement systems. Within this framework, two levels can be defined. The first level is the policy implementation level. The main elements of this level are establishment, objectives, implementation and accountability (Hutton et al. 2006). These elements describe how the reimbursement system ‘is embedded in … Read more