Policy implementation is influenced by politics, as political support can determine the resources allocated to policy initiatives and their ultimate success or failure. In democratic societies, public opinion can play a significant role in shaping both politics and policy, with elected officials often ad...
Also, there is a clear propaganda interest for rulers wanting to retain power to disparage new ideas. In countries with monarchy, the words “republic” or “democracy” have been used precisely like “anarchy,” to imply disorder and confusion. Those with a vested interest in preserving the ...
Regardless, the notion that graphene oxide can be “activated” in this way is “nonsense,” wrote Julia Greer, a materials science professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who has used graphene oxide in her research, in an email Monday. “You can’t ‘activ...
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate about methods of institutional analysis. How to empirically analyse institutions and institutional change? Is there a superior method when it comes to institutional questions? We discuss these issues f
UNIT13 What Is "American”About the USA? 是什么让美国独一无二,成为地球上一个特别的地方? What makes the USA unique, a special place on earth? 首先,这是“西方”最极端的例子。 For one thing, it is the most extreme example of what it means to be "Western." 在主要西方...
Electoral systems enable voters to indicate whom they want to serve them in politics. In principle this allows for the people to control their government, but in practice electoral systems like that of the United States of America have non-democratic aspects....
Where is the client? Better Software Architecture Which Theory Fits the Evidence? why do theory p and theory d matter? belief drives behaviour so which theory fits the evidence? d is for “d’oh! we should have gone with p!” Interlude: The Programmer’s Dilemma Project Management acts...
The snow falls quietly. Be careful because some words that are mass nouns can also be countable nouns, depending on how they’re used. The basic rule is that they’re mass nouns when used generally but countable nouns when used specifically. [general & singular] Beauty is in the eye ...
“I am a woman’s rights,” began Sojourner Truth before a packed audience at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention (Painter 1996: 125–6, 281–2). Her speech that May day in 1851 recounted her lived experience as a woman. It also conveyed...
Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world i,rather than how we would wish it to b,its findings may not in all cases be immediately comprehensible or satisfying.It may take a little work to restructure our mindsets.Some of science is very simple.When it gets complic...