POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES

Need a car? Shopping for a car? Comparing cars? Uncle Sam wants to help. Several federal government websites that are worth checking out when you want to learn more about cars or auto safety.

Information about public opinion, how it weakens democracy, literary digest poll of 1936, Reagan White House and the media, television news as entertainment, Reagans presidency and the media, random sampling, policy agenda, and the census.

Politics and religion are those two areas that intellectuals stay away from. Could it be that maybe they are really not that smart in either of the two?

With her lack of foreign aid and public policy qualifications, no one would listen to Renu Mehta's foreign aid proposal were she not wealthy and attractive.

Examines the case of 2002 Farm Bill in light of Theodore Lowi's concept of distributive politics and Lee and Oppenheimer's study "Sizing up the Senate."

Discussion of how politics influences education decisions today and what we, as voters, need to do to protect public education and provide improvements to the system.

There are lots of websites and blogs dedicated to analysis and opinion of foreign policy, strategic thinking, security, and geostrategy in today's world. Here are three of the better sites out there.

This paper examines the societal costs and effectiveness of the use of capital punishment in the United States.

Politicians often neglect the science that would guide them in making policy decisions, depending instead on personal opinions and agenda. Dr. Muller feels it's time for science to become part of policy-making process.

There is legitimate role and public desire for government regulation of the health care industry. It has become obvious that the federal government must intervene in order to protect natural law rights, the social contract, and, the US Constitution.

An analysis of how politics creeps into how policymaking decisions are arrived at.

Election campaigns are key moments in democratic democracies because they enable citizens to hear different political viewpoints and make the right choice in voting for a candidate that will best represent their needs.

Research paper discussing the pros and cons of globalization not only in the United States but world wide as well. Includes how globalization helps in aspects of economy, education, health and other things.

What is the stem cell research debate about? Is it ethics, morality, the advancement of science in the U.S., or the political argument of the day? Hopefully, the promise of science will lead to a meaningful solution that eases ethical and moral concerns.

War, reflected in the late 19th and early 20th century global political atmosphere, is not an aberration, but simply an extension of human conduct and politics.

Technology has forever been linked to civil society. Since the dawn of the internet civil society has been changing rapidly and Americans must keep up.

Why was the popular protest movement of the late 1960's and 1970's so strong?

As this political analysis demonstrates, chaos occurs when freedom is suppressed, even ironically when that suppression occurs in the name of political ideology intended to promote freedom.

The impact of the neoliberal revolution in the post oil crisis era and its impact on labor market policies and healthcare in Germany and the United States.

George Orwell's 1984

The House Government Reform Committee's hearings into Roger Clemens' alleged use of steroids and Human Growth Hormone is just the latest in a series of investigations of "America's Pastime" by Congress

Public smoking and the regulation thereof is explored. Governmental regulation and the rights of individuals are considered. Civil liberties play an important role in deciding whether or not public smoking is legal or not.

A research anaylsis of Margaret Thatcher and her fascinating creation of Thatcherism

Politicians speak of the "middle class," not "middle and low income." There's a reason.

The Author, a Hyde Park resident and neighbor of Barack Obama, comments on the movement supporting the electric Presidential candidate.

A critical look at corporate influence on politics and copyright.