… Introduction According to Michael Lipsky (1993), street-level bureaucrats (SLB) are the civil servants who interact with citizens directly and have wide discretion over the allocation of services. They act as the agency between the government and…

… of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, the country now known as Russia has been going through many of the tough growing pains that such countries as it go through in their formative years. Inflation, political instability, economic turmoil and…

… attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and his declaration of war against terrorism, many critics feared the president's motives in seeking retribution. The loss of civil rights and the fear of war for many seemed to outweigh the loss and suffering brought about…

… Democrats and Republicans are scrambling to capture the votes of America's young adults. Comprising more than 17 percent of the entire U.S. electorate, 18- to 24-year-olds have become a commodity to political strategists regardless of their elephant…

… Governments are quite possibly more interconnected and interrelated now than at any other time in history. This web of interdependency is primarily made possible by trade. And while some argue that free trade is mutually beneficial to all parties,…

… of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is only created if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state is also one of man's greatest endeavors,…

… a vital component that States have used as an instrument to help shape policy. It was genuinely accepted that a country's size, power and influence within the realm of international politics was largely dependant upon the military force with which a…

… aligned with OPEC countries for its Crude oil export. Canada has good quantity of gas and petroleum reserve in western Canada. Alberta alone produces about 80% of the total crude oil production (International energy agency). Although Alberta's oil and…

… that it has become a bit like motherhood or apple pie" (Disney, 2002:viii). As Helen Disney implies in this statement the ideas of the welfare state are very appealing to individuals around the world. The need to help the sick, elderly, disabled and…

… go down in history as not only one of the biggest massacres in El Salvador's history, but in that of the rest of Latin America as well. In the tiny hamlet of El Mozote--snuggled deep in the northern Morazan region known as the 'red zone'--over 500…