Effective Government

In this society, we are nearly “brain-washed” to restrict the notion of intelligence to a person’s capability in solving mathematical problems. However, this is not the case.  Read More »

“Osborne's and Gaebler's Ten Principles of Reinvention are:

1. Catalytic Government (steering rather than rowing)
2. Community-owned Government (empowering rather than serving)
3. Competitive Government (injecting competition into service delivery)
4. Mission-driven Government (transforming rule-driven organizations)  Read More »

“The U.S. declaration of war against terrorism that followed the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, like so many previous trumpet calls, pushed economic and governmental reform agendas to the sidelines.  Read More »

'Construct the best argument to explain why we invaded Iraq. Bear in mind that Paul O’Neill (Bush’s original Secretary of the Treasury, who attended Cabinet meetings) reported in his book that the invasion of Iraq was discussed at the Cabinet level even before 9/11, and also that this conclusion is confirmed in “The Downing St. Memos”.  Read More »

Perhaps this would be better as a forum, as it is a forum discussion from my online course "Logic and Reason," but I was curious to see what all ProU users might have to say about the subject.

The question posted to the forum:  Read More »

What do you think of when you hear "Big Government?" Less power in the hands of the government, more individual freedom, less taxes, etc.? In actuality the process of creating "Smaller Government," is called devolution. It is the shift of power from the federal to the state government.  Read More »

The "marble-layered cake" analogy regarding America's government is a reflection of how intertwined our three levels of government are. Those three levels of government are national, regional (or state) and local.  Read More »