Historical institutionalists are likely to define an institution based on the dynamic between formal and informal governmental structure of a polity.3 So in essence, historical institutionalists are inclined to identify key agents of institutionalism in bureaucracy and administrative structural contact. ... Overpopulation is an example of the tragedy of the commons because, as we know, the tragedy of the commons is a phrase used to describe property owned by the government given to the people, whereby the people do not take any ownership in the property and therefore nobody takes accountabilit...

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Official statistics are one of the many secondary sources of retrieving data and it can simply be defined as information collected from the general public by government agencies or private organizations, usually through a census or a survey- statistical data rounded in official statistics are mainly used for the study of demography, inflation, crime and deviance, unemployment, poverty and suicide. ... This classification can then allow for quantifying the data, which in turn sets the base for the use of statistical data. ... Similarly, many theoretical examinations of crime and deviance have...

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According to Robinson, the government would openly direct their news to the most established network (e.g. ... Robinson also discussed how the elite and the government could both use the media to their advantage, sometimes in unison as he mentioned how certain donors and benefactors to presidential campaigns may also have a certain vision of the country's political policies (Robinson, 2001, p. 536). ... To achieve this, the government may only make parts of the information that is favorable to their cause available to the public, in hopes of receiving the reaction they planned on getting...

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It could also be argued that feminist victimology is heavily based upon qualitative methodologies rather than quantitative data, and so lacks validity. ... To support this perspective, scientific methodologies were used and empirical data was collected, mainly based upon "criminal statistics provided by central and local government departments" and victimisation surveys. (Davies, et al., 2003, pp. 3) The problem with this however, is that criminal statistics provided by the government departments and victimisation surveys do not accurately portray the 'dark figure' of cri...

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Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. ... Party politics had, after a two-decade struggle, finally become a weight in government, but not without compromise. ... Finally, the role of the emperor himself as the ultimate source of Japanese authority meant that any action on the part of government could be overruled by recourse to an imperial prerogative. ... What can be seen as a driving fo...

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An equal approach understands that society is, based on social categories such as gender, race, disability, age, social class, sexuality and religion that will impact on our life experiences. ... United Kingdom is a society which is seen to be diverse; therefore one of the government's initiatives is that everyone has a right to be treated equally regardless, of background gender and age. The New Labor Government defines equality as inclusion and allowing people to reach potential (Walsh, Stephens & Moore, 2000). Although the Labor governments definition is to ensure that full potential i...

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In C.B Macpherson's article, Hobbes' "Bourgeois Man," he argues that Hobbes' commonwealth puts an extreme emphasis on pride, or vainglory being among the most basic of individual drives that we hold has humans, and further dives into the idea that Hobbes' Commonwealth is a society that is based upon Commodity Fetishism or a society in which social relationships between citizens are solely based on production of the commodities and money created and exchanged in market trade, these are not relationships that are based on an actual person but the length to which a singl...

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Other ecologically-based phenomena, such as Peak Oil and geopolitical conflict over scarce resources, could further accelerate this process. ... Almost the entire population of the city was displaced due to the hurricane, a large proportion of whom may never return, "presenting a host of profound economic, social, and psychological challenges to individuals, communities and all levels of government" (Oliver-Smith, 2005). ...

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-Customs Bodies of Republic of Belarus sometimes transmit poorly developed materials inspection, which reduces the formation of the evidence base and the number of bringing to justice the perpetrators of crimes in the area of ​​customs; -Mutually poor knowledge of laws and regulations governing the joint law enforcement resulting in unreasonably allowed considerable time spent on preparing and carrying out activities that reduces the quality of teamwork and hence the number of disclosed crimes in the area of ​​customs; It is well known that the legislation in the customs sphere is cons...

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Traditionalists would argue that homosexuality is not the 'natural' way of living; whereas Interactionalists believe every i ndividual should live based on their own ideologies; whichever kind they may be. ...

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