Mandate

have the greatest opportunity to influence policy (Hawker 2015: 7). The most obvious way that citizens of a representational democracy make their opinion known and their voice heard in regard to public policy is at the ballet box, but it is not the only way. Nor, perhaps, is it the clearest and most effective way. When one party is elected to government over another it is not always clear, for example, that the voting public have necessarily supported and provided a mandate to government for all policies that the party campaigned on (Nethercote 1999). Voters may have simply have tired of the previous government or strongly supported a particular policy without necessarily endorsing others also promoted by a party. Complicating the issue further is the possibility of a party with a particular view forming government while another party with a different view is voted in with a majority in the senate. Both parties may claim a mandate from the voters making the overall view of the public and the legitimacy of any mandate difficult to determine (Nethercote 1999). Fortunately other avenues exist, however, whereby an individual, or a group of individuals, can make their political opinion known concerning policy. Parliamentary committees, for example, are a formal process whereby the parliament seeks opinions and information from experts and the general public on a wide range of policy issues. Committee findings are reported back to parliament and may contain recommendations for…

international organizations and institutions, such as UNHCR’s Executive Committee, cannot be understood as simple products of bargaining between state interests, but rather through continued research on its complex negotiation system, which deeply influences the nature, legitimacy and outcomes of policies for the global refugee regime. Respond to the readings within the context of the course The purpose of global refugee policy is to provide a course of action in response to a problem relating…

believe that all the rules set by the government should be followed strictly and that no exemptions will be provided to anyone. All citizens are in that case mandated to have a health insurance cover failure to which they should be charged. Also, they believe that the government will bear the cost of medical treatment for a patient who not covered and happens not to be financially capable of taking care of their medical expenses. The conservatives also believe that it is the mandate of the…

No one knows a child better than the person who raised him and any other person claiming to know what is the best for the child is just talking nonsense .The government claims to have the right to mandate parents to monitor what their children watch; however, the government forgets that the parents are the ones who have care and nurture this child . Parents are the only ones with power to decide what their children are capable to watch since they know the maturity level of their child, know…

The Individual Mandate: Necessary Intervention or Unethical Overreach? Introduction: The individual mandate (requirement that all people have health insurance or pay a penalty) is a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and has been the subject of considerable debate. I will be continuing this trend and analyze the individual mandate with the five step Gostin framework. This framework seeks to answer five key questions: First, is there a significant risk that the individual…

Confucius, the founder of Confucianism once said “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.” Legalism, Confucianism, and the “Mandate of Heaven” were employed by the Chinese and originated in ancient China. Legalism is a school that emphasizes and teaches law. Confucianism is a lifestyle, some people even consider it a religion. The Mandate of Heaven was a philosophy that emperors should be given the “right to rule based on their ability to govern (Mandate of Heaven).…

The Mandates created by the European Powers were, in their own language, made to protect the “peoples’ not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world.” The purpose was not the installation governing bodies akin to the ones established during the 17th and 18th centuries of European Colonialism, but instead, European nations were intended to look after these countries “well-being and development” in order to create nations capable of one day governing…

Heaven bestowed this mandate on a person that had Virtue; kindness, wisdom, and reverence. This Virtue was said to be passed down to descendants but would be revoked by viciousness and bestowed to someone more worthy and virtuous. However, by the time Confucius was born in the period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, kings were merely figure heads. The land was broken up into states where the real power was held by the dukes and nobles of each territory. During this lack of unity, rulers were…

1. British Mandate British Mandate named as "Mandate for Palestine" was established in 1922 by the League of Nations. Its purpose was to manage non-self-governing regions such as Ottoman Empire sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern part of the Vilayet of Syria, the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of Mudros. But with the passage of time the government failed to apply this Mandate and the Britain declared the termination of this…

This historical analysis will define the influence of the French mandate in the development of socialism in Syria through European education and development of the League of Nationalist Action (LNA) and the Ba’ath Party in the nationalist movements of the 1930s and 1940s. The rise of socialism in Syria was primarily organized by young men that sought a modern nationalist platform through the LNA in the 1930s. The fervent nationalism against the French mandate provided a conceptualization of…