Contrasting Views on Public Policy
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A 6 page research paper that looks at public policy, its formulation and implementation. This examination looks at the approach to pubic policy advocated by Weimer and Vining (1992) and Majone (1989), utilizing the factors in public policy formation identified by Peters (1999) as a guide to evaluating these two models. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khpubpol.rtf

Coping with Change: Public Sector Employees
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This 11 page paper discusses in part the manner in which the public sector typically follows the private in times of sweeping changes. All business has undergone immense change in the past fifteen years, and that change has been moving into the public sector for some time. Budgets continually decrease, but decrease in services generally is not seen as being acceptable. Taylorism could have been used as a positive tool, but it is best known for establishing the piecework animosity between labor and management. Scientific management created the greatest change known before that of the quality movement, downsizing and the quest for ever-increasing ushered in a shift of similar significance. Public sector employees now are expected to be as accountable as their private sector counterparts. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KSpubEmpChange.wps

Corporate Income Taxation
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A 3 page paper discussing the relative merits of corporate income taxation, both in its current form in the US and as it would be were the US to adopt a value-added tax (VAT) approach. The VAT is not compatible with other tax structures, and depending on the output of the specific organization, it ultimately rests with those least able to pay it when the corporation raises prices to pay its taxes. This is true regardless of tax structure, and it is a point that legislators must bear in mind when searching for additional funds for pubic services. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KStaxCorp.rtf

Correcting Negative Externalities
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A 4 page paper defining externalities and how they lead to market failure, then discussing three approaches (regulation, cost-benefit analysis, adopting sustainability measures) to correcting negative externalities. Negative externalities are "spill-over" qualities or items that carry social costs. When producers fail to acknowledge those social costs, the costs are there just the same. Milliken is one company that gives potential negative externalities the attention they deserve. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSpubAdmExtern.rtf

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposition 82
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A 22 page paper providing full cost-benefit analysis of the effects of Proposition 82 which will require free universal preschool for all of California's 4-year-old children. Discount factors used are 3 and 4 percent; teachers are given a raise only once and no other costs increase over the 30-year life of the program. The project becomes positive after the first decade. Bibliography lists 23 sources.
Filename: KScbaCAprop82-2.rtf

Costs of Government Interference in Small Business
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A 7 page paper discussing some of the myriad regulations with with private companies must comply. There are many areas in which government regulation is oppressive for private corporations, but minimum wage and payroll tax issues are common to all. Though underlying intentions may be admirable, legislators and administrators need to evaluate their actions with greater care so that private companies are better able to compete in today's changing economy. The paper also discusses environmental regulations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSgovtRegs.wps

Critical Essay, Review, Analysis, and Revision
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This 7 page report presents a critical essay written on the topic that “Workers at the bottom of the economic ladder are paid enough.” An initial essay is presented and then criticized in terms of its overall argument and pseudo reasoning/fallacies. Then, the essay is revisited and suggestions are made of how it should be revised to better state the author’s argument and overall point of view. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWcrites.wps

Curbing Drug Use in North Idaho
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This 3 page paper explores the drug problem in the region and makes a proposal. The proposal is to use drug testing in schools. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA646Ido.rtf

David Rusk/ "Cities Without Suburbs"
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A 5 page research paper that examines David Rusk's book on urban politics, Cities Without Suburbs. The writer offers a summation of Rusk's argument that urban problems can be aided by consolidating city and county governments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: 99drusk.wps

Decreasing Infant Mortality by Decreasing Low-Birth Weight Infants from Teenage Mothers
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of a public health view on the issue of infant mortality rates in teen mothers and the impacts of a new policy perspective. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHinfmoUS.rtf