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A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.
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Donald Trump: Rhetorical Impact on Societal Divisions
How did Donald Trump's rhetoric and actions impact societal divisions during his first term presidency according to polls, surveys, or case studies?
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Barack Obama: Rhetorical Impact on Societal Divisions
How did Barack Obama's rhetoric and actions impact societal divisions during his presidency according to polls, surveys, or case studies?
Specifically, I'm looking for the most prominent examples ...
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Did any other country enact a policy favoring mergers over IPOs to strenghten the resilience of companies?
Tens of thousands of China-based semiconductor companies have recently
gone out of business, and numerous IPO processes have been halted or
terminated. As a result, Chinese authorities are said to now ...
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Why do I not see the result of the family planning carried out by China?
To control the population of the country, China imposed the one-child policy since 1979, which means for each nuclear family (not the extended one), only one child was permitted, or that children born ...
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Have any governments run user-dissuasion campaigns concerning fentanyl? What were the outcomes?
Fentanyl overdoses present a unique problem to Canadian provinces and US states *.
While few want to return to Nancy Reagan's "just say no" **, it seems to me that the extremely deleterious ...
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Under what conditions do governments have a responsibility to curb overpopulation?
Many governments face problems of underreproduction and overreproduction. Some governments promote fertility, such as Japan and Armenia. China famously had a one-child policy to curb fertility.
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What is Antisemitism?
The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism - From the Whitehouse, Joe Biden:
Antisemitism threatens not only the Jewish community, but all Americans. …
"Through this U.S. National ...
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Does the United Nations have a responsibility to pressure Israel to establish a safe corridor to Egypt for those wishing to flee from Gaza?
I would like to know if the United Nations has a responsibility, due to what is stated in its Charter, to begin pressuring Israel as soon as possible to ensure that there exists a safe corridor to ...
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Secret Service Safeguards for Incarcerated Ex-U.S. Presidents
Under the provisions of the Former Presidents Act (FPA), what legal precedents or existing laws determine Secret Service protection for former U.S. presidents during incarceration periods?
How do the ...
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Rationale for restrictions in changing given or family names
In many (civil law) countries, there are strong restrictions limiting people's right to change their names. For example, even after an upcoming reform, Germans who are not part of a minority must ...
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Countries where in some parts of the territory they have a single official language different than the one spoken in the rest of the country?
Apart from Finland, Canada, India, South Africa, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland, are there other countries where in some parts of the territory (like some kind of autonomous region) they have a ...
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What is the political stance of the Biden administration on the Right to Repair, and do its policies on it reflect that?
As an advocate for Right to Repair, I have been closely following the Right to Repair movement in the US. It seems to have reached a tipping point in America too, and more than 25 US states are ...
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What government policies has Russia implemented to revive its domestic industries, after economic sanctions were imposed on them?
I was reading some Russian propaganda and came across this tidbit:
Indeed, the sanctions have done what many considered impossible: they jolted the country’s economy out of the well-trodden path of ...
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Uninsured motor vehicle drivers in the USA - why is the liability insurance requirement not enforced better?
In the USA, like in many other countries, liability insurance is mandatory for motor vehicles in almost every state. However, a significant number of drivers drive without insurance:
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What legal means exist for the German government to prevent Turks living in Germany from voting in the Turkish election?
Turkey recently had presidential elections and apart from around 62 million Turks living in Turkey people with Turkish nationality but permanent residency in some other country were eligible to vote. ...
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Is it possible to predict the impact and consequences of a policy or executive order without applying it?
Are public policies by nature unpredictable with certainty? Is it possible to predict with a likelihood that can be trusted, the effects of various proposed legislation and policies and executive ...
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How common is it for a country's main political parties to completely swap platforms (as occurred in the 20th-century United States)?
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Since the late 1850s, the United States has had two major political parties, the Democratic and Republican parties. For most of the first half of this time - from the mid-19th century to ...
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How do unpopular policies arise in democracies?
Very recent example: Macron bypassed parliament to enact French retirement bill amid protests against the bill.
There are several pedestrian explanations I can think of:
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Indian PLI Manufacturing scheme
Indian govt has announced Production Linked Incentive schemes (PLI) to boost manufacturing sector growth in India. As it can be seen it is biased towards capital-intensive industries. What could be ...
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Why not Make-in-India for aircraft manufacturing?
On February 13, Air India announced that it was planning to purchase 470 passenger aircraft from the two global giants, French Airbus and American Boeing.
While all three companies involved in the ...
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Why would the government invest in creating skilled labor, and then send them to work overseas?
Brain drain is a big problem for India. For example, a NITI Aayog (a government think tank) member recently said that the country is looking for a reverse brain-drain to develop at a faster pace.
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Have any large governments had any explicit 'we won't assassinate opposing government leaders unless they do X' policies?
The general rules are that assassinating of leaders of a country are a no-go for any modern country. partially because of the extreme retaliation that would result, partially because you open the ...
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What are possible explanations for why Democratic states appear to have higher homeless rates per capita than Republican states?
The principal argument I see regarding homelessness in blue areas is that cities draw a larger homeless population than rural areas which is objectively true. However, from the evidence I have found, ...
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What are the criteria for a protest to be a strong incentivizing factor for policy change in China?
What are the criteria for a protest to be a strong incentivizing factor for policy change in China?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/china/china-zero-covid-relaxation-reaction-intl-hnk/index.html
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"No regrets" policy regarding the environment. What does it mean?
In a Economics of Network and Service Industries class, I heard about "No regrets" policy.
It is an environmental policy in EU, if I well understood.
I am not able to find any precise ...
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Are there any good modern analyses capturing the multidimensional nature of the political positions of parties and voters?
During the Heath/Wilson era of British politics (the 1960s and 1970s for those not old enough to remember it) there was a great deal of debate trying to understand the shifting mix of policies of the ...
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Which politicians are driving residential lawn bans in California?
Governor Newsom instituted a lawn ban on commercial properties. A few months later, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California proposed once-per-week irrigation rules, which, if enforced, ...
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How does California define essential agriculture?
Conservationists are proposing to categorize water end-use according to whether or not it is essential. What makes it politically (and economically) interesting is that non-essential water use could ...
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What is the intent of urban irrigation restrictions in California? [closed]
I apologize for the blue box above. It is being discussed here.
California is considering restricting the days of the week on which lawns may be watered. What is the upside that could make up for ...
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What is publicly known about policy disagreements between generals Bajwa and Faiz Hameed?
According to the BBC there was a fallout between Chief of Army Staff general Bajwa and his supposed would-be successor general Faiz Hameed, then Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence. ...
