Tag: governance
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Politics, Governance, Arrogance – Why Elected Officials Often Look Brain Dead
When decisions are made at the governmental level there is a sort of arrogance by some elected officials to the point that consulting the electorate is considered evil. After all, they reason, they were elected to make decisions and consulting the people isn’t needed. This sounds well and good and would be true but that same…
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Politics – A Short Explanation
Politics is the manner in which elected officials make decisions and includes compromise part of the process. What politics is not is a method to bludgeon others into submission in order to force others into your way of thinking. These days politics has a dirty connotation because of the tendency of those in power to…
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Governance – A Short Explanation
Governance is the almost art of governing, in this case the population of a country. In our case we are talking about the community, city, county, township, state, or federal government. As we all learned in civics class in high school there are several broad types of governance. Dictatorships – one person or party in…
Down The Sewer Pipe - Politically Speaking 