M4 analyse how government policies are developed What is a policy? A policy is a statement of what the government is trying to achieve and why. Government policy is the sum of all the individual policies – as a whole they help to define where the government stands on broad political issues. Reference https://www.gov.uk/government/how-government-works Policies come from a number of sources such as: • The public • The media • Public services • Politicians • Subject experts • Civil servants The first process of developing a policy is actually deciding what is going to be contained in that policy in many instances the details of a policies are left to experts within a civil service department who are there to work for the government. Government lawyers are responsible for actually
Explain the three general standard operating procedures of cooperative federalism. 1. Shared costs: Washington foots part of the bill, but states or cities that want their share must pay part of a program's costs 2. Federal guidelines: "strings attached” (ex: to get money for highway construction, states must adopt and enforce limits on legal drinking age) 3. Shared administration: state and local officials implement federal policies but have administrative powers of their own.
It is intended to give learners an understanding of how the layers of government, including the European Parliament, are interconnected and relate to public services. Learners will be expected to know the responsibilities of different government levels for public services. They will need to understand the democratic processes in place to elect the representatives who are part of the government structure in the UK. Learners will also need to know how government policies are developed and how they can affect the uniformed public services. The unit is a stand-alone unit which can also be used as a sound introduction to the position of public services in our society today.
There were other provisions in the constitution to defend against abusing power, the system of checks and balances and having three branches in the government. While there was a central government, its power was diffused into three separate branches of relatively equal power. Each branch had the power to watch over the other two branches and stop any unconstitutional actions that were damaging to the government or it's people. The three branches and the system of checks and balances allow for the government to have a large amount of power and assure that it will not abuse the power invested into it by the
With its first three words, “We the People,” specifies that people will run the country not a monarchy nor a dictator, the peoples voice goes through the president,senators,goveners ect.to which these people elect . another thing to note is that the preamble is not a source of federal power or individuals' rights. Rather, all rights and powers
Responsibilities of the lords include creating laws, scrutinising decisions and offering independent expertise. branches of government: there is three forms of power in our society, these are called branches of the g government. • Executive: they have the power to suggest new laws and make sure existing laws are implemented • Legislative: they have the power to make laws • Judicial: they have the power to interpret the laws and make judgements on whether laws have been broken Main roles at government levels: Prime minister, Government ministers, London assembly, Mayors, Members of parliament and Council
By creating a government divided into the presidential, legislative, and judicial branches meant that no one’s power could come into absolute power. There is however a downside to having three branches of government. If there is a democratic president and one of the branches is a republican run branch they may not agree on some of the same ideas. When we have different branches vetoing bills and not making them laws this in turn affects the citizens who may need the change. Checks and Balances The system of checks and balances is part of our constitution.
To do that, it is the duty of a US citizen to understand not only the goals of the Constitution, but the details within the document that achieve those goals. Unfortunately, according to a survey by the National Constitutional Center, only 19% of people knew when the Constitution was written, 23% knew who it was written by, and just a little more than half knew there are three branches of our Federal Government. In order to be the strong country the revolutionaries strived for, US citizens must be informed of the base of their freedom and of their country.
* Define and give an example of separation of powers and checks and balances * Separation of powers- An aspect of the Madisonian Model of government that requires each of the three branched of government to be independent of and to share power with each other so that one cannot control the others. Ex. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of govn’t all separate * Checks and balances- balances power- Important feature of the Constitution which enables each branch of government to constrain the other branched activities in order to prevent any one branch from gaining too much power. * After the American Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation, who started to gain/lose political power? * the wealthy lost power and the low income/farmers
Powerful Branch (Bramble) In the United States Government there are three branches known as legislative, executive, and judicial that make up the government. Professor Ryan Emenaker likes to refer to these three branches as brambles. He refers to the branches as brambles because they have shared powers and the branches are always conflicting when it comes to who has what power. The United States government branches were suppose to be designed in a way that would not cause a conflict between them about which branch had what power. The judicial, executive, and legislative branches are suppose to be equal when it comes to the amount of power each of them have.