The executive branch of the US government has to work with the Congress when it comes to implementing and executing policies. But there are challenges. These can be understood as two types of principal-agent problems. However, there are several tools that Congress has for reducing its problem with the bureaucracy. […]
The United States federal government’s bureaucracy is part of the executive branch. It includes 15 cabinet departments, each with its own specific jurisdiction and function. […]
The United States federal government’s bureaucracy is a huge set-up. It is part of the executive branch of the government, and the executive branch is organized into a series of five buckets, all under the president’s leadership. […]
Perdurantism considers a person as not just a body in a specific time and place. A person is a collection—the set of all the moments, or episodes, of his or her existence, bundled together. […]
There are two kinds of evil; motivated and unmotivated. According to Saint Augustine’s books and texts, unmotivated evil is in some ways the most terrifying kind of evil. Unmotivated or motivated evil, both depend on human behavior. […]
Saint Augustine, one of the most prominent Christian figures of his time, had specific ideas and opinions about the concept of good and evil, and he wrote many books about it. […]
Saint Augustine was a follower of the Gnostic religion Manichaeism. He made two fundamental claims about sin and evil and did not think that good and evil were metaphysical rivals. […]
The presidential election must be conducted in total transparency and accuracy because the future of the country will be in the hands of the president for several years. Preventing fake news is of high importance. […]
There are three main factors that historically have the highest degree of predictive power in presidential elections. They are incumbency status, incumbent approval rating, and the state of the economy. […]
Every country has its own way to elect a president. The Electoral College is a complex system of electing a president in the United States and is quite flawed. […]
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