A government is the system or group of people that exercise authority and make and enforce decisions for a political entity, such as a country or city. Governments are typically responsible for providing services and infrastructure to their citizens, such as schools, roads, and public utilities. They also make and enforce laws, regulate businesses and industries, and represent the interests of the people they govern.
There are many different forms of government, and they can be classified based on various factors, such as the number of people who hold power, the extent to which power is shared or centralized, and the level of democracy or participation in decision-making. Some common forms of government include democracy, where power is held by the people through elected representatives; monarchy, where power is held by a king or queen; and authoritarianism, where power is held by a small group of individuals who rule with little or no input from the people.
Machiavelli believes that the ends always justify the means, no matter how ruthless, calculating, or immoral those measures are. Although Tony Soprano and Shakespeare’s Macbeth are well-known Machiavellian figures, the man whose name originated the phrase, Niccolo Machiavelli, did not follow his own cynical rule book. Instead, when Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his astute guide […]
Decentralized finance, often known as DeFi, is a technology that allows financial products to be made available on a public decentralized blockchain network. As a result, instead of passing via intermediaries like banks or brokerages, they are available to everybody. Unlike a bank or brokerage account, DeFi does not require a government-issued ID, Social Security
A 401k is an employer-sponsored, government-supported pension savings plan for employees in the United States. Companies can sponsor qualified workers to save and invest for retirement by donating a percentage of their salary to the plan on a tax-deferred basis through 401k programs. Employer matching is frequently used to motivate these donations. Contribution restrictions, tax
War is defined as a fierce armed conflict between nations, governments, society, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is marked by excessive violence, aggressiveness, damage, and death, and it employs either regular or irregular armed troops. Warfare refers to the shared behaviors and features of many forms of conflict, as well
Public policy is an institutionalized proposal to solve relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and implemented by programs as a course of action created and/or enacted, typically by a government, in response to social issues. Beyond this broad definition, public policy has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. A popular way of
Public administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil employees for working in the public service. As a “field of inquiry with a diverse scope” whose fundamental goal is to “advance management and policies so that government can function.” Some of the various definitions
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Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-localised and has limited powers. While in some countries, “government” is normally reserved purely for a national administration (government) (which may be known as a central government or federal government), the
A mint is an industrial facility that produces coins that may be used as currency. The history of mints is intertwined with the history of coinage. Initially, hammered coinage or cast coinage were the primary methods of coin minting, with manufacturing runs as low as the hundreds or thousands. Coin dies are mass-produced in modern
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900, the university is a merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The university was established by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in
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The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794. The so-called “whiskey tax” was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It was intended to generate revenue for the war debt incurred during