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A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.
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Why may Israel request a DNA test during immigration?
When a person claims to be ethnically Jewish and wants to make Aliyah Israel's immigration authorities may request a DNA test. See this and this.
However I cannot find the details of what the DNA test ...
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How can I effectively advocate for same-day/on-demand transportation through a paratransit provider?
As a completely blind individual, I have thought of moving to a state that offered on-demand transportation, such as Access on Demand of Denver, Colorado and a few others, like Las Vegas or Los ...
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Is Hezbollah officially supported by Iran?
Does Iran officially support Hezbollah? I have found many pro-Western websites which say that they do, but I can't find any official statements.
So, does Iran officially support Hezbollah? If they ...
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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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Why are South Korean content/censorship laws so strict?
I am from South Korea, and in my country, graphic content laws are extremely strict - so strictly enforced that the following events had happened:
19+ filter on Google and YouTube
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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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What is meant by the "left" and the "right"?
When discussing political issues and parties, I often hear mention of a party being "left", "centre-left", "right" or "extreme right". In broad terms, what do these designations mean?
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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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What could a city council and mayor in Canada actually do to support vegan food?
Civic elections are coming up in my city, and this got me wondering...
If the electorate decided to elect a mayor and council where a majority wanted to use their powers as elected officials to ...
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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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Why wouldn't the EU recommend to Baltic states and Ukraine to give Russian language official status?
As known, the Russian language is widely spoken in the states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which are EU members, and Ukraine, which has signed the association with the EU, is native to 29.6% of ...
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How do proponents of abortion bans, except for instances of sexual assault, propose to restrict access to victims of real assaults?
Many people and politicians who oppose abortion propose to ban the practice but make exceptions for cases of sexual assault. Under such a regime, anyone could claim to be sexually assaulted and thus ...
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How will lands on the Moon be divided?
Are there any laws on how lands on the Moon are to be divided between multiple countries?
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Why did political parties form in the United States?
In George Washington's "Farewell Address", the first President specifically warns about the dangers of political parties. He admits that people tend to naturally align in groups, but also warns that ...
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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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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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What is a successful policy against lobbying in a democratic country?
The US government is drowning in lobbyist that undermine the democratic power of the people in favor of wealthy corporations/oligarchs. My question is: are there any significantly successful policies ...
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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 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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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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Is political correctness applied to science terms something usual in the US?
This Wikipedia article on Master/Slave as defined in technology also include the following:
In 2003, the County of Los Angeles in California asked that
manufacturers, suppliers and contractors ...
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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:
The decision makers believe ...
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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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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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Has the US Department of Justice made an attempt to define what is or isn't journalistic activity? Developing new policy, but to what will it apply?
From Politico's FBI raid on Project Veritas founder’s home sparks questions about press freedom
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Garland was asked who qualifies as a journalist ...
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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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Why are Democrats fighting so hard to vaccinate the reluctant?
Even though safe and effective COVID vaccines have been given emergency use authorization in the US, some people are still reluctant to receive them, over safety concerns, preference for "natural ...
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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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Have any of the "We the People" petitions ever resulted in policy changes?
I was looking at the U.S. White House's "We the People" petition website they had set up shortly after Obama took office, and noticed that most of the petitions are in the ridiculous or at least not ...
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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. ...
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The counterpart of the industrial policy for the service sector?
I am reading book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-39070-3 about the industrial policy in the EU that is aiming for the industrial and manufacturing sector. I am now seeking the ...
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What do politicians do? [closed]
I do not have much familiarity with politics other than being aware of how politicians are portrayed in the public, including a bunch of jokes made about them.
So, in reality, what do politicians do (...
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How can one check whether tax money is being effectively used by the government for improving a nation?
Often people are critical of what they consider to be excessive taxation. Are there any measures to actually check if they are excessive? What are indicators to check as to whether government is ...
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Where is information stored, that shouldn't nessecarily be stored in law but still needed in government [closed]
A law is defined as:
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
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Why governments are against "producing" people in artificial wombs? [closed]
Many countries and regions have demographic problems, including all of Eastern Europe, Germany, Russia, and Japan. The reason - low birthrates and/or emigration to more developed countries.
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Do Japanese governments support fluoridation?
Do Japanese governments support fluoridation?
Wikipedia's article on fluoridation states that less than 1% of Japan receives water fluoridation. However, not all countries supply fluoride via water. ...
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Why don't attackers in war target government buildings as much as they could?
Russia did not flatten all of the central Kiev ministries, presidential, and parliament buildings with artillery. Yet it seems their artillery range was enough to allow that.
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What are different ways a government can increase investment in a technology or industry?
One of the main elements of the UK government's new Energy Security Bill is a focus on decarbonising heat, including "supporting industry to step up investment in growing the consumer market for ...