Lavish travel by cabinet members on the public's dime shows the emptiness of Trump's promise to "drain the swamp"

At the end of September, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, resigned following controversy over his use of private and government jets at taxpayer expense. Christa Slaton writes that Price and other Trump Cabinet officials' use of private and government flights is a symptom of an administration - and a president - that is staffed by officials that ..

Transforming modern representative democracy via advanced telecommunications: voting from the home, deliberative polling, electronic town meetings, the Internet

We live in a time of great, unique and extremely rapid change. In terms of human communications, we are experiencing a time of profound transformation. And though many predicted this epoch, even envisioned it, it still comes as a surprise. Because as is the case in any transformational era, one gets carried along with the completely unpredictable surge of events and how novel technologies are being used in totally new ways and with wholly unintended consequences

Why does EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt still have a job? He's defiantly loyal to Donald Trump and effectively pushes his agenda

More than twenty Cabinet officers and high-level White House staffers have either resigned or have been fired from Donald Trump's administration in less than 18-months. So why does the scandal-plagued Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, still have a job? Christa Slaton writes that much of Pruitt's durability is down to his Trumpian attitude towards his critics, denouncing attacks on him as “lies and half-truths”, his loyalty to Trump, and his effectiveness at rolling back EPA regulations

Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Green Energy: Results from Focus Groups

To find out if consumers are willing to pay a surcharge for "green energy," the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries hosted consumer focus groups at four locations in Alabama. Results showed that consumers were willing to pay a premium in line with the costs, but that most did not have much prior information about green energy options.Consumer/Household Economics, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Q200, Q420,

Higher Education Exchange:2005

This annual publication serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that students, administrators, and faculty can initiate and sustain an ongoing conversation about the public life they share.The Higher Education Exchange is founded on a thought articulated by Thomas Jefferson in 1820: "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."In the tradition of Jefferson, the Higher Education Exchange agrees that a central goal of higher education is to help make democracy possible by preparing citizens for public life. The Higher Education Exchange is part of a movement to strengthen higher education's democratic mission and foster a more democratic culture throughout American society.Working in this tradition, the Higher Education Exchange publishes interviews, case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies

Televote : expanding citizen participation in the quantum age

Typescript.Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990.Includes bibliographical references.Microfiche.xxiii, 481 leaves, bound ill. 29 c

Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Green Energy: Results from Focus Groups

To find out if consumers are willing to pay a surcharge for "green energy," the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries hosted consumer focus groups at four locations in Alabama. Results showed that consumers were willing to pay a premium in line with the costs, but that most did not have much prior information about green energy options