Amika's Blog

The question is, what do you know about the relationship between citizens and your CP? On what levels do they interact? How can citizen participation affect your CP? In my opinion, I am not sure about the relationship between citizens and my CP, but I do believe that my CP wants more people within their community to get more involved and informed about the things that they do. I also believe that the people who work at my CP are also people who belong with a particular community and what to make it a better place for everyone who lives there. I would say that the citizens and my CP interact on a medium level I suppose. Citizen participation can affect my CP in a positive way. It affects it in a positive way because people will get more involved and the CP will expand and grow more larger. If it expands more, other citizens within other communities will take notice and might want to participate also. It is a really good thing to get involve in y...

The question is, Why is there tension between the state and local levels of government? In what ways is this tension healthy for our political system overall? There is tension between the state and local government because both the state and local governments feel like they are in better positions to be in charge, make policies etc. Another reason why there could be tension between the state and local government is that maybe the state and the local government both have their own ways of dealing with things, dealing with things that pertained to their own specific territories. One more reason why there is tension is because the state and government could have different conflicts and different worries when dealing with things that happen in their own territories, they're not the same in a way. There are different conflicts so that is another reason why there is tension between the two. Some ways maybe the tension could be healthy is that, it could possibly bring new ideas and o...

"Beyond winners & losers, there is a field.... I'll meet you there"  I believe that the person who said this quote was Rumi, a famous poet. This quote could relate to this class in many ways. In a general sense, I believe that the quote means that I doesn't matter the outcome of your situation, we all end up at the same place, together. How it can relate to the class is, everyone might have different approaches to somethings, but at the end we all end up at the same place and achieve our goals together.                                                                                                                          -Amika