http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/bureaucracy Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 05:24:09 -0400 Thu, 07 May 2026 05:24:09 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/859/the-chinese-pollution-problem-and-the-politics-of-airpocalypse By Vikrant Bhatnagar - In 1992 during his famed Southern Trip, Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China, proclaimed that "To Get Rich Is Glorious[1]." This slogan ignited the economic revolution in China. It is through this very notion of economic productivity and the search for wealth that China also adopted another motto – growth at all costs. Two decades later, China is no longer the third world country that Deng Xiaoping lived in, but an economic powerhouse that has turned a blind eye towards its environment. Whether you look outward towards the water, or inward towards the land,... Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:35 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/859/the-chinese-pollution-problem-and-the-politics-of-airpocalypse http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/566/privatization-analyzing-the-process-of-privatization-in-theory-and-practice By Evan England - While virtually all governments at any level seek some form of service from private service providers, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, the true scope of privatization is widely misunderstood. As a result, political discourse regarding privatization has adopted a simplistic, contentious and often inaccurate understanding of the merits and implementation of the practice. The past twenty years have seen numerous instances of partisan debates over privatization which embrace universal ideologies either in favor or opposed to privatization as a whole. This has led to a myriad of privatization... Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/566/privatization-analyzing-the-process-of-privatization-in-theory-and-practice http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1233/decentralization-examined-conditions-dependent-path-towards-success By Nenna Ibeanusi - However, an examination of the empirical findings from several case studies suggests that decentralization can oftentimes fail to usher in the type of reform that it is associated with. Furthermore, decentralization can encounter impediments to its success either in the failure to fully implement the policy of decentralization, a shift towards re-centralization, or an inherently incoherent policy framework. The success of decentralization is thus contingent upon several factors including but not limited to the sequence of decentralization, the incentives of political actors, and the institutional... Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1233/decentralization-examined-conditions-dependent-path-towards-success