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Summary Government Policies assignment 2
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In the UK, policies are in place in order to protect us and help enforce diversity and equality.
Sometimes they are not always positively impacted on our society and public services; they can
be negative as well. In this assignment, I will cover both the impacts of government policies on
the public services and how society is affected.
Human rights – The uniformed public services have a lot of control over our lives. They have the
power to take our independence away, investigate our private lives, monitor our actions and
use the information they find against us. However, in order for these powers to be conducted,
they must be carefully regulated to avoid abuses by the public services against the public. As we
live in a democracy, there will always be checks and balances to guarantee no service has
power over the public that cannot be challenged. This is under the Human Rights Act 1998. The
human rights act makes it clear that all the UK citizens have certain privileges and if these rights
are broken by the public services then an individual has the right to take the service to court.
Examples of human rights:
Right to life
Right to liberty and security
Right to a fair trial
Freedom of expression
Right to marry and start a family
Freedom of thought, belief and religion
Right to education
No punishment without law
How Society is affected by Government Policies.
Society is affected in many ways by government policies. Examples of this are;
Sales of council houses.
VAT rise
Tuition fees.
, Immigration - Immigration is a big part of UK it has made a lot of cultures and made people
think differently about the way they live and the food they eat. Immigration is a good thing for
UK because carry out specialist jobs where there is a shortage of workers, for example in
Factories, event some of the less wanted jobs immigrants will except them. The policy on
immigration must adapt to an increased global climate of movement. It must also consider the
people who choose to emigrate abroad and try to strike a balance between individuals coming
into the UK and those leaving it. The laws and policies on immigration in the UK are strict and
are contained in the Immigration Act1971, although there have been several updates and
amendments since that time.
Financial constraints - Finance is a very big factor that affects the government finance affects
every aspect of government and public services operations. The main things the government
can do it introducing a new law weighed up against the benefits. If the government doesn’t
have the money to implement the law, it might implement a partial version of it or not
implement it at all. Also, if there is finance problems the country can go into recession and then
there will be problems everywhere and this might cause people to start hating the government,
so they could be a change.
Protests (Demonstrations) - A demonstration is action by a mass group or collection of groups
of people in favour of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause
of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or
meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers. It is different from mass meeting.
Actions such as blockades and sit-ins may also be referred to as demonstrations.
Demonstrations can be nonviolent or violent (usually referred to by participants as "militant"),
or can begin as nonviolent and turn violent depending on the circumstances. Sometimes riot
police or other forms of law enforcement become involved. In some cases, this may be in order
to try to prevent the protest from taking place at all. In other cases, it may be to prevent
clashes between rival groups, or to prevent a demonstration from spreading and turning into
a riot.
The economic crisis that started in 2008 has negatively affected European nations to different
degrees. The sudden rise in demonstrations particularly in those countries most hard hit by the
crisis suggests that grievance theories, dismissed in favour of resource ‐based models since the
1970s, might have a role to play in explaining protest behaviour. While most previous studies
have tested these theories at the individual or contextual levels, it is likely that mechanisms at
both levels are interrelated.
To fill this lacuna, this article examines the ways in which individual ‐level grievances interact
with macro‐level factors to impact on protest behaviour. In particular, it examines whether the
impact of individual subjective feelings of deprivation is conditional on contextual
macroeconomic and policy factors. It is found that while individual ‐level relative deprivation
has a direct effect on the propensity to have protested in the last year, this effect is greater
under certain macroeconomic and political conditions. Both significant results for the cross‐
level interactions are interpreted in terms of their role for opening up political opportunities for
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