Noun

Singular government

Plural governments

government (plural governments)

  1. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws for a country, land area, people, or organization.
  2. A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory.
  3. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
  4. The management or control of a system.
  5. The tenure of a chief of state.

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Mon Aug 10 22:39:56 2009

A government is the body within an organization that has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws and regulations.

Typically, the government refers to a civil government which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies. Such bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration (as in schools) or councils of elders (as in churches).

Growth of an organization increases the complexity of its government, therefore small towns or small-to-medium privately-operated enterprises will have few officials compared to larger organizations such as multinational corporations which will have multiple interlocking, hierarchical layers of administration and governance. As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated,so does the need for formal policies and procedures.

Public sector governance is studied as Public Administration while that in the private sector is studied as Business Administration.

The concept of government has been around since humanity itself where hunter-gatherers would commonly establish tribes high authority and have unique ideals. However, government is not limited to the human species itself as many animals establish groups such as ants, lions, and bees. Although, a common trait of animals, specifically mammals and colony insects are a social caste that may work in a governmental way.

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Tue Aug 4 22:06:27 2009

10 points, Why do people think the government adopted a laissez faire policy during the Great Depression?
Q. Many people think the free market caused the depression and that governments let this happen. Government intervention prolonged the depression. Both Hoover and Roosevelt tried everything, taxes, tariffs, price fixing, you name it. The free market is not to be feared, government is.
Asked by libertyandprosperity - Sat Jun 27 00:26:08 2009 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Do you know what laisse faire means? Your statement makes no sense. There was no laissez faire policy in the Great Depression - at least not after Roosevelt. Hoover intervened somewhat, but not enough. Government intervention didnt prolong the depression.. the economy was climbing back until Roosevelt decided to go fiscallly conservative and cut the deficit in '37, As a result of the regulations and controls of the market (SEC, banking), we havent had another depression or panic since. And panics in the lassiez faire period happened every ten years or so. Only after we got lax on regulation did this one happen. Tells you something, no?
Answered by threegooofs - Sat Jun 27 01:00:53 2009

How much money should the government spend in government expenditures to eliminate this gap?
Q. Calculate the GDP gap if in an economy the unemployment rate is 9.5%, MPC = .9, and the Full employment GDP = $10,800. Calculate the regular expenditure multiplier and the net tax multiplier. How much money should the government spend in government expenditures to eliminate this gap?
Asked by tiPtRaN - Thu Jan 17 02:17:16 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The regular expenditure multiplier (assuming a closed economy and lump sum taxes) is: 1/(1-MPC) ==> 10 The tax multiplier (again assuming a closed economy and lump sum taxes): -MPC/(1-MPC) ==> -.9/.1 = -9 As for the gap, according to Okun's law, unemployment will be 1% point above the natural rate for every 3% that output is below potential output. I can't tell from the question what the to assume for the unemployment rate at full employment. To keep things simple I'll use the Beveridge estimate of 3% structural unemployment. If you're using the NAIRU, you would choose 0%. Therefore, 9.5% unemployment is 6.5% above the potential rate. This imples a 19.5% gap between full employment GDP and actual GDP. The gap is therefore .195 x… [cont.]
Answered by Anon_204 - Sun Jan 20 02:37:34 2008

How hard is government contract work overseas?
Q. I have been offered a government contracting job and will be working 12 hour days, 7 days a week in Afghanistan. How hard will it be to work 12 hours everyday? What are the living conditions like, specifically? My contract term is for 12 months with 14 days paid vacation. Anyone who has worked for KBR, WWLR, or any other overseas government contracting company please fill me in. Anyone who has done civilian government contracting knows that the job pays really well...I just want to know if it will be worth it. I will be a counter agent at the airport.
Asked by Adrian B - Mon Aug 20 17:54:26 2007 - - 6 Answers - 1 Comments

A. Every job has a professional hazard attached to it. Now a days working 12 hours a day is normal. If you follow the security guidelines of your employer , you are assured of your safety. As the contract is initially only for a period of i year,please try. Opportunities rarely knock at your door. Utilize it !!. best of luck !!!
Answered by V.T.V.RAM - Tue Aug 28 11:49:00 2007

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A government is a body that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.

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  • [Administration] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom restrained from acting, such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the shepherd.
  • A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people. It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
  • Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.