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Why States Fail

State capacity is a reflection of a states strengths and weaknesses. Very simply, state capacity can be defined as "the ability...

Authoritarian States, Democratization, Why Germany Succeeded and Russia Failed

and cultural characteristics that define them, each of which have a profound effect upon the transition to democracy (Pei, 2002). ...

Failed Vietnam Policy of the US

all kinds of arms and munitions. In their relations with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, each member of the Geneva Conference undertak...

U.S. Third Political Parties

In eight pages this paper discusses why third party independent candidates have not performed well in national elections in the Un...

Reasons for Mergers and Why Some Fail

economies of scale leading to a potential cost advantage, the merging of contrasting advantages following the merger or the aspect...

Book Review of Sydney Finkelstein's Why Smart Executives Fail

the book is to help others avoid committing similar errors. The book focuses on a variety of firms which are mostly American comp...

Why Do Performance Assessment Systems Succeed or Fail?

then met with a specific plan, both the managers and the employees are likely to see a positive outcome from the result of the ass...

Why did Barings Bank Fail?

the research on why businesses fail. A study by Moulton (et al, 1996) looked to identify the reasons for business failure. This st...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Colorado’s Amendment 36 - Why It Failed

of the states nine electoral votes and Kerry the other four (Saffron, 2005). As the system is structured now, all nine went to Bus...

Why eBay Failed in Japan

trying to start a business there. Yahoo! Japan Auctions, by contrast required no such information to register. Furthermore, the ...

Why the 2009 Stimulus Package Failed

buy inputs from suppliers, increasing the demand for their goods and stimulating the jobs in the upstream supply chain. The suppli...

Why an IT Project Failed

as a former, but more simple, IT project took 2 years this should have been a warning sign. The two year time scale was only for t...

Why a Change May Fail

refers to this as unfreezing as it is aimed at unfreezing the attitudes of the employees and prepares them for change (Huczynski a...

Why Dot-Coms Failed in E-Commerce

A paper addressing various reasons why dot-com businesses failed for a period of time. The author presents data about the number ...

Dennis Jett's Why Peacekeeping Fails

the foreign service, originally wrote the book as a dissertation for his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of W...

Failure of Enron

may have severe problems, but it is in the interests of all parties for the company to gain some portion from creditors to allow i...

Failed Mogadishu Mission of 1993

that cannot be found logically, Clinton replaced ALL of the mission commanders. Not only did this waste precious time but the rela...

Reasons for Small Business Failure

establish and maintain a sound strategy also could be added (Anonymous, 1999). Fewer numbers of businesses even attempt to survi...

Failure of eToys.com

instances for larger items, selling goods that were then dispatched straight from a manufacturer, in effect the company was acting...

Failure of Acquisitions and Mergers

the acquisition of additional or superior skills or technology (Pilloff, 1996). The efficiency gain may come due to managem...

Failure of UK's Sainsbury's?

The null hypothesis will be that the consumer experience is satisfactory once the customers are in the store, meaning that the pro...

Reasons Behind Failures of Several Business Acquisitions and Mergers

should be used when assessing success or failure, the student may like to build on this arguing for a corporate wealth maximisatio...

Reasons for the Failure of Communism

due to implementation, and not that the ideal has failed, is something that is hard to prove. After all, it seems that it is easy ...

Martin Luther's Successful Reformation

In five pages this paper discusses Martin Luther's successful Reformation movement in terms of why his succeeded where others incl...

Failure of the 1960s' SDS Movement

of Americas youth. When Country Joe and the Fish sang in their "I Feel Like Im Fixin to Die Rag" at Woodstock in 1969 --"whoopee...

Ultimate Failure of Nazi Science

In five pages the failure of Nazi science is discussed with divisions between 'Jewish' and 'Aryan' science also examined. Four so...

Why Alternative Fuel Sources Have Been Inadequate

In a paper of eight pages the types of alternative fuels that have been tested and tried are discussed in order to reach the concl...

Reasons Behind 1787's Slave Emancipation Failure

In five pages this paper discusses the failed 1787 emancipation of slaves by the US Constitution. Five sources are cited in the b...

Reasons for the Failure of Marriages

wives tend to have a greater incidence of spousal abuse than do those who regard their mates in a more respectful manner. While d...