Whois & Analysis for nationaljournal.com

National Journal is a research and advisory services company based in Washington, D.C. offering solutions in government affairs, advocacy communications and policy brands research for government and business leaders.

It publishes daily journalism covering politics and public policy and is led by President Kevin Turpin and Editor-in-Chief Stephen G.

Smith.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.

A policy is a statement of intent, and is implemented as a procedure or protocol.

Policies are generally adopted by the Board of or senior governance body within an organization where as procedures or protocols would be developed and adopted by senior executive officers.

Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making.

Policies to assist in subjective decision making would usually assist senior management with decisions that must consider the relative merits of a number of factors before making decisions and as a result are often hard to objectively test e.g. work-life balance policy.

In contrast policies to assist in objective decision making are usually operational in nature and can be objectively tested e.g. password policy.

A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled.

In the case of this broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators.

Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.

Forms of government, or forms of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organisation of a specific government.

Governments control the economy, social freedoms, and political systems, and may or may not be voluntary.

Politics (from Greek Politiká: Politika, definition "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions applying to all members of each group.

More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state.

Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (this is usually a hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities.