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  2. Policy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines 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 a governance body within an organization. Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making.

  3. Positive and normative statements - Wikipedia

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    The statement "This bill recently became law" is a positive statement. It states that a certain piece of legislation had recently become law. A normative statement can be spawned from this by asserting a judgment about this law. For example, someone who opposes the law may proclaim "this law should be repealed", which is a normative statement.

  4. Weasel word - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a weasel word, or anonymous authority, is a word or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated. The terms may be considered informal. Examples include the phrases "some people say", "it is thought", and ...

  5. Government policy statement - Wikipedia

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    A government policy statement is a declaration of a government's political activities, plans and intentions relating to a concrete cause or, at the assumption of office, an entire legislative session. In certain countries they are announced by the head of government or a minister of the parliament. In constitutional monarchies, this function ...

  6. Glossary of philosophy - Wikipedia

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    philosophy. A broad field of inquiry concerning knowledge, in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated. Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, spanning the nature of the Universe and human nature (of the mind and the body) as well as the relationships between these and between people.

  7. Public policy - Wikipedia

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    Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions [ 1][ 2] to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception [ 3] and often implemented by programs. These policies govern and include various aspects of life such as education, health care ...

  8. Governance - Wikipedia

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    Governance is the overall complex system or framework of processes, functions, structures, rules, laws and norms borne out of the relationships, interactions, power dynamics and communication within an organized group of individuals which not only sets the boundaries of acceptable conduct and practices of different actors of the group and ...

  9. Privacy policy - Wikipedia

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    A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data. [ 1] Personal information can be anything that can be used to identify an individual, not limited to the person's name, address, date of birth, marital status ...