833 Search Results for Democratic theory in American Politics
Should Reparations be Paid to Native Americans and African Americans?
Today, there are approximately 3.4 million Native Americans and 40 million African Americans in the United States (U.S. people, 2019), and virtually all of these individuals have a Continue Reading...
Based on these three differences the question of what changes will be evident are clear. One recent article touted, "There is hardly an area of their budgets -- on either the revenue or the spending side -- that will not be adversely affected by up Continue Reading...
Government & Politics
The arguments contrast two observations. Which of them is the best and why? Give a detailed and substantial response.
Charles Beard and John Roche had differing views regarding the American constitution as they hailed from Continue Reading...
The progressive era in American political culture set the stage for President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Starting in the 1890s, the Progressive Era drew upon Marxist theory of labor exploitation to help balance unbridled capitalist growth dur Continue Reading...
politics is and what it is not. Some definitions of politics are examined. The applications of politics in society are explored. The paper also looks at some of the things that are not politics, and examines why these things are not politics. The ro Continue Reading...
The first is based on actual political rights and the second is based on a sense of idealism about those rights.
Critical Summaries
Zakaras has his own set of theories about individuality and democracy, some of which merge with Kateb's and Emerson Continue Reading...
At the same time it was the fatal mistake that provoked and legitimized resistance to the revolutionary presidency." The Watergate scandal and the events leading to it were, from the perspective of the components mentioned above, the manifestation o Continue Reading...
American Government Structure and Foundation" to a group of new citizens, what would you say?
Welcome.
I want you to know that it just doesn't get any better than this. In everything I say today, you're going to notice some really negative things. Continue Reading...
Whether it was the Spanish that fought to conquer lands in the south, or the Dutch that engaged in stiff competition with the British, or the French that were ultimately defeated in 1763, the American soil was one clearly marked by violent clashes b Continue Reading...
Abstract Expressionist Painting
Artistic and Aesthetic Value in American Modernist Art during the Cold War Era
Defining American Expressionism
American modernism is perhaps one of the most difficult artistic periods to define. Modernism refers to Continue Reading...
Jimmy Carter's foreign policy in the United States of America, many have come up with very negative views and have highlighted more or less the same loop holes in his policy and administration that led to his failure, namely his misconceptions of vi Continue Reading...
Sports and popular culture (NFL/NBA)
Prelude
Pop Culture
Popular culture entails all forms of mass communication such as:
Newspapers
Radio
Magazines
Music
Books and Cartoons and comics
Advertising
It is somewhat different compared to higher Continue Reading...
Steven Kelman's Making Public Policy: A Hopeful View of American Government
Steven Kelman's 1998 book on politics is entitled Making Public Policy: A Hopeful View of American Government. This is a brief but accurate summary of the central thesis of Continue Reading...
Louis Althusser (1918-90) was one of the foremost Marxist theorists in the Western world, and advocated an especially orthodox version of Marxism that was always close to the Communist Party line. He regarded Bertolt Brecht as one of the great Marxis Continue Reading...
These organizations have championed global labors standards prior to becoming an agency promoting UN's newly formed standards and policies.
Out of all the major facets of association, the rights of trade unions have continued to contribute to the g Continue Reading...
Native Americans
Describe what is known of the tribe's pre-Columbian history, including settlement dates and any known cultural details.
Before Columbus came to the "New World," the pre-Columbian era, the Cherokee occupied an area that today is wes Continue Reading...
Meanwhile in the journal Du Bois Review (Parker, et al., 2009, p. 194) the authors point to racism and patriotism as key themes for the 2008 Democratic primary election. "Race was a consistent narrative" used by those opposed to Obama, Parker explai Continue Reading...
Some of the communication technologies include news content, internet (social media platforms), campaigns, billboard advertisements, and organized interaction forums
. These technologies are essential in enhancing interactions between the society a Continue Reading...
Uvin and McFaul make sound arguments using political comparison as
the key to their studies. Uvin uses evidence of all aspect of political
life in his three case study countries, such as elections, the population,
and the role of the military. He th Continue Reading...
Therefore, for the international scene to actually consider that change is taking place in Cuba none of Fidel Castro's men should be part of the government or the administration.
In trying to establish an ascendant trend for the Cuban national and Continue Reading...
IGOs play an important role in modern international relations. Overall, they provide many benefits to the global community, with the ability to act collectively in the interest of human rights, international peace and security, and economic develop Continue Reading...
U.S. And Int'l. Relations
International Relations Theories and the Role of the U.S. In the Middle East
A Short Analysis of U.S. Culture Theories and Interventions
intervention in the Middle East has had very divergent consequences for both Iraq an Continue Reading...
In the following passages she makes a quality argument. Those bosses, Bridges writes (123), were "militant" and "hard-fisted," and certainly "tough." Some of these emerging bosses (Joel Barker in Pittsburgh; Joel Sutherland in Philadelphia; and Hen Continue Reading...
His social contract put forward the notion that citizens at some point give their consent to live under a "certain political structure" and that requires a social contract.
John Locke is often seen as the "…philosopher of the American Revolut Continue Reading...
Sociological Theory
Sociology as a field of study entails examining and understanding the behavior of human groups and associated social behavior. In understanding these aspects, the sociologists have, their focus primarily concentrated on the human Continue Reading...
Max Weber's Theory
Max Weber and modernization in the U.S.A.
The concept of modernization has not escaped the controversy that has surrounded most ideas that have come up in the process of giving the globe a new face that is different from the one Continue Reading...
U.K. Government: Social Policy Theory & Practice
The objective of this study is to answer all four questions stated as follows: (1) What is the social administrative tradition? (2) What is meant by liberal welfarism? (3) Explain the parliamentar Continue Reading...
Revolution American Style: The Nineteen-Sixties and Beyond
Paul N. Goldstene's book "Revolution, American Style: The Nineteen-Sixties and Beyond" is a political science book that really is political. The book's central focus is to scrutinize key ass Continue Reading...
Lobbyists in American Government
Lobbying is something that has been taking place for many years. People who have special interests and want to see specific things happen throughout the country often hire lawyers and others who have connections. The Continue Reading...
Although Diem initially appeared to assist the Westerners in their efforts to install democracy in the country he proved to be corrupt, being more interested in his own well-being and in his financial situation than in conditions in the country.
Th Continue Reading...
African-Americans are second only to Native Americans, historically, in terms of poor treatment at the hands of mainstream American society. Although African-Americans living today enjoy nominal equality, the social context in which blacks interact w Continue Reading...
American History: Slave Power ConspiracySlave power conspiracy refers to the power the Southern United States was trying to gain over the Federal government and make slavery legal and universal all over the country from the 1840s to 1850s (Neklason, Continue Reading...
Relationship between a Social Issue or Problem and the Various MediaFree Speech in the Time of COVIDThats against the law!Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451In the time of COVID, free speech came under assault: contrarian voices were kicked off Twitter and Continue Reading...
Article Review: Ur-Fascism by Umberto EcoDuring an era when being an anti-fascist American has assumed negative connotations and the increasing polarization of the nations political parties has caused concern among many observers concerning the rise Continue Reading...
new leaders of Iraq have just read Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy and have decided to adopt a majoritarian form of government. What are the advantages of this form of government? Are there any drawbacks? Would you advise them to adopt the majorita Continue Reading...
Anarchy
The debate that summarizes mankind involves determining which particular means of existence is best. Social, political and economic constructs have been developed and implemented throughout the last thousand years. Throughout this time, diff Continue Reading...
nexus between campaign and election results especially in relation to the developing mass media.
Political Campaign and Democratic Society
To truly understand the role of election campaigns towards the final result it is essential to understand th Continue Reading...
Franks (along with the Bush war cabinet, including Vice President Dick Chaney) "met repeatedly" to plan the attack on Iraq. It was groupthink through and through. At the same time Bush was saying publicly he was "pursuing a diplomatic solution" (Ham Continue Reading...