In this way, religion was used in an attempt not only to make the proletariat content with their lives of alienation, exploitation and poverty, but also as a way to actually encourage them to want less and to enjoy their low stations in life as a si Continue Reading...
Iraq under the reign of Machiavelli's Prince and Socrates' Golden Guardian "Insurgent groups in Iraq warn that democracy could lead to passing un-Islamic laws, such as permitting homosexual marriage, if the majority of people agreed to it. 'Democrac Continue Reading...
The replacement of Communist, military, and dictatorial regimes is usually accompanied by a period of euphoria among the citizenry but soon thereafter reality sets in and the practical operation of the government sets in (Ekman). When democratizati 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...
American Colonial experience and the Articles of the Confederation influence the content of our Constitution? The American colonies existed as separate political entities. The only attempt to consolidate any of the colonies under one united governm Continue Reading...
Aristotle's Politics According to Aristotle, the basic principle of democracy freedom. Democracy is a political system where in there is an establishment of a partnership amid the demos or the common people which in turn makes out how would the powe Continue Reading...
France and Poland: A Study in Contrasts France and Poland: Study in Contrasts Few countries in Europe have such widely differing modern histories as France and Poland. Both began the modern era as ancient Catholic monarchies. Each nation covered a Continue Reading...
This became a reality with the killing of the tsar in 1918. The death of the tsar was the visible reaction to a series of underlining causes that would eventually encourage the raise to power of a political ideology that addressed these issues and o Continue Reading...
Gambia, Africa The Republic of The Gambia used to be part of the Empire of Ghana and the Kingdom of the Songhais (Bureau of African Affairs 2005). First records came from Arab traders of the 9th and 10th centuries who had commercial relations with t Continue Reading...
Orwellian World The Accuracy of George Orwell's Predictions and What They Hold for Our Future When, in 1949, George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world had just witnessed one of the most trying and tumultuous periods in all of human h Continue Reading...
Russian Revolution 1914-1930 Lenin's April Theses? When Vladimir Lenin returned to Saint Petersburg from his exile in Switzerland, he wrote a collection of directives that were intended for Bolsheviks, both those in Russia and those returning to Ru Continue Reading...
Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville was an aristocratic young Frenchman with vaguely liberal sentiments who wondered if the new democracy in the United States had any ideas that could be applied to France and other European countries. His real audienc Continue Reading...
Politics Space Democratic Transitions Dear Mr. President. Your historic win to become the President of the United States is an event that has altered our view of national policy for each of us here within the borders of our nation and it immediat Continue Reading...
Aside from the practical considerations provided by the system which split the federal and local authorities, there was also the matter of the limitation of powers. In this sense, the central government was built in such a manner as to express the Continue Reading...
In contrast, Persian women were able to own property, appear in public, and possessed considerable influence. d) What did people in this society value? Being a citizen was the most important part of life in Greece, and being a male citizen was req Continue Reading...
The 16th Amendment was the first to be passed in the 20th century. It allowed incomes to be taxed as a clear response to the Supreme Court decision in the Pollock v Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (Fonder and Shaffrey 2002). Congress previously pas Continue Reading...
Moenidas I write to you to bring you tidings, and hope that your health is as it should be. I have an ulterior motive, however. I am writing to persuade, Moenidas. As you know, I am an elder statesman here in Athens. The age of Pericles has dawned Continue Reading...
Karl Marx is one of the most interesting philosophers of the 19th century, and his teaching have contributed immensely to the discussion of political organization for the past 150 years. The social conditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth cen Continue Reading...
Quoting Edith Cresson, the first female Prime Minister of France, the difference is that "French men and women liked and needed each other." At least we may be happy that feminism and freedom of women is more in France than at anywhere else because Continue Reading...
Shopping for Pleasure Consumer society in the modern sense did not exist before the industrial revolution, and the middle and upper class women who patronized the shopping and entertainment district in the West End of London from 1860-1914 were in t Continue Reading...
Reconciliation of the Liberties Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher in the eighteenth century who wrote about topics as varied as religion and politics. He famously worked on a treatise with respect to government that attempted to explain what g Continue Reading...
America, without doubt the most powerful nation on earth and the sole super-power of the 21st century evokes vastly conflicting feelings in people around the world, depending on their individual paradigm: the lens through which they look at the world Continue Reading...
The prevailing culture has its greatest effect in terms of the form of government accepted by the people. The American system of government was shaped to be different from the parliamentary system prevalent in England and in other countries of Euro Continue Reading...
POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS & IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY & PROGRAMS IN AFRICA SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY AND PROGRAMMES IN AFRICA Analysis and Implications for Social Protection Policy and Programs in Africa Analysis and Impli Continue Reading...
Cosmopolitanism International Law and the Persistence of the Sovereign Nation-State Seyla Benhabib can only point to the European Union as an effective and practical example of transnationalism or post-nationalism in today's world. International law Continue Reading...
For John Locke, government "…should be limited to securing the life and property of it citizens"; and government should allow freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. He was opposed to "hereditary monarchy" and supported human rights (e Continue Reading...
The enforcement of the law will also be dependent upon public jury trial and civil court case proceedings, which will be intended to devise the conditions by which a dispute between citizens or between state and citizen has come to pass and the con Continue Reading...
Islamic government may be defined therefore as the rule of divine law over men."(Khomeini, 29) God is the true authority in the state, and the sole legislative power: "In Islam the legislative power and the competence to establish laws belongs exclu Continue Reading...
Others might allege that Mugabe has held elections, unlike John Locke's legitimate sovereign. But the presence of elections does not necessarily guarantee the existence of a good and fair representative government, or even the existence of a legisl Continue Reading...
Where, he would portray himself as a staunch anti-communist that supported the ideas of liberty. Yet, when he had taken control of the country he immediately began to rule with an iron fist. This authoritarian rule and the way that Diem was able to Continue Reading...
Largely, this sense of solidarity with the U.S. And a Western Bloc translated into practical reality in the Cold War and has lasted into the present period of the War on Terrorism. This has however not been without exception. During the Reagan years Continue Reading...
This includes previously mentioned measures such as increased governmental spending, directing funds towards education and health sectors etc. Referring to Liberalism, we should first of all point out that liberalism does not necessarily limit its Continue Reading...
The innate need to not let any person or any entity overpower the rights that have been given will allow for a balance of power that will in the end work to produce a functioning government. In excerpt 5, as posited by Madison, he states that the r Continue Reading...
Physical vs. Digital GovernanceIntroductionIn recent years, the Greek government has undergone a remarkable digital transformation in order to better serve its citizens. Through initiatives like the Athenian Digital Strategy, the Greek government is Continue Reading...
On the other hand, he suggested that the executive branch was responsible for insuring that the laws are actually obeyed and that it should operate continuously in society. His idea of a legislative body was one of a representative assembly, which w Continue Reading...
Communism & Nationalism Communism Communism is a society without money (For Communism) 1, without a state, without property and without social classes. People come together to carry out a project or to respond to some need of the human communit Continue Reading...
Hobbes Leviathan Thomas Hobbes thought that all human beings were equal in the state of nature, but all equally greedy, violent, vengeful and brutal. As he argued in Leviathan, this was a universal trait of humanity and that the purpose of contracti Continue Reading...
Therefore, unlike the British the French could rarely fully identify themselves with the idea of a monarch. These cases did occur however especially during Louis 14th in particular. The actions undergone by the "Roi Soleil" created for the French th Continue Reading...
French Revolution was the consequence of four interrelated issues. These were France's financial condition, social class tension, inept monarchy, and the Enlightenment. It resulted from the convergence of France's poor economy, social injustice, ine Continue Reading...
Rights of Man Thomas Paine wrote his book "Rights of Man" between 1791 and 1792, as a response to a French book written by Edmund Burke's called "Reflections on the Revolution in France." Paine is one of the most well-known writers of revolutionary Continue Reading...
