Politics Essays

Suggest reasons why we should be concerned about low turnout in elections. Low turnout leads to lesser participatory democracy and the only way in which democratic systems succeed is by making the people participate in the electoral process. What social, economic, and demographic factors have an impact on voter turnout?

Multicultural societies such as those of Canada and the US have been the results of an evolutionary process of state-aided immigration. The obvious commonalities in policy paradigm apart from these two countries have invariably been engaged in a positive and constructive ideologically predicated policy of encouraging multiculturalism.

While many official definitions of poverty have been put out by national and international organizations very rarely they capture the very essence of the term in its all complexity and diversity. Despite all these difficulties, there is still a glimmer of hope that poverty would be eradicated through gradually, as time goes on.

Modern diplomacy is more convoluted for practitioners and scholars due to noteworthy changes like an increase in the number of international actors. The number of states has become 3 times or more, the number of UN members has increased to more than 187 total to 17,020 bilateral relationships, and conventional organizations to 6,000 (Melissen 2005 ).

The relevance of an indigenous reform movement in Iran can best be understood if the blowback resulting from the reform movement engineered by CIA in 1953 is analyzed in some detail and the extent to which it had impacted the country is observed and appreciated empathically.

The United States is overpopulated, and this scares a lot of people. Due to that, Trump was stimulated to contract a wall as a border around the U.S. Donald Trump’s wall was targeted as dividing the American people, which significantly brought people to worry about racial cases. A lot of people were drummed and amplified to start worrying about what was taking place in the country.

But since homo-sapiens is the most advanced and complex living beings on the planet, security has come to have many connotations. Every individual human being needs security and hence will look for a career that can take care of his or her needs. Alternatively, a partner is sought, who can provide the same for that individual. 

Kim Jong would fit the Theory X role better than the Theory Y kind of leader because he is virtually a dictator in his own country, hence his underlying assumption in his leadership and managerial practice appears to be that those who work for him and political leaders in subordinate positions have little desire for responsibility.

Thus, interstate relations ought to be governed in a moral and ethical manner in the present era, even if the art of statecraft knew little morality and was far more concerned with the balancing of powers, interests, and natural limitations in order to determine the response of a state. It can only be hoped that the broad moral consensus that nations have been able to hammer out in an age of globalization.

No, or very few, ground troops will be needed nor would they be very effective when and if it becomes necessary to take action against Iran.  It will be a vast series of surgical air-strikes against specific targets.  The action, as in 1981, will be wifely vilified but in the final analysis, necessary to the security of the region and the world. 

While Locke believes that people should have to give up certain rights to the ruling class for the greater good of society, Publius believes that the ruling class should not have any additional power, but is only in place to put the beliefs of the people into action after first sampling the population effectively. 

The present trend of trading information exclusively with certain journalists is not fair. Political parties should provide all journalists with the same information. This will raise editorial standards and also the journalists will find it difficult to fabricate or twist the information. There should be a level playing field.

The first implication, therefore, is that disparate narratives have significantly contributed to the protracted nature of the conflict and, indeed, to its seeming intractability.  The second point to be deduced from the foregoing is that disparate narratives are not an insurmountable obstacle to peace.

The UK needs the monarchy but with strong reforms. Several reforms have been made in the past facilitating more republican elements. The need of the hour is to further reform the monarchy to accommodate more republican principles so that the results of the democracy would reach the common man in the UK.

The particular effects of immigrants on the American economy cannot be precisely estimated. It can be assumed that immigrants that entered the USA have supported the improvement of the national economy through their participation in the various industrial activities of this country. As for the influence of immigrants in the demographic characteristics of natives in the USA, it could be stated that this influence was rather limited until today.

In the 1970s, the Baader-Meinhof group strengthened their connections with other organizations sharing similar objectives with them. The Palestine Liberation Organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the unsubstantiated American Black Panthers were prominent examples of the organizations that the group kept close contacts with (Zalman para 5).

Notwithstanding the socio-political ramifications of the New Deal proposals in redefining American Governmental policy towards distributive social welfare, the resulting court packing proposals were constitutionally significant for highlighting the political constraints within which the executive operated.

Local propaganda departments monitor newspapers, television, and radio, while police monitor the Internet; news media and the Internet are each governed by separate and overlapping laws and regulations. (Beijing, 2008). Under such circumstances, one can hope that perhaps one day, PRC would change its authoritative attitude in the direction of democracy in order to fulfill impacts other than entering WTO.

Some critics blamed the book for the lack of literary mastery we should remember that its main goal was to attract our attention. This book became a simple exposition of very complicated facts about the world around us. And there are no doubts that Al Gore has succeeded in achieving his main goal to convince all of us.

The transformationalist perspective: the skeptic approach is inaccurate for it takes too lightly the extent of global transformation; for instance, global markets nowadays are more highly structured globally than in the past. In contrast, hyper globalists view globalization unreasonably as completely a one-way, economic phenomenon.

The research will provide a sufficient ground for the government to facilitate their potential to establish smart organizations in Dubai, as the adoption of technology is essential to inject efficiency in service delivery and to transform the entities into Smart Organizations within the shortest time possible creating an integrated service delivery platform.

 The economic reforms demanded by international financial institutions such as IMF and World Bank are predisposed towards favoring international expansion of multinationals from developed countries into the developing economies. States need to evaluate the impact of such reforms on the domestic economy as well as the local level of preparedness with regards to financial infrastructure before embarking on major institutional restructuring.

Realism does not argue for mindless aggression; an offensive capability that would deter a challenge to its security from any challenger is a matter of national interest. National interest can go a long way in explaining perturbing behavior on the part of nation-states. The US intervention in Iraq in 2003 was deemed “unnecessary” by several leading realists.

One of the main effects of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling has been the significant reverberations felt by the political spectrum. In the wake of the decision the Republicans and Democrats, political parties experienced a decisive split in perspectives that further divided the two major groups (Aster 8).

This article and the author have quite well explained and connected the several issues faced by the Spanish government and its economy during the period from 2008 to the present. The author has also highlighted the issues, which went unattended by numerous other economists, with great awareness and made sure that these issues are well explained.

Activist and non-governmental organizations are responsible for promoting democracy because they put the government in check. They are also responsible for putting structures for prosperity through private sponsored bills for legislations. They aim at adjusting existing policies so that they can accommodate the dynamics of society.

Given that modern conservatism also addressed most of the issues that is championed by the liberalism in a more considerate and moderated way. It is clear that liberalism should either evolve with the times or find itself relegated to obscurity since in many ways it is like a general whose war was fought and won a long time ago but who remains in his fatigues his weapon to mostly imagined enemies and refusing to believe that the war is over.

Neo-realism can therefore, without doubt, be seen as a theoretical substitute to realism and the strength to consider international relations via the perspective that is linked with this kind of approach is that one can be better equipped to appreciate and evaluate the processes of socializing between countries and other international entities.

While Mao was still alive and playing such factions off against one another, the contending forces remained held in check. Mao’s death resolved only a few of the problems that had been intrinsic in the succession struggle. The radical clique that was most closely associated with Mao Zedong as well as the Chinese Cultural Resolution was vulnerable following the death of Mao, as Deng was after the demise of Zhou Enlai.

The killing religion propagates for the modern-day hijacking of planes and children, like the Nigerian Boko Haram and the al-Qaeda not forgetting the al-Shabaab in present-day Somalia. In this submission, it is practical knowledge to denote killing religions with modern terrorism.

The American people have now put all their expectations on President Obama to resolve the Iraq and Afghan issue and to bring all the American soldiers back in their country by putting an end to their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the American soldiers are sacrificing their lives in these wars.

Charges of imperialism are frequently leveled against the United States in the twenty-first century. As the US experience in the wake of the Spanish-American War demonstrates, these charges are nothing new. American imperialism predates the collapse of the Soviet Union and the past quarter-century of American hegemony.

The activities are seen over by the European Parliament. From the discussion up to this point, it may seem that the Parliament is the most powerful body in the EU. However, it has to be said that the power is shared between the Parliament and the EC. In the case of the legislative decisions in the EU, a “co-decision” procedure is followed. 

People have the right to know the truth about such a disastrous event which has political importance on the international level. America is a superpower and has the ability to manipulate things in order to get materialistic favoritism and gain confidence from the American public towards the government as to their country’s internal security and human rights.

The current security level in the world is interdependent on the activities of each individual country that makes up this world. Each country needs to be sensitive to the welfare of all the others, in the line of wanting to pursue domestic interests. Even the developers understand that the effects of nuclear weapons are universal, and therefore the whole world is bound to the same risk.

Saddam Hussein could bring a democratic revolution thereby fostering a democratic revolution and a new era of political stability and peace for the Middle East. This was especially so in the light of what was hoped to be greater women’s political participation which would be conducive to development in Iraq in economic and social spheres.

Some basic characteristics of democracy are that: first, all adult citizens exercise their civic and power responsibility directly or through an elected representatives. Secondly, democracy should rest on majority rule and individual rights, protection of basic human rights like freedom of speech, religion, conducting free and fair elections where the citizens have the rights to participate.

The premierships of Macmillan and Douglas-Home witnessed the decline in support of the Conservative Party. The image of the party in both cases was not good. Both prime ministers were faced with scandals that involved their governments. The scandals removed the credibility of the Conservative Party as being capable of having a clean leadership.

Anne Moody's experiences are hard lessons for an average Negro to be on the guard to secure the rights. Her hope was tempered with reason, as for the h ground realities. She explained many dimensions of the problem, the white supremacy on African American self-image and but what pained her deeply was the attitude of the lighter-skinned African Americans with the dark-skinned African Americans.

The literature on the statistical analysis of civil wars has generally assumed that negotiations fail because a conflict is not ripe for resolution or because the combatants cannot agree on the terms for peace. It does not consider that combatants may look down the road and realize that any terms they do accept may be unenforceable and therefore undesirable.

It is also believed that Baader-Meinhof Gang wanted to push the government to breaking point, forcing it to bring in stricter laws that would affect an individual’s freedom and would create more unrest among the masses thus causing a civil war. However, even for civil wars, a clearly defined ideology is required that finds support from people.

Protests against the Iraq war began in late 2002 when George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly on September 12, 2002, making a case for the war in Iraq. The single largest protest against the war was registered on February 15, 2003, when millions of people gathered in over 800 cities around the globe.

The third area, the operational level has a single aspect, the technical principles indicated by data properties, including methods used to capture data, quality, and accuracy of data, and data maintenance and timeliness in the provision of such data. At the 4th level, external factors involve aspects of human resources and capacity building issues.

The EU has sustained the collapse of state-sponsored communism in Europe and has remained resilient in the face of tremendous geopolitical chance.  While reinventing itself in the post-Cold War world and integrating former members of the Soviet block into its ranks, the EU has demonstrated a strong and sustained trajectory for growth.

The need of the hour is the clear understanding of the mass destruction capabilities of the nuclear weapons that can result if this technology is acquired by the new age terrorists group, who believe in the justification of killing for their own vested agenda that involves holding the world community to ransom.

With the help of globalization, there is a feeling of connectedness (Steger 2003). It appears that all the people of the world are connected to each other through the word of globalization but the concept of globalization also informs about many disadvantageousness that has come up as a result of globalization. 

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The veracity of the indictments against the media’s failure to extricate itself from hegemonic tendencies and serving sectarian interests is self-evident.  However, the same is also well underscored by the formation of homegrown professional media councils and agencies that are managed, controlled and owned by the ethnic minorities themselves.

One such demographic is the working class; people who engage in manual work to pay their living expenses, almost always at an hourly rate. This labor can be either skilled or unskilled, but it is always the foundation for any society if it wants to run smoothly.

Britain provides a case study of fascism in its ‘normal’, highly marginalized state, full of revolutionary aspirations and rhetoric which is powerless to turn into reality. All British fascisms are actually self-neutralizing due to the intrinsic weakness of the revolutionary threat they pose as permutations of palingenetic ultra-nationalism, and hence of an ideology and a program of radical action which appeal naturally to a small minority.