Introduction A federal state is one in which sovereignty is constitutionally split between at least two territorial levels so that independent governmental units at each level have final authority in at least one policy realm. While federalism is considered a successful political tool to enhance...
Introduction North Korea, a reclusive nation led by Kim Jong-un, remains one of the most egregious violators of human rights in the world today. Despite the global efforts to promote and protect human rights, North Korea persists in its systematic abuse of its citizens’ fundamental...
Since the beginning of time, many kingdoms and empires have formed and fallen. The resilient ones were able to transform themselves into countries be it autocratic nations/states. In history, we have seen many cases of autocratic leaders such as the Nazi Party and The Soviet...
The approach of media innovation, internet, and social media and with their ascending to conspicuousness in this era has escalated the aggregate disdain of postmodern culture for the truth. The development of media innovation and its effect in present-day life is unmeasurable molding both the...
Centuries ago, the most common way for a king or emperor to earn political legitimacy was to associate with the prevalent religious ideology of their polis. The commonly held notions of the Divine seduced the emperors to rule in the name of God. But gradually,...
According to Tom Christiano’s democracy, democracy is defined as a system of government where its citizens exercise the power of voting through group decision making, characterized by equality among the participants. Citizens have the power to vote into office the public officials they want to...
Twelve Angry Men reminds citizens of their inherent responsibilities to honestly understand one another in order for the American democracy to function effectively and fairly. The film presents a jury of twelve men that must reach a unanimous decision regarding a first degree murder trial...
You can’t have a free democracy if you don’t have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people. – Rupert Murdoch As Murdoch’s empire grew larger, and his influence on the public-eye stronger, many political leaders saw his media domain...
Introduction Democracy is a multifaceted concept with various interpretations and implementations worldwide. Two prominent approaches to democracy are maximalist and minimalist democracy. While both systems aim to uphold democratic principles, they differ in their degree of inclusivity and government intervention. This essay provides an in-depth...
During the pre-modern ages there was less contact between people who had exposure to other cultures. These people worshipped and believed in their gods which they shared and was unquestioned within and outside they place of residence. These pre-modern societies were ideological controlled by themselves....
Democracy is based upon the equitable distribution of nation’s resources among its citizens and the insurance of lives of the last people in the queue. Marginalized sections are those who are not ensured with the basic necessities of life and thus sidelined. In modern times...
Elizabeth Anderson argues that democracy has non-instrumental value, as its worth is largely derived from the act of participation by the members of democratic culture, organization and government. She illustrates this with the example of a non-democratic form of government, Singapore, where the regime claims...
Abstract The Czech Republic began rapidly grow after the separation of the Czech and the Slovak Federal Republic into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic and the adoption in the European Union. Nowadays it takes 33 place in section presents the Ease of Doing...
America and France went through revolutions, more specifically, political revolutions. While this political revolution was happening, another revolution was happening in England. This revolution was poetic. This coming of age changed English poetry to an extent to where people would not even dare to call...
Origin. Bangladesh was a product of three successive partitions. The first partition took place in 1905 during the British colonial period, named as East Bengal to placate the Bengali speaking Muslims who were lagging the majority Hindu population in socio-economic development. The act was also...
The never-ending conflicts in the Middle East can be traced back since before World War Two. Though there have been many peace plans to end the conflict, sadly there has been little peace. America and many other countries have tried to solve the problem in...
Introduction Leadership is mostly done by one person (the leader) which for some people makes it unfair, because of the differences in language, raise, etc. so many differences occur in a society or country but what if that society was or is lead by all...
For this assignment I will be utilizing the Afrobarometer’s dataset for each scenario’s answer. Determining if there is an immense relationship of bivariate existing within the three scenarios’. Designed for describing the relationship among different variables a statistical technique is a bivariate analysis (Frankfort-Nachmias &...
The efforts of American “cultural producers” during World War II constructed and realized the ideal of a democratic American army within the minds of citizens doubtful of whether remaining democratic while engaged in warfare was at all possible. While the cultural producers ultimately proved successful,...