What was the significance of the Thatcher years? - publié le 08/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Political science
Although the Thatcher years marked a significant break from the post-war political settlement, ‘Thatcherism did not cause a single, abrupt caesura appearing out of the blues'. Truly, Thatcher's success during her years has mostly depended on a range of circumstances and political commitments...
From left to right: The most liberal conservative, feminist and socialist group in the U.S
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
The wide spectrum of political groups in the United States has expanded as society and technology progress, creating groups that are can be very liberal, very conservative, very socialist, very feminist or any degree of moderate. The most extreme groups offer a foundation for individuals to view...
Religion in American Politics
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
I would like to start this essay with a quote from Abraham Lincoln who declared: "My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right". This famous quote highlights that the close links between religion and political life in the...
Belonging, nationality and citizenship
Text commentary - 2 pages - Political science
This essay is based on the article of Lalli Metsola (2009): The Special Field Force and Namibian ex-combatant ?reintegration'. In Jensen and Jefferson (eds): State Violence and Human Rights: State Officials in the South. This article focuses on the study of organized violence in the...
Theorising the shift from security to insecurity
Text commentary - 2 pages - Political science
This essay is based on Mark Duffield's article (2007): Development, Security and Unending War. This article provides us with an analysis of three different books. What is interesting is to understand in what way these articles share the same focus even if, at first, they seem really opposed....
Illicit flows and criminality in modern states
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
This essay is based on two articles: - Carolyn Nordstrom (2004): Invisible Empires, in: Bruce Kapferer (ed.) State, Sovereignty, War - Janet Roitman (2004): Productivity in the Margins: The Reconstitution of State Power in the Chad Basin, in Das and Poole: Anthropology in the Margins of the...
Sovereignty inside the States
Text commentary - 2 pages - Political science
This document is based on Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat's article: Sovereign Bodies. Sovereignty is often described as the link between a state and its territory. If we refer to the definition of philosophy given by the Stanford Encyclopedia, we will discover that sovereignty is a...
The relations between development and security
Book review - 2 pages - Political science
This work is based on the text written by Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat : The Security-Development Nexus. Development is defined as 'set of governance practices for enhancing the well being of populations, in particular in poor countries'. What is important to understand is...
The European Union and democratic progress in post communist states:The cases of Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, strong winds of change have been sweeping across the European continent. With the growth of the European Union into the region's dominant political force, the last remnants of communism and totalitarian rule are rusting...
Great expectations: Tom DeLay's redistricting fight and what it means in the Texas 17th
Thesis - 14 pages - Political science
Party politics is about power. It's about who has more and by how wide a margin. In an increasingly polarized political culture, a noticeable swing in power to either party could have far-reaching and sweeping legislative consequences. Modern campaigns are costly struggles—fights for a...
A rhetorical criticism of Hillary Clinton's Beijing speech: Women's rights are human rights
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination for President was historic not only because she was the first woman to ever become a serious contender for the nomination, but also because she was the first, First Lady in history to ever run for President. Senator Clinton's campaign...
To what extent does media coverage of grass-root citizen activity promote citizen activism?
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The American citizen has evolved as a well-behaved political spectator, keen towards national affairs. The combination of an authoritative presentation style on behalf of the network news organizations and a lack of thorough coverage on citizen activist groups has cultivated a pacified audience...
The good, the bad and the ugly
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
According to the Richard Harris, author of “The Global Context of Contemporary Latin American Affairs," Globalization refers in general to the worldwide integration of humanity and the compression of both the temporal and spatial dimensions of planet wide human interaction. The proliferation...
The American system of political communication
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The American system of political communication encompasses a broad range of mediums like the radio, newspapers, news magazines, network and cable television, and an increasing amount of independent Internet sources through the use of "blogs". The Politics of Illusion, network news overtakes all...
Measuring the efficacy of the weekly presidential radio address
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The first presidential radio address in United States history was delivered by President Warren G. Harding on June 14th, 1922. He delivered a speech in Baltimore, MD and it was broadcasted by WEAR (now WFBR). Perhaps more historic than this was the first official radio address delivered in 1921...
Organised groups and democracy
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The shift from government to governance has had an impact on the way politics are viewed by the people, and power seems to be decentralized and dispersed. This means that the institutional structures traditionally in charge of policy-making now have to share these skills with organized groups and...
How democratic is the British government?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In fact, we could set a few provisional requirements to the evaluation of a government as democratic in order to analyze the British particular case. These requirements would be of different natures, and would be related first to the institutional system, then to the society itself. Indeed, the...
« Elite theory is a little more than a thinking-man's conspiracy theory » : do you agree?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Among the various theories of statecraft, the elite theory claims that the power is withheld by a minority of the society, the ruling class or power elite. This expression of "power elite" implies that this elite is not only the group entitled with policy-making, but more accurately the people...
Nuclear weapons: Engagement versus antagonism
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
Nuclear weapons are as controversial and notorious today as they were in August 1945 when the first atomic weapon was dropped on Hiroshima. These “weapons of mass destruction” inspire awe and fear, and some believe will eventually result in Armageddon. This paper will endeavor to...
China's one-child policy: Out-of-date and in need of abolition
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Now approaching its 30-year anniversary, China's one-child policy has been in effect since 1979, when it was introduced by Deng Xiaoping. It was a policy that was originally intended to be a short-term solution to an exploding population in the late 1970's. Designed to last a single generation,...
Baby boomers and retirement: The stark reality
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
We are constantly inundated with news about Baby Boomers and retirement, especially as it relates to concerns that baby boomers are not adequately prepared for retirement, and also worry separately about the state of Social Security in America. Many of the concerns that baby boomers have about...
The US declaration of independance in a world context
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
On the 16th January 1984 Ronald Reagan declared in his Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations that "Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for, and defended...
Youth and politics in the third world
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
"Youth have to be Very Much involved in Elections in the Third World. Either by Voting or by Presenting themselves as Candidates." Bouzid Reda Youth have in many ways involved in politics depending on the needs of their home country. Underdeveloped countries are the ones that need more political...
To what extent the Minority issues in Turkey is an internal phenomenon and to what extent external?
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Before analyzing the minority issue, we should firstly define what a minority is. No consensus exists on the definition of a 'minority'. In a general sense minorities are groups which are numerically inferior to and distinguishable from the rest of the population through ethnicity,...
Communism and it's success in China
Case study - 23 pages - Political science
Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. It can be considered a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism as a political goal is generally a conjectured form of future social...
Terrorist attacks and multiculturalism in Great Britain : commentary of "The vindication of Enoch Powell" by George Jonas (2005)
Text commentary - 3 pages - Political science
Multiculturalism has always been one of the characteristics of the United Kingdom. For ages, multiculturalism, immigration, aliens, have been crucial topics, source of debates and interrogations in this country. As foreigners have more or less been accepted, there was some legislation or some...
American history and society : how could the USA is changed for better?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Most people, at first sight, have the wrong image of the U.S.A. In the poorest countries, and even in European and other wealthy countries, a lot of people associate the U.S.A. with the image of "a golden land? as the media portrays. For the poor people, the US is a country where they hope to...
Hillary Clinton: Political persuasion and identification
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Persuasive messages appear in many different types of mediums including television, video games, magazines, books, newspapers, and billboards. One of the newest ways to present a persuasive message is YouTube. YouTube is an internet site that allows users to log on and create or view videos....
To what extent might the constitution of the United Kingdom be improved if provisions from the constitutions of other states were incorporated into it?
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
All modern states have a constitution, albeit each is very different. The main purpose of a constitution is to restrain government, in the sense of ensuring that governments are not arbitrary. Government must be carried out according to established rules. These rules are the constitution. The...
Politics and Passion, Michael Walzer
Book review - 6 pages - Political science
Nancy Fraser's powerful essay written in 1997 claims that our contemporary political culture has attained a position of being a ?post-socialist' as it directly stems from the collapse and dismay of the former Soviet Union. Fraser highlights the characteristics of our political culture and...
