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...
Is French Republicanism embedded in an overlapping consensus?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
John Rawls's political theories are often criticized for being too theoretical. In fact, in order to develop his theory of justice and of political liberalism, Rawls makes use of innovative notions and conceptual devices. Even though he endeavors constantly to define, specify and illustrate...
Japanese Canadians, the Second World War and Canada's mistreatment of these ethnic minorities
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Following the bombing, by Japan, of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the life of Japanese, both immigrants and Canadian nationals in Canada, drastically changed. Well documented are the horrific, slave-like conditions many Japanese immigrants were forced to endure in...
What kind of nation?
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
James F. Simon makes an interesting statement in his book, "What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States," Simon proclaims that the tension between Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall played a huge role in the shaping of our nation. Their...
Democracy in Africa
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In the sphere of comparative politics, and more specifically, African politics, many notable changes have taken place over the last two decades. In this time, considerable research on African politics has centered on democracy and its implementation is different African nations. It was the...
Federalism and equalization payments in Canada
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Within the realm of Canadian federalism, one of the core principles is the idea of equality between the provinces, particularly when it comes to social programs and services. As a Canadian, there are certain things we all hold dear, many of which are social programs like universal health care,...
Capitalism, socialism, and utopianism
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Since Karl Marx's radical proposition of establishing a new society based primarily around the elimination of the bourgeoisie and the uprising of the working class, there have been an innumerable advocates, detractors, and vehement debates surrounding both sides of Socialism and Communism....
The will for democracy in Hong Kong: does it dismiss the modernization theory model?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
According to the modernization theory, the better the economical situation of a country is, the more likely a country is to adopt a democratic political regime. Indeed, according to Samuel Huntington, the economical growth may lead to the rise of the importance of middle-class and of their...
Aristotle, Hobbes and Machiavelli on Governance
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
In the realm of political theory, there are many thinkers whose thoughts and writings have influenced the way that government's and societies operate today. As citizens, it is crucial for us, especially in the democratic systems that we a North American's enjoy, that we place certain legitimacy...
Social movements and depoliticization
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
When one endeavors to study sociology within the context of our society, we must view it and assess it in relation to the social infrastructures that are already in place. This in no small way means that politics needs to be a contributing factor. This is even more relevant in the discussion of...
The alleged 'crisis of the welfare state' and the failure of the traditional defenders of the welfare state to respond to the New Right's critique
Thesis - 9 pages - Political science
Nowhere do competing theoretical, ideological and political views rage more fiercely, than in the debates surrounding the existence and organization of the modern welfare state. For some, the welfare state stands as a testimony to human achievement and social progress, it represents a refusal to...
Does devolution constitute a challenge to the British political tradition?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In 1998, the New Labor government passed the Scotland Act, the Government of Wales Act and the Northern Ireland Act, enforcing devolution in the United Kingdom. In order to determine if devolution constitutes a challenge to the British political tradition, one needs to look at pre-devolution...
How the Bush administration has abused executive power
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
Since the United States Constitution was written, there has been a constant tug-of-war for power between the three branches of government: the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch. In this time, the executive has been able to acquire many powers which include being...
Democracy deficit in Canada
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Canadians have always loved the fact that their nation is a democracy, and arguable one of the most developed democracies in the world. However, now more than ever before, there is a call from many Canadians to reinvigorate and revitalize democratic institutions in the country. One only needs...
Violence, memory and amnesia : political conflicts in XXth century Chile
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Dictatorships always tend to elaborate an official truth that does not tolerate any contradiction. This phenomenon is particularly visible in Chile, where the device of forced-disappearances and the constant denial of torture have profoundly occulted Chilean memory. This efficient work of...
The erosion of the welfare state in the United States
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
For more than a century welfare states have developed both in Western Europe and in North America. The welfare state is based on the idea that the state or the government should be responsible for maintaining a certain level of service for its citizens. This is a model whereby the state assumes...
The Confederate flag
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Southern symbols, particularly the Confederate flag, have grown very controversial since the end of the Civil war. Indeed, the Confederate flag has been associated with numerous racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, or with racist acts, such as the lynching of black people since the...
Devolution. Study of an extract from The Course of my Life: My Autobiography (Edward Heath)
Text commentary - 5 pages - Political science
The text we are going to study is an extract from the autobiography of Edward Heath published in 1998 and entitled ?the course of my life: My autobiography'. Edward Heath was a member of Parliament; a leader of the Conservative party from 1965 to 1974 and Prime minister of the United Kingdom...
Tajikistan: Battling corruption
Thesis - 12 pages - Political science
Tajikistan is a landlocked country in Southwest Asia surrounded by Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. The country is a republic headed by President Emomali Rakhmonov and Prime Minister Oquil Oqilov. There are currently NATO forces operating out of Tajikistan in support of the war in...
Political representation in American thought
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Modern democracies are definitely linked to the concept of representation. We do not have any democracy which operates without resorting to representative governance. This principle is solely the fact of our modern times, it seems to have been necessary every time human being tried to implement a...
Che Guevara: the end of a modern myth?
Text commentary - 1 pages - Political science
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's fortieth death anniversary was celebrated in October in various ways around the planet. This mythic twentieth century revolutionary figure is increasingly criticized, as the Cuban regime which protected its memory is weakening. Most newspapers notice this evolution but...
Efficiency and efficacy of Tricare
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The US Department of Defense's health care program is perhaps one of the most complex in the country. With 91 hospitals and 374 clinics facilities spread over the entire country and overseas for the uniformed service individuals in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guards, Marine Corps, Public...
The history of Modern China since the 1890's and the question of the nature of Hong Kong's society in the 1960's
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Whether the history of Modern China since the 1890's is a history of the radicalization process is difficult to say. The obvious question is radicalization of what? Does this so-called radicalization have to be understood in terms of ideological values, involvement of the state in the...
The trial of the leaders of General Pinochet's dictatorship: more for memory than for justice?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
From 19 May 2008 onwards, the assizes of Paris were supposed to try in absentia fifteen leaders of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, for illegal detention and torture of four French or Franco-Chilean nationals between 1973 and 1975. However, on 6 May the next year, the trial was...
Politics essay: Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, known as the "Pacifist Constitution"
Text commentary - 4 pages - Political science
The 9th Article was added to the Constitution of Japan, known as the "Pacifist Constitution" (Heiwa-Kenp during) during the occupation following World War II. It has been written by the Americans, and is aimed at delegating or limiting Japan's military power in favor of collective security....
