To what extent is Blair's New Labour party the true heir to Thatcherism? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Thatcherism may be defined as the economic, social and political ideas and particular style of leadership associated with Margaret Thatcher. The British Prime Minister who served the nation from 1979 to 1990, believed in a mixture of neo-liberal beliefs in the free market and neo-conservative...
Why did communism become established in Eastern Europe after the Second World War? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Shortly before the official end of the Second World War, on 25th April 1945, American and Soviet soldiers met at the Elbe. In order to reach the Elbe River, the Russian troops had to come all the way across Europe, thus crossing Eastern Europe. By the end of the same year, seven states occupied...
The enemy : the condition of the political or a political construction ? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
According to Schmitt's theory, the notion of political is centred on the state, not as an institution, but as the result of the interaction between various components of society. Men constitute a governmental association and the state is the factor of unity of this association. This is the...
Golda Meir
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Golda Meir is originally from Russia, where she lived eight years, before moving to America. But actually, she does not remember it very well. Her first memories are quite sad and hard for a young girl : « the terrible hardships my family suffered, with poverty, cold, hunger and fear, and I...
Human rights in India - the status of women
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
India may be one of the few countries where severe restrictions are still enforced upon women. The situation of widows came to symbolise this, and constitutes for Human Rights activists, a justification for intervention. The focus of this essay is on the importance of religion, and why it is...
Human rights in India - theories of violence
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
The Constitution of India, through the 1955 Civil Rights Act, outlaws the practice of untouchability, which discriminates against Dalits and other 'untouchables'. Despite efforts made by the government to put constitutional and statutory safeguards in place in order to outlaw and...
Reforming the hospital sector in France: comparison with the 2009 Bachelot Reform, the 1996 Juppé plan, and the 1958 Debré Reform
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In order to understand well about how the hospital sector in France works, I would like to highlight its main features. This sector is not based on a single plan which was decided at a given time, but was reviewed at many occasions so as to improve its management, its cost-effectiveness and its...
US political parties
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The Democratic Party is one of the two major parties in the United States, and also one of the oldest in the world. It was first known as the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1793. Under Jackson's presidency the party was divided in two. A faction which followed...
Civil Society NGOs & Private Sector Com-panies: Towards Cooperation?
Essay - 14 pages - Political science
In 2005, DuPont, an American chemical company and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental advocacy group, engaged in a partnership aiming at ensuring responsible development of a new high-tech domain, nanoscale materials. The project was also aimed at communicating with the global...
Algeria: political portrait
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The Middle East is a very hot geopolitical region. It has witnessed many different conflicts, some of which remaining unresolved. Although the middle-eastern countries are very different in terms of economic development, I believe they share a common pattern: the regimes are authoritarian in most...
Transition from dictatorship to democracy : the Chilean example
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
On the 10th of December 1948, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was adopted in the frame of the United Nations Organization. This declaration is based on values such as democracy, freedom, equality. On the basis of this declaration, the 20th century was marked by the disappearance of many...
Presentation: one state, several nations - Pakistan and its identity issues.
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In this presentation, we will not deal with the context of the independence of Pakistan in 1947. However, since Pakistan is a very young country, its creation plays a large role in the difficulties it encounters in its nation-building. The partition of India, in 1947, is the result of a long-term...
The abolition of death penalty in France and Turkey: History, similarities and differences of two lateness abolitions in Europe.
Essay - 17 pages - Political science
Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a personal by judicial process for retribution and incapacitation. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences . Death penalty exists since the Antiquity. Effectively if we follow...
Would it be possible to create a family policy at the European level?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Nowadays, families seem to be the basis of our contemporary societies. We commonly speak of the family unit as a stem cell, which would be the foundation of our social organization. But, as strange as it may seem, there is no common family policy in the European Union. At first sight, it can...
Why does Hezbollah provide social services?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia movement that was created in 1982 in response to the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. In the beginning, the organization was mainly military because of the context of war at the moment of its creation; it has also become a major political player in Lebanon and has taken...
The defeat of the new Democrats in the U.S. Was it only due to Clinton?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
From 1932 until 1980, the New Deal public philosophy attracted an electoral coalition that had enabled the Democratic Party to dominate national politics for decades. However, since 1964, the New Deal consensus began to be challenged by some groups within each party's coalition while the rise...
Hubert Humphrey and the 1964 election
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
Humphrey and Johnson entered the Senate in 1949. While Johnson entered as a Southern conservative, Humphrey stood as a champion of civil rights. Indeed, Humphrey who served as Mayor of Minneapolis from 1945 to 1949 gained notoriety by becoming one of the founders of the liberal anti-communist...
British Identity and Faith Schools
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
In February 2010, a report from the think-tank Civitas, the institute for the study of the civil society, claimed that some Islamic schools were promoting fundamentalist views. Therefore, British politician Ed Balls ordered Ofsted to investigate a small sample of faith schools to find out if they...
The rise of Beirut as the capital city and its implications for the Lebanese nationalism
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Lebanon is a very complex entity. We need to understand some concepts about the historical features of the country to grasp a better understanding of its current state. First, Modern Lebanon is part of a larger unit: historical Syria, as opposed to the present Syrian Arab Republic, which now...
Habermas and Rorty - the existence of universal human rights
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Human rights have been taken for granted in the Western world. It was asserted that they were universal and every human being was entitled to them on the ground that he or she was human. These rights are considered as inalienable since they are inseparable from the human nature. The challenge is...
Franco's Spain (1939-1975) and Pinochet's Chile (1974 ? 1981)
Essay - 1 pages - Political science
Dictatorship is a political regime in which an individual (or an assembly) gathers and gets all the powers. The political leader is not elected and his power is arbitrary and coercive. Violence is used as a means against any form of opposition. This political analysis will deal with Franco's...
Immigration in Iowa
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The United States of America has been and is still an important land for immigration. Attracted by the American dream, the hope of a better life, thousands of people were displaced from their homelands into a new territory. Iowa is not a state that is an exception to this American tradition of...
Exploring Borders: Control, Movement, and the Challenge of the Transnational
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Globalization is characterized by a huge increase in flows of various kinds, such as merchandises, ideas, capital and also people. Even if the free circulation of flows blurs certain borders, the human circulation remains a burning issue for Western countries. The arrival of people coming from...
Democratization versus Rule of Law - published: 01/04/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Professor Daniel Saadoun distinguishes three features that are deemed essential in a modern democracy: universal suffrage, the inscription in the preamble of the Constitution of a set of rules that the State cannot modify or erase and the obligation for the State to look after all the rules...
In the 21st century, how true is it to claim that the nation-state is sovereign?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Nowadays, with the emergence of a vast range of new actors which have an impact on various fields such as policy-making, organization of economies and ensuring the education of populations for example, some argue that the sovereignty of the state is threatened and that the sovereign nation state...
Nationalism and the First World War
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
By the end of the 19th century, Europe divided into two alliances, because the probability of a war had increased. On one hand, the Triple Entente was settled in 1907 and constituted of Great-Britain, France and Russia. On the other hand, the Triple Alliance was implemented in 1891, composed of...
Federal state of the United States and its superiority over other states
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The United States is a federal republic, which means that republic shares sovereignty between different levels of government. This system of government is opposed to a unitary republic like France. The Constitution of the United States of America is one of the oldest in the world which was...
What is meant by the term "civil society"? Which role does civil society play in a democracy?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
According the European Commission, a Civil Society is the "community life which is exercised between the state and the market. The objectives of the participation of the Civil Society are to support the elaboration and the implementation of the policies using practical advices." This definition...
Politics, a minor form of show Business ?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Politics and politicians have an important place on the news and in the newspapers. And not only the core and serious political pieces of news are known, the attention is also focussed on all the politicians private life and scandals. So, politics has become a form of show business or TV show...
Explaining constitutional choices in post-communist transition countries: the actor-centered approach.
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
Among the most important of all constitutional choices that have to be made in democracies is the choice of relationship between the executive and the legislature, in particular presidential versus parliamentary government. Political scientists disagree about which of the alternatives are...
