The Downing Street years (Margaret Thatcher)
Text commentary - 4 pages - Political life and election
This text is an extract from Margaret Thatcher's Memoirs, 'My Downing Street Years'. This book is an autobiography written by Thatcher herself in 1995, in which she explains her ideology and justifies her government policies, led from 1979 to 1990. This book is more a political...
Civility Electoral Vote and Foreclosure of Violence in France
Text commentary - 12 pages - Political life and election
The incentives fail to motivate social actors to develop the modern political order as an ideal of rationality and functionality that is a guarantor of genuine peace of mind and body. By characterizing the state through its ability to claim "a monopoly of legitimate physical coercion", Max Weber...
Commentary on Margaret Thatcher's memoirs
Text commentary - 3 pages - Political life and election
Margaret Thatcher became the UK's first woman Prime Minister, and she won two further general elections. However, she became the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history. This text is extracted from 'The Downing Street Years', by Margaret Thatcher in 1995. In this extract she...
Participation and trust on contemporary western societies
Text commentary - 4 pages - Political life and election
In his article "Ruling the Void?, Peter Mair has investigated the decline of the conventional political patterns, and more precisely the average citizen's demobilization towards the traditional political parties in most of the old settled Western democracies. This trend has been largely...
