Deliberative democracy is theoretically plausible and institutionally impracticable - publié le 24/07/2006
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
What we mean today when referring to 'democracy' is, according to some scholars, 'a way of organising the state that has come to be narrowly identified with territorially based competitive elections of political leadership for legislative and executive offices' . The problem with...
How have social democratic parties changed over the last 25 years? - publié le 24/07/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The changes observed in the last 30 years, and more specifically, the last 25 years have produced an unexpected and important identity crisis for all parties rooted in the tradition of Western European reformist socialism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the world experienced great changes....
How have social democratic parties changed over the last 25 years?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The changes of the last 30, and especially 25 years have produced an unexpected and important indentity crisis for all parties rooted in the tradition of Western European reformistsocialism. In fact, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the world experienced great changes such as new expectations...
Do we need feminist theory in International Relations? If so why?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Feminism is a critical social and political movement which emerged at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century with women's claims of equal rights in society and in the political sphere, with the assertion of the right to vote. However, now, since the end of the...
Do we need feminist theory in International Relations? If so why? - publié le 24/07/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Feminism is a critical social and political movement who first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth with women's claims of equal rights in society and in the political sphere, with the right of vote. But now, since approximately the end of the...
The 2004 European elections
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
On the 13th of June 2004, except in a few countries (Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Czech Republic and United Kingdom where it occurred one or two days before), more than 338 millions European citizens went to the polls to choose their representatives at the European Parliament, namely the...
Contrast and compare the political ideology, support base and political strategy of the Pakistani Jamaat-i-Islami and the Iranian Islamic Revolution - published: 12/07/2006
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
The events of the beginning of this century has shown the resistance and the diversity of Islamism. According to Bobby S. Sayyid, Islamism is a discourse that attempts to centre Islam within the political order. Islamism can range from the assertion of a Muslim subjectivity to full-blooded...
Contrast and compare the political ideology, support base and political strategy of the Pakistani Jamaat-i-Islami and the Iranian Islamic Revolution
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
The events of this beginning of century have shown the resistance and the diversity of an Islamism, which certain had already buried. According to Bobby S. Sayyid, ‘Islamism is a discourse that attempts to centre Islam within the political order. Islamism can range from the assertion of a...
Does social constructivism really add anything new to debates about security?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
During the late 1980s, when debates between neo-realists and neo-liberals seemed to exhaust them, so-called constructivist researches made their appearance. By asserting themselves as an alternative to realism, they reinterpret its main concepts (power, national interest, sovereignty). Moreover,...
Does social constructivism really add anything new to debates about security? - published: 12/07/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
During the late 1980s, when debates between neorealists and neoliberals seemed to exhaust themselves, so-called ‘constructivist' researches made their appearance. By asserting themselves as an alternative to realism, they reinterpret its main concepts (power, national interest,...
To what extent did the colonial state openly side with metropolitan capitalist interests and missionaries lobbies against indigenous interests? - published: 12/07/2006
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Ghana was a victim of the British Empire's colonialism, from the establishment of the South as a Crown's possession in1874 until the independence of the country in 1957. Basically, colonialism can be defined as a particular form of imperialism: the 'colonial imperialism', notion...
To what extent did the colonial state openly side with metropolitan capitalist interests and missionaries lobbies against indigenous interests?
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Ghana was a victim of the British Empire's colonialism, from the establishment of the South as a Crown's possession in1874 to the independence of the country in 1957. Basically, colonialism can be defined as a particular form of imperialism: the colonial imperialism, notion mainly developed by...
Is e.government still more a dream than a reality ?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Information Technology, especially the Internet, has definitely opened the political scene to the public. Its influence on politics relies on a new and widened visibility, mixed to a clearly new approach of communication. Indeed, it has become a common tool. And adding to the low cost of access,...
Women's political role in the United States in the 1920's
Essay - 18 pages - Political science
72 years were necessary for women to enter the political world, the greatest men's sphere. To understand why it took so many years for women to get the right to vote, it appears necessary to deal with the origins of the movement and to analyze the consequences of some important historical...
To what extent does the concept of civil society help in the explanation or justification of the process of democratization?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Renewed interest in civil society emerged in the late 1980s; it coincided with the resurgence of political democracy throughout the world. Indeed, it has been increased with the growing tendency towards democratization in Eastern Europe, and several Latin American countries, where authoritarian...
Politics is just show-business for ugly people
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
On October 7, 2003, the 2003 California recall resulted in Governor Gray Davis being recalled with 55.4% of the Yes vote. Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California under the second question on the ballot. On this day, a large majority of the world population discovered,...
Is bureaucracy uncontrollable?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
More and more people are complaining about bureaucracy. Indeed, if we take the example of the current French debate about the European Constitution, we can see that a lot of politicians are ascribed to Brussels bureaucrats; the difficulties people are facing, such as unemployment, delocalization...
Comparative analysis of the political parties and the party systems: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia - published: 28/04/2006
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Although sharing institutions for over seventy years, and the transition pathways from communism, the two successor states of the former Czechoslovakia have faced different challenges in the state-building process and adopted distinct economic policies over the past thirteen years since Slovakia...
The American bureaucracy on national security
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In his book The Power Game, Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a “bureaucratic tribal warfare”, using a tribal metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington, DC. The notion of bureaucracy emerged in the early 20th century,...
Does citizenship demand or threaten rights ?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
All human beings are born with rights, and the chief function of the government is to secure those rights. The rights of the individuals come first, before their corresponding duties. The proponents of the concept of active citizenship claim, however, that citizenship essentially demands...
"America's Europe". Discuss with reference to the origins of european integration
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The American dimension to European integration has stirred up great debate, conventionally crystallized in the ‘traditionalist/revisionist' dichotomy. A central concern in any study of the origins of European integration consists in determining how far the development of intense patterns...
Discuss the claim that imperialism is an enduring feature of international relations
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The very concept of imperialism is dynamic, fluid, and the complexity of the notion of imperialism allows for the possibility to give multiple definitions, various accounts for it. This essay will examine major aspects and theories accounting for imperialism and the remnants of the phenomenon in...
To what extent does membership of international organisations constraint national foreign policy decision-makers?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The claim that profound structural transformations in the external environment are undermining the principle of state sovereignty has been advanced by many foreign policy analysts from quite different theoretical traditions, and the specific instance of the constraint of membership of...
The Search for Russian National Identity and Coherent Foreign Policy: Development and Change in Foreign Relations under Yeltsin and Putin
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Traditionally, Russia has been a geographical concept. Its external borders have defined its identity and the strengthes or weaknesses of its leaders and internal organization have determined its external borders. Even its geography is subordinate to the ability of its leaders to secure it...
To what extent is the clausewitzian account of war a political instrument relevant in the twenty-first century ?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Clausewitz's description of war as a means to an end or, to use his own formulation, “the continuation of politics by other means”, must be interpreted against the contemporary intellectual background: the majority of enlightenment writers had regarded war as an aberration, an...
What is representative democracy? Is it aim to restrict or to promote popular rule? - published: 16/11/2004
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
One may accept, as Dahl did, that representative democracy is a means to democratise a government. Yet, representative democracy is far from being a true democracy, both restricting and promoting popular rule. The concept of representative democracy derived from the criticism of absolutism, held...
What are the common points and contrasts between national identity and European identity
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The national identity and the European identity - National identity is well-established and no one would try to challenge it; the European identity is still a theoritical concept which the European institutions are still working on. According to Shore, ?national identity derives from a...
'In Europe, extreme right-wing parties only do well when they are headed by a charismatic party leader'. Discuss with reference to extreme right-wing parties in two or more countries.
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In this essay, I will be referring to extreme right-wing parties and will widen my analysis to populist right-wing parties which often share similar aspects with the former ones (except they don't relate to an ideology for example). I will focus on three countries (France, Austria and The...
Globalization and culture
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The term globalization describes the increase in mobility of goods, services, labor, technology and capital throughout the world. It is widely acknowledged that globalization, however defined, has penetrated, albeit to varying depths, into all major facets of social, economic, political and...
Efficiency and Public Administration
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Our reflection will be based primarily on the works of both Janice Stein and Christopher Dunn. Further, other scholarly sources and personal considerations will also be accounted for our reflection on global and international relations. The first part of the reflection will focus around the...
