Democracy for the few (chap. 15), Michael Parenti
Book review - 4 pages - Political science
Michael Parenti is a professor of political science at several American universities. He has a PhD in political science from Yale University. He is known for being a progressive activist and a provocative thinker. As such, he wrote numerous books that focused on the American nation, the role of...
Thomas Frank's "What's the matter with Kansas?"
Book review - 5 pages - Political science
Introduction Thomas Frank has been deeply astonished and revolted with the myth of the “two-nation” America which has been cultivated by various opinion makers - especially popular journalists. This observation motivated him to look for this true America that so many op-eds and public...
The Relationship between Corruption and Economic Development
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Through the quantitative comparison of corruption and economic development, it can be found that GDP per Capita is partially dependent on the amount of corruption within the governing body of a given nation. The independent variable (x) is the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) as made available...
What kind of leader is Condoleezza Rice?
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Political science
Dr. Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as Secretary of State on January 25, 2005. She is a clear example of a leader, which possesses certain traits that have led her to where she is today. In order to evaluate her as a leader, it is necessary to look at different aspects of her leadership. It is...
Why Can't the Music Industry Stop Illegal Downloads?
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Political science
Can't wait for the new Jay Z album to go on sale to get your own copy? Don't want to shell out $19.99 (plus tax!) for the latest Modest Mouse record? For those growing up in the Internet generation, these hurdles are trivial. Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing has made acquiring media online...
Seeds of Peace: Triumphs and Trials
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Political science
How can one solve an ancient conflict? Is it possible for reconciliation to occur after years, even centuries, of dispute? How can one even attempt to play a constructive role in such a conflict? Seeds of Peace has attempted to make a change in such ancient battles as the Israeli-Palestinian...
Sustainable Agriculture: Achieving Food Reform
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
We have a global crisis on our hands. For decades, industrial agriculturists have ravaged and monopolized our global countryside and our global resources. Recently, as world hunger awareness has grown, these corporations would claim in the name of good will and the elimination of world hunger...
Explain the historical specificity and contemporary relevance of culture
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Today, we can buy a book from a vending machine, like soft drinks and snacks. Germinal and an Ice-Tea have the same value. Culture, in a wider sense, has been taken over by the “spectacular-merchandizing-society”, for which everything, from a book to an iPod, has a trade value. The...
Wacquant's contrast of French and American 'ghettoes'
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
‘The American ghetto is far more closed, penalizing and violent than the decaying French periphery' This introduction by E. Mingione to Wacquant's study summarizes the contrast demonstrated between the ‘Red Belt', that is the French working class cities and the ‘Black Belt'...
The shadow of the sun, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Book review - 3 pages - Political science
Like the young Scottish travelers going from Casablanca to Niamey, I did not know a lot about Africa before reading Ryszard Kapuschinski book. I do read the news, have studied economics of less developed countries, saw Shooting Dogs, and have met African people, but these experiences were nothing...
What are the most important features of contemporary Irish political culture? Has this political culture really change significantly since 1960? If so, why has this not had a greater impact on the political party system? - publié le 01/08/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Irish political culture is often seen as a peculiar one compared to western European countries. The political culture might be considered as a psychological part of political system: the set of values and attitudes of a political community. According to J. Coakley, it can be divided in tree...
Russian and east European politics - publié le 01/08/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Full democratization does not necessarily follow regime change. Hybrid or ‘grey democracies' have also emerged after 1989. Choose two countries from the former Soviet bloc, one from the countries recently admitted to the European Union and one such as Ukraine, Belarus, or Moldova and...
Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
During the XXth century, the communist system, an alternative political system to capitalism, emerged in Russia after the October Revolution. The features of this system are the important ideologies, the role of the communist party, the central planned economy and also the terror that took place...
Southern attitudes towards Northern Ireland
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Since the creation of the Republic of Ireland in 1922, the territory of Ireland is divided between two parts. The first one, Northern Ireland, is still taking part of the United Kingdom whereas the Republic of Ireland became an independent state. Since then, there is a constitutional conflict...
Do you agree with Mernissi that the modernizing Moroccan society she studied in the 1970s provided no norms for heterosexual interaction between the sexes? - How far is this applicable to other Moslem societies you have read about?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Gender interactions in the Moslem world and in Western societies are often opposed in terms of the woman's place in society. The Cultural differences between the two worlds can be underlined but it is not the subject of sociology to evaluate which one of the both ways of gender interaction is the...
Ireland: Culture, Religion and Identity
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In this essay, we are going to see the relationship between culture, religion and the identity in Ireland. The first part of the essay focuses on the Irish culture. We are going to answer questions like: Does Ireland have a distinctive and homogeneous culture? What does it mean to be Irish...
Structuralism and history: Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault - publié le 31/07/2007
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
Structuralism may originate from Saussurian linguistics. In the Course of General Linguistics, Saussure defines one essential methodological principle: in response to previous methodologies, which defined historical evolution as the main object of linguistics, Saussure assumes that language must...
Is social capital a useful tool for explaining the politics of public health in the twentieth century city?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The development of “politics of public health” is historically dated. As Foucault noted, it appeared with the broader emergence of the idea of “population” which provides, in the modern era, the conceptual framework of health policies. The existence of a common concept,...
Understanding the Rejection of the European Constitution in France through the Interaction of Politics and Public Opinion
Essay - 17 pages - Political science
After years of intense negotiations between member States, the European Convention led by former French President Valéry Giscard d?Estaing submitted the final draft of the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (hereafter referred to as "TECE") on July 15th, 2003. The aim of the treaty was...
Conflict assessment report: Lebanon
Essay - 16 pages - Political science
With its unique geographic location at the crossroads of three continents, Lebanon has always been a passageway to many different peoples and cultures. The coexistence of a dozen and a half of different religions in such a tiny territory has been a model for diversity. However, this diversity has...
Non-Governmental Organizations and the United Nations System History, Problems and Prospects - publié le 25/07/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
NGOs have been active in the United Nations (U.N.) system since its inception in 1945. Although the U.N. was created as an intergovernmental organization, there was a need since the early days of the Organization to allow representatives of the civil society to participate, through formal and...
UN Security Council Resolution 1559 and US multilateralism
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The United Nations Security Council Resolution of 1559 was adopted by the Security Council on September 2, 2004 by a vote of 9 in favor (Angola, Benin, Chile, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States), to none against, with 6 abstentions (Algeria, Brazil, China, Pakistan,...
The Gender Gap in voting behaviours
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
European women first acquired the right to vote in 1906 in Finland. After the First World War, women were given the right to vote in a certain number of European countries. In the UK, it was gained in two stages: first in 1918, it was initially given to married women, women householders and women...
Tony Blair's third way
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
When Tony Blair decided, in 1997, to challenge the electoral power of four consecutive Conservative governments, he pertinently chose to call his draft for Labor's electoral platform New Labor, New Life for Britain. Indeed, Labor or shall we say New Labor manifesto flaunted an unprecedented...
French citizenship is relatively open to immigrants while German citizenship is relatively closed. Discuss with reference to post-war immigration to France and Germany
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Mobs recently occurred in France in dozens of poor districts in reaction to the death of two young men. As most of the population of these districts is made up of immigrants or descendants of immigrants, the emphasis has been put by some of the most prominent members of the government such as...
South Africa: Colonial expansion and British consolidation
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
History of South Africa's colonization is undoubtedly one of the most complex, partly due to the fact that several colonizing nations and several native tribes were in interaction. What kind of evolutions knew South Africa from the second part of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century...
Is the United Nations an effective organization?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The United Nations is not the first international organization to be established to help in settling conflicts peacefully and preventing future conflicts. In 1899, the Hague Convention for the Settlement of International Disputes was established. “The conference was convened at the...
Despite its oil wealth, account for the instability of the Persian Gulf region
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The Persian Gulf region is known for being a very important area in terms of geopolitics. It holds up to 57% of the world's crude oil reserves and produces 27% of the global oil.Useless to say how vital to the world energy supply this region is and how extreme the tensions generated by this...
What is meant by the French party system, and what has produced its changing form in the period since 1958?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The French party system emerged in the form of parliamentary factions in the Third Republic. Soon enough, these factions were no longer only evident at the parliamentary level, but were organising the nation. From 1958, there is a considerable change in the organisation of the political parties...
Critically assess available explanations of the rise of the National Front, and assess and explain its impact on French politics
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The National Front was founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen and since the 1980s has managed to enter French political life. The European elections of 1984 saw the National Front gain 11% of votes, and in the parliamentary elections of 1986 and 1988, the National Front won 10%. The presidential...
