Élisabeth Borne's Repeated Use of Article 49.3: Challenges to French Democracy
Text commentary - 5 pages - Constitutional law
The frequent invocation of Article 49.3 by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne's government raises concerns about the balance of power and the vitality of parliamentary democracy in France.
Olympe de Gouges' 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman: A Pillar of Democracy and Gender Equality
Text commentary - 5 pages - Law's history and philosophy
Discover the groundbreaking "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" by Olympe de Gouges, a pioneering document that boldly expanded the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1791. This seminal work championed women's rights, equality,...
12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose (1953) and Sidney Lumet (1957) - To what extent is debate necessary for a trial in the American Democracy?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Political science
This document tackles three documents : - Document A is a still from the film 12 Angry Men entitled « Preliminary vote ». The film is a courtroom drama, it was directed by Sidney lumet and released in 1957. - Document B is a literary extract from a play called 12 Angry Men written for television...
How Did the Media Influence Spain's Journey to Democracy, Shape Public Perceptions, and Tackle the Challenges of Moving From Censorship to Independence?
Essay - 1 pages - Political science
The media's role in shaping public opinion during Spain's shift from dictatorship to democracy was powerful and profound. As the country moved away from Francisco Franco's authoritarian rule, media outlets—previously controlled by the state—suddenly became key players...
How does Hungary's and Poland's illiberal approach to democracy, accompanied by a nationalistic retreat, constitute a break with the values of the European Union?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
On 28 July 2014, at the twenty-fifth summer university in B?ile Tu?nad, Romania, Viktor Orbán declared: "The new state we are building in Hungary is not a liberal state, it is an illiberal state based on the value of labour." Indeed, since he came to power in Hungary in 2010, and won the...
How Did the Jewish Community Manage to Reconcile War and Democracy in the Creation and Perpetuation of the Israeli State?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
I am going to give you a presentation on democracy and war in the Israeli state, based on the writings of Ran Halevi. Ran Halevi is a French historian, born in 1950, director of research at the CNRS. His research focuses on the political history of France as well as on Israeli political...
Book review : GIDDENS, Anthony, The Third Way: the Renewal of Social Democracy, Cambridge, Polity, 1998
Book review - 6 pages - Linguistics & languages
Faced to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the socialist bloc in the late 1980s on the one hand, and the advanced spread of the neoliberal discourse, on the other, European social democrat parties started a process of discussion which aimed to analyse realistically the global changes that the...
What democracy is and is not, de SCHMITTER et KARL
Book review - 5 pages - International relations
Fiche réalisée dans le cadre d'un exposé pour un cours de Democracy and Democratization of South and East Asia. Il s'agit d'une fiche de lecture de l'essai de Philippe C. SCHMITTER et Terry Lynn KARL "What democracy is and is not" disponible ici :...
Places and forms of power - How did Africa go from an oppressive regime to a real democracy?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
I'm going to talk about the notion of places and forms of power. ‘Places' could be important buildings that represent a form of power, like the White House for example, the symbol of the American presidency, but it can also be a country which represents a form of power like South Africa...
Is the US a democracy?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The United States is considered as the most developed democratic model. It's born of a democratic will. They have the mission to spread this democratic model to the whole world. It is in the name of this democracy that the United States penetrates within certain states to impose the...
Considerations on democracy and state in the modern world
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The transformations that have occurred over the past three decades in the capitalist and socialist states brought to the discussion the importance of democracy as a determinant of the changes made largely in contemporary societies. The relationship between state and democracy...
Schumpeter's Conception of Democracy
Case study - 2 pages - Ancient history
Schumpeter is well known for his efforts in advocating a procedural democracy definition. He sets the stage for his definition by first criticizing the implications of the 18th-century philosophy that was associated with democracy (Medearis, 2009, p. 34). He claims that the...
Social inequality, democracy, capitalism
Case study - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In Latin America, social inequality can lead to the strengthening of anti-democratic convictions and further develop the "apartheid" prevailing social. The intervention of the political in the definition and implementation of economic and social policies is becoming more necessary, and the State...
What's wrong with the elite theory of democracy? - publié le 27/11/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The elite theory of democracy has emerged out of two major concerns of its precursors: no theory of democracy until now has given leadership the importance it ought to have, and none has really settled the issue of whether the common man is up to the task of governing a modern and...
Rethinking democracy today
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In this small essay, I will concentrate on the notion of democracy as a universal value according to two authors, Amartya Sen in one of his major works headed “The democracy of the others” and David Graeber in his book headed “Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and...
Union Tradition, Institutionalization Dynamic and Industrial Democracy in France and Germany after
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
The concept of industrial democracy is both old and generic. As such, it allows the comparative questions in an unique arrangements and ideas that have emerged in national and historical contexts. The notion of 'industrial relations' in France and 'industrial relations' in...
Does interest representation enhance or undermine democracy in the European Union? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has long been questioned and debated upon. In this essay we will consider the role of interest representation and discuss whether or not it aids or demoralizes the ideals of democracy. In order to fully investigate this question we will first...
What were the main factors of the collapse of " Social Democracy " in Britain? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
After the Second World War, the British political and economic landscape underwent a radical transformation in its own foundations. Indeed, the previous economic orthodoxy that had characterized the governing of Britain was substituted by a Keynesian form of welfare state. It was the beginning of...
Dictatorship and democracy- an essay
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In December 2010 began what is called "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia. The term 'Jasmine' is much criticized in the press and is not unanimous: in fact, the term "Jasmine" was used when Ben Ali took power and the term evokes sweetness, this contrasts with the destruction and pillage the...
Has electoral behaviour changed? How does volatile voting effect democracy?
Essay - 3 pages - Political life and election
In the last few decades, the main changes in the electoral behaviour are the decline of the turnout and the development of volatile voting. Those two elements affect the political life of the countries because political parties have to adapt themselves to answer the expectations of the voters....
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...
Phillips and Young - the common critique of liberalism and the divergence of views on democracy, the equality and rights
Essay - 2 pages - Theories and economic notions
Our modern society has been solidly founded upon liberal principles; the Enlightenment constitutes one of the most influential political ideas in the nation-building process. Nevertheless, some criticism has emerged as our society seems to fail to provide all its citizens political equality....
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...
Why Russia wants absorbs Ukraine and what is the influence of the European Union in terms of democracy?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
First, look at the world today? What's going on? Islamism is not only the international news. The events happening in Venezuela, North Korea, in the Sea of China, Xiang China, Syria, Libya, Egypt today are relayed cyclically or superseded by events in Ukraine, as in Ossetia 2012. As if nature...
Book review: Democracy and Education, by John Dewey John Dewey
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
John Dewey was a philosopher, psychologist, and political commentator and activist, who also wrote about a whole host of other topics: art, nature, logic, ethics, and democracy, amongst others. However, most of all, he is perhaps known as an educational thinker. His ideas on education are...
Democracy and Education, by John Dewey: Review
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
If it is indeed true that John Dewey's philosophy of education, as expounded in his book “Education and Democracy”, serves as the cornerstone of the American school system, it is little wonder to me that the US is known for its inventive and dynamic spirit. One of the central...
A critical review of Downs, A. (1957) 'An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy', Journal of Political Economy, 65(2): 135-150
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
In his seminal work “An economic Theory of Political Action in Democracy” Anthony Downs suggests that traditional economic theory is united in its exclusion of the impact of government as an economic agent. He sets out to address this issue by creating a model that sets key...
Did Poland make a success of its return to the democracy?
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Poland, the fatherland of Nicolas Copernicus, Frederic Chopin and Jean-Paul II, is widely regarded as an icon of the emancipation of the people's democracies of Central and Eastern Europe with respect to the USSR. More still, Poland appears in the international imagery as an effective...
The mutations of social democracy (late XIXth century- 1945): From long-term aspirations to "here and now" policies
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
In 1871, the Paris Commune, a proto-socialist attempted to form a new regime on communalistic and collectivist principles, and was savagely repressed by governmental troops led by Adolphe Thiers. Communards, if divided between patriots advocating the continuation of a revolutionary war against...
How convincing and appealing is Schumpeter's theory of democracy? - publié le 10/10/2012
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Joseph Schumpeter is an American economist and political scientist from the first part of the 20th C, well-known for his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy written in 1942 during the Second World War. In this eminent work, Schumpeter has elaborated a New Theory of Democracy,...
