civil servants‚ public servants‚ officialdom‚ departmental government etc. All state bureaucracies are someway organized based on a definite purpose or functions. This is achieve through the construction of departments‚ ministries and agencies charged with responsibility for particular policy areas like education‚ defense‚ agriculture etc. The number of such departments and agencies varies over time and from state to state. In the bureaucratic system‚ the works of the department or organization are
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Failed States‚ Collapsed States‚ Weak States: Causes and Indicators ROBERT I. ROTBERG Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy‚ and the very nature of the particular nation-state itself becomes illegitimate in the eyes and in the hearts of a growing plurality of its citizens. The rise and fall of nation-states is not new‚ but in a modern era when national states constitute
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The editorial “Bikies threat to public” that was published on the 7th of March in the Herald Sun shows a serious concern about bikies and their so called “wars”. It states that they (The bikies) should be taken seriously because they are a lot more powerful than the police think they are. The piece mostly uses connotation‚ attack and an appeal to safety and they make the public feel like they have to join in the “fight against bikies”. The audience thinks that they are crimaanls because of photo
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electric drill in 1916. They went on to develop and offer the first portable screwdriver‚ electric hammer‚ as well as finishing sanders and jigsaws all the way up to the hugely successful dust buster in 1978. Over the next 70 years‚ the company established itself as dominant name in power tool and accessories‚ first in the United States and then accros a broad global front but particularly in europe. Growth was achieved by adding to its lineup of power tools and accessories and by increasing its
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UNITED STATES TITTLE: A Model of Christian Charity AUTHOR: John Winthrop BIOGRAPHY: John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ and the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. EPOQUE: Is a 1630 sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop‚ who delivered on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. TITTLE: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts AUTHOR: Maxime Hong Kingston BIOGRAPHY: Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Welfare State: Developments and Perspectives 1. Absolute Poverty and Relative Poverty. Sociologists and Economists use different definitions to measure poverty. One such definition is absolute poverty‚ where people lack the necessary food‚ clothing or shelter to survive. This is more common in developing countries‚ but still occurs in the European Union. For example‚ the Homeless can experience this kind of poverty. The 1995 United Nations World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen
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Some contemporary Scholars like Quentin Skinner define the state today as "a locus of power distinct from either the ruler or the body of the body of the people." (Skinner‚ Foundations of Modern Political Thought‚ II‚ p.355). Yet‚ others would argue that the potency of the word "state" derives from the fact that it means both ruler and people. In other words‚ the state is at the same time loved for its promise of order and stability for the whole community and feared for its threat of coercion by
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Can a state survive without nationalism? This paper will respond to the argument that a state cannot survive without nationalism. For the purpose of this essay‚ two elements of nationalism are used. The first element states that nationalism maintains the similarity of culture as the basic social bond in the members of the nation1. The second element states that the state has legitimate rights to sovereign rule of a nation. The factors that result from the three elements of nationalism that contributes
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Elements of State 1. People - the population living in a state. 2. Territory - includes the land‚ the rivers‚ the sea‚ and the air space which the jurisdiction of the sate extends. 3. Government - the agency through which the will of the state is formulated‚ expressed and carried out. 4. Sovereignty or independence - the power to command and enforce obedience free from foreign control. Types of Governments Governments can be classified into several types. Some of the more common types of governments
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is said that a state succession is when one country takes the place of another or annexes part of it and takes responsibility for the predecessor state’s sovereign territorial rights. Since the start of modern civilization‚ large territories have transferred from country to country countless times. Empires have fallen‚ and other countries have risen from their ashes. However‚ a majority of the time the actual state succession never goes as favorably as the definition suggests. State succession comes
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