What can you say about Philippine politics? Our country is challenged with quite a lot of political‚ economic and social problems at this time. The most controversial on televisions and in actual life is the political issues for it consist with well-known giant names in the republic. The politics of our country is occasioned in an organized framework of presidential‚ representative and democratic republic whereby the president is both the head of the state and the head of the government. Philippine
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The African Union: Providing Peace in Africa? A case study of the African Mission in Burundi Dr Annemarie Peen Rodt Department of Politics‚ Languages and International Studies University of Bath‚ 1 West North‚ Bath BA2 7AY‚ United Kingdom Email: apr20@bath.ac.uk International Studies Association Annual Convention 16-19 March 2011. Montreal‚ Canada. This is a first draft. Please do not quote without consulting the author. Comments and questions are more than welcome. Abstract The African Union
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FAIRNESS AT PLAY Introducing electoral reforms to reduce the influence of money and muscle power in politics FAST FACTS 33% of candidates who declared assets more than INR 5 crore‚ won in 2009.i 2009 Lok Sabha Poll estimated spending (nearly INR 10‚000 crore) is higher than the 2008 US Presidential Elections (nearly INR 8‚000 crore).ii The cost of conducting 2004 elections was 125 times1 greater than that of 1952.iii 162 MPs elected in 2009 have criminal cases against them; 26% increase
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“Politics is a strife of interests masqueraded as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage”. This quote‚ by Ambrose Bierce is an accurate reflection of what politics has become in the modern era. In today’s era‚ it seems politicians have abandoned the idea of public good‚ and instead embraced private‚ corporate sponsored agenda’s. In order to change this contemptible reality‚ the dominant corporate dominated political paradigm must be challenged. The only political
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Politics from the past The great philosopher Aristotle stated the bare truth when he said centuries ago that man is "a political animal". He and his equally famous disciple Plato strongly denounced politics. Plato went so far as to say: "O‚ men of Athens‚ if I was engaged in politics‚ I would have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself." Since then‚ however‚ politics has pervaded every sphere of life‚ and the number of politicians has grown beyond measure. There is
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government; to understand the nature in which we stand. Thomas Hobbes‚ the first theoretician‚ believes government should help the people. He believed if we upraised the economy the nation will become an improved nation. The next theorist was John Locke he believed that a country that couldn’t feed its self would be a weak nation; and that governments role should be to protect business stimulate economy. He believed on helping out the majority so‚ they will great a well economic structure. As both
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Module Code: FC015 Class/Group: Group C Module Title: Comparative Politics Assessment: Final Essay Assignment Title: Choose a country and discuss the classification of its political system Tutor Name: Stephen Ashe Student ID Number: 2089619 Date of Submission: April 8th ‚ 2013 Hong Kong‚ claimed herself the ‘Asia’s world city’‚ has been a colony of the Great Britain since 1842 and a Special Administrative Region of China after the handover in 1997. The Hong Kong Special Administrative
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in many countries including China and Japan‚ were considered divine. Of the institutions that ruled states‚ that of kingship stood at the forefront until the French Revolution put an end to the "divine right of kings". Nevertheless‚ the monarchy is among the longest-lasting political institutions‚ dating as early as 2100 BC in Sumeria[8] to the 21st Century AD British Monarchy. Kingship becomes an institution through heredity. The king often‚ even in absolute monarchies‚ ruled his kingdom with the
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textbooks for introductory international relations courses. In this article‚ we present a lecture template containing a broad synthesis of the main tenets of constructivist thought and discuss how constructivism approaches patterns and phenomena of world politics. The lecture is framed by comparing constructivism with the generally statist treatment that topics receive in mainstream international relations as exemplified by neorealism and neoliberalism. This article is designed to provide accessible supporting
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-MEANING‚ NATURE AND SCOPE INTRODUCTION International Politics as an academic discipline is of a recent origin. This discipline is that so new that it can be called as the ‘youngest of all the social sciences’. It is dynamic in nature. The first chair of international Politics was founded in 1919 at the university College‚ Wales‚ U.K. Since International Politics is concerned with the relations among different nations. In the present time‚ Environment protection‚ growing
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