Essay on Politics Today

believes that the telos of all men is to achieve happiness, and they can only achieve this as citizens as men are ‘political animals’. Because men are essentially social, community life is crucially important for Aristotle, including participation in politics. Citizens must participate in civic life in order to realize their true natures and their freedom and they must own private property in order to learn values that are necessary for community life and to achieve happiness which will motivate…

through history as well as its construction, which explains the difficulty of defining it in a fully satisfactory manner. Consequently there are a variety of definitions the concept of State. In his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919), Weber starts by explaining the larger concept of politics and then focuses on the definition of the state. His opinion about how a state should rule reflects the contractarian view of the state of nature and the idea of the social contract. Basically, Weber…

Political parties are not useful to have at a local government level. Local government exist to provide services and protect property, they are not designed to decide major social policies. If Nanaimo were to be given the task of deciding if our central bank were to go back to using the gold standard to attempt to reduce inflation for the betterment of the poor or other decisions along those lines then it would be useful to elect a party has defined political leanings. Since no city would, and…

attitude towards women in politics, the next question remains: what effect does this have on the proportion of women getting elected? As seen in Figure 1-Attitudes and Representation, “egalitarian attitudes toward women leaders are strongly related to the proportion of women elected to the lower houses of national parliaments (r = .57; sig. = .01)” (134). The diagram essentially shows that an egalitarian culture generally leads to better representation of women in politics. Table 2-The Impact of…

“In the past, it was widely held that women were less political than men, if not apolitical. It was assumed that women had lower levels of interest in politics and lower levels of participation in political activities” (Childs and Campbell 3). However, recently feminist political scientists have found that there is “evidence of a closure of the traditional gender gap in voter turnout” (Childs and Campbell 3). Despite the fact that more women are voting, lack of political representation is still…

There is no question that, throughout the history of China, there exists a trend of corruption which never quite seems to vanish, no matter what the Chairman at the time has tried in terms of combatting it. The issue came into primary focus in 1989 with anti-government demonstrations that forced the leadership to wage war against corruption, for fear of losing legitimacy as a party. And yet, corruption has not significantly decreased. With Xi Jinping’s announcement in 2012 that he would be…

of men to seek security... and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction... [will be] the ruins of public liberty.” Washington’s words proved prophetic, and as they say, the rest is history. Today however, September 19th 2035, the din and tyranny of the factions has at last ceased. Today, the senate voted for a bill banning political parties. This bill, once considered a chimerical illusion of the elite, has happened in part due to the work of one man. That man is professor and…

In Aristotle’s Book VII, “Political Ideals and Educational Principles” he contradicts many of his statements in previous writings, most prominently his statements on the importance of the city. The city, according to Aristotle, is the highest form of the good life due to no longer needing to focus on activities that would be considered to be in the Oikos realm, rather now men have the freedom to expand upon their critical thinking and enter political discussion. However, Aristotle contradicts…

Congressional approval ratings have proven to be dependent upon the partisan lens in which the public views their legislative decisions. The public tends to have higher approval ratings when Congress approves legislation that aligns with their political views and lower approval ratings when congress approves legislation that does not. However, in “How Partisan Conflict in Congress Affects Public Opinion: Strategies, Outcomes, and Issue Differences” Flynn and Harbridge examine how approval…

it is believed that it has an impact on the status of politics within a country. Various studies have been conducted to study the impact of satire and sarcasm on political situations and how governments and individuals see the new kind of media and political criticism. The literature gathered for this paper discusses the topic from many perspectives. Some studies examine satire and sarcasm in the media and its relation to interactional politics (Ducharme, 1994) and the use of political satire in…