Authoritarianism

Mexico is a country that is known to have an abundance it natural resources such as petroleum, gold and timber. Likewise Mexico has a rich history that ranges from the Aztecs to the major influence that Spain and other European countries had on Mexico’s social and political culture. Throughout Mexico’s existence, it has always suffered from political and economic instability due to corruption. For instance, the one party rule of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) for 71 years has…

Many powers are granted to the president of the United States, which emanate from a number of different sources. These include powers given by Acts of Congress and by Article II of the Constitution, as well as implied powers that are not explicitly stated in the Constitution itself. Preventing the executive branch or any single branch of government from becoming supreme is a system of checks and balances. With this system in place, certain powers also reside exclusively within Congress and the…

At the very basic level, a democratic structure can be defined as an ‘institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’s vote’ (Schumpeter 1942 cited in Menocal 2007). The positive relationship between prosperity and democracy has an enduring relationship in the subject of social sciences. Although there does exist a strong correlation, it does not necessarily mean causation. However…

Source: Leadership Quaterly; Fall96, Volume 7 Issue 3, p317, 5p Research findings on Robert House’s Path Goal Theory are basically on the relationship between the leader’s style of leadership and the outcomes of the subordinates’ works. Bass once noted that Path Goal Theory is “needs to complement only what is missing in a situation to enhance the subordinate’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance”. However, this theory hasn’t been modified and extended since House develops the theory in…

Only if I knew what to say when the art teacher rejected my art portfolio. I was in my ninth grade year and we had a portfolio assignment on any topic we wanted. I chose to express my thoughts and point of view through visual arts on self-worth, why you should love yourself and appreciate it no matter how it is. Then was rejected by the inappropriate content and then was some of my art pieces were censored. I don’t want other young artists and their art to be censored just because of one person…

this statement, gender stereotypes form the basis of sexism; this leads to the inequality of the sexes. A type of sexism that is common to see on a regular basis is hostile sexism. According to Andrew N. Christopher, author of “Personality, Authoritarianism, Social Dominance, and Ambivalent Sexism: A Mediational Model”, “Hostile Sexism is a type of prejudice in which women are viewed in a blatantly negative manner. Such sexism stems from the desire for a hierarchy in which men are dominant to…

Park Chung Hee and Kim Il Sung are perhaps the two most influential Koreans of the 20th century. They were leaders of two opposing sides on a divided Korean peninsula. Park was the leader of South Korea, known as The Republic of Korea (ROK), and Kim was the leader of North Korea, known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since the Korean War, their countries have been in a stalemate characterized by a switch between periods of polarizing tension and times of cooperation and…

The “siècle des Lumières” and accompanying French Revolution were, and often still are, characterized as mass movements of antagonism towards faith and religion. As the Catholic faith of the old regime crumbled, the revolutionary spirit of the time promised to do away with orthodoxy and create a new egalitarian society based on freedom. Ideas like these were fueled by the French philosophes, with thinkers like Voltaire referring to orthodox religion as “the mother of fanaticism and civil…

Obedience is the concept of changing one’s behaviour in order to suit a demand from an authority figure (Kenrick, Neuberg, & Cialdini, 2010) and it is considered to be a strong social influence. Because of this it has been the interest of psychologists decades in the past and it continues to be in the present. Many recent experiments have been carried out (Slater, Antley, Davison, Swapp, Guger, Barker et al., 2006; Dambrun & Vatine, 2010; Burger, 2009; Zeigler-Hill, Southard, Archer & Donohoe,…

Do we really live in a democratic society? If we don’t, how can we make us live in a democratic society? Democracy came from two Greek words, “demos”, meaning people, and “kratos”, meaning rule or power. Combining the two terms, that gives us “people rule” or “people power”. In theory, this system of government gives ordinary people the power to influence and change the government. The first modern democratic system established in England, in 1689, 327 years ago. But in what way did democracy…