Ballot stuffing

The movement and eventual ban (justified by the Constitution) of the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcohol is called Prohibition. Alcohol is classified as a depressant, a substance that slows down the functions of the body and calms the nerves. Therefore, consumption of alcohol alters the mind’s abilities to make rational decisions. In the early portion of the twentieth century Prohibition was a nationwide movement to ban alcohol. The nation was very divided on…

Whether through individuals, corporations or advocacy groups, such donations are often believed to engender a cronyist or patronage system by which major contributors are rewarded on a quid pro quo basis. While campaign donations need not directly affect the legislative decisions of elected representatives, the natural expectation of donors is that their needs will be served by the person to whom they donated. If not, it is in their self-interest to fund a different candidate or political…

People are afraid of change, and there is always resistance to it. This became the case a few decades ago, when blacks altered the social structure to fight for equality. In the novel Mississippi, the author Anthony Walton goes on a journey to understand Mississippi and its history, which focuses on the Civil Rights Movement. Walton often mentions how the people who were afraid of change were the ones in power. The government, the ones who are supposed to defend justice, abused their power to…

Carrazzo explains the ballot box stuffing which would indeed guarantee a win for a candidate that would support their local laws and maintain the race relations George had with the Mexican American population. On page thirty-nine the author states, “The backbone of the political machine…

In northeast Finney County, 27 miles from Garden City, sits a house with wooden siding and a stone shed with a metal roof. To those that passing by it is a common scene in western Kansas. Though the house is fairly new, this shed is nearly one hundred and thirty years old. Though now it is used as a place for storing and repairing farm equipment, it was once a schoolhouse for the town of Eminence. Not only is the town of Eminence gone but also is the county it was a part of. Both are now…

free nor fair as Lukashenka has won year after year, even after much controversy. These elections have been deemed unfair by other nations for the restrictions on campaigning by opposition candidates, censorship of the media, coercion of voters, ballot stuffing and non-transparent counting of votes. Even the opposing candidates who had lost were jailed if they believed the election results were changed. With these unfair advantages playing in his favor it is nearly impossible to take Lukashenka…

Russia Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington were both well known political scientists that had two very different views about the future of the nations of the globe. Fukuyama, in his essay The End of History and Man, argued that with economic growth countries would begin to focus on free market policies and democracy. This move to free markets and democracy would inevitable cause the nations to become so similar, his convergence theory. Samuel Huntington argued, in The Clash of…

Ever since Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, its political landscape has experienced seemingly endless sociopolitical and economic turmoil due to ethnic conflicts amongst the 570 different tribes with diverse sets of faiths, social backgrounds and cultures, and more so due to religious tensions and power politics between the dominant Arab-Islamic North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected…

The United Kingdom and the Russian Federation(hereafter Britain and Russia) have political and electoral systems which share some essential characteristics such as nominal democracy,(with both countries being considered democracies, by virtue of their holding elections) and influences of a monarchical past in modern policy as well as holding some fundamental differences such as contrasting geopolitical interests in areas such as the Middle East and different approaches to economic policy, with…

Introduction Police corruption and misconduct has been a concern since the inception of the first police force. Every workplace has individuals who commit illegal or unethical acts of misconduct. The police department is no exception. Officers are responsible for acts of corruption, excessive use of force and brutality, violations of due process, racial discrimination and various other unethical behaviors. There are certain types of misconduct that occur most often and they have a wide…