Bureaucrat

Argentina Caudillo, Lynch states that, ”Rosas represented the rise to power of a new economic interest and a new social group, the estancieros”. Lynch describes how the classic elite of the Revolution of 1810 was focused upon the merchants and the bureaucrats. He goes on to explain how the struggle to gain independence greatly influenced this new economic formation, as he states, “ the struggle for independence created professional politicians, state officials, a new military, men who can be…

South Africa The Struggle for a New Order, by Marina Ottaway, Copyright, 1993, by The Brookings Institution. The book is dense with details on the governments agencies, the struggle, and the transition from apartheid during the first two years. The author, Marina Ottaway is the former Senior Research Associate and Head of the Middle East Program in the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her bio on the Wilson Center website states that she is a long time…

John Boyd Orr a famous doctor, biologist and politician explains, “In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without”. This phrase links the common and reoccurring rise/ downfall of ancient cultures and civilisations. Worldwide, historians agree that the ancient Mongolians like many civilisations, revolutionised and contributed significantly to the contemporary world.…

Imperialism is a type of support of empire. Its name created from the Latin word "imperium", meaning to regime over large territories. Imperialism is "a rule of increasing a country 's power and effect through settlement, use of military force, or other means". Imperialism has importantly shaped the modern world. The term imperialism has been applied to Western governmental and economic dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries, however its exact meaning continues to be discussed by scholars. For…

When discussing Chinese deities, it is important to note the structure of heavenly hierarchy. Not all gods and goddesses are on the same plane of existence, and “just as lower-level bureaucrats govern small administrative districts and higher-level officials control larger ones, so lesser gods reign over small local systems while more exalted gods rule the larger ones” (Sangren 5). Thus, there are Chinese deities who are considered above others and there are some that carry much more influence…

between the upper and lower classes. This social stratification differs greatly from that of Jericho. In Mycenae, this social stratification differs yet again, though there is a clear hierarchy in which everyone fell under. This was managed by the bureaucrats at the central palace. Using thorough record keeping, politics were used to successfully optimize labor and land. While religion was also an important part of Mycenaean life, it was not as definitive in leadership as the depiction of the…

There’s this common justification throughout the film, and I paraphrase, that “if it were left to the government, it would be a company of bureaucrats that wouldn’t do anything right. That’s why we have the gangsters, free independent people and the Pancasila to take care of our problems independently.” Indonesia, or at least the area of Medan, seemed like a dystopian anarchic society: the government…

were excluded from medical networks on the basis of biological determinism that cast them as unfit to endure the intellectual and physical rigors of doctoring.” Female nurses were doomed to encounter the military surgeons temper and by civilian bureaucrats who placed these policies. Being a nurse during war time was difficult due to the barbaric environment they had to work in. The female nurses had to prove that they were fit to do the job and help aid soldiers at the…

Rousseau is a man who strongly believes in virtue and strives for the betterment of man. His view on inequality and injustice demonstrate that his state of nature is different from Thomas Hobbs. He points out that the state of nature of man is not evil like Hobbs might suggest, but he proposes that man is neither good nor evil but is born sub-moral . As our focus on the self and the arts become bigger than our focus on virtue and morality, we leave that state of sub-morality. Looking at the…

The Mongol Empire was the world's largest contiguous empire in history, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. Although emerging from the Mongolian steppes as uncivilized nomads lacking a basic government structure in 1206; the Mongols quickly adapted and developed an elaborate political structure to rule their vast empire. They were led by Temujin Khan, later renamed Genghis Khan, meaning “universal ruler” who amassed his following by uniting…