Deliberative democracy

Not only does peaceful resistance positively impact a free society, but it is absolutely essential in order to ignite change within a society. Peaceful resistance allows groups of people to band together and spread awareness for their cause. According to John Locke, if the government has an obligation to protect people's natural rights. If these rights are being violated, then the people must petition the government to change its ways. If changes are not made, the people must overthrow the…

Duncan Black noticed that “the more options that are on offer, and the more electors there are voting, the more severe this cycling paradox becomes, making it of particular importance in the large and complex systems of today”. The particular moment that the article focus, in the election of presidents in France, where the most voted candidates from a first round of voting go into a second round run-off, the National Front leader Le Pen came a close second in the first ballot of sixteen…

Life without the Constitution would be chaos. Think about how the Constitution affects our daily life. We wouldn’t be able to attend school, much less express ourselves. Heck, we wouldn’t even have access to so much social media as we do today like Facebook & Twitter. Without the Constitution, our freedom would be subject to the whims of any dictator with a little power behind them. We wouldn’t have the hobbies we have today. When you stop and think about it, we wouldn’t even really have…

Going back to how realism relates to covert action, according to a chapter titled “Covert Action” from a book, Partly Cloudy, the more specified activities in covert actions are divided into three, as follows; “1) Political operations, primarily meaning propaganda and financial support of foreign political leaders, groups, and dissidents; 2) coups d’état; and 3) assassination.” For political operation, it is done during the case when a particular regime has rebel groups that desire a reform…

restoration of democracy in the country, Catholic and Protestant churches’ influences have been strong in Guatemalan politics. INCOMPLETE. THESIS MISSING. Guatemala is a presidential democratic republic. However, democracy is a relatively new system of government, as military governments and coups d’états dominated the political scenery during the internal armed conflict — a civil war that lasted 36 years, from 1960 to 1996. It was not until 1985 when the transition to democracy started, but it…

Truth plays a clear and also abstract role in our world. The way each of us views the world fluctuates from person to person. In any society there are separate, overlapping interest groups which have truths which are relative to those groups. In government and politics, we have to find an objective measure of truth in order to determine what is best for society as a whole. While this process is harder to execute than to describe, it is nonetheless essential for governing bodies to adhere to it…

Political parties have dominated the political landscape ever since George Washington left the Presidency of the United States. They have had many names over the centuries, from Federalists and Antifederalists to Democrats and Republicans, the two major parties of today. But what is a political party? Consider a school board. One part of the community seeks to get a new sports stadium built for the district. The other wants renovations to occur for their theater. When the seats on the board are…

The National Mall and Tiananmen Square represent the political ideologies of the respective regimes, as well as act as the symbolic centers of political power in their countries. This part will illustrate how the institution of each government and the political culture of each country are indicated by the formal and spatial language of the two sites. First, to understand the development of these spaces, one must understand the American and Chinese political regimes. In politics, a régime is the…

I feel the this election is particularly stressful due to the increasing split between parties, and this year most notably, the divisions occurring within both parties. There are many republicans, including those who are well renowned, refusing to support their presidential candidate for the first time in their lives, compared to the shameless support and passion towards Trump that other republicans express. On the democratic side there is a clear sense of anger amongst the many Bernie Sanders…

President to date that was not a member of a political party. It is important for members of Congress, which is comprised of the Senate and the House of Representatives, to know the views of voters. Political parties are a central feature of any democracy and they are the means by which citizens come together to campaign for public office, express their interests and needs, and…