Democracy Index

Hamza Jeter 4/28/17 Professor Roxas Political Science Single Member District Vs Proportional Representation The two most popular and most used types of voting systems are single member districts and proportional representation. A single member district is a voting system with a predetermined constituency that elects a single individual to some place in office. A proportional representation is a voting system used to elect an assembly or group of people. The clear difference…

With all of these concepts and questions in mind, I would argue that diversity is a compelling, important and complex state interest. If the objective of social justice movements and professions is to dismantle the society, values, and systems that enacts and perpetuate disparities and marginalization among populations, diversity must remain of interest to the government, morally and constitutionally. The political and constitutional obligation to attain diversity allows governmental entities to…

net to ensure that every citizen lives as a human being, and not only has the right to a life. The existence of an authority restricts extreme liberty of private property rights, avoids any enforced domination to ensure our personal liberty and democracy. For these reasons, an utopian society should have a government. One of the primary objections is the high level of government spending on defense in terms of national security. In the analysis of the National Priority Projects, the military…

Even though censorship has occurred throughout history and is constantly, there has always been a similar reason for censoring others. Usually, censorship is used to not allow people to learn about other opinions than that of the ruling party. Governments or religious institutions are the most known parties that censor others because of books or other works that express views contrary to that of state or beliefs that seem threatening to their welfare (“Banned Books”). Some smaller authorities…

I happen to believe that lowering the voting age is not a very good idea. The reasoning behind my opinion is that children, who are not of the adult age of 18 yet, could be coerced by their parents to vote the way their parents want, instead of having their own educated opinion. The reason that the older generation has a higher voting percentage, according to the newspaper articles, is because the older generation has seen years of politics working or not working in their lifetime to…

of the major fears that leads to self-censorship. Self-censorship is evident on a more macroscopic scale as well. Alex Floyd, contributor to the Brown Political Review, writes that “to this day, films deemed too obscene are banned in pluralistic democracies. Australia’s Classification Board works with the Attorney-General’s Department to certify and de facto censor films on the mass market, Canada’s vast network of provincial censorship boards represses at the regional level instead of a…

Throughout the history of the United States we have always had those that have stood up for the natural resources that we all as Americans share, and we have had other people who feel like the human race needs to be more industrialized. The former is a persuasion that one who truly values America’s great beauty should fall under. Unfortunately, it is the latter in which many of the politicians and people who control things in this government have succumb to. Greed, power, money, and corporate…

Politics are constantly changing. Through the formation of political parties, we have advanced through tough times, but they aren’t getting any easier. Electing officials is a large part of democracy, but is often made more difficult by the media which distracts voters from the main idea. It also means that some people just don’t vote at all. Ideally, everyone should be able to receive true information about candidates and parties, and everyone should vote. Political parties were formed in…

Why use polling? Polling is utilized in politics to gauge the public’s attitude toward a person or issue and to learn what message could persuade a particular type of voter to support a particular person or issue. Polls can measure candidate viability through the ballot test question, and evaluate the effectiveness of a particular communication strategy. For instance, polling allows a representative sample of 1,000 people to share their opinions on a candidate or issue, thereby providing the…

Ancient Greece has a long lasting impression on history today. For example, by the seventh century AD, the term 'democracy' had a ‘mob-rule’ feel about it, which made ancient Athens a very unpopular model for any society, right through until the until the late 18th century. In the English Civil War, for instance, people were encouraged to follow the example of the ancient Spartans, not the Athenians. In the formulation of the constitution of the US in the 18th century, the Roman model of a…