Democracy Index

As a citizen your number one duty is to vote, but voting does not have much effectiveness to it, if the citizen does not understand what the politician stands for. Voting is only one half of what citizens have to do to make America united as one again. Politicians today either focus on what the people want to hear, or the politician’s own opinion. Voting used to be a private matter. In other words, people would not know who their neighbor would be voting for, but today everyone knows you are…

The issue I will write for my policy paper is, should the US change voting laws in order to receive a higher turnout in elections? The US has a significantly lower voter turnout when compared to many other advanced nations and I will be exploring, reasons for why this is, as well as possible solutions. The data in this assignment can be easily measured and accessed through prior election data that is given and studied by many political scientists. Party affiliation statistics are easily…

Taking a Stand on Justice Argument Essay Bishop Desmond Tutu a leader who stood up for the rights of south africans, once said “...if an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you that you are neutral that mouse will not appreciate your neutrality”. As if the elephant represents the educated or powerful , and the mouse represents the uneducated or minority. As society stays neutral even knowing that the mouse can't stand a chance against the elephant. It is important for people to…

gridlock as either not effecting the passage of important laws or that it improves the quality of legislation that happens to pass. Mayhew has generated a massive amount of research where he concludes “that divided government, and increased polarization and partisanship, have not decreased the passage of “important legislation by Congress.” While Rawls’ ideology centers on his theory of the benefit of the bipartisan gear, which provides for a slow and heavily contested progress protects the…

Your success in both your career and in your family life has proven you to be a role model for young women, myself included. You have proved that having tradition values does not limit a women’s success and, in fact, may enhance it. Keeping your Christian beliefs in your policies, such as your stance on abortion, are admirable. As a young women attracted to politics, I have a desire to mimic your success. Due to only being seventeen, I have not yet be able to vote. I considered my beliefs to…

Also before the case, the thought of challenging segregation was not a popular thought. It almost viewed as impossible. Stones (2012) explain how society changed after the Supreme Court opinion, “…Brown changed the moral climate of race and politics in the United States, “ (p.349). In the arena of international human rights, the United Nations came up with several declarations to protect the rights of humans. One of the declarations that Stone (2012) mentions is the 1969 International…

I think the voting age should remain at 18, for a few reasons. Among these are that older voters are more aware of the issues, younger voters barely if at all are interested in what is going on in the country, and at the age of 16, I don't believe people are mature enough to truly grasp the impact their vote can have in bringing about change. Older voters are most likely plugged in to the day to day issuses that effect the…

The Founder Fathers judiciously established the system of check and balances to avoid any of the three branches of government (legislative, executive, judicial) from having too much power. Checks and balances allows each branch to check up on each other, limiting their influence and power. When the new Constitution was written in 1787 the Founding Fathers did not wish to have a government system like the British, which the prime minister had the majority of power. Instead they preferred to have…

Katherine Lam 1 September 2015 AP Euro, 1st Period Mr. Viviani AP Euro Study Guide Questions Odds Questions for Critical Thought: As applied to the early modern period of Western civilization, the term Renaissance means rebirth. This is because the Renaissance was a time period that followed after the Middle Ages. This brought up the rebirth of the classical arts that symbolized nature and Christianity instead of death. The areas of life the Renaissance affected the most were the nobles.…

find academic sources relating to numbers pertaining specifically to Canadian party systems and the dominant religious institutions within Canada. In this paper the lack of specific research was circumvented by employing data relating to Western democracies across the world to provide a more holistic view of how cleavages impact the left-right spectrum rather than party choices, although parties were used where data was…