Democratization

The film The Attorney depicts the oppressive representation of South Korea’s governance and flawed judicial system. The storyline centers on Chun Doo-hwan’s governance of South Korea. Most of the film outlines what became termed as the Burim Case, through which the main character Song Woo-seok redefined how those accused are represented in the court system. Analyzing the political situation, underlying themes, and the fictionalization of particular aspects of the film, one gains a comprehensive…

1980 was the year of attempted democratization in Brazil and the Catholic Church still served as a major voice for societal change. During that time, the church began to support natural methods of family planning. In doing so, the church unknowingly denied women access to the various available…

The debate on physician-assisted suicide is an ongoing one with many social influences. Only 5 states in the United States authorize Death with Dignity, an end-of-life option for mentally competent, terminally ill patients with a prognosis of six months or less to live. It enables patients to use the medical practice of aid in dying: able to request and receive a prescription from a physician for medication that could be self-ingested to end his or her dying process if it becomes unbearable. On…

Determinants of Stable and Peaceful Democracies: A Comparison of India and Pakistan Once part of the same dominion, India and Pakistan saw diverging political trajectories after partition in August 1947. Save for a period of emergency rule under Indira Gandhi between 1975-77, India is largely depicted as having successfully consolidated a stable and peaceful democracy. In contrast, Pakistan has alternated between military dictatorship and weak democracy characterised by violence. Comparing the…

economic growth that were affecting the lives of people and creating mistrust in government. The reaction to those events was the rise of a self-proclaimed new Public Administration, a movement with an intellectual commitment to social equity and democratization of public organizations. At the first Minnowbrook Conference in 1968 at Syracuse University entitled Toward a New Public Administration, the general focus was on political change and theoretical relevance to reimagine how…

the global political system is anarchic by nature, the anarchic role of the Internet, in its present form, “diminishes the capacity of central authorities to act in a unilateral fashion” (Fleras, 267). As such, the Internet is crucial in the democratization of traditional hierarchical values, conceivably allowing for more participation in political…

The Significance of State Institutions: A Comparison between Norway and Ethiopia There are several different ways in which a state can choose to govern its citizens. The two types of government that are frequently analyzed and structurally oppose one another are authoritarian versus democratic regimes. The main difference between a democracy and an authoritarian regime is that a democracy is comprised of a government that reflects the wants of its citizens. On the other hand an authoritarian…

From Natives to Foreigners: The Mechanisms of Modernity Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians? This question sets the tone, of the overt “events ”of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, which begs the question, how can these “events” be recognized by both, the Armenian Republic and the Turkish State; but, does not create a discourse to clearly answer what transpired? Regardless of the label used, the result was destruction of virtually every Armenian community in the Ottoman…

“The United States has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades” President Barack Obama The process and practices used by President Obama to make decisions on Afghanistan is both strikingly similar and, yet, diametrically opposed to the process of President Johnson and his decisions on Vietnam. On the one hand, Johnson was presented a unique situation, one stymied by a global tension caused by the rise of communist states in the wake of World War II, but his decision-making…

Admonishment of Coursera Although a Burkean pedagogy does begin with appreciative reading, Burke also demanded a process of admonishment be used to examine the negative spaces created by equations (LAPE $%#). With this move, Burke hoped that students would not take the explicit motives of a text at face value, instead contrasting them with the underlying motives to determine the larger force of the text. With its strong valorization of technology and goal of mastery, it is likely Burke would…