Democratization

Since last three decades one sees a huge transformation that has occurred in airline industry. Companies once owned by state or government went into private hands that then formed strategic alliance to maximize profits and reduce cost. Such alliances also provided numerous other facilities. For example, joint marketing activities, code sharing, flier programs. Earlier companies only had bilateral or multilateral agreements amongst themselves but later on with the advancement in technology,…

Although Parliamentary PR systems have been systematized in the literature as the “most” democratic regime, viewing the case of Israel through the lens of modernization theory as well as Bellin’s requisites for authoritarianism, it is evident that the suppression of women and minorities, as well as the existence of a credible threat provides plausible explanation for a drop in democracy over the time span of 1967-1999. Due to its unique beginning, Israel’s fluctuations in democracy cannot be…

consideration, UN did not resolve the ethnic tensions between the two ruling parties and as a result, the mandates of the peacekeeping missions are not fulfilled. Ethnic tensions caused both parties to be unwilling to reconcile as they were not up for democratization, driving them to seek for power at any cost, especially UNITA. After the elections, where MPLA took victory with 54% over 34% (Concillation Resources, 2004) of UNITA voters, this in turn resulted UNITA in starting another war due to…

At the very basic level, a democratic structure can be defined as an ‘institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’s vote’ (Schumpeter 1942 cited in Menocal 2007). The positive relationship between prosperity and democracy has an enduring relationship in the subject of social sciences. Although there does exist a strong correlation, it does not necessarily mean causation. However…

three-branch presidential system. South Korea is open to free enterprise and usually has an export surplus (“South Korea Government”). They are highly open to trade with the United States because the U.S. has been a major ally throughout all of their democratization. The United States played a major role in the structure of the modern South Korean government. Since 1945, the South Korean government has been quickly modified and modernized and are now seen as an entirely independent state.…

offered as a separate service in separate facilities was advocated; and the need for reproductive health services specifically designed for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) was recognized. Overall, it called for a fundamental rethink of health service provision (Sen, 1994; Bongaarts, 1994; Hartmann, 1987) As reported by Pearce (2001), the international population establishment became more interested in Africa’s population growth rates after the 1960s, and significantly increased…

luxury market is expanding to meet middle class desires in order to create affordable luxury to give the middle class a taste of exclusivity. For many this affordable luxury can only be attained through the use of credit, and thus has led to a “democratization of credit” which can lead to reckless spending. The changing market dynamics, while allowing the middle class a perception of luxury, have lessened the exclusivity of luxury product for the wealthy. Many luxury companies don 't want to…

than dyslexia To what extent do economic and cultural factors explain differences in the quality of democracy? In the 20th and 21st Centuries there has been significant growth in democracy, with most regions experiencing significant democratization…

Partisan politics in the Early Republic took place because of the need to have a strong central government for the Americas. The draft of the American Constitution was a way that national leaders would form the laws and decisions of the government for the people. Federalist agreed to these terms, and antifederalist were opposed, but lost their fight to the Federalist. The people of early United States lives had changed with the change of politics. Northern people freed black slaves, while in the…

A country’s decision to use force on its own people is always a difficult one. A country that has gone through many changes and still trying to find its way has to balance many factors when attempting to determine how to respond to a demonstration of it’s citizens. The use of military force to clear protesters from China’s historically and politically significant Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 was the result of a tumultuous debate about the direction China must follow in the post-Mao era among…