General Government

The economy is in shambles, food is scarce, homes are gone and decisions need to be made. Does your country want to take the time to create a democratic government with checks and balances, multiple branches to ensure democracy, establishing elections and cycles? Or would the promise of a single source of government control that can make fast decisions and pick your country up and put it back on its feet, be more enticing? For war torn countries more often than not the promise of a…

greed and narcissism creating the confines of stereotypes it wishes us to follow. Citizen’s minds have been twisted to the point of ignoring nature and turning to the materials of mankind. We must strive to declare ourselves free from the oppressive government and laws that control our present and future. Certain things are given to humans that must be a right to have. As an American citizen, We have the right to be free from a materialist society and resist conformity. Humans are allowed to…

“nature” presented by Hobbes is in fact “unnatural.” Hobbes argues that man is evil, that government is needed in order to protect the public, that the government should be all-powerful, and that power should not be shared. In contrast, Rousseau argues that man is good and that society is the reason that man has been misbehaving, that the government’s purpose is to protect the social contract, that the government should be able to be overthrown, and that power should be shared and direct. The…

Athens and Sparta are the two most well known poleis of ancient Greece and each was known for the structure of its society. In this essay I will discuss how people in those societies obtained the right to participate in public life and make community decisions, identify who held public office, and how public office holders were elected. How those two societies were similar and how they differed will also be discussed throughout this essay. Both Athens and Sparta had a societal structure based…

enslaving the mind to limited viewpoints, ones that focus on the least amount of effort. Let’s examine what is meant by being ignorant. According to Oxford English Dictionary ignorant describes the state of being “destitute of knowledge, either in general or with respect to a particular fact or subject; unknowing, uninformed, unlearned”. The true meaning and consequences of ignorance are well-elaborated on in George Orwell’s 1984 and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. To begin with, the notion of…

Athenian democracy was successful in many ways. For example, it provided for the people. Democracy effectively provided goods for the masses and met their needs. In addition, Athens owed much of its power to its navy, which was largely serviced by the poor thetes. The democratic system rewarded the poor laborers for their service to Athens. Athenian democracy was also successful in that it was generally very stable. Of all the democracies in ancient Greece, Athens’ was the most radical.…

separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, ‘the pure people’ versus ‘the corrupt elite’, and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people”. Therefore, as far as populism in party democracy is concerned, the most obvious tension is between the general will of the people (as claimed by the populist actors) and the different interests of society groups' (as in party democracy). Accordingly, homogeneous elite, as seen by…

actually discern. Most of the time you have to base it on assumptions and projections which make it difficult to make a real picture of how things will actually turn out. It’s very apparent though, based on how many complaints are made daily about how government programs aren 't meeting the various expectations set for them by the American public, there needs to be a system in place to determine how effective or ineffective policies…

Dissatisfaction for government, along with perceived threats, had previously led to military interventions in Latin America prior to the 60s. However, following this and into the 70s, a new form of the intervention began taking place that differed from those before. As defined by Guillermo O’Donnell, an Argentine political scientist, the new military interventions were referred to as bureaucratic authoritarian regimes. Bureaucratic authoritarian regimes were systems of power in which the…

philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. Pessimistic, he believed that all human acts were motivated by self-interest and the quest for power. Governments act as a third party, they wield all the power. This keeps two warring individuals or even states inline. In a battle between two, the third arises to separate and govern the two. This is a broken system that all current governments are derived…