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It is the latter who keep alive the bhasha theory of democracy, which sees democracy not as an import but a form of life native to the people. The Bhasha theory, if I may call it that, does not look for voice and partaking. Voice which has no theory of speech is like a viewer who can never be a witness. He cannot tell a story. Democracy is a commons of memory; the vote is simply a marker of their memory. Memory needs retelling, reinvention, but the memory of the modern democracy reads more like…

Surveillance has always been a contentious subject. In Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, he talks of The Panopticon where its inmates are vulnerable to constant visibility and manipulated into obediency. It is a metaphorical representation of a totalitarian society where the watchers, governmental bodies or organizations, are assured absolute power. (Foucault 1977) While I agree that panoptic surveillance can lead to disciplinary control, but Foucault’s arguement assumes that it is definitely…

the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point. Demographics: the statistical data of a population, especially those showing average age, income, education, etc. Dictatorship: a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator. Human Development Index:is a statistical tool used to measure a country's overall achievement in its social and economic dimensions. Urbanization:is the increasing number of…

Universities, hospitals, banks and government usually require this type of leader in their organizations to ensure quality, increase security and decrease corruption. Leaders who would like to speed up the process will experience frustration and anxiety and are not welcome (Weber, 1905). Charismatic…

determines the actual driving force of the survival of the state. Politics is dependent upon the state for its survival, as so too is the state dependent upon politics, for its survival, via the good execution of public law and the implementation of government policies through the execution of good public administration. Within the study of how to achieve efficient and effective public administration in a bureaucratic sense, there are two (2) very known authors, whose work has been regarded as…

Ibn Khaldun’s greatest contribution to the study of politics and social behaviors is his concept of Asabiya. When reading his Muqaddimah, one should be really careful as the Khaldunian philosophy is such a highly selective and well organized one. Any misinterpretation can lead us to huge misconception like what happened with many who interpreted Asabiya as the base to establish a state while Luxury lead to its collapse Franz Rosenthal, the first and might be the only translator of the entire…

Democracy is defined by broad values involving participation and formal rules about procedures such as elections. But for most persons most of the time these are removed from daily life. That is not true for the police, the agency of government that citizens are most likely to see and have contact with. All industrial societies use police to control crime and to contribute to public order (e.g., mediating and arbitrating disputes, regulating traffic and helping in emergencies). But the…

Yes. In my opinion the ‘debate’ H.L.A Hart (1917-1992) and Ronald Dworkin (born 1932) over whether or not judges has ‘strong’ or ‘weak discretion’ has relevance in this particular issue as its stated by Lord Justice Jacob that ‘conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more while Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like…

surveillance technology and as time goes by they are creating more. George Orwell explains how Big Brother has strict control over society just by the use of technology, in today’s society everyone is so revolved, who knows what is being exposed to our government. Surveillance/ Limitations II “ The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously any sound that winston made, above the level of a very low whisper can be picked up by it.” Telescreen was a type of surveillance,…

employ a re-modern, traditional form of authority within its government, while simultaneously using the highly modern concept of a “cult of personality,” in which a government uses wide-spread propaganda to idealize a ruler. The application of these two political methods has created a powerful hybrid form of governance that relies on the strengths of one another to form a new, evolved form of leadership. In North Korea, the communist government claims to place power among its workers, however,…