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and the Netherlands. Similarly, our system of the electoral college, where the president is determined not by the votes of American citizens, but by appointed electors, has no analogue in any other democracy in the developed world. This is to our detriment, because the electoral college is an outmoded institution that needs to be abolished. Beyond the fact that it deprives the American people of their voting rights, the electoral college has been used to deny the people’s choice for president on…

The source believes that totalitarianism should be used regularly in governments in order to achieve goals. They have seen from history that totalitarianism results in great changes to a country. The USSR, for example, became rapidly industrialized under communism. The author ignores the fact that with this great power came great destruction to the lives of the citizens. Totalitarianism is an ideology that believes that the government should have complete control over nearly every aspect of its…

Dueck concludes by arguing, “no leader in the U.S is ever entirely freedom the influence of liberal ideas regarding the nature of international affairs, and that Bush’s early realism movement was never whole-hearted either” (Dueck, Pg.35). In short, Dueck thinks that these new policies shown that the American leadership’s aim to maintain America 's predominance via spreading liberal…

This essay will examine the different reforms established by New Labour and any impact they have had on British politics. New Labour enacted multiple reforms in its term from 1997-2007, from introducing independence to the Bank of England (1998) to The Human Rights Act 1998. Devolution seems to be the biggest element of the reform programme that made the most significant change to British politics. Many of the reforms have had some impact but none to the scale that devolution has. One of the…

Currently in America, representative democracy is the governing system. In representative democracy, elected officials decide on the majority of important decisions in America. There is, however, another system called participatory democracy that some say may be an important change for America’s society. Participatory democracy is a system favoring much more involvement with the citizens and less dependence on elected officials (Participatory Democracy). Instead of voting on elected officials,…

cemented trade agreements, resulting in benefitting both nations, and their strong alliance is due to many of their shared cultural beliefs and democratic views. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, culture is defined as “the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time” (Culture, n.d.). Based on this definition, a comparison can be made on many different levels, from military priorities to society and…

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…

Ben Gorashchenko--P6 Isabelli--October 28, 2017 Are Dictatorships Really That Bad? The land of the free, the home of the brave, and the land of greater opportunity are all ways to describe the essence of the United States. While there are many factors to why this is so, a key component is the existence of democracy. In democracy, there are multiple parties that each have different views and people can choose to support the one that most fits their beliefs. Fairly elected officials do their best…

Challenging the Democratic Peace Thesis, which claims that democratic regimes are “peaceful” and do not fight, Duncan Bell’s Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war calls attention to the shortcomings of democratic regimes’ ability to provide an egalitarian and peaceful society, even going as far to mark democracies as war prone. Furthermore, the article engages with various strands of political theories, such as radical liberalism and socialism, which…

way in which a government deals with other governments and is typically a reflection of that nation’s interest or the values of the people. For this reason, there is often quite a lot of debacle over foreign policy, changing when there is either a liberal or a conservative administration. There are two primary approaches to dealing with foreign policy, realism and idealism. Realism is the idea that national interest and safety is put above moral principles whereas idealism is the idea that…