Mixed government

Evidence illustrates that governments with radically different programs either eventually compromise their position or are overthrown out of office.* From the information gathered in the Economist article, I predict Mr. Morales has no intention to compromise his Socialist position. I would also predict that the government will be unable to maintain an efficient level of investment in productivity that would otherwise be provided…

Throughout the course of history, many issues with government had surfaced due to unfair dispersion of power and unrepresented individuals. In the Glorious Revolution, American Revolution, and French Revolution, people knew they were entitled to rights that their governments had withheld, and pursued to establish systems of governments that extended and protected those rights with democratic standards of government. The widespread belief that government should be based on the consent of the…

Locke continuously wrote about governmental responsibilities to their people. He wrote that people create governments to ensure the stability of order in their lives that would ultimately generate a government that protected what belonged to the people. The government has the responsibility of protecting the people’s rights, and working to preserve the will of the majority. Before a government type is selected, according to Locke, people live in a state of nature. In the state of nature people…

influence of the media and propaganda is intrinsic to political communication. The method of transmitting information between the government and the public is key in both the classification of governments and our understanding of their differences. The freedom of media between authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies is markedly different, in both the control that the government exerts over what is said and displayed in the media. While it is clear that propaganda does have a place even in…

Being a senior official has both been fun and tiresome. Other than being involved in official activities in the Pakistani government, I have taken part in bizarre events within the same category. In one instance, I have participated in a project that involved supervising the dissemination of family planning information in Pakistan. According to the records from collected studies, only a small percentage of men practiced family planning. Part of the project was to engage men extensively to adopt…

Equality of opportunity is a political ideal that is mostly opposed to hierarchy. How individuals rank is society is based on a competitive process where all members in society are equal to compete, regardless of their background. According to this idea agents have the opportunities to reach a goal without being set back by any obstacle. An example of a statement of equality of opportunity is “All Irish students should have the chance to get a college degree without the hindrance of racial…

The resumes of the Great Socialist and his cabinet colleagues in The White Tiger exemplify Bernard Shaw’s dictum. Politics has indeed become the last resort of the scoundrels. In India, it will remain so until the middle class with its acute sense of political morality starts participating in it more actively. Political thinker Pavan K. Varma observes that “politics is dirty because good people do not enter it, and because good people do not enter, politics is dirty” (154). In the Inheritance of…

Filipino. Such deep-rooted principles of the past contributes to the current state of the Philippines, one of them being a democratic country. Employing democratic ideals to the government scheme, as expounded by the Oxford English Dictionary, means practicing fair and equal approach to society and having election of government officials by eligible citizens of the country. PRE-COLONIALISM Origins According to Henry O. Beyer, an expert anthropologist, the Dawn Man, Negritos, Indones, and Malays…

Ⅱ “Public welfare” and “political economy” in Dazai Shundai In the event that any contradiction arise among “interests” and the activity of giving priority to “interests” even if lowering the gain of “the world and the nation” in the long term is not prohibited, or in the case that “interests” can be temporarily restricted to increase the gain of society, would it be “beneficial” to establish institutions based on the urgency of current affairs in light of “public welfare”? It was Dazai Shundai…

Smirities Period: On a perusal of the literature it becomes clear that he upheld theory of staged trials conducted on the basis of evidence and by adherence to the principles of hearing the parties without any departure from what is enunciated in the Manusmriti. When the world was in distress and people ran helter skelter out of fear, for protection, the Lord created kingship with the object to protect them. Punishment is in reality the king and the manager of affairs and the ruler and that is…