Political campaign

Clicktivism: A systematic heuristic.Policy & Internet 6 (2): 115-32. Halupka first starts by discussing why clicktivism has come to be viewed as a useless act in political terms. The article argues that online activism is more than just signing online petitions and liking things. Each action is significant in the fight for some sort of political change. Critics of it view it as a way for people to fulfil their moral obligations without actually doing anything but click a button. This article…

operational artists during planning and execution of Operation Watchtower. Their understanding of the link among lines of operation, decisive points, operational reach, culmination, and risk directly contributed to overall success of the Guadalcanal campaign. Analysis of their actions through a lens of current doctrine benefits current practitioners by providing historical examples of operational art in action. This paper will discuss doctrinal concepts displayed during the planning and…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

among the Chinese citizens. The Hundred Flowers Campaign was one of the first bad moves from Mao and one of the first ways Mao turned to be 70% bad. The Hundred Flowers Campaign was a movement from Mao that launched an anti-rightist campaign and sent tons more people to be re-educated by the peasants and eliminated intellectuals (Green 243) when he heard that not everybody loved what he was doing. In the Common Program of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, one article…

Flowers Campaign, the Anti-Rightist Campaign as well as the Socialist Education Campaign. Heng provides a look into these historical pillars in Chinese history in a way that the Golf and Overfield texts could only dream of. It’s a truly breathtaking account of events that are still being felt throughout the nation today. Heng’s account first takes us through the Hundred Flowers Campaign. One of the major struggles of the revolution was to eliminate the tension…

citizens with an undeniable right to directly participate in the political process. America’s Forefathers would be profoundly disappointed, however, to learn that the unchecked influence of special interest has sullied the very fabric of United States politics. The Founding Fathers, in spite of their boundless knowledge, had not the foresight to see just how easily monetary influence would try the fortitude of their burgeoning political system. The effects of their unknowingness permeate…

violates the Ethics and Business Conduct Policy which include terminology “employees to treat one another with 10 fairness, dignity, and respect. While organization see to include sexual orientation it seems to lie excluding individuals’ religious and political ideals or belief. Conflict will always exist among people, is intrinsic to being a human being. To find harmony is a balance among such opposites interests, ideas are to look towards conflict…

John McCain the senior senator from Arizona was one of the leading proponents supporting campaign finance reform. However, not everyone else in Washington agreed with him. He began to see how murky the waters of politics were becoming with the influence of money in the process of elections. McCain got together with Ross Feingold and drafted the McCain-Feingold Act to try to curb the corruption that was beginning to turn Washington into a free for all. Prior to this act politics and the influx of…

Supporters of term limits have suggested that a system without term limits allows undeserving politicians to exploit this advantage, and creates to a class of politicians who are ineffective and immovable, and who continue to win elections because of the political money from corrupt influence groups. Fairness in elections is one of the pillars of democracy, and the fact that incumbents are reelected at such high rates is unexpected given the approval ratings of the system as a whole. However,…

Political corruption is always brought up during election season and seemingly everyone has their own fix. Corruption today can be quickly discovered if one just follows the trail of dark money. Funds given to a politician from a corporation, whether in a campaign or as lobbying, is referred to as dark money by liberal politicians. Citizens United V. FEC was a supreme court case which ruled that money is speech and thus corporations can give endless sums of money to politicians under their…