Political ideologies

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 Loss, Kiran Desai even goes as…

The purpose of an interest group is to seek collective goods and to influence public policies. The system is created as a tool of public influence that actively attempts to influence the behavior of different political decision makers. In many cases, they are often called pressure groups because of their effort to apply pressure to push forward their agenda. Interest groups are both large and small, and they try to promote their membership by including special services such as health and life…

Critique of Fiorina’s “The Decline of Collective Responsibility in American Politics” In the early 1980s, political scientists were studying the changing status of American political parties (Fiorina 1981). During this time, Morris P. Fiorina wrote his essay to address these findings, most notably what he believes to be the decline of political parties. Fiorina concludes that strong political parties provide electoral accountability and discipline in government and keep the system afloat.…

2.2.2 PARTICULARISM DISPOSITION OF DEMOCRACY In this section, I discuss the dominant strands of particularism. The particularist arguments enrich our understanding of the cultural and communal underpinnings of political life in democratic societies. According to these perspectives, normative judgments about the development and improvement of democratic practices must only be sought out in reference to particular socio-cultural traditions and configurations. By “particularism” the advocates…

the spread of different liberals ideas and beliefs, conservatives did not want revolution and they especially did not want people to speak out against the state; they wanted to stay in power with as little opposition as possible. This is the only ideology listed that was not relatively new; conservatism was age-old. This is completely different from liberalism, which encouraged equality before the law,…

Political Juggernauts: Power vs. Freedom The environment around us has a profound effect as we age from adolescents to adulthood because of the subtle lessons we learn in life. Two historical figures almost everyone has heard of, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, were both early American political figures that wanted to make the country distinguished, but in remarkably different ways. These two individuals were differing fundamentalists of government which instigated them to form the…

The President of United Nation of South America (UNSA), as the leader of the free world, should take a serious consideration for what his challenging task to end the slavery and oppressive society that have taken the innocent citizenry’ liberal and freedom rights away of United States. His taking action is an empathic and sentimental concern for what Americans have to face the totalitarian dictatorship of President for decades. He decides to take an action in his ethical behavior opposes the…

The term resistance is an umbrella term. It has many types under it. The first type is political resistance which means is any activity raises against a particular policy or regime which affects on citizen or community (Roberts 11). On one hand, Afua Cooper (1957- ) argues that social resistance is an action that attempts to change particular circumstances relating to a corrupted society. On the other hand, Walter Scott (1771-1832) defines social resistance as any action by a subordinate…

In a democracy, political parties and interest groups play important roles in government. Political parties and Interest groups have similarities and differences. Their aims, interests, strategies and goals are what set them apart. Interest groups once called Pressure groups, are a group of people that are held together through a common single interest. They come together in order to promote their interest and influence the government. Their interests usually revolve around education, safety,…

concept that depicts what human nature may be without the existence of government and societies. Great philosophers and thinkers throughout human history have pondered and debated on what might be the interaction human nature and the state of nature. Political theorists such as Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau all comment upon this interaction in their works. My stance on human nature is that people, predominantly, are selfish and need a governmental body to preserve and protect the lives of the…