Political ideologies

violations of human rights. Warring sides were the left wing supporters of reform and the Argentine Army backed by the right wing. The ultimate goal of the Dirty War was to force people to preserve a conservative national identity and patriarchal ideology. The war lasted until 1983 (Koepsel Rachel 2). During the years of military regime, citizens of Argentina were terrified of attracting the government's attention. Any king of opposition was not tolerated and those opposing the government were…

The Declaration of Independence is regarded as an icon of American Independence and national identity. It is a moral standard that defines people’s lives. Politically it is an expression of the values and political ideologies of America. This literary text reveals the genius of Thomas Jefferson, the creator. Mayer records the birth and inscription and reintroduction of this highly revered book and in the process tries to remove several myths and misconceptions associated with it. Hence, the…

despite their political affiliation, are citizens in a single community. This community, however, described in various ways, some focusing on political institutions, others on moral norms, and still others focusing on forms of cultural expression. According to the majority of cosmopolitanism’s versions, the universal communities of world citizens’ functions as a positive ideal to be cultivated, but a few versions exist to refuse the existence of special obligations to local forms of political…

presidency. For the years to come every time I would look at the news and see a little “R” next to a person name I would know that they are the “good guys”. When I grew older I quickly realized that this ideology was far from the truth. I began my journey for the truth, I questioned my parents political views, and watched CNN. Eventually I began to frustrate and worry my parents because they couldn't answer some…

The ideology presented in the source argues against a democratic society stating that the requirements to provide citizens with a great deal of freedom affects the stability of the country. When citizens are giving much personal guarantees, they conceive more power because people possesses contrasting ideas. This creates a slow change in regulations and laws which in the end, translate the state into a turmoil. However, the source claims that with an authoritarian society, the state would be…

Political opinions are changing in Canada; many reasons can account for this, including regionalism. Regionalism can be used to explain regional differences and voter outcome, making it a powerful political tool in Canada. In this paper, regionalism will be described as an explanatory variable under the conditions of the “composition effect" and the “context effect,” building on the ideas of Cochrane and Perrella (2012). As well, the emergences of indifferent “regional political cultures” will…

are designed to form legislation that responds to the demands of political actors outside of government. These demands are inputs, and the legislation created in response are the outputs. The Legislative Branch…

Michel Foucault claimed, ‘Political theory has never ceased to be obsessed with the person of the sovereign’ (Foucault and Gordon, 1980). In saying this, he critiques Western political thought for the focus scholars have collectively held on sovereign power, or the ‘macro-level’ consisting of governmental figures and institutions in formal power over a nation-state. In The Politics of Truth he elaborates: It seems to me that there has been in the modern Western world … a certain way of thinking…

Learning about global social work is widening my perspective of the world as I know it. I will even go a step further and say I did not really know the world at all, but I am learning. Global social work is giving me a broader perspective. So I have to admit that I am definitely being pushed out of my comfort zone. The current poverty rate and free-trade agreements take me to a totally different dimension of thinking. However, you do not know the real social work until you study global social…

Socrates and Machiavelli lived in a time of political and civil disarray and chaos. Their thoughts on political philosophy and theory are a product of the times in which they lived. Through interpretations of their own political climate, Socrates and Machiavelli produced two schools of political thought that are incredibly different and contrasting. Plato’s Apology and Crito and Machiavelii’s The Prince present these two vastly disparate ideologies. Socrates would be appalled at…