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After more than ten years of domination by the left-wing politics (populist and Social Democratic) in South America, the political compass has turned to the Centre-right. The newly elected government in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru have promised to open their domestic markets and implement social and political reforms. It is the beginning of a new era for Latin America’s, however, it does not mean that Latin America will not return to populist promises in the near future. To avoid the return of…

The Obamacare Debacle: Another Reason We need a Second political party. Sometimes you simply hope that your predictions will be wrong and that events will miraculously turn out differently, unfortunately this is not one of those times. Most people with a modicum of common sense anticipated that the Republicans would now take the blame for the troubles of Obamacare, and that has come to pass. ………………….…

Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by historian Jefferson Cowie is about the political change of the white working-class from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Chronicling why working-class laborers, such as Dewey Burton, who the author describes as a …,” radically changed political parties from New Deal Democrats to Reagan Republicans, Cowie primarily argues that examining the political voter base of the working-class in the 1970s demonstrates how the idea of “the working…

80s, the political landscape was completely realigned as the political parties themselves started to change their own platforms. This made the loyal voters which state along those party lines to changes their political party. This forced states and counties that normally would go red to go blue and vice versa. The political realignment of this time period is what has led to the modern associations with the Republican and Democratic parties. The main source which allowed for the political…

(2009) compares the effects of the shift in citizenship norms in the United States and in the other advanced industrial democracies based on three political aspects: participation, tolerance and democratic values. Two couple of terms of duty based citizenship and engaged citizen are consistently used in this chapter to illustrate the changes in political cultures of not only the America but also other advanced democratic countries. Duty based citizenship poses images of the individuals who…

The friend-enemy distinction is perhaps the most well-known contribution from Schmitt to political theory. To be specific, the distinction is Schmitt’s overarching understanding of the political realm. Despite potential economic trade or other everyday dealings with the "other" (The “other” being a rampant outsider, whose preparedness for bloodshed and violence threatens the idea of a sound state), Schmitt states that the due to the inherent differences of the "other," the possibility for a…

American culture can be defined by many things, but Americans would most likely agree that it is a culture of inherently limited government in its political structure, it is a culture that believes in limited liability in terms of foreign policy and entering wars, it can be swayed by nationalism, and has for the majority of its existence believed that there is something exceptional that sets it apart from all other cultures in the world. This paper will consider the weaknesses and strengths of…

According to Girard (1979), violence has tendency to hoard in one place which can lead to “fundamental truth about violence’ is that, ‘if left unappeased, violence will accumulate until it overflows its confines and floods the surrounding area.” With the lack of rule of law, or the presence of the super-ego, which balances both the id and the ego, ‘Man’ will naturally turn to a savage or the id will dominate over the superego. (Wilson, 2014). Rules prevents the domination of the id and…

Through a long and complex process that gained momentum after the 1988 presidential elections, the political hegemony of a single party gave way to a competitive three-party system. This development changed the balance of power within Congress and the role of the executive branch in the policy making process even before the old hegemonic party lost the presidency of the Republic in 2000. In the 1997 mid-term elections, the PRI lost for the first time since its foundation in 1929, its majority in…

contrast to his previous works which had several political messages and had regarded music as “inseparable from politics.” The author takes these contrasting sentiments and continues their exploration through the terms of “crude solution” and “critical solution.” This “crude vs. critical” dichotomy exists as a means to encapsulate all of the philosophical ideas surrounding each concept. Beginning with the “crude solution,” Goehr presents the definition in terms of Cold War West and East-bloc.…