Politics of Ghana

regulations. The idea was to reduce corruption (or its appearance) and curtail the power of special interests—certainly laudable goals. Campaign-finance rules did stop some egregious transactions, but at a cost: Instead of eliminating money from politics (which is impossible), the rules diverted much of it to private channels. The result has been the creation of an array of private political machines across the country: for instance, the Koch brothers ' Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove 's…

There is no question that, throughout the history of China, there exists a trend of corruption which never quite seems to vanish, no matter what the Chairman at the time has tried in terms of combatting it. The issue came into primary focus in 1989 with anti-government demonstrations that forced the leadership to wage war against corruption, for fear of losing legitimacy as a party. And yet, corruption has not significantly decreased. With Xi Jinping’s announcement in 2012 that he would be…

Sitting by his desk, glancing out onto a fledgling nation, a president pens a letter. Yet, this is no mere correspondence, it is a letter to Americans that will signal his exit from the national stage. The president ponders the divisions and failures of his administration, the bickering, the partisanship, the animosity. He write “The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security... and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction... [will be] the…

In Aristotle’s Book VII, “Political Ideals and Educational Principles” he contradicts many of his statements in previous writings, most prominently his statements on the importance of the city. The city, according to Aristotle, is the highest form of the good life due to no longer needing to focus on activities that would be considered to be in the Oikos realm, rather now men have the freedom to expand upon their critical thinking and enter political discussion. However, Aristotle contradicts…

For over two hundred years, politics has been a great part of American society. It is the ethics applied to a group of people and tells how a society should be set up and how a person should act. Politics is a wide and complicated subject. It covers issues such as diplomacy, peace and war, government, law enforcement, rights and liberty. It exists mainly to better society as a whole. Understanding the political system is important because in order to make informed decisions, one has to…

Congressional approval ratings have proven to be dependent upon the partisan lens in which the public views their legislative decisions. The public tends to have higher approval ratings when Congress approves legislation that aligns with their political views and lower approval ratings when congress approves legislation that does not. However, in “How Partisan Conflict in Congress Affects Public Opinion: Strategies, Outcomes, and Issue Differences” Flynn and Harbridge examine how approval…

it is believed that it has an impact on the status of politics within a country. Various studies have been conducted to study the impact of satire and sarcasm on political situations and how governments and individuals see the new kind of media and political criticism. The literature gathered for this paper discusses the topic from many perspectives. Some studies examine satire and sarcasm in the media and its relation to interactional politics (Ducharme, 1994) and the use of political satire in…

Introduction As turkish empires the Ottoman and Mughal Empires share many political beliefs and ideals. Arguably the best way compare and contrast the ideals and beliefs of the empires is to look at policies they enact. To help understand the political ideals and beliefs two specific policies of the Ottoman and Mughal which similar in during their conception evolved throughout the reign of the empires. It should be noted that both empires faced different threats and obstacles, and how they…

In order to develop a thorough understanding of a concept, it is imperative to define the concept in a concrete manner, therefore, the definition for political theory must be defined to make a judgement on the best point of departure for it. Political theory is the understanding of the world in the state it was naturally supposed to be combined with how it is now and forming the laws and legitimacy of government from that state. In this paper, I will posit that the state of nature is the “best…

from the political – a name for the dimension of antagonism lurking beneath the formation of identities. By its nature, the political will assume many shapes and sizes to produce the identities. The political illustrates the pluralistic nature of politics and properly equips us to handle the movements that arise from it. The political is a stage upon which the us/them dynamic acts out its antagonism, forming a new synthesis. The political is important to Mouffe, because it breaks away from the…