Politics of Uganda

of how music is tied to politics, and specifically addresses arguments of whether it should be or not. The author starts her discussion with a historical example with the inquest of composer Hanns Eisler by the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). The author’s intention in presenting this case appears when she focuses on the defense Eisler. He made statements to the Committee that suggested his music was “music, and nothing else,” having nothing to do with politics. This was in sharp…

Marx: Emancipation from Illusions As I read Karl Marx’s writings within The Marx-Engels Reader, four key terms became apparent in order to understand his theories regarding religion, politics, and economics: emancipation, alienation, species-being, and proletariat. While I do not intend to summarize his ideas, this essay will resemble an almost ‘thinking out loud’ type of process, helping me to better comprehend Karl Marx, his vision for the world, and his impact on the discipline of religious…

Over the years, the journalism and photographers become more important to our daily lives. The more they are developed the more they affect on us. Journalism and photography even have had a huge impact on politics. We can easily find a lot of information that we need through the TV, radio or newspapers. We can say that these tools have improved and revolutionized the way searching comprehensive information. More noteworthy is the launch of Google in the 90s, this is a searching page largest…

Mongolia is a country that is rich in natural resources such as gold, copper, coal, uranium and oil. This makes the mining sector of great importance to their national economy. In 2010, Mongolia’s mining sector made up 25% of the GDP in 2010. Then Mongolia’s mining sector is a key driver of growth in the country (World Bank: 2015). Therefore, ending corruption in Mongolia’s mining sector could lead to more efficient use of natural resources, and eventually facilitate the redistribution of…

also identified themselves as weakly tied to their specific party. In class, we discussed how those individuals who are more politically informed than the average American citizen are more likely to have a stronger opinion one way or the other on politics. So, those more involved are more likely to be polarized. While in theory, this…

Multitude is a philosophical work in which the democratic systems much of the world lives by nowadays are dissected and redefined with respect to their political, social, and economic characteristics and inequities. It snubs its nose at what it calls “the sovereign”, by which it means the unilateral leadership leading all sectors of modern society in the form of seemingly omnipotent politicians and capitalists, to name a few. This oppressive system, in their opinion, is enough to call for the…

Should Terms of Senators and Representatives Be Limited? Thesis Will limiting the terms of senators and representatives change the political agenda. Source 1 Summary “Measuring ‘Term Limitedness’", by Marjorie Scarborough Thompson in U.S. Multi- State Research is about estimating the effect of the length of service permitted on the term limits. Scarborough followed turnover in the house seat in the 1980s to 1990s to observe the effect and her findings yielded some pros and cons of term limits…

Class is increasingly viewed as again relevant to our understanding of British society, past and present. Complex approaches to class, class prejudice, meritocracy, and class boundaries are not remotely new. However, new political concerns over inequality and the emergence of the revolutionary 2013 Savage-Bourdieu model of class stratified in layers by types of capital has seemingly sparked a minor renaissance in sociological studies, political policy, and punditry.1 Within the last five years…

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…

Thank you for providing me the space to explain why I want to pursue my PhD in Political Science. In this brief statement I will explain my major research interests, why I believe those areas are both academically and politically significant, and why I would like to attend your program. In my graduate studies I would like to pursue research on the role and influence of ancient political thought on early modern political thought and how that has shaped our contemporary political context. I am…