Proportional representation

"An educated, enlightened and informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy." ~ Nelson Mandela, 6 October 2003. Democracy is a system of government for the citizens to choose their leaders and to hold them accountable for their policies and demeanour in office. The saying “laws are made for the people by the people” is true as people vote for candidates who are elected representatives who's job it is to make law. If state and lawmakers are careful in…

In this paper, we will look at what makes a minority shareholder more attractive to protect than in corporate insider in different states. A minority shareholder is someone who doesn’t own enough shares to have a controlling vote in a company. While a corporate insider might be a manager or someone that owns voting shares in a company as well as anyone who uses insider knowledge of a company in order to manipulate the market. The main question that Cioffi and Hopner try to answer in the article…

Westminster model in New Zealand. There has been a significant change in the Westminster model since it was established since 1840 after British settlers brought the Westminster model to New Zealand. The key principle changes include mixed member proportional(MMP), multi-party system, coalition government and change in executive power. Although these are only just some of the significant changes that have had an impact on the Westminster model of government in New Zealand. The New Zealand…

process. People usually use the visual cortex a lot instead of non-visual cortex during imagination and perception process. Mental rotation is the individual's capacity to manipulate a mental representation of objects within a person's brain (Cheung 128). Notably, the mind alternations are directly proportional to the visual demonstrations, and the error margins are determined by the amount of input and processing time provided to the person under study. Similarly, angular disparity encompasses…

for one to live in is the democratic society. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, democracy is defined as a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections (Merriam-Webster). The democratic society is superior to other societies because democracy protects the rights of citizens, promotes equality, and ensures fairness in administration (Asia…

its lack of representation of minorities and women in our government in the past and even today. What is not accurate about this view is that the representation of the people in the past is being looked at through the beliefs and values of the people currently. Times change and with that so do ideas and beliefs and what was once democratic may not be so anymore. The nation has not remained stuck in what was once thought to be a democratic representation of the country. Representation is focused…

ancient world were explored, and artists perfected their craft. The art of ancient Greece is superior to the art of all other periods because of the attention to detail, perfectionism in architecture, and the ability to fully accomplish realistic representations of ideal human proportions while also adapting old techniques and defining the path of artistic periods to follow. When observing painted vessels from the ancient world, the Grecian’s attention to detail is unmatched by any other…

The Electoral College was created because “The delegates to the constitutional convention of 1787 feared that popular election of the president would make the office too powerful” (Patterson, 2013, p. 307). Also the Founder Fathers the Framers of the Constitution were afraid the citizen’s point of view could be manipulated by a dictator and become president (Shulman, n.d.). The Electoral College consist of 538 electors. On Election Day the 538 electors choose who is going to be the next…

Confederation). This essentially made all states equal regardless of population. The Constitution limited this advantage of smaller states by creating a bicameral, or two-bodied, legislature in which representation in one body would be equal among all states while representation in the other body would be proportional to the population of the states. However, despite some major changes, the Constitution still adopted many policies from the Articles of Confederation specifically policies that had…

Willits & Nowacki (2003) conducted regression models and utilize data from the Supplementary Homicide Reports from 1999 to 2001, the 2000 American Census and the 2000 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics Survey (LEMAS). The research also included all police departments in the United States with populations 25,000 and greater in order to be able to include small towns in the research. With using a populations of 25,000 and greater, the sample size included 325 cities with…