Reform

By the 1830s, several organized efforts for social reform had emerged. They were in response to a general sentiment to liberate the individual and impose order in a newly changing world. These movements aimed at a wide range of issues such as temperance, education, prisons, women’s rights, and slavery. Drunkenness, as some would argue, was more of an issue during the mid nineteenth century rather then the twenty first. The average male during that time consumed three times as much alcohol…

The top three reform movements from the period between 1880-1990 based on impact and social significance to society would be 1) Progressivism, 2) Civil Rights, and 3) Women’s suffrage. Those three reform movements were selected are because each of them created conditions of conflict that affected the results of other movements and in many respects still influence Americans today. The following provides insight into why those three reform movements had the most importance to the U.S. The…

Neoliberalist reform was most prevalent in Chile during the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. With the counsel of the Chicago Boys, a group of American trained economists, the movement of a laissez-faire, neoliberalist economy in Latin America spurred forth. While it did push Chile into some economic growth, there were many unforeseen downsides to the reforms. Of these downsides came intense boom and bust cycles; one economic bust…

America’s government is defined as a democratic republic, but socialist programs have become more popular since World War II. One of the longest lasting and most controversial socialist programs is the U.S. welfare system. Welfare provides aid for many different types of people, but its aid for the unemployed needs to be reformed. The U.S. welfare system originated in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when many families struggled financially and needed government aid to survive.…

groups put towards these campaigns is a ridiculous amount, and political candidates have began a movement to increase the dependence on the expenses of television advertisements. In the 1970s there were many changes and adjustments to the campaign reform act. Starting in 1971, the Revenue Act was established which is a publicly funded campaign for the presidential candidates. This act stated that the taxpayers could donate to the fund, and they were able to receive a tax deduction from it. The…

Tax reform, dating back to before the inception of our great nation, has always been a topic of heated discussion. The apathy of a society towards the unfair taxation of its people was made known in 1775; when the shot heard around the world reverberated in the ears of their oppressor King George III. As a result of the issuing revolution in America, the constitution as amended to which we still follow today was written. After extensive research the Republic of District Four concluded that…

this week was in relation to the reforms introduced to Athens by Cleisthenes. In a move to restructure Athenian politics, Cleisthenes split Athens into ten tribes. These ten tribes were made up of the people in subdivisions of land he carefully carved out in Athens. He made sure that the original factions were split randomly and scattered amongst the different subdivisions of land. In this instance, demos referred to a subdivision of land. Before Cleisthenes’ reforms, the old factions…

Diocletian and his Reforms after the Crisis of the Third Century With over 1.7 million square miles of land, the Roman Empire reigned for over a thousand years. As with every empire and dynasty, the Roman Empire faced many challenges. These challenges lead the empire into a crisis during the third century: problems with succession, population, and the frontiers. It wasn’t until Diocletian came to power the empire started to recover from the crisis. Diocletian made the government into a Tetrarchy…

Administration) to adopt over 760 codes affecting over 22 million workers. Businesses who complied with the code were permitted to display the NRA’s insignia, a stylized blue eagle, encouraging consumers to favor them over companies that resisted the reforms (National Recovery…

Welfare assistance programs need to be reformed again, in order to make them effective. In 1996 the Welfare Reform Act was enacted and it changed the entire program for the better, but it still isn’t doing enough to prevent fraudulent behavior. The programs have become abused and need to be reformed again. America's welfare programs are tautological and repetitive. The current welfare state encourages dependence instead of lifting people out of poverty. Welfare dependence creates behavioral…