Right-wing politics

When you were young, you had no idea about what kind of person you would become. You had no idea what turns your life would take, or where you would end up in the end. As you begin to age, you slowly create a blueprint of your life and your personality, and the longer you live, the more detailed this blueprint becomes. In Persepolis, the main character, Marji, is just starting to create this blueprint, and her blueprint starts out very vague. However, as she grows, she begins to develop the…

political offices that would be elected. This removal of property requirements and increase in electable positions gave greater political influence to the common man and drastically shifted the course of political debate towards trade unions and worker’s rights, even greater focus on abolitionism, and organized labor parties made up of those now empowered to represent the interests of the lower…

They called the senate the millionaires club. Special interest group would offer outright bribes to politicians. People would go into politics as a business. Business and politics worked closely together. Congress would pass any law to benefit their donors so long as there was a profit in it for them. Most government employees were a product of the spoiler system in which family and friends of the politician…

During the late 19th and early 20th century, a wave of progressivism swept over the ever-growing nation of America. In the absence of a morally just federal government, many state legislators began to act as political reformers. One imperative figure of this statehouse progressive movement was Wisconsin Governor, Senator and House Representative Robert M. La Follette. Nicknamed “ Fighting Bob” because of his frequent head-butting with opposing party leaders, La Follette was also named one of…

To get the ball rolling, great authors use their own personal concerns and sympathy for people who are hurt or struggling in tough situations in society to make impacts on readers. In very debateable situations that occur in America, authors usually give their viewpoints on the situation at hand. Especially in today's world, an author has to be on one side or another. If he or she is neutral, or does not favor any side,the reader will consider the author defending the enemy or the bad side of…

Bowling alone by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.”…

My passion for politics started when I was 12 years old, after I started noticing things on television concerning Scottish Independence. I saw the independence referendum as a chance for me to speak out about how I wanted my future to be, regardless of whether I would get to vote or not (which obviously, I wouldn’t). What I did not know though, is that just researching about Scottish and British Politics would cause me to branch out to other countries politics and become more aware social and…

Trust is a complex interpersonal and organizational construct that “occurs when parties holding certain favorable perceptions of each other allow this relationship to reach the expected outcomes.” Trust is, therefore, an efficient means for lowering transaction costs in any social, economic, and political relationship. It is the central concept of not only human contacts, but also institutional interactions that take place in the political arena. Trust assessed in political terms is commonly…

However, most of America’s political culture has been formed by the individual political opinions of each American citizen and a common political culture is not defined by all Americans thinking in the same way. Although tracking trends of political culture can be difficult, it is important to realize that there is no “typical American” or the same beliefs for every citizens. Different aspects of human life such as family, gender, and religion have had a significant effect on the overall themes…

He writes, “...coming into possession of the faculty of reflection and the skills of politics leads to a choice for the poor… they may use politics to get along in a society based on the game, to escape from the surround of force into a gentler life, to behave as citizens, and nothing more; or they may choose to oppose the game itself” (12-13). Shorris admits that…