Politics & Government Essay Examples and Topics. Page 5

A constitutional monarchy, as the name shows, is a regime based on the division of powers between the king and the legislative body like the Parliament with the supreme power of the Constitution.

Proponents of isolationism argue that in the past "America was isolationist in the 1930s" and had benefited by such a policy.

The dominance of the realist approach to international relations is being challenged by constructivism which finds the overemphasis of realism on power, national security and national interests being the chief reasons for increasing global instability.

There is controversy concerning the exact date of his birth: his family considered the 11th of January as his birthday but records in Glasgow indicate the 10th of the same month2.

The aspects of self-determination and self governance form the bulwark of country's power and sovereignty, not only in relation to its own administration and political setup, but also with regard to foreign affairs and its [...]

The seizure of Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks gave birth to the communist movement in 1917, when and died in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and in 1991, when the Soviet Union [...]

With the modern computer technology and advanced software, criminal justice system has been in a capacity to compile data and store it as well as share its analysis with other agencies both in and out [...]

It has been argued that "the history of policing has been characterized by a dynamic search for the means by which to optimize the use of legitimate force: utilizing it as necessary to maintain order, [...]

The current economic crisis has revealed the perverse impact of the transnational corporations, such that even the economically superpowers like the U.S.and European countries are helpless against the transgressions of the transnational companies and other [...]

It has been observed that at present the socio-economic systems of Cuba and Venezuela is very much inclined with the ideologies and philosophies of socialism; Chile, on the other hand seems lagging behind in attaining [...]

Second, the rising awareness of the 'human feature' of administration is an area of interest in public administration because the administration is concerned with the behaviors of people in the public environment and the psychology [...]

This land is owned by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Air Force and is part of the Nevada Test and Training Range, a test facility of the Air Force.

The second issue was the effectiveness of project management and monitoring of contract performance and risks. Creating a detailed plan for performance monitoring, audit, and inspections would help private companies during the pre-contract award stage [...]

The purpose of this essay is to embrace the argument of the book by Acemoglu and Robinson and develop it further to the extent of answering the question of how to get and keep good [...]

Therefore, through defining jurisdiction concepts and the use of examples, it possible to better understand the situation, currently in place in the US system of laws.

Although today the majority of political thinkers are more skeptical about the idea of utopian socialism in general and versions of this ideology represented in the works of Charles Fourier and Count Saint-Simon, in particular, [...]

And to add to this notion, the article highlights that some think of power as "a kind of mitigated violence", which does not differ greatly from the view that power is best manifested through violence.

Nevertheless, it is possible to suggest that such messages as an expression of a person's political preference in support of a certain party can be sufficient to put on a T-shirt.

One of the primary aspects that AMAT, CBHA, and other manuals emphasise as a requirement for humanitarian response participation consists in acquiring the information that will be necessary to the participant.

The philosophy of community policing suggests that the community needs the police to provide policing based on service and to avail the cooperation of the community in such policing. A police chief is also committed [...]

Rousseau argued that in the past people had no hunger for individual ownership of the property until one person fenced a piece of land and claimed that the land belonged to him; after this, people [...]

Stabilizing in the global system may either be soft or hard action, it can be hard with the intention of increasing or threatening the utilization of military influence of one nation in relation to the [...]

Assessment of the effectiveness of organizing functions of managing human resources of the US Army has accepted the Army Leadership Program long ago.

One of the key elements of the TQM model is that of innovation. The organization allows and encourages them to use modern technologies to meet the needs of the people they serve.

The main reason for the introduction of the Arab Peace Initiative was to help end the conflict between the Arabs and the Israelites. Towards the end of the same year, the Arab League advanced its [...]

Following the views of classical liberalism, they believe that the primary task of the foreign policy of the United States of America is to defend the ideals of freedom and democracy throughout the world.

In terms of the organizational structure, the FBI consists of the Office of the Director and the functional branches that are divided into divisions and offices led by an assistant director.

One of the crucial "milestones in early modern Germany history" and the one that influenced the international political arena was the Peace of Westphalia.

To begin with, Woods provided readers with a detailed research of the methods of operating of the IMF and the World Bank.

Because of the latter, the political and social traditions of these societies are built on the beneficial effects of corruption. However, it is a mistake to believe that the social structure of traditional societies will [...]

The recession has drastically affected the private citizens' being and the operation of public services and the government. The impact on the law enforcement sector was the most tangible, and the challenges that the legal [...]

Others believe that the police do not operate well and underlines the fact that it is not able to fulfill its main goals and satisfy the needs of the population.

Two main political parties, viz.the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have dominated the American political system. Currently, 53% of the white Catholics are affiliated with the Republican Party while 39% are associated with the [...]

Some of these events include the "The Arab Revolt of 1916", "The Arab Congresses of the 1930s", "The League of Arab States of 1944", and the brief unity between Syria and Egypt.

When donating his uniform to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Powell stated that the museum is a "treasure" the significance of which extends borders of the country.

The literature review focuses, inter alia, on such points as the definition of the concept of the Neighborhood Watch program and its goals, community involvement levels, and challenges, technology opportunities that may be used in [...]

This paper examines the structure and functions of the structure of the Supreme Court of the United States as described in United States Courts.

The professionalism of the worker is elaborated by the presentation of his attire, which, traditionally, includes a white coat, a masque, and the gloves.

Luiz, a taxi driver, claims that Franco's regime had both positive and negative features that are reflected in the attitude to it all over Spain.

First of all, gentrification is viewed as the result of the attraction of the creative groups of the population to the older and poorer districts.

Public administration is concerned with the implementation of government policies and management of the behavior of non-elected officials before they are inaugurated to work in the public service.

The author argues that the American constitution is ineffective in finding solutions to political disagreements that could lead to the collapse of the country's political system.

To check the hypothesis, it is essential to ensure the conceptualization and operationalization of the major variables of the study. To conceptualize such terms as the availability of personnel, resources, and equipment, it is necessary [...]

Being one of the leading countries tends to guarantee the involvement of the United States in the majority of modern political affairs, to support its image and secure the preservation of its leading position.

The mission for the Dubai police is to strengthen the security systems of the city to facilitate the protection of the citizens' rights.

The basic principle of the limited war theory is the avoidance of armed war and the mutual destruction that is brought by it.

The country's contentious politics contribute to the stabilization of the authoritarian regime, which has eased political transition to the extent that the country has failed to achieve democratization.

Communication can be defined as the process through which information is effectively transmitted from the sender to the receiver using a medium of exchange; for an effective communication, the parties to the communication should be [...]

The Department of Defense is the largest consumer of contracted products in the country. The first entity in logistics supply chain of the DOD is the original component manufacturer.

This is usually manifested through the power of attraction and seduction and manipulation of the people under the leadership authority. Competent and profound leaders should be in a position to manage the organization for which [...]

In addition, Zakaria is of the opinion that for a government to be described as liberal, it must reinforce the rule of law from the top to the lower levels of governance. Every citizen in [...]

The invoking of realism as a framework often happens in the description of the relationship between China and Japan. In order to examine the research question, the theories of realism and constructivism will become the [...]

The performance of the Executive Council of Dubai and the effective realization of duties depend on the organizational structure of the Council and distribution of responsibilities among the Council branches and members.

The first part of the article investigates the most important issues of the book which are relationship between power and interdependence, explanation of change in international regimes and the ideal type of complex interdependence.

Those who argue against the idea of banning the smoking are of the opinion that some of them opt to smoke due to the stress that they acquire at their work places.

The President is the head of the state while the Prime Minister is the head of the government. A multi-party system is the final type of party system in the country.

The international organizations depend on the efforts of member nations to help affected nations to deal with conflicts, but over the past several decades, the international community has failed in solving conflicts in various nations.

Many scholars these days support the opinion that Marx's views, ideas, and teachings are old-fashioned and could only be applied for the society, politics, economy, and industry of his time.

Privatization of land among developing countries is to blame for the consequences of land grabbing by foreign investors. The problem of land grabbing requires world attention in ensuring access to food security, and environmental preservation [...]

Under the New Jersey Plan, states have to be represented uniformly by making sure that all of them have the same powers, whereas, in the Virginia Plan, the House of Representatives are chosen by the [...]

It also shows the role of these theories in shaping international organizations and institutions. The PowerPoint presentation provides a brief account of most theories in international organizations.

The proponents of nuclear generation and countries, which have shown extensive support to the underway atomic development in the name of acquiring global power and challenging the powerful nations, should be deficient of proper knowledge [...]

Under such contractual agreements, one of the calls of the rulers is for the governed to be loyal in exchange with the attempt of the rulers to facilitate efforts for nation building.

Historical Perspective The People's Republic of China was established in the late 1949 under the leadership of the Communist Party supported by the then USSR after the defeat and retreat of the Kuomintang which had [...]

The last assumption is the result of the first two and states that the international politics are anarchical due to the lack of an international government and sovereignty of states.

The arguments made by Eisenstein are analysed in relation to the effects of print medium in the society. In addition, the increasing popularity of the internet has affected the relevance of printing mediums in the [...]

The problems associated with the achievement of these goals will also be discussed and solutions to the problems. 1 percent by the end of the year against the target of 50 percent.

In this case, it is vital to focus on the failure to enforce the principles of IHL and greater media coverage of war brutalities.

Outcome-based evaluation is the most common method of identifying success of a program. Overall, the strength of outcome-based evaluation is in ownership.

However, in the discussion of the role that the UN plays in international relations through the worldwide system, it is important to identify the differences between the international system and international society.

By world-system, the theory indicates the inter-regional and transnational divisions of labour that divide the world between the rich and the poor, and the powerful and the weak as Macedo and Gounari confirm4.

In the modern society, the government applies utilitarianism with the sole purpose of offering an answer to the practical question asking what should be done in society to improve the conditions of living.

All the facilities that were to be included in the project were for the benefit of the community. This shows that the community development worker who was involved in the creation of a concept that [...]

In his article "The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budgetary Reform", Allen Schick focuses on the aspects of the effective budgetary reform which could provide the significant positive changes in relation to national budgeting [...]

The CLASS Act was part and parcel of the 2010 PPA that was enacted by the government with the aim of boosting the healthcare concerns of the working Americans.

A consideration is also given to discuss the people whom public officials are accountable to, and the most effective means of ensuring a balance between the demands for accountability and the need to have high-performing [...]

The state should ensure that tranquility and calmness is in the society. The role of the state is to provide guidelines that would bring sanity in business.

The powers of the state in the country are exercised through this party and the Central People's Government, which has provincial and local components through which the unit exercises its powers.

In accordance with the doctrines of Paine and Rousseau, the US civil rights movement is an example of enlightenment revolution in politics whereby, the oppressed citizens try to seek out for their rights through formation [...]

Rhetorical figures help in ensuring that a speech is interesting and captivating to the audience. Parallelism also helps in ensuring that a speech is and captivating to all the listeners.

Increased involvement of the private sector in the provision of urban infrastructure in Australia has a host of benefits. Cannadi and Dollery assert that private sector involvement in the provision of public sector infrastructure services [...]

The emergent problems need to be addressed from the perspective of treating the most vulnerable members of society, as well as define to what extent the unemployment rates and low-income rates influence the accomplishment of [...]

A strong public administrative system ensures that resources are distributed in an equitable manner in order to reduce poverty levels and improve the living standards of the masses. A robust public administrative system is needed [...]

For Locke, the agreement between the rulers and the ruled is of most importance and it forms the basis of the contract.

Bradley Wright, the author the article, provides both theoretical and practical views on the discussed issues to understand the influence of other disciplines on public administration.

While humanitarian intervention can be carried out with the consent of a government, it can also occur without the consent of the relevant government especially when the government is accused of causing or threatening to [...]

In, the article Two Cheers for Materialism, from the book Acting out Culture, The author James Twitchel defines materialism early on as the production and consumption of stuff, and defends it with several well thought [...]

One of the approaches in comparing the most and least corrupt is evaluating the economic positions of the countries. Another significant difference between the most and least corrupt countries is in terms of the effectiveness [...]

Privatization of health care in Canada will affect the larger population that cannot afford to pay for certain types of treatments.

He is of the view that the wars in which armies engage in currently are a sharp contrast of wars fought in the past.

Schedler and Proeller observe that new public administration entails the application of new principles of management in the public sector in order to improve the outcomes of public policy in the public sector.

Another example of how Chomsky's arguments were logical was when he argues that the US was not listening to the Vietnamese.

The king has the power to appoint the cabinet and all ministers including the prime minister heading the cabinet, military heads and enjoys religious acrimony.

Freedom and equality are guaranteed under this form of democracy because they are enshrined in the constitution which is always the supreme law of a given country.

The polls are subject to sampling errors that mirrors in the consequences of probability and vagueness of the data sampling procedures.

The focus of the ethical standards include exercising discretion to boost the public's trust, incorporating the public's inputs in decision making, and helping the public in their government dealings.

Therefore, it still remains that ethnonationalism is a major cause of the plight of minority groups and the increase of refugees in the world today. It was this ethnic mixing that led to the idea [...]

In the book: The Civil Society Reader, it is noted: "Among these powerful elite, the crisis of civic membership is expressed in the loss of civic consciousness, of a sense of obligation to the rest [...]

The major functions of the president include; powers to declare the state of emergency that allows the lower house to extend the five year term, chief legal adviser of the government and signing of the [...]

The purpose of the paper is to offer the context that the government can work in to promote healthy eating. Considering that the US is involved in business with the rest of the world in [...]

The questions are the policy makers in the West should engage with the Islamic world, whether the spread of democracy in the Muslim regions stop the military forces that generates terrorism and the Western governments [...]

In return, people have the responsibility of obeying the laws, being loyal to the government and the country and facilitating the government with revenues in form of taxes.

More specifically, the paper analyzes the political parties within the context of the Canadian form of democracy. The author is of the belief that political parties facilitate the democratic process in the country.

In this debate, most scholars are of the view that the choice of the international relations theory has a great impact on global politics.

It can be argued that it is only in the "Age of Renaissance where one can find the emergence of this particular idea, the idea that a group of people came together to form an [...]

The powers granted to executive in the past are not the same as those granted in the modern political world this is because of the human development.

According to sociologist Luis Astorga, the history of drug cartels in Mexico has a correlation with the political eras in the region. As such, they are the eyes and ears of the drug cartels.

President Kennedy's address showed that he was committed to the welfare of his people; a trait which many modern political leaders do not have.

On the other hand, the media reported on the severity of misconduct by police officers and cited the Blue code of silence as the key setback against the fight against police torture.

The policing culture is very broad and it consists of both the organizational and the occupational culture. The number of policemen in Japan is small compared to the number of police officers in the U.S.

Jimmy Carter is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the USA. Thus, it is possible to state that Carter tried to follow the chosen doctrine of the focus on human rights.

With regard to the above-presented considerations, that ethical behavior and leader constitutes a serious challenge to law enforcement officers unless specific ethical standards of conduct, ethical principles, and correlation between law and morale limits are [...]

In spite of the largely peaceful demonstrations, which the locals believed would limit casualties and bring the change they yearned for; security forces were deployed by the government to contain the protests.

Visa-free entry to all countries would be of great benefit to them. Visa-free entry to all countries would also be of utmost benefit to governments.

It is important to understand that the signing of the Peace Treaty of Westphalia was predetermined by the objective laws of history, concerned with the fact that the course of a continuous social, cultural and [...]

Again, the president forwards the names of those proposed for the post of Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to the State of Duma and may also ask the State of Duma [...]

The proponents of democracy argue that, through democracy, citizens are accorded the freedom to participate on issues concerning their country enjoying a peaceful coexistence as the rule of law applies.

The executive branch of the government consists of the 'Jamahiriya sector' led by a prime minister and is responsible for running the government.

The reasons are on one hand, the great fear to the Soviet Union catch up and expansion, on the other hand the fear of Cuba bring communism domino effect to the Latin America countries and [...]

According to him, if the people of the country abide by laws made by the leader, then this must be a good leader.