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The aim of this work is to examine some of the basic theories to consider the causes of their diversity. It is interesting to note that in the past years, the development of the state [...]

Sovereignty has two dimensions, the inside of a territory where everybody within the territory subscribes to the authority of the government of the territory and the outside or external environment of the authority where its [...]

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 [...]

He further argues that patriotism is a national duty of all the citizens of a nation and that the sacrifice for the sake of nationalism is important.

For example, "the war in Sudan and Somalia has led to the proliferation of arms especially along the Kenya and Somali border".

This was to be made possible through nationalization of the means of production and putting them under the control of the workers; the individuals who he viewed to be the major producers of wealth.

On the other hand, many political leaders have gained fame and popularity thanks to the internet and as such, the internet has played the pivotal role of a medium for the attainment of true democracy.

The interplay between minority groups and the justice system has significant impact in shaping the perception of people towards the system and how these people are likely to feel secure and acceptable in the wider [...]

He believes that this form of law making is contradictory to the needs of a people and therefore acts to serve personal needs and not the general will.

123a to carry a review on scholarly literature and available data on the quality of the education, teaching, and learning that was being carried in national schools and universities. The later was to ensure that [...]

The success of the political leadership and organization emanate from the leadership style of the leader. The leader was elected to the office of the president as the 42nd president of the United States of [...]

The main purpose of this branch is to interpret the laws of the land and how they are applied in the day-to-day running of the government affairs.

The theory is strongly founded in the development of governance in the society and the implications for which it has on the interaction of people and the government.

Marxist and Communitarian do not believe in the existence of human rights. In fact, having and exercising human rights will not benefit the members of the society.

Some of the earliest groups to embrace the idea were the following organizations and institutions: the committee for economic development, the League of Human Voters as well as the US Advisory Commission on the Intergovernmental [...]

In detail, this paper analyzes the essential characteristics of bureaucratic organizations, according to Weber, and the application of Weber's concept in Ritzer's Mcdonalization concept.

The contribution that members of a given society have in forming rules that decide how social and economic resources are distributed improves living standards for all.

Marine The water for the plant comes from the sea. The Project commenced during the recession of 2009 and the subsequent euro crisis.

Paine mentions the royal family and notes that the very existence of the king in the society is a sign of its being wrongful.

Nonetheless, liberals of the twentieth century claimed that this was not a restriction, but a guidance to ensure equal opportunities for all.

Brief Historical Overview The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated the decline of the Communist party with the decline reaching an ultimate following the outlawing of the party by Boris Yeltsin.

The transition from classical conservative ways of thinking to liberal ways of thinking in the American colonies was gradual but firm.

In similarities, it is clear both welfare and neo-classical liberals believe in the value and promotion of individual liberty and a desire for a more open and tolerant society, not mentioning that they are guided [...]

Moderate defenders of capitalism claim that lack of government intervention is the main factor that contributes to the high level of inequality in capitalist societies.

The USA could not be an exception and these ideas acquired strong support in the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

From the top level, the type of system of government is defined by the structure of the judiciary, executive as well as the assembly.

The failure is explained by the inability of the post-war government to adequately assess the peculiarities and possibilities of the Australian economy, as well as what social and political consequences the reform would contribute to [...]

This paper explores some of the factors that may account for the failure of the communist party in Russia, as well as factors contributing to the success of the Communist party in China2.

In this respect, Marcuse is of the view that the definition of the freedoms and liberties has had to shift so as to reflect the changes occurring in the society.

The advent of technology has also been integrated in the power struggles being experienced in the world. The holistic technologies enable the initiator and the user of technology to be in control.

Besides taxes from all sex workers, it is argued that legalization of prostitution in Canada would require registration and licensing, which would equally become a source of revenue for the government.

For instance in the United States, guns use is the main cause of most of the suicidal and homicide cases. Many Americans think that limitation of use and ownership of guns in the United States [...]

Considering the development of each country as the process which has the same nature and should subject to the specific rules, Andre Gunder Frank assures that "economic development occurs in a succession of capitalist stages [...]

While jails are run by local governments or sheriffs and are designed for housing people serving short sentences or awaiting trial, prisons on the other hand, are run by Federal Bureau of Prisons and state [...]

This is a situation whereby the values of the bourgeoisie were taken to be the "common sense" values for all, including the proletariats - the proletariats never questioned the values of the bourgeoisie.

Since the approach that Coase demonstrates incorporates the spheres of law and economics, trying to explore the nature of the problem, the ideas offered by the scientist are likely to have great effect on the [...]

According to the theory, anyone who attempts to impose rule on others is perceived to be in a state of war with the subjects and should therefore be opposed in an attempt to prevent the [...]

In an authoritarian state, the judicial system subscribes to the ideals and practices of the states security apparatus and it is devoid of standards of due process of the law.

In the earlier analysis of Marx of alienation in the form of the 'fetishism of commodities', he believes that there is a distorted relationship in commodity fetishism "between individuals and the production and consumption of [...]

In summing up, it is imperative to note that the difference between the state and society is quite small. It is out of the existence of society that the there is need to form a [...]

Imperialism refers to the actions of the main power towards the land and people that inhabited it as to the dominion or any other subordinate territory with regard to the invasion and spreading of culture, [...]

He was primarily interested in the reasons that orchestrated the actions of the employees, and the reasons behind the people of an organization accepting the roles accorded by their seniors and complying by them.

The concept of social capital was developed by Bourdieu, a French sociologist in the 1980s.he referred social capital as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to the possession of a [...]

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development documents that the gap between the very rich and the very poor has in fact widened over the last few decades.

Hence, according to De Certeau, everyday life operates in the same manner by poaching and grabbing in the territories of others, applying the products and rules that are already in existence in a particular culture [...]

Appadurai argues that the complexity of global culture is due to economic, political, and social disjunctures that exist in the modern world.

To the contrary, was it the reason the many countries and people failed to bring forth the question of decolonization even after the departure of the colonist?

The viewpoint of the modern investigation forces us to underscore one of the most expressive findings to the understanding of meritocracy in the universal structure of administration.

Democracy is thus interpreted to mean: government of the majority or people. As a form of state, democracy is not the same as aristocracy, monarchy and dictatorship.

One of the strong areas of pacifism is its "...commitment to peace-building and to finding alternatives to war and violence as responses to social and political conflict".

Though the ideas of Marx and Weber may seem to be similar in some ways, it is wrong to believe that these theorists took the same positions; Marx found it obligatory to critique the activities [...]

In the American constitution, specific powers were bestowed upon the national government and in the tenth amendment of 1791, it stated "the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by [...]

The key democratic points highlighted by the wiles are concerning with the way the detainees are treated before the courts. The judicial process normally violate the way the cases are separated and dealt with by [...]

However, in capitalist societies, it is the state that would look for means to get the rest of the society to contribute to the surplus resources required and not the appropriating class.

The reason why the evolution of world's economy is best assessed through the lenses of economics, is that it provides us with the scientific insight onto the very essence of economy's functioning, as such that [...]

At community and civic level, the capability of someone to lead is usually based on the ability of that person to acknowledge the fact there is the positive and negative side of leadership.

Explain the concepts of equality of opportunity and equality of condition The concept of equality of opportunity is founded on the political ideal that goes against class hierarchy.

It is also important to know if the parents or one of the parents have membership in a gun club. There is a need to find out what kind of obstacles will be encountered if [...]

The Akaka bill is aimed at restricting the rights of native Hawaiians as they should be acknowledged as the indigenous population of the territory of the United States in accordance with the federal laws.

To ensure that such properties are utilized for the good of every member of the society, the three categories of planners of public/semi-public resources should intervene.

The production, preparation, trade and use of marijuana has been prohibited in most parts of the world and a lot of resources are used every year to combat it.

The bourgeoisie is the social class that is associated with the "ownership of the means of production". This is based on the fact that the output of the proletariats was "valued in terms of the [...]

Due to the variations in the forms of power, there is usually the likelihood of manifestation of conflict. This essay seeks to examine the status of social conflict in the work of both Karl Marx [...]

Capitalism, according to Karl Marx is the weakened method of analyzing democracy as it never pertains to the provisioning of democracy, no matter how much the capitalist describe their actions to be more of a [...]

However, on the contrary, Republican administration stopped stem cell research, edited global warming policy, and cut science funding leading to stagnation of innovations in science.

In addition, because support of such innovations depended on the importance the ruling elites put on scientific innovations; there was need for ideological changes as far as republicans were concerned.

Human inequality is rooted in nature and is essence due to constant differentiations in numerous aspects like gender or race, and it is difficult to make people forget about these differences; what is more is [...]

Since the dawn of civilization, it has actually come to the realization of many that, the just capital punishment of criminals is injustice in entirety.

Borgmann argues that the driving force of the contemporary society is the aspect of commodification which is described as, that vital structure of modern society of the market which conveys a sense of moral censure.

The dominance of global politics and values by nationalist ideologies can be traced back to the ninetieth century, from the Romantic concept, "cultural diversity" and the liberal's argument that political legitimacy is only achieved from [...]

However, it is again important to note that the essay on history of The American death penalty has not addressed some issues that are addressed by the essay on the sow death.

This is the difference between a nationalism of a nation that interferes with the rights of other nations as it strives to uphold its own objectives and a nationalism that is sensitive to the rights [...]

Majority of the Americans also feel that they have the right to possess firearms hence the issue of gun control will only be against their constitutional rights.

One can argue that property laws contributed to the growth of Dubai since many investors are willing to purchase property in the UAE. They are supposed to meet the needs of businesses that can be [...]

One of the most confounding concepts on the discipline of political theory is the issue of property. In an apparent response to Locke's ideas on the origin of private property, Rousseau maintains that man is [...]

This article seeks to highlight on the solutions and suggestions offered by the two leaders in relation to the political crises that affected Muslims during the 20th century.

This paper will analyze the solutions and suggestions presented by these two scholars and highlight the major differences between the recommendations that the two propose to the political crises affecting Muslims in the 20th century.

Indeed, taking a closer look at the problem of the use of guns, one will notice that, for the most part, people refer to high crime rates within the state to prove their point.

One of the main goals of his theory was to demonstrate to the members of the society what would happen if the entire society embraced the issue of justice.

They were enslaved by the bourgeoisie and machinery hence, they became a majority and were empowered in the light of the competitive bourgeoisie class, which created commercial conflicts and fluctuated the earning of the working [...]

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.

However; Karl Marx failed in his Marxism theory as a result of the establishment of the middle class. Following Karl Marx's demise in 1844, Friedrich Engels who was became the narrator of the Marxism theory [...]

The media can also be used to propagate the materialism through the different programs and ideologies which it tries to instill on the people so as to achieve a specific goal.

To a large extent, it can be analyzed that Kant had formulated the problem of constitutionalism by stating that "The constitution of a state is eventually based on the morals of its citizens, which in [...]

In this paper, the evaluation of the noise ordinance in Richmond, VA will help to understand how the citizens face the problem, what the nature of the problem is, what steps people have to take, [...]

The enacting of the law resulted to the formation of Canada Firearm Centre that was meant to foresee the implementation of the program.

With regard to whether an individual should have the right to own a gun, it is imperative that one knows that the right to bear arms is an individual and not a collective right.

This is the question that is likely to arise when one is analyzing social justice in the context of political developments in the society.

All the objects or property that someone possesses exist outside of the body and personality and so, is without a doubt private property, if that person is the one who has contributed efforts in the [...]

The struggle for civil governance has been the most challenging aspect in several governments across the globe with the urge for better governance becoming a hotly contested subject internationally. However, the overriding reason is; should [...]

One of the positive functions of a bureaucracy is that it reduces favoritism in job recruitments, promotions and payment of salaries to employees.

Another type of relationship between the state and the church manifests in modified theocracy where the church and state exist as separate entities but the state remains under the control of the church in all [...]

Immigration bias against the Hispanics has been witnessed in the State of North Carolina based on implementation of Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

It is hard to conclude on the right recommendation in a society that believes on the adage that "do the crime, do the time".

On balance, it is necessary to note that there is a link between the development of human rights and globalization. Of course, now globalization contributes to the development of human rights movement.

Either way the issue of guns is analyzed, it is clear that the higher the availability and permission to possess firearms, the more chances there are that someone will use weapons.

With the increasingly bad reputation of Guantanamo Bay both in the US and abroad, many critics have argued that the facility should be moved to the US with the belief that the laws of the [...]

With all the colonization that the European nations such as Germany, Portugal and Spain associated themselves with in the region, came the synchronization of their cultures.

Anthony Smith recognized five ways of using nationalism: the entire procedure of developing and preserving a nation; a source of sense of belonging and patriotism to the nation; symbolization to the nation; a political orientation [...]

The formation of this class, which controlled the wealth of the entire community, formed the basis of Marxism theory of the minority wealthy individuals at the expense of the majority poor people.

In the chapter on the world system and colonialism, Gezon and Kottak discuss a lot of associated questions, and it is necessary to pay attention to the parallels which are determined by the researchers in [...]

The executive is the organ of the government that has the authority and responsibility of executing the administrative functions of the state.

In the article, the author suggests that the former president is the winner in the recently concluded elections because his political students made it to power.

A good gun control law should be under the control of the federal or central government; therefore, ensuring its inclusion in the constitution.

As Spaniards continued expanding their territory in the Latin American countries, they influenced the natives' way of life leading to most of the Latin Americans abandoning their culture and adopting the Hispanic culture.

The need to practice politics effectively has led to the emergence of political science, which covers the study of governments, political systems and process, and political policies.

The significant challenge lies in the development of programs that meet the developmental needs of the youth. A third program in California involves improving the quality of education in the state.

The paper will start with the basics of Marx's theory in the book and relate them to its manifestations in Shaw's play.

In describing a leader's demonstration of his personal skills and knowledge for the attainment of the state's good, Machiavelli focuses the importance of statesmanship.

The process of transformation of a society from the traditional to the modern state through the Rostow's stages of economic development is as a result of influence of both internal dynamics and external forces.

Unfortunately, he notes that this form of revolution is conspicuously missing and thus the effectiveness of the revolutions undergoing in the present world are politically instigated.

In this respect, Downs mentions the philosophy of educational establishments, where "the function of the University is to seek and to transmit knowledge and to train student in the process whereby truth is to be [...]

Therefore, if at all the government of the United States is to prohibit the use of marijuana in the country, it should be ready to cater for the high costs that come in hand with [...]

Initially, the ideology was first introduced in Canada by the British intellectuals and as a result, it ended up dominating the ideals and major principles of the socialist parties in the country.

In the case of capitalism this comes in the form of the widening gap between the rich and the poor while in the case of communism this comes in the form of economic stagnation due [...]

The movement aimed at intertwining the Church, the State and the Party into a single entity, which, supposedly, could make the state stronger and eventually turn it invincible to the attacks of the enemies was [...]

The National government, also known as the Federal government is headed by the president of the United States and is composed of the Congress, the Executive and the Judiciary.

The privatization of the penal system in the United State of America is understood as the transfer of the control of prison and prison-related services from the public sector to the private sector.

The Elite and Class theory indicates that power in the government is possessed by a few prominent individuals who are considered to have all it takes to be at the helms of the government.