Arguably this has given rise to the loss of political identity and ideology causing parties to become so called 'Election winning machines." ... The period of Blairism from 1997-2000 in many ways forced the Conservative Party to reform in a similar way to Labour in the 1980s. ... These two periods of reform the parties directed policy towards the middle ground and, in terms of ideology, represented a lack of clear blue water between the parties. ... The rise of consensus politics has also been equally detrimental to political ideology. ... Cameron and the Tories suggested that measured...

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Reformers attacked corruption in municipal government and formed nonpartisan leagues to defeat the well-established bosses and their political machines. ... The Reformers turned to state politics, where progressivism reached its fullest expression. In state after state, progressives advocated a wide range of political, economic, and social reforms. ... However, its legacy endured in the political reforms that it achieved and the acceptance that it won for the principle of government regulation of business. ... Problems differed from section to section In South, racial politics, in East...

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The "Kingfish," as he was also called, began his rise to the political forefront in 1918 when he was elected to Louisiana's Railroad Commission. ... Over the course of his political career, Huey Long began creating a political machine in Louisiana similar to the one that Obama implemented in Chicago many years later. ... Long's political career was shrouded in corruption, and there have been allegations of similar underhandedness within the Obama administration as well. ... Unlike so many of Long's plans that were overshadowed by FDR's New Deal programs, Obama has been ab...

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Industrialization is the process of developing machine production of goods, which required natural resources. ... Inventors worked and developed a series of machines that transformed the industrialization time period. ... He kept military and reform. he allowed religious toleration and reform he invade Austria in 1740 this led to the war of Austrian succession. ... "(EIRH) Germany did not exist as a political unit until the latter part of the nineteenth century but around 1835 regions began to unify. ... Now luxury purchases collapsed, leading to severe unemployment and, again, a crucial ...

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The muckrakers' influence in society reached its peak between 1904 and 1908, when the exposes on patent-medicine fraud, meat processing, insurance swindles, monopolies, political corruption, and racial violence led to criminal indictments and reform legislation. ... Political bosses and machines paid off big businesses to keep them in power and used processes like padding bills and submitting false receipts. Political machines worked through exchanges of favors that only a muckraker could find out. ... Ida Tarbell worked to expose big business and political scandal. ... Without muckraking...

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Confucianism eclipsed by Western steamships and trains, yet these machines covered by cold layers of iron cannot completely fuel our nation's drive towards a better end. We should indeed take the cream and reject the dross of both traditional Confucian values and Western ideals to reshape China's politics and culture. ... Whereas in Confucianism, the teachings are based on ethical norms, individuals possess "neither personal individuality nor personal property".1 Moreover, led by Hu Shi, literary reforms drastically changed the old way of writing, the classical Confucian l...

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This amendment not only was amazingly controversial but was also a major contributor in sparking reform in the United States. ... As this was debated, alternatives to the customary plantation production process needed to be reformed, making way for the industrial revolution. ... With black citizens being allowed to vote, the government had to consider this growing minority while proposing legislation or running as a candidate for any political party. ... This change in production and agriculture lead to the biggest American reform to date. ... New machines had to be purchased and man...

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Revolutions are and will always be a turning point in history, whether it was the French Revolution, a political overthrow, or the Industrial Revolution, a new way of living. ... Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state. ... The people were slowly getting what they had fought for so the government reforms kept the people at bay. ... The achievements such as the Government reforms and the modern innovations, weren't worth the costs that society had to endure. The positive...

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Most modern socialists are willing to accept democratic political processes and constitutional guarantees. ... Capitalists put up investment money, bought machines, hired laborers obtained raw materials, recruited managers and often lost fortunes as they sought success. ... Industrialization, a process by which human beings create machines to automatically perform productive work, was and is the most far-reaching change in human history. ... For the parts of the world that experienced this transformation, nothing in society, politics or ideology, would ever be the same. ... The wealth and ...

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The New Deal was a political and social plan that was the presidential campaign platform of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ... With a democratic majority in Congress on his side, Roosevelt churned out legislation rapidly from the generally sluggish machine of Congress. ... The Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act was later passed in order to form the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, insurance to civilians for their banking deposits up to $5,000, which was later raised. ... All of these bills were part of Roosevelt's complicated, experimental, and radical plan, supported by his "three R...

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He was to attempt to reform Russia entirely, down to the most basic cultural ideas, during his drive for the Europeanisation of his country. ... Indeed he would listen to anyone who could advise him on industry, military or otherwise and quickly established a store of information and contacts, which would avail him in his reform of Russia. ... At first glance bad timing and a poor understanding of European politics appears to have frustrated Peter in this direction. ... Despite the speed and determination with which this war machine swung into action, and despite huge increases in recruitment ...

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Throughout history, religion has had a crucial part to play in world politics. A predominantly Muslim country like Pakistan owes a lot of its political identity to the religion of Islam. In this essay "The Role of Islam in Pakistani Politics", I will begin with distinguishing between the two schools of thought which are at the forefront of Pakistani politics. ... He also brought reforms to the Muslim family law ordinance. ... Since Islam emphasizes greatly and revolves around the structure of family, the religious traditionalists were against the imposition of the reformed Family and Marria...

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This recent shift in affirmative action appears to be the result of one simple thing: politics. ... Dole proposed legislation to ban preferential treatment in federal programs and the Clinton Administration was considering reform to affirmative action by supporting a reformed version that complies with the 1995 ruling by the Supreme Court. ... The reform never occurred and the trend/ influences has impressions our political leaders away from abolishing affirmative action to the extent of empowering more benefit toward affirmative action as shown by the recent ruling of the Supreme Court with...

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Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. ... With the new voters introduced into the population there needed to be a catchy way for candidates running for presidency to take advantage of receiving as many votes as they could, this is where the political parties came in, where earlier in the previous era there was no static political group. Political parties are groups that seek the elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label by which they are known to the electorate. ... Interest groups ...

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Nonetheless, several economical, political and social factors support Macmillan's statement. ... There was a surge in ownership of consumer goods – televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and new furniture. ... In 1956, Eden made a detrimental decision to launch military action against the new nationalist leader of Egypt along with France and Israel., whichThey failed to overthrow Nassar and secure control of the Suez , Canal and, subsequently, this ruined his Eden's political career. ... How far do social policies and reforms agree with the statement 'thirteen waste...

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There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ...

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South Africa's economic performance in the 1980s and the early 1990s was severely hampered by a poor political environment and the deteriorating terms of trade. ... The second principal factor to hasten economic decline in the 1980s was the political environment. Four decades of apartheid racial policies had heightened conflict between the white government and the disenfranchised majority, as well as between business and labour, as avenues for political expression were sought. ... By 1986 most countries had imposed trade and financial sanctions as a result of the slow rate of genuine po...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive an...

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Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial...

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Have any of the American media's real problems "increasing corporate concentration, diminishing public service, and the narrowing spectrum of political discussion "attracted a fraction of the attention devoted to this tedious grievance? ... For decades, nobody with the slightest interest in politics has been able to avoid the right's ranting about "liberal bias."" ... The mainstream newspapers that sit atop Coulter's fictional leftist "propaganda machine- all treated Slander quite gently. ... Cohen deftly dismisses her manufaturing of sham outrage for personal gain and...

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