The ambiguity experienced by the peoples in developing Columbia and Venezuela regarding their citizenship as well as their place in society drew an even larger gap between the natives and the Spaniards. ... After the Haitians completed the only successful slave rebellion recorded in 1791 and gained independence in 1804, they bitterly sought to banish the white Frenchmen, revoke their land and rights, and restore an independent community on the island.   ... The biggest difference was their desire to have the Senate remain hereditary, and have one Republican Magistrate who was subject to th...

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Cunningham and Flew highlight a basic power struggle between people, the government and our media system which they recognize to have a "strong corporatist flavour" (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237). ... Cunningham and Flew appear to attempt to deal with this aspect in their article, drawing on Marxist elements stemming from the Enlightenment, such as their consideration of the impact of commercialisation on the production of Australian media, they do perhaps neglect to consider the selective demographic- that is upper-middle class, white educated male- of "non-commercial" media channels, whic...

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Much of the literature on political psychology presents compelling evidence in favor of the notion that people subscribe to either liberal or conservative political ideologies because they think or process information along different psychosocial dimensions. ... The theory claims that there is a "matching process that takes place whereby people adopt ideological belief systems that are most likely to satisfy their psychological needs and motives" (341). ... Therefore, what Jost et al. find is that "intolerance of ambiguity, by increasing cognitive and motivational tendencies to...

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