Essay Question 1: How has the Arab Spring fundamentally changed Middle Eastern society and the evolution of future politics in the region? ... In an article written in the Huffington post, Alon Ben-Meir stated "Indeed, instead of producing the desired outcome of a free and vibrant new social and political order, rapid political reforms without economic development could usher in a period of continued instability " (2013). ...

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Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... This essay will compare and contrast two post-communist countries, focusing on Poland, who has had a fairly successful' transition to democracy, and Romania, who shows clear signs of a complicated and uncertain transition towards democracy. ... Huntington, democracy has five different elements of criteria, firstly, in terms of elections, Huntington believes elections, open, free and far are the essence of democracy, the inescapable sine qua non (the third wav...

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Pluralist interest group system with free-for-all competition among groups vs coordinated and 'corporatist' interest group systems aimed at compromise and concertation On the federal-unitary level the distinctions include: 1. ... In this essay I assess both countries against each of the four indicators and conclude that consensus democracies perform better as they are more representative, supported by the fact that the Netherlands performs better than the UK on all the indicators. ... Literature Review This essay contributes to research on the quality of democracy, in particular on...

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The over-empowerment of this position can be seen in several examples, which I will describe in the following essay, along with examinations of the institutions that are responsible for this concentration of authority within the federal government. ... The only Senate left in the free world that resembles Canada's is Britain's House of Lords, which is itself under serious review. ...

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Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DEMOCRATIC PEACE THEORY 2 3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS 4 3.1 HOW TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY 4 3.2 SECURITY INTERESTS IN SEEING DEMOCRATIZATION SPREAD 5 3.3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROGRAMS 6 4 REASONS FOR NOT SPREADING DEMOCRACY 8 4.1 INTRODUCTION 8 4.2 POLITICAL ASPECTS 8 4.3 E...

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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ...

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