They were not only intimidated by the machine but also by the police. ... Even after an announcement by John Weaver that said he would keep police and politics away from the polls allowing citizens to vote without fear many Philadelphians did not try to vote. They are too used to having their choices made for them, "they leave everything to the machine and the machine casts their ballots for them" (Steffens 141). ... Steffens shows that the machine's territories are politics and the voting polls. ... So it seems there really is no use in the Philadelphians voting since the machine wil...

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As shown in the elements of politics, the economic development, and many others, the period lived up to its characterization a great deal. Through the element of politics, it was shown that the common man was on the rise. ... With all these new ideas placed into the minds of the people, they began to band together as if to say, "We matter in the world of politics!" ... His horse-drawn machine did the same to the western farmers as the cotton gin, created by Eli Wittney, did for the southern planters. There were many other machines that sped up work for all kinds of things, many of these mac...

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The destruction didn't end there however as the pre-war political system also was destroyed. Thus the post war Europe saw differing political beliefs fighting for control. ... This was due to a number of factors including the post-war economic stagnation, a political polarization and the threat of Communism. ... Coupled with an economic and political stability democracy is well rooted in our country. ... In Italy Mussolini created highly organized political machine 'fascio di Combattimento'. ...

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In this day and age, the world wouldn't go accordingly if it weren't for politics and government. ... Marxism is the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Karl Marx. ... Fascism is the political philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group, and the supreme authority of the leader over that of the individual. ... No state machine used by one section of the population to oppress another section. ... It is the only form of government in which the people get to decide on political leaders based on their votes. ...

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The Populist movement paved the way for the United States and set the tone for the political fervor that would help the Progressives with their issues. ... Instead of this movement being personal like the Populist, this movement focused on "political activism". Middleclass men and women sought to start one of the major movements in social and political reform. ... Democratization focused on the political arena. ... They were successful in "passing two important reforms to break the power of the political machines: the direct primary and at large voting". ...

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Free enterprise and individualist democracy is a good political system. ... A military dictatorship is purely a bureaucratic institution, reinforced by the military machine and based upon the disorientation of the people and their submission to it. ... The plan or strategy of fascist regime can be outlined as follows: triumph of a leader (one or few people raise up and concentrate power), then it looms, and progresses, spreads over the masses and overwhelms control; it directs, supervises and eliminates any objections in military machine and removes potential rebelling issues from crowds. ...

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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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While previous political transitions had seen similar circumstances, the actual events in question had generally occurred individually. ... In regards to the political aspects of unification, it effectively left a Germany with no national or ethnic minorities, as well as having undisputed boundaries. ... The conflict between West Germany's goals of national unity and international integration remained the main issue in the country's politics for many years. ... It was impossible to draw the conclusion that both would die out and be replaced by a new political id...

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Babbage believed that information could be manipulated by a machine if it was first converted into numbers. ... Former obstacles to political participation are no longer an issue, as we have the ability to circumvent the issues of transportation, reliable and effective resources for research and the barrier of physical accessibility of the polling station. ...

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This is surely one of the most important questions to ponder in macro-political theory. ... Rival beliefs about society and civility are typically embodied in various ways of life and in different political systems. ... That power and authority are usually thought of as political, they often take the form of an idea of popular sovereignty with the people as the ultimate political authority. But it need not be exclusively political. Tocqueville's well-known study of Democracy in America primarily focuses on American society, not its governmental or political system. ...

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