One member of the Socialist Party voted against the measure. ... A second vote will occur on June 30th to enact the measures. ... The only Socialist to oppose the measure was Panagiotis Kouroublis. ... The nation's unions also protested the measures by engaging in a 48-hour general strike. ... The measure will only allow for a little breathing room (Chu). ...
Although support in principle for these civil rights measures was not necessarily the same as support in practice, there was clearly a major shift in popular approval of at least the same principles of civil rights. ... Since the 1960's, congressional support for civil rights legislation has grown so much that labeling a bill a civil rights measure now almost guarantees its passage. ... This was evident as early as 1968, when Congress passed a law barring discrimination in housing even though polls showed that only 35% of the public supported the measure. ...
It will be an acceptance of bailout funds in exchange for Greeks agreeing to budget cuts and other austerity measures set forth by Greece three creditors- the IMF, ECB and European commission. ... This was a clear rejection of the austerity measures by Greece's international creditors. ...
Two initiatives will also appear on the ballots: Proposition 53- an amendment sponsored by the legislature that will dedicate part of the state budget to infrastructure and Proposition 54- a measure to ban government agencies from collecting racial data. ...
In an ideal world compulsory voting is not a finish line to political engagement, but rather a preparatory measure to the process of a more direct democracy. ... A mandatory vote merely forgets about the problem in doing this, 'it allows parliament to ignore more important measures that would do something to tackle the root causes of voter disengagement' (James, 2014)....
Before being able to discuss why Tocqueville thinks the dominant authority of the majority is such a dangerous threat to democratic liberty and prior to highlighting what he deems as preventive measures and conditions that might ensure the preservation of liberty in democracies, an attempt at compiling the meanings he gives to 'democracy' and 'liberty' and attention to how they are connected is necessary for the sake of an accurate use of the concepts in this particular context. ...
I do not believe there is today a substantial risk that Germany will become a powerful nationalistic dictatorship as it did in 1933. My reasons for this is that there are preventative apparatus built into the Federal Republic of Germany's government and that the German people today have more faith ...
He suggests that the quality of democracy is determined by how well a given political system performs against democratic measures such as women's representation, political equality, electoral participation, satisfaction with democracy, government-voter proximity, accountability and corruption and popular cabinet support. ... Becuase there is no objective way of measuring the quality of a democracy, a variety of different indicators have been suggested, such as by David and Morlino (2005), who argue that both procedural indicators, such as the rule of law, participation, competition and...
WW1 brought many meaningful changes to the home front. While the fighting of war went on Canada was changing fast and drastically. This war would help out women in Canada for years to come. The politics were changing, women's social roles were increasing and becoming better and economics was booming...
Democracy as a form of government has been viewed through the prism of western liberal ideological thought. This has resulted in the critics of Indian democracy emphasizing the unique limitations on its operation and considering it India's weakness rather than strength. However such critiques ignore...
The Gender Gap I believe that there is somewhat of a gender gap in areas of politics and public policy, but it is by no means the most prominent factor in determining the political agenda. Studies show that women regularly giving more support to Democratic candidates and causes than men do; it ...
In the modern Internet Era, information is free, quick and explosive. However, right now, journalism is suffering: cameras smashed; newspapers restricted; publishers closed; journalists punished, threaten, and even killed under order of the government. According to Mapping Digital Media Project's (2...
The Articles of Confederation failed to provide a substantial enough defense for the protection of states against the interest of foreign powers, and from the confliction of interests in and between states. This failure led to the conception of a national or federalized state. The question of how...
The right of voting is an honor which is granted to every citizen in the United States. Voting helps people to express their opinion about politics and they can be represented by their candidates who are the best and suitable for the country. The United Stated Constitution gives individuals the righ...
It "lacks an established, settled, known law, received and accepted by common consent as the standard of right and wrong and as the common measure to decide all controversies; it lacks a known and impartial judge, with authority to settle all differences according to the established law; and it lacks a power to back up and support a correct sentence, and to enforce it properly (Bennett 40). ...
France's governmental system history is one that has for the most part has been of an Absolute Monarchy, from the reigns of Louis the 14th to Louis the 16th. This Government order in France of an Absolute Monarchy was due to the increasingly large powers of a monarch over society including, the Nat...
Personal Insights and Learning We learned that further studies would: (1) use right sampling methods to have necessary number of respondents who would participate in the study; (2) conduct pre-test of their interview guide questions to measure the effectiveness of their data collection; (3) consider other forms of collecting data such as focus group discussion; (4) seek larger organizations or other area of study where oligarchy is evident; and (5) conduct the study when they could compare latest information of the Barangay data capture form with the collected data of the study. ...
The Greeks were very advanced for their time. Their first type of government was an oligarchy, which is ruled by a small group of citizens. After some time, they realized that they needed a new form of government. In the 5th century BCE, they were able to invent the first democratic government in th...
This was followed by a number of other totalitarian measures, for instance, Hisham Kandil's government drafted a protest law to limit the demonstrations and pacify the people's growing discontent, which clearly goes against the very idea of revolution and against any logic that a post-revolution regime should undertake. ...
In the United States, media, interest groups, political parties, federal and state courts, agency bureaucrats, advisers, the cabinet, congress, and the president, each play a significant part of creating policies. Although public policies are based on the law, these groups (not legislators), are cha...
Just before they wrapped up for their 5-week long summer recess, the House voted to continue the disaster relief to livestock producers suffering from increased feed prices following the nationwide drought. In a 223-197 vote, the lawmakers squeezed in the measure as one of the last actions before t...
Though The Hall of People in Berlin, the construction and expansion of roads and thoroughfares, and the implementation of state measures to control hygiene and traffic, militaristic planning of cities are evident of attempts for Haussmanesque transformations and plans of war, the Fascists in Germany, Italy, and Russia were unable to fully execute a complete concrete embodiment of their political system largely due to interruptions in construction during the Second World War. ...
