Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... Moreover, the relations to Hungary, which, after the introduction in 2001 of the so-called "Status-Act- regarding Hungarians living abroad, wer...

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The implications of this movement have resulted in a global impact that crosses borders, oceans and continents, significantly affecting the social, political, and economic status of each country involved. ... Some characteristics of this revolutionary movement are the key role of social media, difference of results in monarchies and dictatorial political setups, and the containment of the dissent to the Muslim world. ... But what the Arab Spring hasn't done "at least not so far" is to bring about positive changes in the economies and social development in the nations whose politics i...

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The change of Chinese politics is associated with many factors; such as the ever changing culture, social media, western influence, and high levels of specialization faced throughout the latter half of the 20th century. ... During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many policies favoring socialist and communist policies, such as: Cultural Revolution and the Five-Year Plan, in which the government tried to equalize the social classes and unite the country as one under the banner of equality and contempt against the west. ... Differing living standards and social class discrepancy, give to ...

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Plato then came with the second best form of government which is timocracy, this is the form of government ruled by warriors in which all the political decisions aim to bring military power and status. ... However, Plato can be criticized for his above argument because democracy gives people to equally participate in political affairs since it promotes universal suffrage which will make them able to chose someone they trust and surrender some of their rights to him or her as stipulated by the social contract theory by an ancient philosopher Locke. ...

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Although a political transformation to a westernized style of democracy may never be fully accomplishable because of the differing culture and social norms, Iraqi citizens still must strive for their government to conquer these difficulties. ...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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Part I: Provide a history of the formation of the constitution and of early American government through Jefferson's Presidency. Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. The history of American government starts several year before there was even an American government with a series of events mainly between the British colonies and Great Britain developing into problems that would cause a change of power to the colonists themselves. Under British rule colonists were required to feed and quarter British so...

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Lijphart highlights ten differences between consensus and majoritarian democracies, five of which identify with the executives-parties dimension and the other five with the federal-unitary dimension. The differences on the executives-parties dimension are given below with the majoritarian characteristic listed first in each case: 1. Concentration of executive power in one party vs executive power shared in multiparty coalitions 2. Executive more dominant vs executive-legislative balance of power 3. Two-party system vs multiparty system 4. ...

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