INTRODUCTION The Philippines is indeed a country that was blessed with a very rich biodiversity. It is one of the 17 countries in the world that are the richest in biodiversity. More than 52‚177 species have been identified‚ half of them are found nowhere else in the world. But‚ according to the biodiversity conservation priorities of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)‚ ‘the Philippines is one of the few countries in the world that is both a mega-diversity country and a biodiversity
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Lopez-Meza 10 Verenice Lopez-Meza PLSI Secretary of Municipal Public Security of Tijuana‚ B.C Mexico has lived through important challenges on maintaining the public security since the last decades of our time. The threats and violent actions of organized crime has oppressed and taken away the rights of individuals and forced people to live in fear. When Tijuana‚ Baja California was in a time of high violence and crime during 2006 and 2010‚ the police revealed its innumerous weakness
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“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That’s a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in.” ― Robert Conquest[->0] According to the historian Robert Conquest‚ Joseph Stalin "gives the impression of a large and crude claylike figure‚ a golem‚ into which a demonic spark has been instilled." He was nonetheless "a man who perhaps more than any other determined the course of the twentieth century." "Any adult
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The Kronstdat rebellion holds tremendous significance in the shaping of Russia‚ it was the first attempt by the people to achieve a social revolution for themselves as Voline states "the first entirely independent attempt of the people to liberate itself from all yokes and achieve the Social Revolution‚ an attempt made directly‚ resolutely‚ and boldly by the working masses themselves without political shepherds‚ without leaders or tutors."(1)‚ furthermore the the rebellion also highlighted the failure
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1. Contrast Durkheim’s theory of the division of labour with that of Marx Both Marx and Durkheim dealt with the issue of division of labour. However‚ their approaches to the issue differ. Marx considers that division of labour tends to bring about more output. Durkheim on the other hand considers that there is a greater function in the division of labour than just improvement of productivity. For him‚ division of labour has a social function‚ that of creating the sense of solidarity among persons
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Religion and Political Choices Religion is a part of our lives and most of the decisions people make are based on their religion. Beside all personal decisions‚ religion has already become one of the factors for voter’s political choices. Many countries don’t have this problem because only one religion exists in there while in major countries‚ especially in the United States of America citizens have different religion and political parties and their nominees might be related to different religions
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India is the world’s most populous democracy.[143] A parliamentary republic with a multi-party system‚[144] it has sixrecognised national parties‚ including the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)‚ and more than 40regional parties.[145] The Congress is considered centre-left or "liberal" in Indian political culture‚ and the BJP centre-right or "conservative". For most of the period between 1950—when India first became a republic—and the late 1980s‚ the Congress held a majority
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R THE VALUE OF THE DICHOTOMY: POLITICS‚ ADMINISTRATION‚ AND THE POLITICAL NEUTRALITY OF ADMINISTRATORS Patrick Overeem Leiden University ABSTRACT Post-war students of public administration have widely rejected the politics-administration dichotomy‚ but‚ paradoxically‚ they have‚ as a rule‚ not abandoned the historically and conceptually closely related value of political neutrality of administrators. Rather‚ they reconceptualized the classical politics-administration dichotomy as a policyadministration
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The state as the basic unit -The state: a set of governing institutions with control over defined territory and population -State is often but not always associated with certain national or ethnic group: the nation-state Sovereign state system The spread of the system Displacing other kinds of political government structures‚ from local and community governance to empires and colonies in 1945‚ 51 members states of the united nations in 2013 193 UN member states Sovereignty as the norm:
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INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS This piece consists heavily of quotations from and adaptations of material from several sources (see references at the end). There still may be some unreferenced quotations because I have lost track of their genesis over many years of moving content through various notes. I don’t claim originality‚ other than the choice and organizing of material - Rex Mitchell. Pfeffer (1992‚ p.30) defined politics as “the processes‚ the actions‚ the behaviors through which
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