political economy‚ branch of social science that studies the relationships between individuals and society and between markets and the state‚ using a diverse set of tools and methods drawn largely from economics‚ political science‚ and sociology. The term political economy is derived from the Greek polis‚ meaning “city” or “state‚” and oikonomos‚ meaning “one who manages a household or estate.” Political economy thus can be understood as the study of how a country—the public’s household—is managed
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Political Behavior Introduction Every nation exhibits different political behavior. Political behavior depends on the political system adopted by the state and it is through this system that citizens develop political culture and political socialization. Some governments dictate the political culture and socialization of their citizens so that programs and political ideologies can be implemented and structured properly with total support from the people. These types of government usually resort
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Politically Insured Political risk insurance (PRI) is business insurance that reimburses losses caused by social or political disruption in a country. It is also a product that can serve as a loss control or mitigation tool in order to encourage investment in a project. As such a tool‚ even small companies may be required to insure overseas investment with some form of PRI. Political risk insurance is a type of insurance that can be taken out by businesses‚ of any size‚ against political risk—the risk
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fo .in rs de ea yr AI Course Lecture 1- 6‚ notes‚ slides www.myreaders.info/ ‚ RC Chakraborty‚ e-mail rcchak@gmail.com ‚ June 01‚ 2010 www.myreaders.info/html/artificial_intelligence.html ab or ty ‚w w w .m Artificial Intelligence - Introduction : R C C ha kr www.myreaders.info Return to Website Introduction Artificial Intelligence Introduction to Artificial Intelligence‚ topics : Definitions‚ goals‚ approaches‚ techniques‚ and
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Political correctness is running rampant‚ and it is absolutely destroying this nation. In his novel1984‚ George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted. He called that the language that the totalitarian state in his novel created “Newspeak”‚ and it bears a striking resemblance to the political correctness that we see in America right now. According to Wikipedia‚ Newspeak is “a reduced language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit free thought‚ and concepts
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thought and action about politics and encouraged people to give opinions‚ critics and suggestions as well as participate in politics. Therefore‚ the social media is one of the primary mechanism in the political scene and capable of making political issues. However‚ it gives a negative aspects on political issues in which people may give wrong information and it also enjoys a positive function by spreading information across society quickly and enjoys freedom of speech. The development of new technology
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A political system is an aspect of the social system‚ and political activity and study is a special category of social activity and study. The boundary of politics is often not clear‚ so that‚ for example‚ actions of trades union leaders may sometimes be induded in politics and sometimes not. The same is true of activities in areas more often thought of as economic‚ cultural and so on. For the purpose of analysis‚ the political system may be separated from economic and other systems but in practice
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Patrycja Szewczyk‚ T3.2 "The personal is political" Should the state have the power to decide whether or not woman can have an abortion. Abortion is a controversial issue and always induces very emotional reaction. In many countries it is illegal and banned. People try to soothe their remorse and avoid literally speaking that abortion is killing unborn‚ defenceless human being. Should state interfere with termination of pregnancy or
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Political Advertising: What Effect on Commercial Advertisers?* Shanto Iyengar and Markus Prior Department of Communication‚ Stanford University June‚ 1999 This research was supported by grants from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation and the University of California‚ Los Angeles. Introduction Commercial advertising has always been a central feature of filipino culture. As encountered in the mass media‚ it is pervasive and inescapable
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What is Political Advertising? Advertising whose central focus is the marketing of ideas‚ attitudes‚ and concerns about public issues‚ including political concepts and political candidates. The essential task of political advertising is to gain the confidence of the people for their acceptance of ideas and‚ in the case of political campaign advertising‚ to influence their vote. Political advertising differs from commercial advertising in that the product is either a person or a philosophy rather
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