The Philippines under the Spanish colonial regime (Part I) Taxation Power of the state to impose and collect revenue for public purpose to promote the welfare of the people of a particular society 8 reales at first‚ then 10 reales in 1589‚ then 12 reales in 1851. Abolished in 1884 but replaced by a personal cedula tax based on the yearly income of the taxpayer. All citizens above 18 are required to pay the new tax. While the rational of taxation was premised on the support of public welfare
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they were both devious and ruthless leaders. Neither Hitler or Stalin believed in democracy but they still had very different beliefs. Stalin was a member of the Russian Communist Party. He thought that a country could only progress under this regime where everything belongs to everyone and there are supposedly no rich and no poor; everyone is equal. Hitler was fascist: he believed that all Jews‚ homosexuals‚ mentally ill and gypsies should be killed and only the Aryan race should live (white
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Life during the Nazi Regime Era had many stages. There were times when people felt safe and then chaos exploded in front of them. People could be living a life of luxury and the next day everything could be taken from them including their loved ones. One of the major steps the Nazi Regime did to organize their control and start the seclusion of the non-Aryan people were the use of the ghettos. One of the most famous ghettos was the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Warsaw was the capital of Poland and
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During the Old Regime‚ food riots were the common form of protest for peasants. George Rudé indicates that he regards 1709 as a "great" famine year‚ which caused hundreds of people to die of starvation from poor grain harvests. Bread prices during August of 1725 were higher than the maximum price in 1709. Per Barbier‚ who Rude quotes‚ this price may have been as high as 32 sous for a four-pound loaf. This angered the populace and forced the removal of the minister of finance‚ M. d’Ombreval‚ from
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The theme of this essay is: the importance of a study of other semi-developed countries as they struggle for economic growth‚ the elimination of mass poverty and‚ at the political level‚ for democratisation and the reduction of reliance on coercion. New countries are finding their voices in all sorts of ways and are managing to interest an international audience. South Africa is not least among them; contemporary international consciousness of the travail of our particular path towards modernity
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Bureaucratic-Authoritarian (BA) coined by Guillermo O’Donnell‚ in the mid-1970s to explain the nature of the authoritarian regimes that ruled the region from the 1960s to the 1980s. BA is normally ruled by a military junta instead of a caudillo that is military juntas rather than individual dictators. It is characterised by having people from bureaucratic careers in higher governmental positions‚ political and economic exclusion of the popular sector‚ depoliticalization and the increasing capacity
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Failed states refer to a state which have very weak or inefficient central government to rule its state. The characteristics of failed state are including failed in provide public service and welfare‚ loss control of its territory‚ corrosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions and inability to interact with other states as a full member of international community. In my opinion‚ the failed state could be represented by Somalia. In Somalia‚ the citizens aretoo wild coupled with absence
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Assess the role of the Tsar in the fall of the Tsarist Regime. In Russia‚ Tsarism had been the system of government since 1547‚ the country being ruled as an autocracy. For many years the Tsars had been powerful‚ strong and had the qualities needed to be a great leader‚ though in 1917‚ the Tsarist regime came to an end‚ with Nicholas Romanov II as the country’s current monarch. Tsar Nicholas played a great role in the fall of Tsarism; his incompetency and lack of leadership skills lead to downfall
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losers in the contemporary international trade regime and how do international institutions affect this distribution? This essay will provide an analysis on the nature and consequences of winning and losing in the global trading regime‚ not limited to the international distribution of gains and losses from trade‚ but also looking at domestic distribution of wealth as a consequence from e ngaging in the traditionally neo-liberal global trading regime. Such an analysis will be done through specific
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AND ITS PRIMARY OBJECTIVES REGARDING ITS ADMINISTRATIVE RELEVANCE.] CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEFINITION: Public Administration is a multi-dimensional discipline‚ defined by different authors and scholars‚ according to their understanding. It is viewed by each author in relation to his political environment. It is pertinent to know what public administration is before viewing it’s characteristics… According to Woodrow Wilson; Public Administration is the most obvious part
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