Comparative Politics and Disasters: Assessing Substantive and Methodological Contributions David A. McEntire and Sarah Mathis Emergency Administration and Planning Department of Public Administration University of North Texas P.O. Box 310617 Denton‚ Tx 76203-0617 Abstract The following chapter illustrates how the discipline of comparative politics may help increase our understanding of disasters in other countries as well as promote more effective emergency management institutions
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is generally known as the feeling of love and devoted to the country. Having and willing to do anything for the sake of the betterment of the country. Quoting Enizahura Abdul Aziz‚ a senior research officer from the centre of shariah‚ law and politics from IKIM‚ patriotism also implies feelings of solidarity and mutual responsibility among people of different ethnicities and religious backgrounds. Because of our various backgrounds‚ Malaysia needs to find commonalities due to the differences that
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was magnified in by the entertainment business‚ especially in Hollywood. With the ex-action movie star‚ Arnold Schwarzenegger‚ in his current elected position‚ the effectiveness of masculine traits has been solidified as successful strategic campaigning. The effectiveness of using certain masculine traits in campaign could be increasing or decreasing with the current issues that face America especially since the country is involved in two wars. By using these gender selective attributes‚ it could give
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Student Politics in Bangladesh The participation of students in politics is concerned it has been a topic of great disagreement amongst the scholars. The question is whether the students are allowed to take part in politics or not. There are different kinds of opinions. Some people say that the students under no circumstances are permitted to engage in political activities and so ruin their academic career. While others are of the opinion that the students must take active part in the politics so that
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issue of whether sport and politics mix‚ but how they mix. Discuss this statement with reference to one example from List A and one example from List B. This essay is going to discuss the presence of both the ideologies of fascism and racism in sport‚ and their impact on the idea of sport and politics mixing. This will be done using various other works and critiques on these subjects. Primarily the essay will identify the relationship between sport and politics with a reflection on the notion
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Asia‚ and has been inhabited by settlers for many millennia‚ even before Aryan tribes from the northwest infiltrated the Indian subcontinent around 1500 B.C. . Throughout this enormous time period‚ many changes have occurred in their way of life‚ with the roots of discrimination against women lie in the religious and cultural practices of India . Additionally‚ the status of Indian women has varied back and forth for that time period as well‚ depending on the time period and the religion that said woman
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Criminalisation of politics has become an issue of grave concern among the Indian intelligentsia. And though the top leaders of all political parties agree that those with criminal record should be debarred from contesting elections‚ the number of such people is only increasing. In 2004‚ about one in five MPs had a criminal record‚ including some with charges of heinous crimes such as murder‚ rape‚ dacoity and kidnapping. Why does it happen? The most important factor‚ which determines
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Reviewing current art‚ both locally and globally‚ it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content. One reason for this focus is that technological advances encourage snatching digitized fragments from reality that document the persistent global nightmare of human inhumanity. This process thus duplicates in art the same nightmare we see every day on TV or the Internet. Very little of this work‚ whose apology is that it is “consciousness raising‚” amounts to more than superficial
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CHAPTER 31 OCEAN CURRENTS TYPES AND CAUSES OF CURRENTS 3100. Definitions The movement of ocean water is one of the two principal sources of discrepancy between dead reckoned and actual positions of vessels. Water in motion is called a current; the direction toward which it moves is called set‚ and its speed is called drift. Modern shipping speeds have lessened the impact of currents on a typical voyage‚ and since electronic navigation allows continuous adjustment of course‚ there is less need to
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"The Politics of Muscle" by Gloria Steinem is an essay arguing the difference in strength between men and women. Steinem starts her essay by stating how she grew up in a generation where women didn’t participate in a lot‚ if any‚ sport activities. She goes on to say that she believes this is the reason why women of her generation believe that it’s not what the female body does‚ but how it looks. Steinem feels that women always seemed to be owned in some degree as the means of reproduction. She believes
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