Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies‚ Vol.14 NO.1 (2000) Democracy under siege: the Presidency and executive powers in Botswana Mpho G. Molomo Democracy Research Project University of Botswana Abstract This article outlines that the Constitution of Botswana provides for an executive presidency with extensive powers. Unlike other constitutions in the region where power is vested with the people‚ in Botswana it is vested with the President. While democratic procedures have not been
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called a democracy when we still had millions of slaves. Our nation today is called a democracy when millions of citizens never exercise their right to vote‚ a few hundred party leaders select our national political candidates‚ and only those who have million-dollar treasuries can run for political office with a reasonable chance of winning. Latin American military dictatorships are called democracies. South Vietnam with a single candidate for president during the Vietnam War was called a democracy. The
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February -March- 2007 Panchayati Raj : Grassroots Democracy Siddhartha Dash Panchayati Raj : An Evolutionary Perspective India’s democratic structure has three levels of governance - national or federal‚ state or regional‚ and the grassroots level called the Panchayati Raj and Nagar Palika systems. The Panchayati Raj system covers the village‚ the tehsil and the district‚ and the Nagar Palika system serves towns and cities. If democracy means people’s participation in running their affairs
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TM Democracy index 2011 Democracy under stress A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit www.eiu.com Democracy Index 2011 Democracy under stress The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy 2011 Democracy under stress This is the fourth edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy index. It reflects the situation as of the beginning of December 2011. The first edition‚ published in The Economist’s The World in 2007‚ measured the state of democracy in September
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The British democratic parliamentary system of government (termed the Westminster system after the Palace of Westminster‚ the seat of the UK Parliament) is a series of procedures for operating a legislature. It is used‚ or was once used‚ in the national legislatures and subnational legislatures of most Common wealth and ex-Commonwealth nations‚ beginning with the Canadian provinces in 1867 and Australian colonies in 1901. Important features of the Westminster system include the following:
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Desktop Computers · Also called personal computers. · sit on‚beside‚or under a desktop. Notebook or Laptops · Similar to desktops · Advantages · Netbook · Similar to a notebook · For wireless communication or access to the internet Tablets · Looks similar to a notebook · Touch screens capability Servers · A computer dedicated to shaaring resources among 2 or more computers and managing large amounts of data. Hand-held or Mobile Computers · Any computing devices that fits in
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This thesis is a collection of three independent essays on the causes and consequences of local elections in non-democratic regimes. The first essay examines the political consequences of local elections on the first democratic election after the fall of an autocratic regime. My theoretical analysis highlights that officials that were appointed by upper levels of government have a stronger incentive to continue to use local patronage networks to signal their alignment to upper levels of government
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Trevor Murphy AP World History per. 5 Mr. Herbst April 12‚ 2012 DBQ Essay The effects of the Cuban Revolution on women’s lives and gender relations in Cuba from 1959 to 1990 include that some say women have not reached equality yet with men‚ women gained more opportunities for themselves‚ economy and politics‚ and also how women still had responsibility for children and home‚ not men. One effect of the Cuban Revolution on women was the thought that women still have not reached equality
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Compare and contrast monarchy‚ aristocracy‚ tyranny‚ oligarchy‚ and democracy as forms of government in Ancient Greek city-states Introduction Ancient Greek city-states had five forms of government; monarchy‚ aristocracy‚ tyranny‚ oligarchy‚ and democracy. This essay will give a brief comparison of these five forms of government. Monarchy The government where A single hereditary ruler‚ or in Spartans case double ruler holds all the government power in the country‚ empire‚ or kingdom. The Monarch
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Within the Jackson administration‚ Jacksonian Democracy impacted further advances in the political process by the “common man” and minorities‚ the economic stability of the nation‚ and created sectionalism. These impacts were caused by the end of white men voting restrictions‚ creation of the spoils system‚ vetoing of National Bank policies‚ distribution of currency to “pet banks‚” fairness of laws for states and enforcing Indian Removal. Jackson gave political power to the “common man” during
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