What makes this agency legitimate? What is the legitimacy based on? If based on authority or a need for the services this agency provides how does that relate to representativeness (demographics‚ ideology‚ and concerns; social contract & public expectations)‚ responsibility (ownership of actions‚ failures and successes)‚ accountability (answering to whom‚ top-down & bottom-up)‚ politics/administration (is there a political bias‚ does it prevent legitimacy)‚ and effectiveness/efficiency (is the agency
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Argentina could not practice democracy for more than nine years before becoming susceptible to a military coup. Why did Argentina democratize in 1983? Argentina became a democracy through the exogenous theory of democratization. The military lost its legitimacy in the face of the public because of the Falklands War and the Dirty War and was no longer able to bring down civilian rule‚ like it had done in the past with the other democracy attempts in 1946 and 1973. Argentines were able to foster strong political
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After scrutinizing the 2000 Presidential Election of Al Gore vs. George W. Bush in the movie Recount focusing on the issues of votes in the state of Florida‚ I believe that the election was not legitimate. While trying to find evidence to support them in court‚ Al Gore’s team found that there was a “voter purge list” (1) where the Governor of Florida told Secretary of State for Florida Katherine Harris that if there are people with similar names to felons to put them on that list that does not allow
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In a fit of patriotic zeal‚ American folk musician Woody Guthrie famously scrawled the words “this machine kills fascists” onto his acoustic guitar. It marked the beginning of an era where American rock & roll music would infiltrate politics and alter political realities both at home and abroad. Guthrie’s “machine” was a synecdoche for music‚ specifically‚ music’s ability to topple authoritarianism and rattle the political landscape. The epitaph foretold that sometimes a guitar‚ more than even armaments
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First‚ I will outline the argument that states it is legitimate to keep the term. Secondly‚ the side arguing its legality will be stated. Third‚ I will critique the side that supports its legitimacy in the pledge. Finally‚ I will argue that it is unlawful to reference God in our pledge of allegiance. II. The legitimacy of referencing religion in the pledge of allegiance is argued for in three arguments. They are as follows: it’s civil religion‚ reflects Godly rights‚ and is not coerced. Civil religion
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said that he must have been ‘seduced by his vanity’ to have agreed with such an arrangement. England was the country of liberalism‚ so it was nothing new that in 1817 in the Black Dwarf you could read complains of the legitimacy‚ which went awry for the public opinion. (tzn ta legitimacy nie była po myśli) First of all‚ the most reasons for complaining had the France. The Bourbon monarch was restore‚ Napoleon was unduly punished and exiled‚ and also they blamed the Vienna Settlement for the next revolutions
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Referendums should be used more widely in the UK‚ Discuss. A referendum is a general vote by the electorate on a single political question‚ which has been referred to them for a direct decision. In the UK since 1975 there have been seven major referendums. The last being the Scottish independence that was only a few weeks ago on the 18th September. The result was a ‘NO’ to independence winning by 55% to 45%‚ with a turnout of 84.6%. To see if referendums should be used more widely in the UK the
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not see it as something that should rightly apply to them. Whites’ concerns about enslavement by Britain escalated dramatically between 1765 and 1776‚ as the mother country resorted to increasingly desperate measures to control the colonies. Legitimacy of white colonial view: The opposite meanings of liberty and slavery were utterly clear to white Americans‚ but they did not use the term “slavery” in a very precise way‚ and they stopped short of applying similar logic to the half million black
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Africa‚ such as Somalia‚ Rwanda‚ Congo (DRC) and other places are suffering more appalling genocide. Strong selective intervention of the subject by the Western world undermines its moral legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and exacerbates some Third World countries’s questions and anxiety. Double standards in the choice of humanitarian intervention subjects erodes the fragile consensus of the international community and enable the practitioners
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This is also the epideictic discourse. Through the epideictic discourse‚ he attempted to enhance the legitimacy of the following governmental policy against the Soviet Union and to increase the interest of the audience because the epideictic discourse can improve the quality of the speech. In the middle of the speech‚ Kennedy (1962) announced the seven steps
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