POL1004F: Introduction to Politics 02 April 2014 Word.Count:338 Authoritarian regimes hold power without accountability to the people they rule and lose power when they lose their legitimacy. The Apartheid government was able to remain in power for 50 years because it ensured that strong opposition was unable to grow against it and had the means to suppress it by force when necessary. When a society feels that its demands are being met‚ and that state action during crises is in its interest
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pledging to keep slavery out of the territories‚ seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation‚ the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small‚ squabbling countriesThe Civil War started because of uncompromising differences
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independent organized Government. A nation state is a state whose primary loyalty is to a cultural self-identity‚ which we call a nation or nationality‚ and is now the predominant form of state organization. Nation states possess sovereignty and legitimacy. The significance of the nation state is that‚ once consolidated around a particular nationality‚ it is a stable form of state organization. Event history analysis shows that a nation-state is more likely to emerge when a power shift allows nationalists
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entrepreneurship - Failure to incorporate scholarly advancements will place research in social entrepreneurship in a questionable state of legitimacy and academic merit. - Article claims that a unified definition of social entrepreneurship has yet to emerge - Article states that the lack of unified definition makes establishing the legitimacy of a field or construct difficult. Hinders empirical research seeking to examine the antecedents and consequences of social entrepreneurship and
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follows: political socialization; power‚ authority‚ legitimacy‚ and capacity; public opinion; media; political elites; political parties; elections; campaigns; presidential powers; among others. Each of these themes is presented and further elaborated with specific examples within the book. The themes complement the information presented in class by adding more specificity and depth. For example‚ in class‚ we briefly discussed power‚ authority‚ legitimacy‚ and capacity. In much the same way‚ the book showed
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continue to be used for elections in the House of Commons is because it usually produces a strong‚ single party majority government. This is seen as advantageous because legislation can be passed easily as governments that have been elected will have legitimacy and authority in implementing policies and legislation. Due to the winner’s bonus‚ the FPTP’s single plurality system usually produces a single party majority government who therefore do not need much support from other parties in order to pass
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What are the characteristics of authoritarian government? Answer: this is a form of government that doesn’t consider it’s people’s opinions and thoughts. they use force often and do not hold elections. there is usually one person or a smal group in charge of the government. Authoritarianism Most simply‚ authoritarianism denotes the absence of free elections and the presence of unconstrained power. In this form of non-democratic government‚ the power and authority wielded by the leader(s)
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İZMİR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS Theories of International Relations INSTRUCTER: Yrd. Doc. Dr. Balkan Devlen SUBJECT: Neo-Gramsci and the War in Afghanistan Sıla BOZ Tolga YELMEN Kamer AYDIN Aydın Ersin YILMAZ Introduction The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan has been seen as a ‘just war’ by the world opinion across the globe which represented a war targeting the terrorism and responsible terrorist organizations which are Taliban and Al-Qaida. In order to eliminate the ‘Islamic Terrorism’
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are vital for the performance of democracy as they provide the government with legitimacy‚ citizens with representation‚ competition and an involvement of citizens in politics. Elections however are not limited to only democracy but also play an important role in authoritarian regimes including China. Legitimacy Elections are essential to a democracy in that elections are able to provide the leading party with legitimacy to govern over the citizens as compared to opposing parties. There is a general
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before the French Revolution. The institution itself ranged in severity and reasoning. There was serfdom‚ which was a form of economic slavery. There was also the ‘traditional’ form of slavery in which the person was bought and sold as property. The legitimacy of stripping people of any rights they may have had‚ including any political rights and even the most basic ‘natural’ rights a person has‚ was highly contested during this age. One of the most prominent speakers calling for the abolishment of slavery
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