The European Union (so called since the treaty of Maastricht of 1992) is a political and economic unity including nowadays 28 members. It was previously known under the name of European Coal and Steel Community and started a partnership of six countries during the post World War II to prevent an another rise of national socialism and to enable economic cooperation. In 1957‚ it became the European Economic Community with the treaty of Rome and its main purpose has been to create a barrier-free
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essay will seek to explain UK’s Parliament today does‚ to a certain degree‚ lack democratic accountability‚ and this can be shown in dominance of the (i) Executive‚ (ii) Unrepresentative‚ and its (iii) Detachment from citizens. Democratic Accountability One of the core functions of a constitution is to ensure the accountable and responsible exercise of power by those entrusted with it‚ and that they are called to account when they are not. Through elections‚ Parliament is elected through a public
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Before evaluating whether or not Parliament is sovereign‚ it’s important to define what sovereignty means. Sovereignty can be split into two; political and legal. Legal sovereignty is the ultimate power to make laws which will be enforced within the state. Members of Parliament and the Prime Minister have ultimate legal power because they propose and enforce legislation. Citizens have no legal sovereignty because they don’t play a role in the legislative function even though pressure group activity
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Voting Behavior Long term factors that may influence voting behavior over a long period of time include: Social class Gender Age Religion Ethnicity Social Class “Class is the basis of British party politics: all else is embellishment and detail” (Pulzer) Social class is one of the fundamental divisions that define post war British electoral politics. Some would suggest that the social class of a person might explain their voting behavior. Social groups will vote for political
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INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2009-2010 175ISS FACULTY OF BUSINESS‚ ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY MODULE LEADER: DR SIMON MASSEY COURSEWORK 2: QUESTION 2: In the context of the idea of “Nationalism”‚ what are the differences between the Scottish National Party and the British National Party? BODY OF WORK Being today a central issue of the modern world‚ Nationalism‚ a term from nasci which means “to be born”‚ has most of the time been considered as a 19th century phenomenon‚ connected
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Hristina RUNCHEVA PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE BINDING EU CHARTER Introduction G he concept of fundamental rights protection according to the modern political thought is considered as setting boundaries to the political power. The establishment of the European Union as a sui generis creation that goes beyond the boundaries of the traditional concept of the nation-state has created a new challenge: how to protect the fundamental rights in a community
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PESTLE Analysis Politics The political power is extremely centralized in the government and it is a bureaucratic country. Although the elections are being held often‚ the offices are mostly assigned instead of elected. The government put efforts in communicating the decisions and policies to the public instead of gathering their opinion. The reason of that is after the "Depoliticize" the power structure in 1965‚ the government is convinced by a concept that a city state without natural resources
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I will try to give my opinion using some examples drawn from our culture‚ starting from the highest level of it. In order to solve the crisis‚ the institutions at the European Union are trying to find new solutions. If we think of the European Parliament‚ in charge of the legislation‚ in cooperation with the Council‚ and how decisions are made in it –simple majority- we can observe how minorities are not being taken into account. In addition‚ seats are distributed depending on the size of the population
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by: Shakir Jahangir Tim Schouls in his essay‚ “Why Group Representation in Parliament Is Important‚” argues that the parliamentary representation in Canada is unfair because it doesn’t represent Canada’s social diversity as a whole. He believes that democracy in Canada can be considerably deepened and enhanced when the composition of the House of Commons substantially reflects the social diversity of Canada (for example‚ Aboriginals‚ ethnic minorities‚ visible minorities‚ gays etc.) instead
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a) Distinguish clearly between Old Labour and New Labour (5) "New Labour" was first termed as an alternative branding for the Labour Party‚ dating from a conference slogan first used by the Labour Party in 1994‚ which was later seen in a draft manifesto published by the party in 1996‚ called New Labour‚ New Life For Britain. It is also the turning point of Old Labour changed to New Labour with a symbolic of new aims/value of the Labour party which called New Clause 4‚ published at the 1994. The
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