THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES GOVT 1001 - INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS II COURSE OUTLINE SEMESTER 2 2012/2013 Lecturer : Dr. Hamid Ghany Contact : 1-868-662-2002 Ext. No. 82403 Email Address : hamid.ghany@sta.uwi.edu Room Number : Faculty of Social Sciences Office Office Hours : Monday 4pm – 6pm Wednesday 3pm-5pm Lecturer : Mr. Maukesh Basdeo Contact : 1-868-662-2002 Ext. No. 83850 Email Address :
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What is distinctive about the relationship between religion and politics in the modern period? “I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the Business of Civil government from that of religion.” As John Locke makes evident in his Letter Concerning Toleration‚ it is most important and fundamentally essential to define the limits of both religion and politics – their proper places in civil society. Only with government-sponsored toleration is religion allowed to prosper in
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SWIFT HAS SOMETIMES BEEN seen as a champion of liberty. In his essay ‘Politics vs Literature’‚ however‚ George Orwell took a different view. ‘Swift‚’ he wrote‚ ‘was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.’ At best Swift was ‘a Tory Anarchist‚ despising authority while disbelieving in liberty.’ At worst he was a reactionary‚ opposed not simply to sham science‚ but to all science‚ and even to intellectual curiosity itself
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Political Discourse Political incivility has been around for a very long time. According to the article “The Rise and Fall of Nasty Politics in America”‚ a number of studies have been conducted to prove that politics has always been “a bit rough”. Many people in and out of the political world are agreeing that politics these days have turned in to a horrible cycle. Politics today involves nasty language about fellow members families‚ angry protests and violent outbursts. Sometimes racial slurs and discrimination
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Aristotle’s Politics‚ Lord (1984) also provides a speculative biography‚ extrapolated from
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Women in Muslim States and Politics • Women have gained basic political right‚ the right to vote and to stand for office in almost all Muslim-majority states‚ with the last major holdouts‚ Kuwait and Saudi Arabia‚ on the verge of joining the others. Despite having such rights‚ Muslim women‚ like women worldwide‚ are underrepresented in high office and legislatures. However‚ a number of Muslim countries outside of MENA have seen women in high office in numbers that exceed world averages. Such
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"PLANNING COMMISSSION AND POLITICS OF POVERTY AND HUNGER IN INDIA." Recently in a curiously timed press release‚ the Planning Commission of India‚ government’s official think tank‚ released the data regarding current poverty levels and present Government’s success in bringing it down and with this associated political circus is back in town and tall claims of poverty eradication is being made from the power-corridors. The Planning Commission has claimed poverty
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was discussed how Americans are often mislead and are becoming apathetic to politics. In the Introduction of the textbook it was stated‚ “Much of the blame for public ignorance falls not only at Americans’ feet‚ but at a broken political and media system which is responsible for disseminating much of the misinformation and distortion that Americans suffer so regularly from today (27).” The United States system of politics in the media is therefore‚ not sustainable in the long run if the American public
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Patronage & Clientelist Politics In Egypt Sherif Ramadan POLI 498V Professor Hilgers Patronage & clientelist politics In Egypt Research Question: What factors sustained patronage and Clientelistic practices in Egypt during the pre-Arab spring? On the fifteenth day of January 2011‚ during the celebration of the Egyptian police forces‚ the Egyptian citizenry broke into a protest against the increased rates of corruption in the Mubarak government. Within two weeks‚ the public
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India is the largest democracy in the world. It’s the most diversified nation with more than a billion people living with communal ‘cacophony’ among each other. We have the longest written constitution among any sovereign nation with 117‚369 words written in the English version. There is an elected government which is suppose to work for a period of five years under the citation that it is a government by ‚ of and for the people. The above statements make our political system look like a very gruesome
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