To what extent is Britain a liberal democracy? The balance of evidence would suggest that Britain conforms very well to the principles of a liberal democracy. Whilst there are always points of evidence that could be used against this view‚ it is my view that these are outweighed by the positive evidence and examples. When determining whether the country is a liberal democracy‚ one has to begin by discussing and defining the features of a liberal democracy. A liberal democracy is defined as one
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To what extent is there a democratic deficit in the UK? The most telling indicator of there being a democratic deficit in the UK today is the continuing decline of voter turnout at all elections for the past 60 years. There is a growing level of general apathy towards political issues in the UK which is not just damaging to the health of a democracy but fatal. The government requires a mandate to govern‚ if they do not achieve popular consent then how are they representative of the people? The
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A decade ago‚ India didn’t have a single mall. A year ago‚ there were less than a half-dozen. But within two years‚ more than 250 are expected to be operational. It’s an enormous shift in a nation that for decades proclaimed itself a socialist state. After independence in 1947‚ India celebrated `swadeshi‚’’ or locally produced goods‚ and Mohandas Gandhi dreamed of a nation of small villages earning their living through cotton spinning and farming. So not everyone is happy about the new consumerism
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PERIOD 1‚ US HISTORY ACC. Question: To what extent was the Reconstruction a failure? Reconstruction was the period directly after the end of the Civil War (1865-1877). This era was a necessary time for the United States to restore the divided nation. The eleven rebel states that had been defeated leaving the government unsure weather to punish or pardon them. In Reconstruction era‚ the three goals emerged from the federal government: rebuild the South‚ provide and protect freedman’s
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Although the ’frontier’ period of Australian history can be viewed in the terms of war‚ there were also many white settlers who were appalled at the treatment of the Indigenous people and wanted to help them. Some of those who tried to help were government officials‚ others were Christian missionaries. These people truly believed that the Aboriginal people needed their help and without it they would die out. Their somewhat misguided attempts to help the Indigenous people are known as ’paternalism’
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As soon as taken office‚ any government tends to come up with new ideas and projects that they tend to realize in order to affect the social economic conditions of the population to serve. In the United States‚ speeches from new elected presidents always tend to make people believe that we are about to start a new kind of life with a fresh machinery of government. This is the case of the reinvention movement for democratic governance that is still largely a source of explanation of the American public
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victim’s standpoint‚ in order to gain a holistic view to see the extent of prosecution agencies achieving criminal justice in the England and Wales. As the question suggests‚ there is no universal definition of ‘criminal justice’ exists. Different models are essentially different perspectives provided to assess criminal justice in terms of some general characteristics and principles. Understanding this‚ I will first look at what ‘justice’ is through the due process lens. Herbert Packer derived
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In a public enterprise economy‚ the government has the power to nationalize any or all industries which can lead to devastating consequences. One the countries famous for doing this was the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin‚ the then dictator of the Soviet Union instituted two domestic policies that would eliminate any capitalism in Russia. He would institute rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture.This would be known as the Five Year Plan. Stalin wanted to change all private owned
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Question: “To what extent was the U.S. justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped or not‚ were ones of the man-made disasters that occurred on August 6 1945‚ and August 9 1945 respectively. The launching of the atomic bomb has numerous opinions and aspects on whether United States of America should be justified for launching atomic bombs on those cities or not. The essay question for our class is‚ “To what extent was the United
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