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Topic: Political ScienceFound 14 articles
Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission: Taking America from a Proud Democracy to a Privately-Funded Corporatocracy
03/09/10 - 946 words Democracy is based on the core principle that the power to govern should be in the hands of the people. In the United States, the people exercise that power by casting their vote for the candidate they see as most fit to... Go to Article » Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
02/24/10 - 2724 words The Chechen people have endured a long history of aggression, culminating at the end of the twentieth century during which a separatist struggle against Russia began, triggering the First Chechen War in 1994. At the onset of... Go to Article » Deception, Delusion, and Division in American Politics: Fruits of the Contact Zone
02/12/10 - 2190 words The U.S. political system has become strangled by the misconceptions, dishonesty, and unfounded beliefs held and espoused by the opposing political parties. The truth is hard to come by, and even harder to recognize in the current... Go to Article » Using Social Business to Reshape the Capitalist Economy and Support Environmental Awareness
02/10/10 - 2372 words During his Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama resonated with the ideals of many Americans—prosperity, freedom, good will, faith, and determination. He spoke of the market as having "umatched" power, "to generate... Go to Article » Health Care Reform: Reducing Waste and Improving Efficiency in Today's Medicaid
02/08/10 - 2353 words As the nation’s largest health insurance program, Medicaid plays a huge role in the current health care reform debate. The program serves over 50 million people and has total outlays equaling over $280 billion[i]. Medicaid... Go to Article » The Human Genome and Patient Privacy: A Proposal to Expand Protections for Patients and Family Members
01/21/10 - 2824 words As medical and biological technology has progressed in recent years, concerns have been raised about the privacy implications of genetic records that can identify individuals and predict future conditions to which they are predisposed... Go to Article » The Effect of Marriage on Political Identification
01/19/10 - 3622 words Party identification among individuals is determined by multiple factors including current marital status and other variables such as income and education level. The rate of marriage for people over the age of 18 in the United... Go to Article » John Locke On Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
12/02/09 - 3334 words Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke, was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He espoused the natural rights of man, namely the right to life, liberty and property, and he articulated... Go to Article » Friendship and Conflict: The Relationship of the U.S. "Founding Fathers"
10/29/09 - 2535 words It is common for Americans to imagine the early leaders of the American Revolution as a group of agreeable, flawless men. However, this sentimental portrait fails to recognize the vast differences that existed between the founders... Go to Article » Invasion of the Invaded: NAFTA and the Rise of Illegal Immigration
10/25/09 - 6069 words On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement, the great neoliberal experiment that tested the economic waters of the post-cold war world went into effect, the southern Mexican state of Chiapas was under... Go to Article » The American Military and the Press: From Vietnam to Iraq
10/22/09 - 1947 words “News is something someone wants suppressed,” British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe once said. “Everything else is just advertising.” This point is especially true in war journalism where every story... Go to Article » John Locke and the Second Treatise on Government
10/19/09 - 1542 words In 1688, King James II was overthrown by a group of Parliamentarians. This was the result of what is now known as the Glorious Revolution, or the Revolution of 1688. Naturalist and political philosopher John Locke was present... Go to Article » Does Globalization foster or Reduce Political Violence?
10/19/09 - 532 words Globalization has impacted societies around the world in both positive and negative ways. Despite positive changes in certain areas though, there are two significant factors that make the globalized (and globalizing) world a... Go to Article » Can the U.S. win the war in Afghanistan?
10/19/09 - 3174 words Nearly eight years into the war, the security situation in Afghanistan has begun to deteriorate at an increasingly fast past. Previously secured areas have been undermined by increasing numbers of militants; significant increases... Go to Article » |