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Political Science
The answer to this depends to some extent on the country that you are talking about. In the United States, the two ideologies share a great deal in common. For example, in the US, both...
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Political Science
I think that policy making is impacted by political parties in a couple of ways. The most basic element is that an elected representative who is loyal to their party must generate policies that...
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Political Science
Technology has allowed the president to instantly reach hundreds of millions of people with a simple Tweet. It has also allowed the media, which operates across television, the radio, and the...
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Political Science
When answering this question, you should consider the two main sub-national levels of government: state and municipal. (There are also county and township levels of government, but these tend to be...
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Political Science
In the late 2010s, trade, climate change, and immigration are three of the most important foreign policy issues. Trade policy is important for both economic and political reasons. Maintaining...
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Political Science
In Texas, judges are selected through direct, partisan elections. That means that they run for office as Republicans or Democrats and are elected by the public as a whole. They are selected in...
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Political Science
The governor of Texas generally has less in the way of power than most state governors do. You could argue that governors ought to have more power so that the state can be run more efficiently....
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Political Science
The only thing that all forms of government have in common is that they have the authority over the people in their country. They have the right to commit violence against people within their...
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Political Science
Both the United States and Mexico have federal governments that are democratically elected and which have separation of powers. Both have an executive, a bicameral legislature, and a judicial...
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Political Science
Great Question! I would answer by saying that if everyone had that attitude, there would be no vote and democracy would cease to function. Participating in a democracy is a group activity. A vote...
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Political Science
Widespread nuclear proliferation has been a subject of intense debate, and this question gets to the center of that argument. The idea of proliferation is encapsulated in the fact that people are...
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Political Science
According to scholars of International Relations, there are two major characteristics of a state. First, a state has clear borders. It is an entity that exists in a given geographical space....
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Political Science
An appellate court is also known as a court of appeal. Aggrieved parties appeal to this higher court if they are unhappy with a lower court's decision. These courts are the second-highest in the...
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Political Science
As of 2019, 28 countries are members of the European Union, but Europe includes non-member countries as well. Seven EU member countries are monarchies, including Great Britain, which is in the...
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Political Science
The nature of political science is that it is a social science. This means that it is concerned with the relationships between human beings and between human beings and their societies. As a...
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Political Science
The short answer to this question is that government officials often acquiesce to the corporations they are affiliated with. Many members of government are tied to non-governmental bodies who...
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Political Science
Governments are needed for two main reasons. First, we need them to protect our rights. Second, we need them to provide certain economic things that could not be provided by the private sector....
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Political Science
The monarchy in England has been largely a ceremonial post for quite some time now, meaning the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, has no real political power, though she still wields a great deal of...
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Political Science
These two theories both agree that interest groups have the ability to participate in the American political system. However, that is the extent of their similarity. They disagree on the degree...
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Political Science
Borders and boundaries are good for countries because without them, the countries could not really exist. The modern concept of a state (most people call them countries, but political scientists...
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Political Science
In order to properly understand the different approaches to the study of political science, we have to first break the topic down into two general categories: modern and traditional. And then each...
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Political Science
The major similarity between a presidential democracy and a parliamentary democracy is that both of these types of governments are democracies. This is a fundamental similarity that is, perhaps,...
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Political Science
Historically, there are not many similarities between democracy, which is rule by the consent of the people, and monarchy, which is rule by a hereditary ruler. In a democracy, the people make basic...
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Political Science
Locke and Hobbes have similar philosophies in that both of them believe that human beings in a state of nature would have a bad life. Both of them feel that human beings must create governments in...
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Political Science
Classical liberalism gave rise to modern liberalism and modern conservatism. Both of these ideologies share the basic premises of classical liberalism. Classical liberalism is based on the ideas...
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Political Science
In a parliamentary form of government, the executive is usually known as a prime minister. He or she is chosen from the majority party in the parliament, and chooses a cabinet, or ministry, that is...
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Political Science
Since the Pledge of Allegiance is meant as a very brief (31 words) general statement of support for the flag and the country as a whole, it says very little about any specific freedom like the...
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Political Science
Both realists and liberals believe that deterrence can prevent war. However, they differ on how potential aggressors should be deterred. For liberals, the best source of deterrence is collective...
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Political Science
There are at least two major problems with a two-party system. First, this sort of a system penalizes people who have views that are outside the middle of the political spectrum. With only two...
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Political Science
Within a functioning dictatorship, softliners can play a role by helping to moderate the dictatorship and by making it more palatable to the people who live in it. When there is a hardline and a...
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Political Science
I would argue that the voters have the most impact on the executive branch in a municipal government that runs on a strong mayor system. There is much more impact in this sort of system than there...
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Political Science
One important part of a liberal democratic system like Canada’s is that the government must be answerable to the people. Another important aspect of liberalism is that the people should have the...
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Political Science
In the modern world, separation of powers was first put into practice when the Constitution of the United States was written and ratified. This was the first time that there was a government with a...
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Political Science
I certainly think that one reason why the two party system has taken a hold in America is because both parties represent a historical narrative intrinsic to the nation. America has been a nation...
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Political Science
The meaning of this question is not very clear. Are you asking what professions a person might engage in if they study politics in college? Or are you asking what benefit we get from studying...
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Political Science
There are two main reasons why members of Congress would introduce legislation written in whole or in part by interest groups. One reason has to do with time and expertise. The other has to do...
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Political Science
I'm responding here to one of your responses to my answer to your question in the Q&A section... Yes, I would say that slaves' right to be free was never taken away. It was simply that they...
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Political Science
Low voter turnouts can threaten democracy in several ways. First, democracy is a system in which the laws and policies of a country are determined by a majority of the citizens. If only a small...
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Political Science
Power is allocated quite differently in a parliamentary system as compared to a presidential system. In a presidential system, executive power is centered in one person, the president. In a...
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Political Science
There are several ways to characterize the 113th Congress of the United States. These ways include political and personal factors about the members of Congress. Politically, the first word that we...
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Political Science
Interest groups and political parties are very different entities. An interest group focuses money, donations and efforts towards achieving a specific policy that achieves its goals or benefits...
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Political Science
We are allowed 90 words and sometimes a bit more than that to answer subscriber questions, and eNotes policy does not allow us to submit entire assignments as this is a tutoring service. I will...
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Political Science
In such a system, there is so little difference between the legislative branch and the executive branch that it is hard to say that one branch is better able to represent the interests of the...
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Political Science
Some people would argue that the Founders were wrong about this because of the fact that the courts can have a great deal of impact on the laws. They would point to things like the decisions in...
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Political Science
The necessary and proper clause has been one of the most important influences on the nature of American federalism. It has been interpreted in such a way as to allow the federal government to do...
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Political Science
The best answer to this is “it depends.” Some individuals are clearly made less important by the committee system. However, others are made more important than they otherwise would have...
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Political Science
These are terms that have to do with the attitudes that people hold towards wars or military interventions in general (or towards specific cases in which the US is involved militarily in some other...
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Political Science
There are many kinds of governments that keep the power for themselves and relatively few that put much power in the "hands of the people." Monarchies and aristocracies, for example, keep power...
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Political Science
Since your previous question had to do with Ancient Greece, I assume that you are asking about archaic Greece and have edited your question accordingly. The first thing to note is that there were...
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For me, trustworthiness and honesty are the foremost personal traits I expect to find in a U. S. president. Certainly, some of our most recent presidents--particularly the Bushes and Bill...