Comparing The French And The United States Political Structures

The American and the French revolution have many more similarities with each other than either do with the Latin American and Haitian revolutions. Apart from the surface similarities of being fought less than a decade apart, the two revolutions share many key similarities that may not be obvious at first. The revolutions were both borne of dire economic conditions, both from the same war. The Seven Years' War, fought from 1756-1763, was a battle of the great powers of Europe. On one side, the French, along with many other allies, battled Great Britain, who was accompanied by their respective allies. The outcome of this war was debt. "As Britain's global struggle with France drained its treasury and ran up its national debt, British authorities,

In this paper I am going to concentrate on comparing and contrasting how America and France’s economic and political policies choices combined with their cultural and historic backgrounds helped their current place on the word stage. It is undoubted that the United States and France are two of the strongest and most competitive countries in the world. Although they have almost the same economic system and same concept, they still have very different current situations which are closely bound up with their historic backgrounds and political choices. Through this paper I am going to discuss this topic through several sections.

The United States and France though very far away from each other have a lot income with they way they were started. The United states was not always the great nation it is now. Infact they were under the rule of the British until the American Revolution. Shortly after the American Revolution the people of France became inspired. The people of France got rid of the monarchy and killed the royal family then created the national assembly.Even though these two countries begin so different the belief that it is a right to have life and liberty made them very similar.

From 1750 to 1914, several important revolutionary processes occurred in the Americas, including those of North America and Latin America. The North American and Spanish American Revolutions were similar in that they both shared the common goal of liberation from the foreign colonial governments that ruled over them. However they differed in that there was no goal for social reform in the American Revolution, but in the Haitian Revolution the slaves had the goal of social reform of the rigid social class system. Another difference between the revolutionary processes in the two regions is that the American Revolution was successful and had stable and positive long-term outcomes, but the Haitian Revolution and Latin American Revolution were

Political culture reflects the political ethics and convictions of people, not only around the United States of America but also all over the world. The people believe that the government is responsible for the type of services (like education, health care, community services, etc.) that they are entitled too; therefore, if the outcome is not good the political system has failed. There are three different political cultures: moral, traditional, and individualist. The State of Texas has a mix from all the cultures; however, traditional and individualist cultures seem to predominate.

Peace is when individuals can resolve their conflicts without violence and can cooperate to enhance the quality of their lives. Peace is when everybody lives in security, without fear or danger of brutality and no type of violence is endured in law or practically speaking everybody is equivalent under the watchful eye of the law. The frameworks for equity are trusted, and reasonable and powerful laws ensure individuals' rights. Everybody can participate in forming political choices and the administration is responsible to the general population. Everybody has reasonable and rise to access to the fundamental requirements for their wellbeing for example food, clean water, shelter, education, human services and

The authorities and processes of government are limited by constitutional provisions, tradition, institutional practices and various groups. The different organized and unorganized counteracting groups serve as counterweights that limit government by tending to restrain it from acting harmfully and to constrain it to act beneficially to them. Free political parties are initiators and communicators. They make proposals and recommendations or accept them to broadcast to the public and call to the attention of government. Free political parties are free because they are not operated by the government or subjected to their control. When one political party is permitted, there is neither constitutionalism or democracy. An adversary system of political

The concept of culture is polisemantic, to an extent that has almost become impossible to reach an agreement on what exactly culture means. However, the academia has found certain concomitants: it is learnt within a specific social group (Turner), it is a language of shared, symbols, values and moral constraints (Geertz) and it is constructed through experience (Vigotsky). However, when the world culture is used within law, policy or daily life, it loses its meaning, and somehow it becomes a “label” composed by a list of nouns (it used to contain adjectives, but since political correctness became the dominant discourse, this changed); somehow its meaning and foremost political

Economic security for the citizens of the United States differs from those found in the European democracies in several different ways. Democracies in Europe place a much higher priority on the security of the economy compared to the United States. The democracies in Europe have instituted programs such as healthcare, unemployment compensation and retirement programs for the elderly entirely paid by the government for all their citizens(Patterson,2013,p.430). This is a benefit for each employee paid in its entirety by the without the employee paying a single penny. Citizens of the United States can also receive benefits from identical programs as those found in Europe ,however they must pay directly into those programs through special payroll taxes,whereas the citizens of Europe paying nothing into these programs but still receive full benefits. America places a much higher emphasis on higher education compared to the democracies of Europe.

Political Systems: Political systems reflect a culture’s distribution of power, power that is established and maintained with or without a formal government. As such, anthropologists use “political” to include all human activities involving power (MindEdge, 2017). The political system that is prevalent throughout this movie is power.

Culture has many definitions, and it affects everything people do in their society because of their ideas, values, attitudes, and normative or expected patterns of behaviour. Culture is not genetically inherited, and cannot exist on its own, but is always shared by members of a society (Hall 1976, p. 16). Hofstede (1980, pp. 21-23) defines culture as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another”, which is passed from generation to generation, it is changing all the time because each generation adds something of its own before passing it on. The social capital literature has shown that socially held beliefs can shape not only collective actions but government and economic performance (North 1981; Knack and Keefer, 1997; Landes, 1998; La Porta et al., 1999; Putnam, 1993). Indeed, La Porta et al. (1999:223) argued that some “societies are so intolerant or distrustful that their governments simply cannot function

Political culture refers to believes, feeling and how people think they should act about government. In the US political culture lays some core ideals and values which are of course not shared by all the Americans. However, the two shared political values in the US by vast majority the regardless of race, creed, national origin are liberty and democracy. In most political debates, there is a tendency to come up with the best framework on how best to achieve these ideals and values assert (Schudson, 271).

complex broadly called integrative theory, and necessity of regulating the conflict situations in the society. In integrative approach, the state emerges to meet organizational needs with which the chiefdom power organization could not cope. It has consensual rather than forced character and is presented as the political system with more complex economic and social infrastructure. This approach to some extent equates with structural functionalism in which it assumes societies to be generally stable systems of structures which are integrated to form functioning wholes based on a widespread consensus of values (Cohen and Service 1978). The seminal ethnographic account on this perspective is African Political System, composed by Meyer Fortes and Evans-Pritchard. They categorize African political system into two distinct types, namely, primitive state with centralized authority and judicial institutions, and stateless society without such authority and institution. A primary difference between these types is the role of the kinship. While integration and decision making in stateless societies are based on bilateral family or band groups, in state society those affairs were managed by an administrative organization as the permanent basis of political structure.

There is a general consensus emerges that formal institution is the main variable in shaping the political regime of a country (Tsebelis, 1995; Helmke and Levitsky, 2004). However, there are several conditions should be examined in order to ensure the logical flow of the relationship. Institution is matter but it also depends on the other conditions (Przeworski, 2004). This paper review some articles in institutions, why there is a different opinion regarding the institutions and revisit Ramseyer and Rosenbluth’s book in order to gain more understanding about the political institution theory.

Rule by the people is what a democracy is made of, this might be achieved by having the party in power elected into office into office by the majority, the term democracy and the practice itself is diverse in each country but it has similar features which characterize all forms. This essay explains the impact or contributions of political parties in a Liberal Democracy using the Structural functionalist Approach. It will also converse the important roles that these political parties play in every political structure, specifically in Zambia. To start with, it will explain what the terms Liberal, Liberal Democracy and Political Parties are; it will also explain the Structural functionalist Approach. Thereafter, the works and critiques of