The Democratic Progressive Party

Bernie Sanders once said, “A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little” (“Bernie Sanders Quotes”). He was the runner up for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. He seemed to be bringing forth a new era for the Democrats, one that would have been anti-corporation and would finally pass an effective Universal Health Care. Unfortunately for him , big business and the establishment Democrats won again. This election serves as a good example of the Democratic party - a party whose history goes from supporting slavery to enforcing justice and acting as a vessel for change, all the while sprinkled with corporate corruption.

When voting someone into a position of power there are many factors people must consider. These factors includes things such as the candidate's political party, the candidate’s stance on issues that are important to them, and many more. For some people these factors matter more than other ones, a candidate's political party might not be an issue to someone as long as they have share a stance on an issue with them. These are factors that I reviewed while deciding whether or not I would vote for Chuck Schumer as senator in the 2018 elections. Reviewing Schumer’s stances on issues such as health care, the environment, and gun control, have helped me decide to vote Chuck Schumer as Senator again.

The Senator and running mate of President Duterte, Alan Peter Cayetano told the media that LP plans something that could possibly removed the current president and place instead the vice president, Leni Robredo, in power.

There have been several changes that have happened in the United States for the past 20 years. Firstly, the powers of presidents have been expanding at the expense of both branches, mostly in the Congress. The presidents have been using their executive orders to bypass the Congress from time to time. Follow by the interest group; the social issue such as abortion has been a big controversial topic among pro-life group and pro-choice group and the issue has been settled down by President Obama. Moreover, the media has many advantages as there are able to boost politician popularity vote, has no restriction, and one of the main sources is to generate campaign donation. The next area we are going to investigate is the political

According to the electoral reform act, campaign donations are limited to 500,000 yen. Additionally, the redrawing of district boundaries is made by a commission in an effort to not favor one party. These regulations forced the LDP to adapt to a more policy-centered campaign. Consequently, this meant defining economic and social beliefs that were seemingly unclear before. Yet, along with these big-scale changes, the LDP and other parties were also required to change the structure within their political

When looking at the history of US political parties, and classifying these parties into distinct party systems, five separate periods emerge leading up to the current party system. When classifying these party systems, it is important to look at characteristics such as the number of major parties, how these parties seek to gain support, and how the parties organize themselves. The earliest American parties were relatively centralized organizations that represented elite level concerns. They formed mainly at the national level, with low levels of grassroots connections. The first national party to come to prominence was the Federalist Party, who were opposed by the Democratic-Republican Party. The main cleavage that divided these parties was the degree to which the federal government should be centralize power. With the Federalist Party arguing for a stronger role and the Democratic-Republican Party supporting greater rights for the states. Both the modern day Democrats and Republicans are the result of a fracturing of the Democratic-Republican Party. Internal conflict caused by the expansion of the country and the issue of slavery caused the party to split and form the Democrats and with the remaining faction joining with the Whig Party to Oppose the Democrats. Further division on slavery caused the Whigs to also fracture, giving rise to the Republican Party, who arose as the anti-slavery faction of the party.

According to Samuel P Huntington, the movement and spread of democracy can be describe analogous to a wave, a description that evokes not only democracy’s power and influential effect, but also its ability to overcome and drown out any preexisting regime (Huntington, 1991). We have seen examples of democracy’s influence in countless stages throughout the twentieth century in many different parts of the world; some having previously very powerful authoritarian regimes that have switched to democracy ***. However, it is interesting to note that not all countries have succumbed to democracies principles and influence. One crucial example of a country that has not transitioned into a democratic regime is communist China. Not only has China survived maintaining their communist regime, but they have thrived, particularly in the past few decades. However, a crucial question still must be examined: what lies ahead for communist China? Currently, where almost all developed countries have made this transition to democracy, China remains a unique outlier.

One way to measure the importance of political parties for our country is to consider the many things that they do, even though they don’t do many of them very well. Political parties tend to help make the act of voting less irrational for voters because sometimes having a party identification greatly reduces the time and effort involved in voting for an individual. “Large majorities (of voters) still admit to a party preference and use parties to guide their voting decisions. They do so because, despite the divisions within the party coalitions and regardless of how they feel about the parties, the party labels still carry valuable information about candidates, continuing to provide the cheap, shorthand cue so useful to rationally ignorant voters” (Kernell et al., 563). For example, Republicans usually favor a smaller and cheaper form of federal government. They tend to advocate for lower spending on social welfare and lower taxes. While Democrats are more supportive of government programs designed to improve domestic welfare and would spend less on national defense when Republicans are very generous toward the Defense Department. “Democrats are more concerned with “fairness” and equality, Republicans with letting free enterprise flourish” (Kernell et al., 564). Republicans are anti-abortion and gay marriage and would be supportive of allowing official prayer and religion in public schools while Democrats would not agree with any of the above. However, not all candidates

Thanks to the help of Song and the Deng family, Hu was able to achieve the title of Vice Senior Chief of the Department within one year. Many opportunities came about from his two major influences including training at the Central Party School, and rapid promotions (Davis, 2008). The hard work paid off in 1981 when Hu was appointed as Secretary of the Communist Youth League Central Committee.

On October 27th 2016, the world watched as China officially named its President Xi Jinping the ‘core leader’ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the Sixth Plenum of the 18th CCP Central Committee. In the new directive released through state media, all party members should “closely unite around the party center with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core...and unswervingly safeguard the party leadership’s authority and centralized unity.” It is not simply a trivial label – it is a title that has significant symbolic and historical meaning – one that could potentially signify the rise of a new China in the immediate future, a China that could wield more power on the global stage than ever before anticipated. The world must watch out; this latest power shift in Asia is not an isolated one, it marks the beginning of a crucial and changing dynamic in the world’s balance of power which highly favours Chinese influence. The West has failed to adapt to or contain such a dynamic – and has perhaps even facilitated it, albeit unwittingly.

As China starts to become an growing superpower on the world stage, it now face itself in challenging situations in the global political stage. China’s economy and power grows in a rapid rate, the nation faces itself in serious political tensions that can affect its standing in the region and its standing in the world stage. The nation continues to expand its foreign influences around the world through its growing military and economic power, the world watches and waits for the Chinese government’s next big move.

Views in the United States about Xi Jinping and Chinese politics fall to two extremes. On one extreme is the belief that Xi Jinping is a “strong man”, who has completely replaced the collective leadership and is monopolizing power. He is an ambitious leader who has helped realize China’s military modernization, which will enable China to dislodge the United States from the Asia Pacific and cement its own regional hegemony. The other extreme is the view that Xi Jinping is weak: his anti-corruption campaign and military reforms have alienated many people and created numerous enemies. This view perceives Xi’s tenuous grip on power and deduces that the Chinese Communist Party itself is imperiled. If the U.S. government is guided

Why Mayor Duterte is the right one in presidential election? Because he have the ability and skills to make our country to be better and its citizens to be well disciplined. He focuses in the drug problem because it becomes a national menace. Finally, he feels angry about criminality so he also focuses about the crime happening in our country. He never stop catching or killing the person who make a crime.

The main aspiration of the Kuomintang (KMT) officials of enacting the Martial Law was that they wanted Taiwan to become bastion for the future recovery of mainland People’s Republic of China (Chao and Myers, 2000: 387). If the communist regime would ever lose support and

I decided to think of the wrongs and liabilities of the political dynamics in the Philippines. I just can’t get over the rampant party- switching of different politicians for their own convenience and in my perspective, how the people just take that for granted and has it considered as a common Filipino political culture. And then, I get to ask what kind of PARTY system do we have?