The Role Of Government In An Autocratic Government

Throughout the rigmarole of political history of the United States of America, the growth of the “fourth branch of government”, the Bureaucracy, has been a prominent, controversial topic. Peter Woll, in his article “Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power”, and James Q. Wilson, in his article “The Rise of the Bureaucratic State”, discuss this developing administrative branch. The Constitution has no written mention of an “administrative branch”, and today’s Bureaucracy is often tedious, corrupt, and even undemocratic. But such a branch’s development and expansion is necessary in order to keep par with an evolving and changing society.

Government is an essential part of civilization in modern and historic times. This crucial element of society has been observed in different forms. There are three main systems of governments: autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. Which system a government belongs to is determined by who hold the sovereignty, meaning who has the supreme power and authority (“Sovereignty”). This leads to there being major differences between autocracies, oligarchies, and democracies.

Democracy and the challenges it is facing has been the main topic in the field of international politics since some Authoritarian regimes have raised again as a great power after a long time of absence. In this essay, we will look at some of the challenges facing the international democracy based on the work of Azar Gat “ The Return Of Authoritarian Great Powers”. The article is presenting the author view on the rise of authoritarian regimes as the main challenge of liberal democracy. The main part of my essay will be an illustration and reflection on a number of arguments that have been brought by the author. Additionally and before concluding my piece I will establish my own argument as a critical response to the article or more specifically to the Economic efficiency argument brought by Azar Gat.

Plato’s impression of democracy which was intellectualized around 384 B.C.E is rather different from the present day understanding of democracy and the power of wealth. As an aristocrat himself, according to Plato “When the poor win, the result is a democracy.” (Plato, p.58). In other words, Plato believed that only kings were authorized to rule its society, whereas regular everyday people were perceived as ferocious and unable to govern. Plato’s awareness of democracy was established when he realized ordinary people were not born to lead, that only the elite people had the utmost respect, and right to rule over the lower class. Furthermore, the concept of power and wealth continues to be a crucial stand point in society’s then, and now since the exercise of democracy is known to be a political affair.

How we form and describe a sentence plays a major role towards determine the meaning of the sentence. This results in making each sentence very important to structure correctly so as to harness the most powerful meaning from the words used on the sentence (Iny 2006). To understand how word structure affects a sentence, we shall examine 5 sentences from a paper “the Purpose of Government written by Anon. A. Moss.

Democracy and Oligarcy as forms of government have been in existence for a long period of time, both terms first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought. Both forms of government exist in the modern world, but which form of government is more better, there is a question. So, in my essay I will compare Democratic and Oligarchy Governments to understand which form of them is the best.

Why is government necessary? In the words of Alexander Hamilton, “Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint” (Federalist No. 15 137). Men have a sin nature and must have an authority set in place to keep them from falling into anarchy. America has federal and state governments with a system of checks and balances for exactly this reason, but one sector of the government has overstepped the bounds that were set for it in this country’s infancy. In order to answer the question of whether more power should be put into the hands of the federal or state government, three things must be considered: the history of state’s rights in America, the differing types of government, and the constitution itself.

Our country was colonize by settlers that were looking for a way OUT of their own country in which leaders had too much power they were escaping dictatorship. They knew the consequences of leaders having too much power, which they suffer in their own skin sure this was one the first reasons they decided to leave in perused of freedoms that they didn’t have. With this being set when the time came to delegate power to the government they were sure not to give too much power to no one part of the government, limiting the power of the president not only to prevent their past to repeat but to also create a different type of government that they have never experience before. The limited power of the president is a great strategy of our funding

Regulated capitalism is private ownership with some government control and procedural guarantees. While social democracy is mostly private ownership but extensive government control with substantive and procedural guarantees. An example of how the government regulates an aspect of our economy is the FDA. In a regulated capitalism the owner of a cupcake industry owns the factory but has regulations it must meet according to the FDA. Compared to a social democracy the state would own the factory because it is public property, instead of one individual and would also need to meet FDA requirements.

Laws affect how citizens live and work within businesses there are Laws and regulations that all businesses have to follow so each citizen gets treated equally and there are laws to protect them. To protect businesses and to protect all citizens involved in a business there are certain laws that have been put into place, without these laws businesses will not succeed this is why politics is so important to business, this essay will define Democracy and explain the relevance to business, different types of democracy with the definition and a country, state or town that’s government use the type of political ideology and also how it affected society in the past compared to the present.

“There is hardly an office in any part of the country in which the business man has not been elected; yet politics remain corrupt” (Lincoln Steffens, 141). This is what journalist Lincoln Steffens had portrayed about politics in the United States, that businessmen ran the country and only cared about money and not the people. Although America has successful business practices, its ability for almost anyone to start their own

In the 1900s - 1940s the federal government enacted many new policies and acts that caused the growth of their power. In this time, the expansion of the government's power proved to be more beneficial than harmful to the majority of American lives.

Although the United States is still in progress, they use philosophies to limit the power of the federal government and state government. The U.S. Constitution incorporate basic rights of its citizens, America’s national government and necessary laws. It was signed on September 17th, 1787 by the first president of the United States, George Washington. James Madison called “The Father of the Constitution” brought up the three branches to separate the powers and responsibility; executive, legislative and judicial with a system of check and balances and a Bill of Right. The Bill of Right was drafted by James Madison which focuses on a greater constitutional protection or individuals liberties. It was originally constituted of 10 amendments and

According to research, commerce prospers or is successful when business sector includes independently owned companies that exist to make and increase profits (Axtmann 89). A country such as Britain uses a democratic form of governance or political system, and because of this, the country is one out of the many countries that diverse companies want to venture their business it. This makes the country a stable business environment of international companies. Democratic political system business laws ensures all businesses especially in the private sectors are independent in that they carry out their own business operations with the intent of making profits and revenues; thus grows and improves the economy. In a totalitarianism political system, there is a difference in that this form of government has vague business laws. There is no guarantee that international enterprises would prosper in countries practicing this government. For example in North Korea, the business laws are nebulous in that multinational companies are not protected. The international firms can be taken by the government, and this occurs when there are international issues or wrong movements by the companies. This shows that it is risky to do business with totalitarian nations such as North Korea; thus it is not a conducive environment for international companies or businesses.

Democracy has become the most widespread political form of government during the past decade, after the fall of all its alternatives. During the second part of the 20th century, the 3 main enemies of democracy, namely communism, fascism and Nazism, lost most of their power and influence. However, democracy is still only to be found in less than half of this world's countries. China with a fifth of the total population "had never experienced a democratic government" and Russia still doesn't have a well established democracy. By adopting a democratic perspective, 3 types of governments emerge, non-democratic, new democracies, and old democracies, and all have a different challenge to overcome: either to become democratic, to "consolidate"