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    PROBLEMS FACING OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES IN ZAMBIA In any political system are structures that have different functions to ensure an effective and smooth running of things in that particular political system. This is why this essay will discuss the problems faced by opposition political parties in Zambia using the structural functionalist theory. First it will explain what structural functionalism is, then it will define structures, functions, a political party and an opposition party then before

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    market-based reform served the interests of the military regime, and faced very little resistance given the repression and dismantling of the teacher union, and the penetration of the economic logic in the Ministry of Education. Timing, carriers and weak opposition allowed a complete replacement of the domestic education policy. Later in democracy, state-oriented education bureaucrats were not able to reverse the policy change. Although they tried to build on the inherited model and use the state as a way

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    Venezuela, located in the Latin American region, is a country that has been characterized by its abundance of oil reserve. A natural resource that has shaped the history and development of the country, affecting its economic, social and most important is political spheres. For many years Venezuela was controlled by authoritarian regimes. The country, being very important in the sense of geo-politics due to its abundance of oil, has been a key player in the international arena and most important,

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    Syrian activists’ main goal from these talks was always about the formation of a transitional government enjoying full executive powers, without Assad in the picture; while, naming the members of this transitional governing body and the immediate start of performing its functions; followed by a ceasefire throughout the nation. These goals were, more or less, achieved through the passing of the France-US document; that included the point of cessation of hostilities among the warring parties and the

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    bureaucratic authoritarian regimes and any/all their political opposition is not one that is harmonious with respect to social order and government functioning. These two parties often attempt to obstruct the other. The regime typically explores ways to eliminate all opposition from political society, and political society in turn attempts to discredit the regime in the eyes of civil society. One common way the regime eliminates political opposition is by separating political society from civil society.

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    Democracy has it benefits, with the most obvious being peace. The most important corollary benefit is that the opposition party plays a key role in keeping the party in power honest. It is obviously in the opposition party’s interest to keep the public informed about the missteps and misdeeds of the administration party. The opposition party is as crucial to ongoing publicity as a free press. And publicity is a crucial safeguard (not the only one, but a crucial one) against

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    By the October Manifesto, the Tsar allowed the formation of an elected legislative assembly, the Duma. Technically, this would mean that the Tsar had to share his autocratic power with his people and by inviting opposition into the government, he may be endangering his status. However, this was not the case. Ironically, it helped strengthened the Tsar's power. The forming of the Duma appeased the liberals and satisfied their appetite for reforms, hence

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    The norm of journalism is to present information or news to the general public via mass media. Thus, it plays an important part in everyday life. Notwithstanding, media have a vigorous relation with politics especially among the democratic societies (Fernandez-Quijada 2013). Moreover, the media is also perceived as the "fourth estate" due to the fact that it able to influence and affects the perceptions of the general public towards the political movement (Kemp 2013). However, in comparison to the

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    In a letter to Jonathan Jackson in October, 1789, John Adams wrote, “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution”, yet in modern day society, this is exactly the way the government is set up. Political parties, or, similar politically-minded people who work as a

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    Hadow says that Haydn and Mozart's use of the same melodic material for both the first and second subject was indicative of their influence from binary form. But Beethoven, who was "a much more daring innovator, as well as a much greater master of structure, than either of his predecessors" never committed such an atrocity, "since such a scheme would only help to stereotype an outworn and obsolete

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