Introduction The 2014 Congressional race saw the struggle of Democrats and Republicans to gain power of the two institutions as per usual. On a federal and state level, the power fight was apparent, with a number of close races. One of them was in California’s rural 21st Congressional District between Republican incumbent David Valadao who had been in office since 2012 and Democrat and newcomer Amanda Rentira. The district was won by President Barack Obama by 11.1 percent in 2012 and 6 percent
teenagers get involved. They believe that the free opinion may be impacted by the young people’s lack of competence for the vote. Hence they may be swayed to vote for a candidate in an undemocratic way. This has led to the opponents in the Western Democratic States to transform the voting rights of the youths from a human rights concern to a social policy concern. I disagree with this view, because the young people have a constitutional right to go to the ballot and cast their votes regardless of their
As I write this book, Democratic and Republican candidates are getting in position to run for the President of the United States in 2016. Hillary Clinton was the first Democrat to throw her hat in the ring and right away the Republican Party began attacking her for using her personal email and business email together. They also more than insinuated that she had deleted some of the emails from the server she had at her home and accused her of lying about it. However, whether she did or didn’t
policies of many democratic states have become widely incapable of adopting the changes and accepting dual citizenship. Pogonyi also argued that diffusion of the dual citizenship is often regarded as the
The United States of America proudly present themselves as a humanitarian liberal democratic power and as the main liberal architect whose role, became more significant in the post-Cold War world, given the end of the bipolar system which created a systemic permissiveness for the institution of the so called “New World Order”₁ paired with liberal ideals and the desire to spread peace and democracy in a global scale and pursue “(…) America's ideals -- liberty, democracy and peace.” ₂ In this essay
How Democratic is the United States of America? How democratic is the United States of America? Not very many people ask themselves this question because since they live in the United States they don't believe that they have to ask this to themselves. All of the United States citizens just assume that they have a very democratic nation only because that's what everybody says about this county. But in reality for those how have been educated about the real America. It just doesn't seem that democratic
with sovereignty, in the way where a majority of the nations people has been suffering from a lack of the rule of law. No different from the mainstream nations of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo faces a rapid deterioration of their government. The “Fragile State Index “ has placed the Democratic Republic of Congo at 7th out of 178th countries in the world. Even though the people have suffered from the lack of trust between people of the nation and the government, which has ineffective
contribute to peace among states are very controversial. Some of the well-known factors to affect how peaceful states are with one another is the type of regime a state is under and whether they are in possession of nuclear weapons, ironically. According to the democratic peace theory, “democracies rarely, if ever, enter into war against each other” (Chan, 59). They are more likely to wage war with non-democratic states such as communist states, rather than a democratic one. Therefore this leads
different political parties, has placed Ghana as the recent hub for several empirical studies on ethnic lines in voting patterns (Ferree et al. 2009; Lindberg and Morrison 2008). The reasons why Ghana has been selected is firstly because, Ghana is a democratic state, it is characteristic of low levels of conflict, even when different ethnic groups are in close proximity to one another, and has successfully conducted free and fair elections since 1992, with peaceful handovers from one regime to the next.
the in the United States: The Democratic and Republic Parties. It turns out that these two political parties are opposed to each other on a wide range of issues that affect American public life. Unfortunately, many Americans are unaware of these differences between the two parties and tend to vote their officials into office in an uneducated manner. This often results in the political gridlock that often characterize government business in Washington. The Republican and Democratic Party don 't have