European politics

Critical mass theory Drude Dahlerup first conceptualised critical mass in a feminist theory context in her 1988 article, From a Small to a Large Minority: Women in Scandinavian Politics. A critical mass, applied to women in politics, is a threshold that allows for women’s issues to influence legislative and public policy changes once passed (Beckwith, 2007). In critical mass theory, once a minority group (in this case women) reaches a given quantity of descriptive representation, qualitative change

Representations of people and politics often reveal either the best or worst of our world. How is this communicated in the texts you have studied? In your response, consider the motivations driving the events in your texts. Representations of people and politics reveals how cynical political agendas combined with public passivity brings out the worst of our world. This is evident in Barry Levinson’s 1997 filmic representation of the fractured democratic system in Wag the Dog. Through filmic medium

Poststructuralism mainly criticizes the dependence of structuralism on tradition and opposes traditional structuralism to focus research on objectivity and rationality. It attempts to restore irrational tendencies, pursue from the logic, but produce non-logical results. There is seldom a coherent theory in the field of poststructuralism, but each theory begins with a critique of Structuralism. Take the documentary as an example, in the view of the poststructuralist theorists, there is nothing else

ugust 9, 2014, Michael Brown’s body laid in the Missouri sun for four hours after being killed by a Ferguson police officer. As his body lay there, I sat in my kitchen packing for freshman move-in with tears of anger streaming down my face. I knew the unarmed Black teen could have been my older brother or a high school friend. What I did not know, was that Brown’s death would be my intellectual and personal catalyst. Just days after Brown’s death, I participated in my first protest. As I walked chanting

Since radio-friendly, easy-listening pop music cropped up in the late 1960s, it has become the epitome of commercialized music - fun, but insincere, ephemeral, and often forgettable. Composed to be as easily accessible and enjoyable as possible, pop music is rarely associated with authenticity or the political; instead, pop is often interacted with as music meant to separate the listener from existential issues they might otherwise face, rather than music meant to confront the listener with these

education. Although time has changed liberal education’s influence on university had it not been for the great thinkers of ancient society the academy of today would not exist. On another spectrum liberal education also heavily influences and impacts politics. By broadening one’s knowledge it greatly aids in decision and law making. Often providing a better understanding of others and improving the execution of the law by covering and considering every citizen. In contemporary society college is mainly

Inequality, unspoken reality that is an alarming concern for our society. It is implied as the definitive allocation of scarce resources in society, which plays a significant role in the way democratic societies and nations act upon. Inequality is every form of definition; it sets the global problems and increases the defining political problem of our age. Participating in government helps us assess sets of complicated values that authorities lay for our welfare. Gaining visibility around the localities

It’s expected from us to do the same thing with the generation that comes after us and so forth. This paper focuses on the main causes of my thinking about politics today. The typical agents of socialization described by the book are family, school, and houses of worship. I remember since I was little how we talked about the concept of politics in school. My dad and grandpa would also talk to me about our history and the importance of being loyal to our country. The first memory that comes to mind

that teenagers are not interested in politics, thus they are inevitably unknowledgeable in the political field, this paper will argue that voting age in Canada should not be lowered but remain at eighteen.  To begin with, teenagers below eighteen are generally not interested in politics comparing to adults. According to the results of the British Household Panel Survey in 1991 and 2001, "16 and 17 – year- olds are especially unlikely to report interest in politics" (2006, P. 543), and ”the 16 and 17-year-olds

I’m a very academically driven student and have several, quite lofty, goals for my time here at Texas A&M. I want to maintain a 4.0 GPA, or at least a minimum of a 3.5 in order to maintain my Cornerstone Honors status. My dream, and biggest goal, is to intern for a congressperson in Washington DC, and I also want to study abroad, hopefully in England. I am a member of FLARE, the Freshman Leadership Organization for Liberal Arts majors. For one of our meetings, our directors brought in a coach from