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7:42 p.m. to explain the night’s roadmap and introduce the evening’s moderator, Dr. John Green. Before talking politics, Dr. John Green, Director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute and Interim Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, introduced the two speakers. Their speeches were well intentioned and felt almost too rehearsed. When discussing performance, we often don’t think about politics or political lectures. In a way, I suppose we as a society want to believe that these leaders aren’t acting or

are important linkage institutions in the political process. In fact, the Constitution contain several provisions that protect the right of individuals to promote their interests in a representative democracy. Interest groups serve a large role in politics. The government gets impacted by interests groups on a day to day basis. Interest groups are a group of individuals that unite due to a common interest. Interest groups have been formed over things like abortion, and gun laws. Due to these

and forbidden. Because of political opacity, only a few are bothered about politics, among which most of them are bitterly disappointed at the government. It is clear that owing to the internet censorship, they are too afraid to criticize outspokenly in real life, and as a result, anonymous social media becomes the only effectual channel. Though anonymity to some extent allows these “minority” people to comment on politics or even tell true stories of political scandals in social platforms anonymously

“Politics doesn’t belong in football” is what I heard my Dad say as a Jeremy Corbyn banner was raised in the kop. “I watch football to get away from Politics” is a comment I saw in /r/soccer and that got me thinking, isn’t football the worst place to come to get away from politics. I want to start with my overall point. Politics and Football are intricately intertwined. Politics often manifests itself through Football, whilst Football has also been used for political propaganda. One of the ways

Politics and the effect in writing Orwell’s statement that “language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts” in fact is true in our language in more recent times because of various uses such as propaganda and other techniques such as glittering generalities, transfer, card stacking, the band wagon. Although these

and struggling to keep still. We passed the clouds and as the New York City skyscrapers that once towered above me became ants, I decided that no matter who I became when I grew up, that person had to see the world. I have wanted to study law and politics for as long as I can remember. Five year old me also wanted to use the law to save the world. However, many recent events in America, such as the shooting of Mike Brown, have served to strengthen this desire but change my focus. I still want to save

Collective Action Problems & Incentives Required For Individuals to Work Together Collective action problems arise in politics because as individuals we are conflicted between our own interest and the interest of the group. Our choice is either to be selfish or cooperate with the group. “It involves building, combining, mixing, and amalgamating people’s individual goals” (Lowi, et al. 13). There are three main theories as to why collective action problems exist. First, according to Mancur Olson

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Corporate lobbying enables corporations to have a voice in politics, which on some issues, sounds fair. For others however, corporations being able to buy votes acts against the american people. Lobbying is a system of legalized corruption that must be regulated more heavily to prevent votes being swayed away from the constituents of politicians, and toward the interests of large corporations. With corporate lobbying being allowed in today's politics, companies have the opportunity to use money to purchase

presidential election I have found that it is even more uncommon to not have a strong political stance and I have been told over and over that I really need to form one and stand with it. I would have to say that I have never truly had a strong sense of politics, and sadly I have