Populism

supposed to make all workers equal and how it went wrong by corrupt officials. 2. Eco Umberto in his article shows today’s fascism or “Ur-Fascism” in many ways. It offers many new ideas about fascism and how it is tied to nationalism and selective populism. It offers deeper meaning in explaining fascism other than simple “contempt for others”. This site shows that fascism is faceted so that it has many different levels of oppression. It helps to understand why fascism is so object able. It also

The Minimum Wage in Thailand In 2012, many companies in Thailand faced a number of labor strikes, which had a big impact the economy of Thailand. The motive of the labor strikes was that workers wanted more wages for their better life quality. Due to this circumstance, one of the political parties, Pheu Thai Party, proposed a new minimum daily wage policy increasing from 210 Baht to 300 Baht, or about US $10, to attract more votes for the coming election in 2013. Finally, the party was elected

Resource: J O'meara, Gregory. (2010) article in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings Write and 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that summarizes the arguments for and against confining sick and older adult prisoners in jail. Which of these arguments do they think have merit? What values underlie each position? How does medical parole or release fit into this discussion? Provide alternative solutions to the problem and discuss their overall impacts. Parole for the elderly CJHS/430 Parole for the elderly

values and thus integral to life, as being detrimental to the society and has criminalized them, for example, the sati practice and the dowry custom, and therefore agreeing in principle with Hart’s view on the matter that it should not be driven by ‘populism’, and as long as no harm can be proved to have occurred to another segment of the society, liberties should afforded to the citizens of the

Philip Axelrod’s Final Socratics Seminar Questions Founding of the U.S 1) Where should the power lie within the US.? (state/local level, national level) Neither, there must be balance between local and national government. An example where almost complete power was held at the national level was the British rule of the colonies. Although this rule did lend to economic and political stability (despite falling apart pre revolution), the physical separation of the British national government from the

Venezuela underwent a rollercoaster of economic and political reforms, “the exhaustion of the ISI model and the application of neoliberal policies opened the way for two decades of economic disorientation and social decomposition. This contributed to a political and institutional crisis that, at the end of the 20th century, appeared to be irreversible” (Lopez Maya, pg 235). The Chavez regime can be split into two parts before 2006 and after. In 1999 he attempted to strengthen democracy and search

In the 1930’s, the Great Depression was giving the U.S. economy crippling impacts. Since the stock market crash of October 1929, the overall American economy had become more unstable. The instability of the economy led to massive bank bankruptcies for the decrease of credits. Moreover, the economic instability apparently affected the standard of living of most of all American citizens. In the Roaring Twenties, overproduction occurred for the introduction of Fordism, a revolutionary assembly system

All the rights and benefits the government gives people are mostly white. Document #6 is about Henry Ford and his welfare capitalism. In the early 1920s, socialism, populism, and progressivism developed rapidly. They all want to benefit from the state system. They proposed reforms to address conditions such as living wage and working hours for workers. At the same time, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company, which

It ceased to be the only party for working people, and concerned itself more with social issues. The Republican party has capitalized on this and a wave of populism has overtaken the party. In West Virginia, electors have not taken well to the new doctrine of the Democrats. It is not the case that there are more registered Republicans than Democrats in West Virginia (West Virginia Secretary of State), it is

RESULTS WHAT IS EUROSCEPTICISM? According to Leconte (2010): Euroscepticism is a rather recent term. […] However, some of the core concepts of Eurosceptic discourse already existed, such as ‘Eurocrat’- a term which appeared in French dictionaries in the mid-1960s (during the Gaulle era) and which conveys the idea of a gap between European elites and the average citizen. (p.3). Later on, Leconte (2010) mentions that the first link to the word ‘Euroscepticism’ was mentioned in a specific context