Political science Essay Samples
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Judicial Activism versus Judicial Restraint Analysis
Affirmative Action
Constitutional Law
Equal Protection Clause
Government
Justice
Political science
United States law
Grutter v. Bollinger The ruling of the Supreme Court regarding Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) invites rigorous debate as to whether or not the majority opinion in the case, which concluded that “factoring race into the admissions decisions of the University of Michigan Law School was compatible with the Constitution” (Pollak, 2005), in fact,…
Codifying Conventions and Royal Prerogatives
Constitution
Constitutional Law
Government
Jurisprudence
Justice
Political science
Dicey defined ‘conventions’ as the non-legal rules that govern the application of legal rules. The British constitution recognizes the importance of prerogative powers, which are legal powers held by the crown but exercised by the government without parliament’s authorization. However, debates have arisen over their scope due to their unwritten nature. Consequently, there is a…
The Distinction of Michel Foucault’s Concept of Power
Concept
Discourse
Knowledge
Metaphysics
Political science
Truth
The Distinction of Michel Foucault’s Concept of Power “The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.”-Michel Foucault, (1978) History of Sexuality: IntroductionProbably the well-conceived reality in our current social structure is the concept of power. Particularly, Michel Foucault presented his own version for…
Procedural and Natural Justice
Common Law
Constitutional Law
Government
Justice
Political science
Separation of powers
It is similar to the American concepts of fair procedure and procedural due process, the tater having roots that to some degree parallel the origins of natural justice. 1 Although natural justice has an impressive ancestry and is said to express the close relationship between the common law and moral principles, the use of the…
The Totalitarian Dictatorship Debate
Ideology
Leadership
Max Weber
Plato
Political science
Totalitarianism
World Wide Web
Personal dictators remain a key feature of contemporary regimes termed ‘authoritarian’ or ‘totalitarian’, particularly in their early consolidating phases. But there is still disagreement over the seemingly ideological, polemical and indiscriminate use of the term totalitarian dictatorship as an analytic concept and tool to guide foreign policy formulation. 1 Jeane Kirkpatrick elevated the taxonomy to…
The Importance of Citing Your Sources
Critical Thinking
Education
Political science
Science
For this assignment you will be required to think critically and to do academic research beyond the text in order to answer the question below. Each student must use at least two additional academic sources and provide properly formatted PAP in-text citations and references for your sources. Assignments turned in without in-text citation and/or references…
Political Scientists Research Paper Jeremy Reed
Autonomy
Constitution
Government
Liberty
Political science
social institutions
Political Scientists Essay, Research Paper Jeremy Reed Senior Seminar March 19, 1998 One of the most intimidating undertakings confronting political scientists and pupils of international dealingss today is the attempt to develop clearly defined parametric quantities of when a group of people has the right to self-government. With the planetary rise of cultural and nationalist…
Corporate Culturism: Critical Thinking Assignment
applied ethics
Ethics
Organizational Culture
Political science
Propaganda
Totalitarianism
Willowiest article, “Strength is ignorance; slavery is freedom: Managing culture in modern organizations”, is a harsh critique of corporate cultism’s’ totalitarian attempt of ‘controlling and winning the hearts and minds of their employees, in order to secure unusual efforts. ‘(1993 ) The article, which was published in the Journal of management studies in 1993, tests…
Why Did the Warsaw Pact Intervene in Czechoslovakia in 1968 but Not in Poland in 1980?
Communism
International Relations
Political science
Socialism
Soviet Union
Why did the Warsaw Pact intervene in Czechoslovakia in 1968 but not in Poland in 1980? When conducting a comparative analysis there are several arguments that need to be developed in order to come up with a feasible conclusion. Therefore by using a three-fold approach I will be exploring the question of why the Warsaw…
An Analysis of Lenins Last Testament
Communism
Joseph Stalin
Marxism
Political science
Political spectrum
Socialism
Soviet Union
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a strong supporter and advocate of the Marxist theory of government, was elected as head of the Soviet government from 1917 to 1922 after the overthrow of the last czar. He left public service because of his worsening health conditions. Knowing that his poor condition might turn for the worse but loathe…