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Category: Political System | Oct 01, 2009 |
No matter where you live, politics probably plays a part in your day to day life. You might not immediately deal with political issues, but you can be sure that politics plays a part in what you do! Whether it is office politics deciding who gets that raise you’ve been hoping for; city politics determining where you are allowed to park downtown; county politics dictating your quarterly property tax or even nationwide politics deciding how your schools are funded, politics plays a part in your daily life.
It is important then that you understand what politics really is. Politics, at its core, is defined by Wikipedia as the process by which groups of people make decisions. At its core, politics sounds quite simple. What makes it complicated are the individuals involved in making the decisions. Because human beings are not perfect, the political system is never going to be perfect. This is something that most people don’t understand about politics. You can put all of the pomp and circumstance into politics that you want, in the end; it is more about human beings getting their way than about the process itself.
It has been said quite often that politics is a dirty business. In the United States Congress, for example, politics has taken on an air of hatred and manipulation. Many citizens of the United States feel that they are left out of the process of politics and that their elected representatives are more interested in scoring personal points than in working toward the betterment of their states and districts. In the last few decades special interest groups have taken on an entirely new role and lobbyists have become particularly vilified.
This disillusion toward politics is nothing new. Plato—the famous Greek philosopher—believed that all political systems were corrupt at their cores and that societies leaders should be chosen from an elite group of individuals who were began leadership training at birth. Aristotle argued that man is inherently political and that personal and political ethics are often the same thing.
One of the most famous political philosophers, Machiavelli advised that leaders of politics be brutal and manipulative and do whatever they could to retain their power. Machiavelli is studied today and his work is considered to be one of the leading authorities on how to behave in politics. Is it any wonder then, that the political systems of so many nations look corrupt?
The heart of politics is good: it is how laws are made and how individuals are judged by the societies that surround them. Without politics, nobody would know what was allowed and what was not allowed when they left the house. Unfortunately, many people view politics as a way to get ahead or to gain some sort of power over the people they live and work with. It is because of these “bad eggs” that politics has become regarded as an evil and ugly business.
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What do you call a political system in which the country is ruled by king and nobles?What do you call a political system in which the country is ruled by king and nobles, with or without a mix of parliament? I'm refering to the governments of Europe during, say, 300 years ago to 150 years ago.
P.S. Feudalism doesn't seem to be it, as it refers to medieval times, and I need something more modern to describe a sort of an enlightened rule by nobility.
New forms of Anarcho-Collectivism are always popping up.
We have no way of knowing the state or country YOU live in…but here is a great link:
http://www.greeka.com/ancient-greece.htm
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Economic systems involve the production and distribution of goods and services and money. Political systems involve electoral processes and hierarchies of power and means of making laws.
Capitalism is associated with democracy and command economics with authoritarianism, mostly because the US education system has been mandated to teach this theory since the McCarthy era in the 1950s. This was designed to help children distinguish good Democratic Americans from the bad Communist USSR and China, against whom they might be called to fight a war.
Few, if any, purely capitalistic, socialistic or democratic regimes have ever actually existed. There is some correlation between command politics and command economics (if you are going to control one thing, why not everything), but all modern democracies exert a lot of control over their economic systems and some third world dictatorships exercises considerably less than most of the developed nations. China retains a somewhat authoritarian political model but has adopted a free market economic system. The Russian economy has become markedly less regulated and more capitalistic than ours. Many European social democracies are rated as more democratic than ours but also practice more control over their economies.
Real leaders do what is practical, readily stealing their opponents good ideas, then making up ideology to suit their purpose. There was little difference between the wartime command economies of Germany, Britain or the USA. The Federal reserve has managed the economy under every administration since we abandoned the gold standard. Nixon nationalized passenger rail service, instituted wage & price controls and oil rationing. Reagan increased government spending and the size of government. Clinton kept taxes low and balanced the budget. Bush and Obama agreed on bank bailouts and government ownership of GM. People who say they oppose government do not refuse social security and medicare.
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well, I'm Spanish, so I think I can help you.
Nowadays, the Prime Minister is José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero who is the president of PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero ESpañol->Spanish Working Socialist Party).
There are some problems with terrorism, for example inSpain esxist a "terrorist group" called ETA and the we vote just once every four years and the political system works by "seats".
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Sigh…same here.
Is it really that hard to beleive someone has tallent?
By making the benefits and authority of the three branches different. A congressional rep is more closely tied to the micro-society and has to prove his/her worth with more frequent elections.
The president has to prove his/her worth to the macro-society. While the Judicial branch does not have to prove themselves at all once they are appointed.
monarchies
No, not at all. I said “what if” =D
A meritocracy, based on English Common Law.
Of, look at China where the political system has stayed constant but the economic system has undergone a massive overhaul sine the death of Mao:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economics
But to really answer your question, we need to know more about what kinds of differences you are interested in.
(By the way, "globalization" is not a good example of "the rise of an economic system". The extent of the global economy varies over time, but there was trade between Rome and China more than 2000 years ago; Rome imported much of its food from Egypt; etc. So are you going to compare the rise of globalization then with the rise of the EU more recently?
Or how about the rising of global trade during the Middle Ages (1000 A.D. – 1500 A.D.) after the period of falling trade with the fall of Rome?
Or how about the rise again during the 18th and 19th century?
What we are seeing now is just a reprise on an old theme. And if transportation costs continue to grow with higher oil prices, then global trade will start shrinking again.)
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