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Eemaan

Assess the relative importance of factors likely to lead to success for Pressure Groups in Washington

Pressure groups aim to affect government policy using various methods such as lobbying and organising grass root movements. The separation of powers in the Constitution means there ar...
Eemaan

The ideological differences between the Democratic and Republican parties are far greater than the differences within them- Discuss

The Democratic and Republican Parties are the two major political parties in the United States and they represent the more liberal and more conservative parts of the electorate respec...
Jessy

`Politics is powerfully shaped by the resource curse in the former Soviet Union`

Politics is powerfully shaped by the resource curse in the former Soviet un ion as resource wealth in countries such as Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan for example has allowed for...
Jacob

What Lessons Can Those Seeking Radical Social and Poitical Change Take From the Spanish Civil War?

What lessons can those seeking radical social change learn from the Spanish Revolution? The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and the collectivisation of both industrial and agrarian ...
Jacob

Aesthetics and Politics in Postmodern Theory

How are Politics and Aesthetics linked in Postmodern Theory?: Exploring Frederic Jameson and Zygmunt Bauman s Aesthetico-Political Positions. The turn towards the primacy of aesthet...
Jacob

The Rise of the Far Right Since the 1980s

Since the 1980s, there has been a drastic rise in the number of niche parties (Spies and Franzmann, 2011: p.1044) on the political stage in many European countries. Among the most p...
Jacob

Analysing Welfare State Emergence, Development, and Retrenchment (?) : Is a Power/Resources Approach Sufficient in Determining Why Some Welfare States Are More Generous Than Others?

This essay seeks to address differences in welfare provision in advanced industrial countries, to determine the factors that affect welfare state generosity. The essay gives primacy...
Jacob

Open Marxist State Theory Analysis of the 2013 Welfare Reforms

An Open Marxist State Theory analysis of the 2013 Welfare Reform Act in BritainThis essay seeks to analyse the recent welfare cuts by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, th...
Jacob

Is Power Ubiquitous?

This essay will address whether Foucault s conception of power as ubiquitous withstands the criticisms levelled at it predominantly by Jurgen Habermas and Nancy Fraser. The Foucau...
Jacob

Marx`s Intellectual Debt

This essay addresses the degree to which Marx owes an intellectual debt in his work, to the philosophy of Hegel and the Utopian Socialists respectively. It will argue that Marx’s ph...
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