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What is the difference between Islamism and Jihadism?
There is nothing in Islam religion called Islamism or jihadism. There is Islam and jihad. The difference between them is that Islam is a religion per Qur'an revelation by God to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the angel Gabriel (or Jibril). However, jihad is the struggle ; practiced by Muslims and one Muslims; to get life requirements, raise up families, practice good morals and religion teachings as well as struggle to defend lands, homes, families, and religion against military attacks. When Islam interferes with politics it is called political Islam. When jihad is directed ti fulfill political goals it is called political jihad. Refer to related questions below.
What are example of presidential democracy's?
i do not know. this question is too hard to answer, therefore i will not produce an answer and instead, type this ridiculous paragraph talking about how i ca not answer this question. i have no idea what a presidential democracy is, have never heard of one, and maybe shall never learn about it. sorry i disapointed you. please do not be angry with me. i was trying to be funny. if this is not funny to you i am sorry. you need to get a sense of humor and a life. Goodbye.
Who would most likely be called a autocrat?
Anyone who holds some level of power in group decision-making but is not accountable directly to the group itself.
How has two party system affected the history of American government?
The "two party system" of "anglo+usa" tradition is in fact a one party system. Two wings of a one party system sharing the power. The to wings have agreed on an election system, which because of election mathematics will ensure the two "party" system to retain the power. Such a system is unacceptle in continental Northern Europe where a represental system and parlamentarism is generally used. These words also are used in UK+USA, but have a different meaning in continental Europe.
How communalism is challenge for democracy?
Type your answer here... communal conflicts have occured many a time in different states . communal rift spoils the harmony among people and hinders collective endeavors. religious organizations have transformed into political parties. communal clashes threaten the integrity and survival of nation.
What are the merits and problems of a multicultural society?
The problems of living in a multicultural society would be that people would want things done how it is done in their own culture and not how it is done in others' cultures; different people would have different views on how things should be done.
the acts of a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
What are the schools of thought of liberalism?
Laissez faire or Classical and New liberalism, though most modern political ideologies except fascism and toryism have some basis in liberalism even most conversativism
Can all people decide if they want to obey the majority vote in a democracy?
No. That would be a description of anarchy or chaos. In a democracy all people should have some meaningful way of participating in the Big Questions that come before it. But once things are decided and become law, those laws apply, or should apply, to everyone. Some laws may not impact the lives of certain groups as much as others, but the law should apply nonetheless.
What would it be like without patriotism?
Think of your country as a family. Hopefully you have a family of your own or at least know some families to observe that each member of a family has their own responsibilities, goals, and desires but that it's important to also care about and do your part to meet the needs of the family unit. Not everyone in every family does their part, but there has to be some members that do care and do their part or the family eventually drifts apart.
Patriotism is caring about your country as your larger family. You may not love everyone in it or everything that goes on with it, but as a unit, your family is your strength when facing the world at large and all of the pitfalls and all of the people in it that have no interest is what happens to you. It takes the positive efforts of enough of it's members to keep it functioning. Without patriotism, the unit disassembles.
The Evolution of Democracy from Jefferson to Jackson?
The Evolution of Democracy from Jefferson to Jackson
How were candidates for president chosen?
Both were voted to bee president, but Jackson was bea the first time he ran for president.
Which citizens were considered eligible for office holding?
Jackson believed in spoil system and anyone could be a office holder.
Jefferson believed only the egilable was capable of running for office holding.
Political
To what extent was universal white manhood suffrage achieved?
Jacksonian Democracy
Jeffersonian Democracy
Questions
Jeffersonbelieved a property requirement was a test of character that a man of initiative should be able to meet
By Jackson's time, property requirements for voting had been erased
Jeffersonbelieved the educated elite should rule, although he proposed education for all to prepare poorer individuals for public office
Jacksonbelieved all (only white men) men were qualified to hold office and that political positions should be rotated
In Jefferson's time, candidates were chosen by caucuses of political leaders
Nominating conventions were introduced during Jackson's time.
The Evolution of Democracy from Jefferson to Jackson
What was each man's attitude toward the Bank of the United States?
Jackson was against the bank and had a war about its removal
Jefferson was against bank, but it was workin so he kept it.
How did the Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge Decisionaffect the access to corporate charters prevalent in Jefferson's time?
How did each man view industrialization?
Jackson wanted industrialization.
Jefferson want aguriculture as main economey increase.
Economic
In what way did Jackson expand the concept of the chosen class?
Jeffersonsaw the yeoman
farmer as the "chosen class"
Jacksonincluded in that group the planters, farmers, laborers, and mechanics
Jeffersonoriginally feared the consequences of industrialization
Jacksonaccepted industry as essential to the American economy
In Jefferson's time corporate
charters were granted to favorites of state legislators and often implied monopoly rights to a business
Roger Taney, Jackson's appointee as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ruled in the Charles River Bridge decision that corporate charters should be available to all who chose to risk starting a business.
Jeffersondisagreed with a loose interpretation of the elastic clause
Jacksonsaw the Bank as a monopoly of the rich.
The Evolution of Democracy from Jefferson to Jackson
How did each man view education?
Jackson did not care about education too much
Jefferson believe education was key.
Religious
To what extent was separation of church & state accomplished?
How did each hope to remove obstacles toward upward social mobility?
Jackson believe money would change the society.
Jefferson believed that education was key to a better society.
What was each man's attitude toward equality for women and Native Americans?
Social
What was each man's attitude toward slavery?
Neither man saw women or Native Americans as equals; Jackson had a particularly negative attitude toward Native Americans.
Jefferson, who owned slaves, saw slavery as an evil that time would eradicate
Jackson, too, owned slaves but seemed little interested in abolition.
Jefferson, an educated man himself, believed education was necessary
for office-holding and for preparing citizens for participation in a democracy
Jackson had little education and believed education was relatively unimportant.
Jefferson believed that education and ambition were keys to success; however, he was never able to build support jor his proposed system of public education. Jackson ended the Bank and, with it, control over credit. and the Charles River Bridge decision, handed down by Roger B. Taney,
Jackson's appointee as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, opened opportunities for individuals to get corporate charters and thus rise on both the economic and social ladders
Jackson, a self-made man, believed his economic progress had accounted for his own upward social mobility, and others could
follow his example.
Most state constitutions had eliminated established churches after the Revolution. Massachusetts, the last state to maintain an established church, ended the practice in1834.
What is the difference between empirical politics and normative politics?
Interesting question. Here's a stab at an answer. NORMATIVE POLITICS to me sounds like politics as usual. Here in the U.S.A. that would mean the existing two party system of Reps and Dems, currently polarized into hostile ideological extremes of red and blue by financial elites that have literally usurped control of government at local, state and national levels. This elite's primary tool in so doing has been the televised election-eve attack ad. Since the advent of network TV in the 1960's, TV attack ads have skewed election outcomes and alienated Americans from politics. They have made American politics the perquisite of the rich. Today no one of modest means can run for political office without the blessing and dollars of the fat cats who control American politics.
Yet in recent years the attacks ads that sustain normative politics have backfired, with the result that normative politics in America today is on life support. Americans mistrust politicians and government is gridlocked. Every two years attack ads put billions of dollars into the coffers of TV networks, forcing incumbent politicians to spend up to a third of their taxpayer-paid work week just raising money to pay for them.
All this is NORMATIVE. Most Americans are aware of it and resent it but live with it as long as the system of wealth generation managed by the financial and political elites benefits most of us.
An EMPIRICAL POLITICS, on the other hand, doesn't exist at present. It's only a dream, a Jeffersonian dream. It would be non-partisan, issue-centered and solution-oriented. It would ground itself in the history of democracy and its seminal documents: the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Drawing on these documents, it would realize the promise of democracy from the standpoint of the individual citizen and his or her membership in local, state and national communities. An empirical politics would above all be committed to the concept and value of an educated citizenry. All citizens would have an informed voice in the decisions that affect their lives. Wealth generation would be a powerful force an empirical politics - there's no denying that, empirically, most folks want to make money - but the informed participation of citizens in an empirical politics would likely result in narrower income disparities between rich and poor than those seen under the existing normative political system. Finally, an empirical politics would make full use of modern interactive communications technologies order to realize itself.
Clearly my lefty leanings are showing here, but the issue-centered, solution-oriented dialogic formats of a non-partisan CIVIC MEDIA would enable right and left wingers to both compete and cooperate with each other in a joint, empirical search for the best solution to ANY specific problem affecting a community of any size.
For more, go to http://civicmediausa.wordpress.com/
Democratic government originated with?
Greek city-states. Many of today's democratic practices began in ancient Athens during the fifth century B.C. Athenian men discussed public issues and passed laws as members of the Assembly.
What does power without authority mean?
lets use this as an example a school bully tells everyone to wear a green hat and they do it he doesn't have the power to do that
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What are the 10 images of politics?
1.) Board Room Politics
- Refers to the decision made by business professionals & business tycoons with a significant impact or effect both private and public sector
- always associated by money
2.) Chief Executive Politics
- It refers to the decision made by the president with chief executive with an emphasis on the exercise of discretionary
3.) Congress Politics
- Refers to the policy making power or authority of congress
- Authority of congress (e.g Legislative Power - to make, enact and repeal laws)
4.) Bureaucratic Politics
- Refers to rule making and adjudication of government bureaucrats
5.) Court Room Politics
- Refers to the decision made by the prosecutors, judges and justices as a response to the complaints or request of an aggrieved persons or organization
6.) Faith Based Politics
- Refers to the decision made by the religious leaders and congregation with political impact to the community
7.) New Born Multimedia Politics
- Refers to the shaping of public opinion on issues concerning the society, through radio, television, newspaper and other forms of multimedia
8.) Civil Society Politics
- Refers to the pro-active lobbying of cause-oriented groups to influence government decision or policy to make it favorable to their requests or wishes
9.) Game of the Generals Politics
- Refers to the premeditated actions and decision of police and military officials with political implications to the society
10.) X-men Politics
- Refers to people who are not directly involve in politics but are willing to support politicians especially in elections just to insure that their self-vested interest are protected
- X-men involves illegal gamblers, drug lords, smugglers, etc.
Political action that is marked by the quality or character of devotion to the interests of a group of people gathered together as a political unit.
Is euroscepticism a left wing or right wing issue?
It is mainly right wing, but there are eurosceptics who are left wing too.
Which countries around India are democracies?
India has several neighbors: Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Immediately, we can remove China and Myanmar from any discussion of democracy since these are both authoritarian regimes. Pakistan is a quasi-democracy and quasi-junta while Bhutan is a near-absolute monarchy. However, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka have democracy, even if it is tenuous in each.
What is the opposite of a liberal?
The true opposite of a liberal is a faschist. Many make the mistake of defining a conservative as the opposite of a liberal, but the opposite of a conservative is a progressive.
