Essay topics: Australian federalism needs major reforms to be effective in the 21st century. Critically discuss this statement with reference to the Australian Constitution and inter-governmental relations. There are many issues to discuss about the Australia federalism but the essay would only cover some significant issues. Firstly, in the essay Federalism needs to be defined and additionally the essay will be argued that federalism has been successful so far and can still be an effective way of
Chinese immigrants, when they first step into this continent, there may be some special concerns raise up when Chinese immigrants move in Canada, they will probably make a comparison with China, such as parental rearing behaviours, more political regional issues and the culture of aboriginal. China and Canada, one is an eastern country with more than 5,000 years culture and history; the other one is a well-developed western
It is defined as the multi- actor (state, market and people) led regional mechanisms and institutions (political, economic and social institutions) with the goal of achieving common interests, vision and identity. Regionalization is the process in which different stakeholders act together to implement and realize regionalist
Introduction The consequences of a dominant party system for the successful consolidation of democracy, has always been an issue of interest amongst political scientists in democracies all over the world. In a situation whereby one political party dominates the political landscape and faces little prospect of defeat in the general elections, then concerns always arise surrounding the possibility of declining government response to public opinion, loss of accountability and the overall destruction
Sena and later separated to form his own Hindu nationalism party. Raj Thackeray supported the idea of Marathi Nationalism and introduced the identity of the locals as ‘Marathi Manoos’ (Marathi Man). This created a further rift among the residents of Bombay and further isolated the local identity from that of the immigrants’. Shiv Sena and MNS played an important role in the renaming of important British architectural structures to regional names on account of Marathi Nationalism. Victoria Terminus
Over the years Nigeria has witnessed several empty, jabberwocky inordinate promises from our political gladiators who has used the magic of language to cajole many. However, language serves as a strong tool that our political leaders used for easy communication of thought that enhance winning of political mandate. This paper shows how language is used in politics as a tool to communicate thought and how language is used as a train to which political leaders convey meaning to the heart of Nigerians
The Pakistani federal government is on its strongest side. Now the regional leaders who were willing to be separated are now a very part of political process, keeping the main offices in the center and in the units. The most important blessing of promoting democracy is that Pakistan is being offered by the Supreme Court
AN ESSAY ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN SOUTH EAST ASIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR CURRENT REGIONAL ISSUES INTRODUCTION 1. Southeast Asia is a region with different political regimes that comprised of eleven countries. It has always been of significant geo-strategic importance with its sea frontiers across important sea routes involving the oil rich Indian Ocean region related to the strategically important Asia Pacific region. Southeast Asia is becoming increasingly importance in today’s globalised world both
century, several social scientists engaged in the debate on Japanese miraculous growth. Some of them, for example, Chalmers Johnson, argued that the miracle was a result of a development state that was guided by competent bureaucratic officers. This essay aims to investigate the formation of a modern state in Japan during the end of Tokugawa bakufu to the outset of the Second World War. The investigation based on Andrew Gordon’s “A Modern History of Japan” (2002). During the unification under the Tokugawa
Achimota (Achimota College) as mentioned by Davis, ed., (2005: 302, Ed.). The creation of a constitutionally single party state: The second important attempt taken by the independent African states was speaking loudly, openly and frankly about single-party, monoparty system. This aimed to transform the colonial multiparty system by which African leaders thought that colonial multi-party system will impede rapid growth of African political superstructure and development. Iliffe (1995, 2007: 395)