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) noticed that ‘this politics seems to have entered the continent mainly through the Francophone states
this paper to focus on the role of traditional institutions and Local Government Administration in Nigeria as agent that are supposed to enhance and promote development in the rural area. The basic argument of the paper is that during Pre-colonial days in Nigeria, traditional rulers enjoyed full power in their Kingdom, command respect and obedience from their subject; however colonialisation and basternialization of the Nigerian society has created socio political and economic implication for sustainable
Polanyi as the ‘great transformation’, modern society materialised (Morrison, 2006). Movements in political structure, economics and individualism resulted in the emergence of sociology, as a means
also restored the prevalence of the traditional political society. Accordingly, Eaton described this phenomenon as the restoration of the elites or the trapos (traditional politicians) whom have ruled way before the Marcos regime. Although this may be true, there has been an emergence of a strong presence of social mobilization which was not evident prior to the Marcos era. Likewise, the aforementioned statement implies how the post-Marcos Philippine political setting saw the transformation of the
Introduction; Democracy in general terms is understood to be a form of government which is subject to popular sovereignty. One of the crowing glories of the democratic system is the freedom of expression and the space that is provided to views from different sections of the society. A democratic system can run to its utmost potential when there is wide participation on the part the general mass which is not possible without people getting informed about various issues. Participation in government
development of transnational media systems, do you think that state regulation of the media is still relevant? Discuss with examples. According to the lecture, there are various forms of media organizations which include, state-owned, publicly funded, private non-profit, private family-owned, and private publicly listed. There is an increasing number of media conglomerates as well as its transnational features and diversity. Additionally, global media markets has three-tier system; first, second and third
the case of dependency (AKE). Democracy is defined as a political system which supplies regular constitutional opportunities for changing the governing officials. It is a social mechanism for the resolution of the problem of societal decision-making among conflicting interest groups which permits the largest possible part of the population to influence these decisions through their ability to choose among alternative contenders for political office, (Lipset, 1958). This definition implies specific
security mechanism, women is easily be attacked by man. In the unsafe social content, it is impossible for women to fully participate in the economic and political life if they need to risk physical security cannot be guaranteed. Thus, ensure the physical security of women is the basic requirement for women to achieve their economic and political empowerment. Especially in some cultures, even if women is the sufferer of the violence attack, people do not think it is men’s fault instead of they think
globalization and interdependency, amongst other developments, has created new sets of actors and mechanisms of exercising power that are not encompassed within the traditional, mainstream theories of International Relations. To account for these deficiencies in traditional IR theories, it is clear that the application of non-traditional theoretical frameworks is necessary. Neo-Gramscianism offers an excellent example to portray the shortcomings of mainstream theoretical approaches; the nature of hegemony
Philippine IPs has been experiencing historical discrimination and marginalization from political processes and economic benefit for over a hundred years. They often face exclusion, loss of ancestral lands, displacement, pressures to and destruction of traditional ways of life and practices, and loss of identity and culture. In extreme situations, social and political discontent has erupted into armed conflict – the 40-year old armed conflict in Mindanao, involving secessionists and communist insurgents