Short Essay on Politics

Everyday narratives: Living in uncertainty in Suleimani This chapter focuses on ethnographic vignettes from ordinary people from the city of Suleimani, Kurdistan. I specifically analyse narratives highlighting living under uncertainty, as part of the bigger theme of everyday politicizing narratives addressed in my thesis. The everyday narratives have resulted from intermittent fieldwork conducted in 2015 and 2016, supplemented by previous reflections and encounters from 2011 in the city of…

In the book, Introducing Comparative Politics by Steven Orvis and Carol Ann Drogue, the content containing Middle East, Asia and Africa is infrequent whereas information on the Americas and European is numerous. There is evidence the authors wrote the textbook in a Eurocentric tone. Honestly, the authors were very far from avoiding Eurocentrism and there are ways to avoid the ironic misfortune. Firstly, the case studies are imbalanced amongst the eleven countries. Secondly, Eurocentric based…

people in the senate or in the congress or those people wearing tuxedoes and delivering their speech to the people. To determine if someone is politically eligible, we shall define ‘politics’. Politics is the ability to exercise power and to influence the people by means of authority. According to Lasswell, Politics is about who gets what, where, when and how. It is concerned with the resolution of conflict and allocation of resources. Hence, through these definitions, we end up…

government and society and continue to do so today. Emmeline Pankhurst and John Vertrees’ arguments show that women have to work harder than men in order to prove that (delete that) their political actions are not irrational because of the thought that politics is only meant to have male participants. Pankhurst highlights the idea that women in society do not have as much efficacy as men, and in turn they have to resort to harsher methods to gain attention from their government. In her speech,…

she enjoys and feels strongly about politics and the environment. Ana Stringer grew up in Seattle, Washington, but moved to Barrow at the age of 13 when her parents divorced. Moving from Barrow was a tremendous change for her since the population went from 600,000 to 4,000 people; there was no…

regulations. The idea was to reduce corruption (or its appearance) and curtail the power of special interests—certainly laudable goals. Campaign-finance rules did stop some egregious transactions, but at a cost: Instead of eliminating money from politics (which is impossible), the rules diverted much of it to private channels. The result has been the creation of an array of private political machines across the country: for instance, the Koch brothers ' Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove 's…

extremely corrupt while spreading the news about today’s politics. Today's new articles on politics are usually either biased, the story is slightly altered, or the information in the articles are just found to be rumors later on. There aren’t many news sources today that are producing reliable articles that aren’t biased one way or another towards politics. I believe that all sources of media today have had a combined negative impact on politics today because people use news media it to spread…

which disregarded the relevance of morality were acceptable. Hobbes referred to history in order to explain his analysis on political power, he discussed what was called ‘the state of nature’ and that in this scenario, life would be nasty, brutish and short, in which there would be an abundance of freedom, but a lack of security. In this anarchical situation, it would hinder eudemonia as everyone would do as they please. In order to have power and for a state to flourish, Hobbes believed the…

formed by groups of people who were having different thoughts and ideas about how to rule or how to control others and their properties. As long as that happened, the differences had led to misunderstanding and chaos among the tribes and as now called politics. Each political community formed, a different problem came to life. All this was a way to undercover the best ways of ruling and leading others in places all around the world. The first place that appeared to be like a political community…

Bowling alone by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.”…