While I realise that the comparison between these two countries is insufficient to make conclusive claims about consensus and majoritarian systems as a whole, it does allow us to see how both systems perform in practice and therefore any results found could be used to make general observations about their democratic performance. ... Literature Review This essay contributes to research on the quality of democracy, in particular on the democratic performance of consensus systems compared to majoritarian systems. ... It is procedural indicators that will be analysed in this essay as they are most...

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Essay Question 1: How has the Arab Spring fundamentally changed Middle Eastern society and the evolution of future politics in the region? ... Arab Spring countries haven't decided what kind of economy they are trying to create, and still don't have a clear vision of their economic future. ... On political and economic reform, it remains to be seen what the nature of the democratic political systems that emerge following the Arab Spring revolutions will be. A country's economy is what determines how much influence that country is going to have on the global market. ... Growing ...

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Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. It will give a short introduction on democracy, what classifies as democracy, and the different paths taken to democracy, also stating the different problems that post-communist countries had to face when hey began the process of democratisation. ... This essay will compare and contrast two post-communist countries, focusing on Poland, who has had a fairly successful' transition to democracy, and Romania, who shows clear signs of a complicated and uncertain transiti...

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The over-empowerment of this position can be seen in several examples, which I will describe in the following essay, along with examinations of the institutions that are responsible for this concentration of authority within the federal government. ... Indeed, under section 91 of the Constitution Act of 1867, the federal government had the broad power to make laws for what it felt was the "peace, order, and good government,"" of Canada. ... Indeed, it is so blatantly obvious that the Senate is nothing more than a partisan institution; Chrétien has not even bothered to make his appoint...

• Word Count: 2642
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate