... . However such critiques ignore the democratic underpinnings of the Indian political system and the distinctive context of its establishment. Democracy is essential to address India's developmental challenges in view of its diversity and need for responsive government. While criticisms of casteism, communalism, criminalization of politics and corruption are warranted, they represent an incomplete process of deepening of democracy rather than failure of democracy itself. An understanding of strengths and limitations of Indian democracy requires ... casteism has been a negative force in In...

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... a small republic. James Madison, a Federalist and a fierce proponent of the Constitution, responded to their concerns in the Federalist Papers, reassuring the Anti-Federalists that the form of government laid down by the Constitution was not only the best, but the only way to preserve the rights of the people. It is evident that although the intention of both the Anti-Federalists and of Madison was to protect the rights of the people and although they both agreed on a republican form ... of government, they drastically disagreed as to any further details ... ...

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... on the sustainability of tourism, it should also address the needs of visitors, the industry, and host communities. I agree that "The government and its planning authorities play the most important role in ensuring the sustainability of tourism." However, there are other various groups that are responsible for ensuring the sustainability of tourism. An important role of the public sector, which is the government and planning authorities, is to control the rate and scale of development in ... tourist areas, and to monitor tourism activities and development to secure a reliable source of ...

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... as Smith points out "it is only under the shelter of the civil magistrate that the owner of that valuable property, which is acquired by the labor of many years, or perhaps of many successive generations, can a sleep a single night in security." Smith's third role for the Sovereign, the Expense of Public Works and institutions, is one of the more "controversial" in his theory of the state as he states that it is the duty of the government to build and maintain ... social necessities "which though they may be in the ... ...

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... still loopholes in the political regime of Nigeria to be considered an absolute polyarchy and further more Dahl's concept of polyarchy is also very idealistic. On the other hand, the executive system of China is entirely contrary to the one in Nigeria. The executive body of China is known as the State council. The premier of the State Council is nominated by the president, reviewed by the NPC, and appointed and removed by the president. Other members of the State Council are ... nominated by the premier, reviewed by the NPC or its Standing Committee, and ... ...

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... the second paragraph of article 663." In other words, in cases of terrorism, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the examining Judge and the Parisian courts exercise a concurrent jurisdiction with the common law courts normally empowered to try the offense, i.e. that of the place where the offense is committed, or the place of residence of the person suspected of having participated in the offense, or the courts in the place where the person is arrested. Consequently, when an offense is committed on the French territory, it is the ... the Prime Minister, the presidents of the Assemblie...

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... system to prevent and discourage criminal activity in the community, and that process is very expensive and is not very effective since there sill lies a section of the population that has not been properly educated and given the tools to earn and to develop maturely and therefore turn to criminal activity. Therefore in the year 2020 there should classes for parents to have proper skills to guide ... to prevent them from turning to violence and crime. Today, crime prevention, and policing, gobbling a tremendous part of the government's budget and the Beaurocrats a have lack of vision an...

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... Sector Family Planning Models In Pakistan). Innovation by and the modernization of the private sector is another reason why they prospered as an institution. Incorporating new methods into the system and coming up with more relevant policies for this era, the NPOs do stand prominent. FPAP/Rahnuma, for example, introduced policies like "youth development", "girl child" and "women in development" which ... worked to facilitate their target individuals and were more efficient as they focused on one segment, instead of the whole. In addition to these three, another pragmatic policy introduc...

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... few seconds can be done in different places, especially in the offices since most of them are hidden and no one can know what the corrupter is doing inside his office , furthermore , the absence of the control such as the ones by cameras is another primary factor of this phenomenon ,in addition to that , the responsibility given to a specific person gives him the opportunity to do whatever he wants for example , when ... the police man arrests a car , he can negotiate how much the conductor could pay , the police man is not controlled. The efforts made by ... ...

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... to relinquish control would extend civil service protection coverage by executive order, thus keeping many of his patronage appointees in office. The practice of both the spoils system and extending protection of federal jobs of presidential appointees is something that is unfortunate in today's bureaucracy. Though it is a power that is giving to the president, it is unfortunately abused. One can understand having some people that are close to you and follow ... your opinions and political beliefs, appointing only individuals who do so can hurt the representation of the people of the co...

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... a scale and duration never surpassed in the nation's history " than during Attlee's governance. Contrastingly, due to the state that the economy was in by the 1951 elections " Churchill famously said that the inheritance of the welfare state was a 'crown of thorns' " and the alarming recovery made in the sequential years, it is clear that the conservative party did achieve profound economic amelioration. The instatement of the Conservative party saved Britain from economic collapse ... , as historian C. Barnett stated "New Jerusalem itself, a dream turned to a dank reality ". RAB Butler ...

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... official barriers to the role of the Diet's lower house, there also existed the informal Genro, a small cadre of elder statesmen whose role was also to advise the emperor on political matters. One example of their power is that the Prime Minister of the House of Representatives was essentially picked by the Genro, and they made sure that the will of nonparty elites was not trodden on by the actions of the elected parties.4 As the parliament's 'position still ... depended on the Genro and House of Peers', there could be no 'constitutional adventures'5. As well as civilian obstacles...

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... Ministerial Act of 1924, which proposed the legal basis for the Civil Service (Barrington). This Act created a central administration subdivided into ministerial departments and local authorities. At the head of each department and authority is the Minister. The 1924 Act provided a legal basis for structure and organization of Administration by designating the extent of the Ministers authority in respect of performance of public functions. Ministerial responsibility, according to the Act, reveals that application of the actions of the department ... are seen to be the acts of the Minist...

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... "In all societies of any degree of complexity the individual is less affected directly by the society as a whole than differentially through various of its subdivisions, or groups" (Truman). The most factual declaration that encapsulates the essence of the policy procedure is that it requires the conciliation of faction interests at every level and in every division of the government. The best way in which the Constitution shapes the material ingredients of public policy is to proscribe the government from curtailing ... specific foundational rights and freedoms of the public. It is c...

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... . This also applies to when aforementioned information is released to third parties. This definition is supported by the mosaic theory of the Fourth Amendment which is essentially the idea that multiple searches for information by the government, even if each is justified on its own, may become unjustified under the Fourth Amendment by the idea that the greater intrusion made possible by aggregating and analyzing the information as a larger data set, which may ... and sensitive information not obtainable through any individual search and potentially not relevant to the purposes of the in...

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... the extensive demise of British authority in the colonies. From the Assemblies perspective, this response brought to the forefront the severe lack of parliament's success in governing the colonies, releasing the tension built up over the years of apparent "Salutary Neglect." On the other hand, Britain was faced with the real threat of losing the colonies by the French imposition, finally from their point of view meriting this redirection of attention. What was clear from the Seven Years War is ... that Parliament should have realised they could no longer expect the plain luxury of ... ...

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... have been used as convincing arguments for privatization by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (Berg, 1981, Kikeri, Nellis and Shirley, 1992). Explanations for the poor performance of public enterprises have been theorized from a variety of perspectives, collectively referred to as the theory of government failure. A central theme of these theories is the idea that public ownership leads to the pursuit of objectives that detract from economic welfare maximization (Willig ... , 1993; Boycko, Shleifer and Vishny, 1996). The combined force of the government failure literatur...

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... some Asian countries, the state is still the protector and server of the people, but the people at large rather than the individual. A concept of the 'greater good' is far more present in somewhere like the policies of China than in those of the UK. Largely this can be explained by the ideological basis of the Chinese state where the aim of Communism (the original basis for the People's Republic of China) is far more collective than that of the liberal capitalism entrenched in ... our Western society during the ... ...

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... much campaign contributions coming from interest groups, legislators are forced to vote for legislation that favors the interest groups giving the most money, not what is best for the entire population. "Campaign contributions profoundly influence the legislative decisions of members of Congress, and thus contribute to the overrepresentation of special interests in Congress at the expense of the interests of unorganized citizens" (Smith 91). Contributors like Political Action Committees give billions ... to have an impact on government. An examination of the interest group system in the...

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... accountability brought to a crisis, through citizen and media criticism was apparent after clientelist practices in the allocation of public funds. However, as referred to by Transparency International (2014) corruption in the political sector is difficult to cast out as the judiciary is the weakest institution of the country due to a high number of political interference. Furthermore, Slovakia has the highest percentage of minorities compared to its overall population and although, minorities like ... the Hungarian are legally provided by all the basic human rights and legislation abou...

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... political decisions exemplifies a paradox. To illustrate, this paradox reveals the ideology that politics is the underlying factor of power, with the autonomy of utility. Added to this, ethics is the basis of principle, which is lead by moralities. The correlations between the two variables are the cornerstone of transparency and accountability. In this case, federal cabinet ministers misused their public authority, and were not upholding the doctrine of ministerial responsibility. For these reasons, there was a lack ... of confidence in the government's ability, which resulted in a low...

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... centralized and elitist governmental system. The elite managed to retain control over the political system by designating representatives of the middle class, labor class, and the peasantry. Furthermore, the Guerrilla insurgency has been only the most visible dimension of a far deeper problem confronting the Colombian political system: the progressive erosion of the regime's legitimacy as a result of its failure to institutionalize mechanisms of political participation. Likewise, there is also the legitimacy problem reflected in rising levels ... of voter abstention, mass political apat...

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