...Third parties in the United States do not win, but they tend to keep elections interesting. Although third parties bring in votes for themselves, a majority of them have extreme views on issues. These types of views cannot put a party at the top of a nation that mainly consists of moderate individuals. America has one of the most advanced democracies and as a result has developed the two party system. The reason why a two-party system overpowers a three-party system is because, ideally, the constitution only has two sides to it, the opposing and the supporting. There are numerous third parties, the most successful one being the Libertarian party. While the United States is largely a two party system, third parties have been around for hundreds...
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...Florentina Moreno HIST101-1402A-11: Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Phase 4 IP American History 1992-2000 Professor Justine James 21 April 2014 The period from 1992 to 2000 is one of the most interesting in American History. Select two of the events listed and discuss the impact that these events had on America. Be sure to include information and descriptions of the principle individuals involved. Compare and contrast their impact on America, be specific and detailed. Use APA style requirements. * NAFTA * H. Ross Perot * Rodney King * Immigration * Clinton’s Scandals * Wal-Mart * “Contract With America” * The technological divide * Disputed Election of 2000 The Clinton Recovery When President Nixon resigned in August of 1974, then Vice President Gerald Ford took over as President. President Nixon’s resignation was the first in Presidential history due to a scandal that is still considered controversial to this day. Termed “Watergate,” the break-ins at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was orchestrated by a group of President Nixon’s aides who eventually were caught and indicted for their involvement. The group was part of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP) whose “plan was to burglarize, use electronic surveillance, kidnapping, and prostitution to gather information.” (Editorial Board, 2012) The CRP made four attempts to break into the DNC. On the third attempt they were able to get wire...
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...When will we see Change? A Critical look at Barack Obama and the democratic party. Charles Kerber POLS 202 9AM American Government Livingston This paper will take a critical look at the history of the democratic party, its most recent 2012 election, its current presidential candidate Barack Obama, and the latest platform. While the paper may read as being highly critical of President Obama, it should be caveated by the fact that this is an extremely trying time in the history of the United States, and the government is under considerable pressures from outside terrorism threats and international relations, to severe recession and domestic economic concerns. Nevertheless, one must look critically at President Obama, and answer has he really given us “change we can believe in”? Biography & history The Democratic party went through a number of iterations before it became the current democratic party. The party began as the anti federalists under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Thomas Jefferson a former secretary of state under George Washington's administration who had resigned to protest the fiscal policies of Alexander Hamilton. These two rivals would become the basis of the first two political parties of the United States. Alexander Hamilton favored the constitution, the creation of a national bank and repayment of the revolutionary war debt with federal funds. Under this philosophy they would name themselves Federalists, for their leaders support of ratifying the constitution...
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...Progressive Party had already been developing and growing since the end of the 19th century. It advocated for reforms and the lead of the government in changing society’s problems in response to socio-economic and political imbalances. Such thinking was a radical change in the country’s mindset, with earlier efforts supporting private efforts to solve the nation’s ills. The Progressive party had a broad platform, but the overall goal was for government to implement and lead efforts to alter societal inequalities. The Progressives called for eliminating corruption in the federal government as well as supporting a social welfare program, the women’s vote, penal system reform, and prohibition. Although the issue of civil rights for African-Americans was of concern of some members, this issue was not formally included in any of the Progressive party’s literature. With the support of journalists, and the many lectures and speeches by activists, the Progressives began to build up support for their movement. Roosevelt’s upbringing set the stage for his being involved with Progressivism. Although born into a wealthy New York City family, his father was a well-known philanthropist who formed the New York City’s Children Aid Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the...
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...Revised May 1992 THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE by William C. Kimberling, Deputy Director FEC Office of Election Administration (The views expressed here are solely those of the author and are not necessarily shared by the Federal Election Commission or any division thereof.) In order to appreciate the reasons for the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to solve. They faced the difficult question of how to elect a president in a nation that: • was composed of thirteen large and small States jealous of their own rights and powers and suspicious of any central national government contained only 4,000,000 people spread up and down a thousand miles of Atlantic seaboard barely connected by transportation or communication (so that national campaigns were impractical even if they had been thought desirable) believed, under the influence of such British political thinkers as Henry St John Bolingbroke, that political parties were mischievous if not downright evil, and felt that gentlemen should not campaign for public office (The saying was "The office should seek the man, the man should not seek the office."). • • • How, then, to choose a president without political parties, without national campaigns, and without upsetting the carefully designed balance between the presidency and the Congress on one hand and between the States and the federal government on the other? Origins of the Electoral...
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...very few Americans actually understand how it works. The lack of political efficacy in this country is a large reason of why some people do not think the Electoral College should be abolished. However, as Eric Black (2012) stated in an article on PBS News Hour, “Polls for many years have reliably shown that a majority of Americans would prefer a straightforward popular vote for the presidency.” Originally the Electoral College was established to prevent majority factions from having too much power causing mobocracy to occur. However, this system is outdated and the conditions that prompted the founding fathers to institute this precaution no longer exist today. Also, the fact that almost all the states use a winner-take-all system to determine which candidate gets all of the electoral votes for the state. Will abolishing the Electoral College rid the United States from mobocracy? Introduction The Electoral College is outdated and does not follow the true spirit of American Democracy. David Stewart (2013), a lawyer in Washington, D.C., states that, “Because most people knew little about public events or leaders from distant states, the convention delegates reasoned, they would not make a wise choice between presidential candidates.” Today, people have access to information through TV, the internet, and social media. People can travel easily around the country. It is extremely difficult to not get bombarded with political campaign ads and political rants during election season....
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...Baumgartner Professor of Marketing Head of the Department of Marketing *Signatures are on file in the Graduate School iii ABSTRACT Political marketing sits at the nexus of two disciplines, political science and marketing, but is not entirely accepted by either. The present research looks at the origin, development, and evolution of political marketing and examines how the adoption of a political marketing orientation is impacting the practice of political campaigns. The role of political marketing in actually changing voters’ preferences is also examined, showing that grassroots marketing efforts seem to have the greatest effect, especially with undecided voters. Finally, voter segments are derived for the last five presidential elections in the United States (1988-2004) using latent class analysis (LCA). The interpretation and implications of these segments are discussed and several avenues for future research are suggested. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................... vi...
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...economies in Latin America). In year 1983, the metal prices fall meant for Peru difficulties for the payment of the external debt and a high increase in inflation, reaching a concerning 163% inflation for the last year of the “Sol” (1985). Also, in this year the economy suffered a contraction in the GdP growth: a decrease of 9.3%, the largest one until that moment in the Central Bank records. After this critical period, a new president was elected in 1985: Alan García’s first government would intend to surpass the big economic crisis left by Belaúnde’s government. At the beginning the recovery was going well, even could be said very well; in fact in 1986 Peru experienced a growth of 12.1%, one of the largest boosts in its economy of the history, the...
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...drug use among eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students. According to the survey, adolescents were more likely to use drugs - particularly marijuana - in 1995 than they were in 1992, the last year of the Bush administration. Indeed, there appears to have been a steady increase in reported teen drug use and in other drug use indicators since then President Clinton took office. However, the president's critics had savaged him for this increase, his drug policies and - above all - his failure to criticize drug use. After all, he is known as the president that “didn’t inhale.” The damage the "War on Drugs" has done to our society is already far greater than most of us know. It is a National Tragedy that may take generations to heal. Our failure to act quickly and responsibly by educating ourselves and our neighbors while taking a strong political stand in opposition to this war will only lead to further erosions of our way of life. Several years ago I remembering watching Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, flanked by several law enforcement officials, announced that the United States had smashed a major drug trafficking ring with tentacles extending into Colombia, Mexico and cities across the United States. In all, the operation netted 130 arrests, $17 million in cash and 6 tons of cocaine. "The most sophisticated and the most well-coordinated effort...
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...experiences a constant metamorphosis. However, the most drastic change may be one not visible to human eyes. Global warming, also known as the rapid acceleration of climate change through increasing global temperatures, has been an environmental issue since it was first predicted in 1970s by Stephen Schneider, while studying the effect of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on the climate for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for his post doctorate research. His article, “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate”, was featured in the New York Times because of the consequences he listed in his paper, drawing national attention to the subject. However, despite the evidence compiled in his findings and those of various scientific research institutes such as the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Royal Society of Britain, global warming remains an issue that continues to be debated. In this paper, I will examine H.R. 1380: New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011, a bill in the House of Representatives, to determine the fundamental issues it hopes to solve, its origins, and the chances of enactment. H.R. 1380 is a bill that faces considerable hardships due to the fact that it faces a pluralist society, a majoritarian Congress, and is highly controversial. H.R. 1380: New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011 seeks to decrease the effects...
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...Ronald Reagan came up with the idea of a North American free trade area in late 1979 while launching his candidacy for U.S presidency. The then president of Mexico Jose Lopez Portillo and the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau didn’t have interest to the deal given that United States had dominated everything. In 1984 with the election of a new Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney brought about the negotiations between the United States and the Canadian government duped the Canadian U.S Free Trade Area CUSFTA. CUSFTA faced a lot of opposition from Liberal and New Democratic parties and from the public (Villareal, Fergusson, 2017). On the other hand, the U.S faced little opposition from the public and labor...
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...the target of persecution and discrimination by many. The bulk of this persecution occurred in 1836 when a group of rebel militia attacked Mormon headquarters located in Northern Missouri. This ambush against the Mormons sparked an onslaught of hate crimes to come. After being exiled from Missouri and Illinois, Brigham Young led an intrepid party of immigrants into the Great Salt Lake valley in 1847. The population grew rapidly, and by 1849, the Mormons had managed to form a civil government with Young at the helm. This brief summary has set the stage for this report, where I will evaluate Mormons of the 1830’s and 40’s and enlighten you on their beliefs, culture, and impact throughout American History. Establishment of Religion The establishment of the LDS church is a very interesting story that many people do not understand. “In the spring of 1820, a 14-year-old boy named Joseph Smith went into a grove of trees near his home in Palmyra, New York, and prayed to learn which church he should join. In answer to his prayer, God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to him, just as heavenly beings had appeared to prophets like Moses and Paul in biblical times.” Joseph learned that the Church originally organized by Jesus Christ was no longer on the earth. Joseph Smith was chosen by God to restore the Church of Jesus Christ to the...
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...SIXTY DAYS AFTER CORPORATE LEADERSHIP MODULE-THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP IN CONFLICT PREVENTION AND RESOLUTION INTRODUCTION One day, a gentleman came to my office and in the course of our conversation he sought to convince me to become an Adventist. When I asked if he would like to become a Catholic instead, he immediately responded in the negative without assigning any serious doctrinal reasons. What was even more interesting was that he attended Catholic schools from the basic to the high school level. Next, to elicit his sociological reactions, I asked him to read a book by Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher. The book is titled WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN. Without bothering to read even the first page of the book, he dismissively responded, “I don’t read such books; they are satanic.” I recognized immediately that he was in a state of dissonance, a state of conflict for he was sweating profusely in spite of the chilling temperature in my air-conditioned office: his psychological posture was that as an academic and a budding sociologist, he was supposed to read as widely as possible but reading books that would challenged the basis of his faith was asking for too much. So, the questions are: Why is religion such an emotive and volatile phenomenon? Why do people kill in the name of religion which often carries the message of peace, love and reconciliation? Why do people engage in apparently irrational behaviours in the name of religion? The answer is simple:...
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...encouraged an incipient expansion of a hitherto largely domestic-oriented Japanese media production system to other Asian markets. There have been two results from this expansion of mediated popular culture. In the first place, it brings into question the assumed hegemony of American mass culture (from Disney to McDonald's) and shows how, in East and Southeast Asia at least, Japanese contemporary culture is extremely significant – especially in the global cities of Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore and so on. Second, and more troubling so far as Iwabuchi is concerned, Japan's 'return to Asia' from the 1990s, when it began reasserting its Asian identity, contains echoes of World War II colonialism since Japanese tend to regard themselves as 'above' other Asian countries because of their superior technology and production capacity. This means that there is a continuous potential for serious misunderstandings between the Japanese and their Asian neighbours. Iwabuchi contextualizes his discussion of research data in the general theoretical discourses of globalization and transnationalism, and provides a far more nuanced discussion of globalizing processes and flows than have most sociologists and other scholars in...
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...African American History Introduction In the essay “On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro- American History” the eminent historian John Hope Franklin declared “Every generation has the opportunity to write its own history, and indeed it is obliged to do so.”1 The social and political revolutions of 1960s have made fulfilling such a responsibility less daunting than ever. Invaluable references, including Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Evelyn Brooks Higgingbotham, ed., Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001); Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds., The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001); and Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, eds., Dictionary of Afro- American Slavery (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988), provide informative narratives along with expansive bibliographies. General texts covering major historical events with attention to chronology include John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000), considered a classic; along with Joe William Trotter, Jr., The African American 1  Experience (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001); and, Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold, The African American Odyssey...
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