The tone and style of federal-provincial relations have fluctuated over time. The increasing autonomy of the provincial government stressed the miscellany of the regional interests. If the optimum distribution of power between the levels of the government were reached a politically and economically stable government would emerge and be more aligned with the provincial socioeconomic realities. Contrastingly, excessive decentralization weakens Canada's economy and Canada's influence in the...

Corruption is omnipresent in society and is taking total control over the minds of citizens at an alarming rate. Even though actions are being taken worldwide, corruption is still a main issue of concern for world leaders and prestigious organizations like the United Nations and the Southern African Development Community. With reference to several surveys carried out by great economists, psychologists and watchdog bodies around the world, we have carried out this project to investigate how far...

Hamas Hamas in Arabic is an acronym for “Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamia”—Islamic Resistance Movement. It is also a word meaning zeal in Arabic. It is a radical Islamic fundamentalist organization—terrorists in American terms (Pike, 2008). Hamas was created by Sheik Ahmad Yasinat, along with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, and Mohammad Taha in late 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian uprising. Hamas uses paramilitary force and the violent part of Hamas, Izz al-Din...

Since the report 'Our Common Future (so-called Brundtland Report)', presented by the World commission on Environment Development in 1987, proclaimed the idea of 'sustainable development' as the future development agenda for the international society (UN, 1987: 37), the compatibility between development and environment has been long discussed among politicians and scholars. It is said that this topic was problematized by the report of the Club of Rome, 'Limits to Growth', originally dates back...

" Are the phenomena of multi-national corporations (MNCs) and failed states producing the vanishing of the traditional idea of Nation-State in today's international affairs?" Multinational corporations are a type of Non Governmental Organization, and have became permanent actors in the international sphere with the globalization of the world political economy since World War II. While MNCs' power was growing faster in scope and potential influence, world leaders began not to worry...

These two powerful and catchy words quoted inside the book from a rebel fighter in Cote dIvoire highlight the desperation of such people who marginalized, muted, denied to obtain citizenship documents and faced the danger of statelessness in the only state they have ever known. The quote also condensed the main argument of the book that "the denial of a right to citizenship has been at heart of many of the conflicts of post-colonial Africa" (p1). The book has written by Bronwen Manby,...

Interest group societies are mainly contemplated by the issue of public policy to the political system and yet the irony of this is that the interest group participants have setbacks trying to demonstrate the interest group influence on the public policy and this leaves the interest groups failing to understand their impact to the public policies which affect the public at large. American domestic review policy which was enacted by the American federal government in some areas of the country...

Historian Lord Actons warned that power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This particular statement applies to individuals, institutions, and governments and is as applicable today as it was when he said it in 1887 (Aziz, 2011). The word power is often times defined as the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy: power over men's minds (Dictionary.com). Power is that to which leadership necessarily defaults in the absence of being able to...

Is nationalism friend or enemy to liberal democracy?Essay 1 for " Introduction to Politics" Is nationalism friend or enemy to liberal democracy? Nationalism and liberal democracy - can both coexist as one whole or they contradict each other and what is the way nationalism influences liberal democracy. In this essay I am going to analyze the ideology of nationalism, their movement, the goals which are pursued by nationalists, the consequences which can be caused by nationalism based...

The effectiveness of the European Commission had been hampered in the past by institutional and political instability, widespread corruption, budget constraints due to a law tax collection, and by a severe deterioration of governance. These negative factors added to weak public administration and a lack of motivation in the civil service, dramatically limiting Georgia's absorption capacity. The situation has, however, improved since 2004, as a result of the strong commitment of the new...