How are leaders chosen in a direct democracy? How is power transferred in a direct democracy? Explain what distinguishes a constitutional democracy from a direct democracy. In your answer, discuss the relevance of the concepts of the rule of law and natural rights. ...
How are leaders chosen in an oligarchy? How does the Constitution limit the power of the government? Is Singapore a dictatorship? What is the difference between an indirect democracy and a dictatorship? How are decisions made in a democracy?
Some may say that desperate times call for desperate measures, but all totalitarian regimes use the claim of desperate times to justify their heavy-handed measures. But even if this time is truly different and the fate of mankind somehow rests on the imposition of totalitarian rule, the questio...
Alice Walton, who inherited all of her Walmart’s wealth, has a Self-Made score of 1. A person who started life with major obstacles such as war, genocide, poverty, or living in a totalitarian regime could be a 10: George Soros, for example, ...
*In Western Front, Axis was represented by a genocidal totalitarian regime (Nazi Germany) while the Allies were represented by democratic nations (Britain, France, the Netherlands, etc.) who fought for their own independence. *In the Eastern Front, on the other hand, both the Axis and the ...
The totalitarian government of Panem is noticeably corrupted because of the drastic differences in the treatment of its citizens. The capitol certainly doesn’t oppress its wealthy citizens. The wealthy are well fed, protected, isolated from the other endeavouring districts, and have plenty of anythi...
It gives them a chance to increase their empire, and this is seen in several leaders today, both in the present and in the past. Although there are several different ways that one can misuse their power, Joseph Stalin is a strong example of a leader who abused their power through brutal...
Stalin’s leadership of the Soviet Union, despite its totalitarian nature, proved instrumental in bearing the brunt of the fighting on the Eastern Front, inflicting devastating losses on the German army. While their personalities and political ideologies differed vastly, their combined leadership was ...
Policy of Containment: America’s Cold War StrategyShortly after Stalin’s death in March 1953, Eisenhower gave a speech notably titled “The Chance for Peace,” in which he made clear that the United States and its friends had chosen one road while Soviet leaders had chosen another path in...
@Mark, slightly misleading language to say that the Chinese view Ozil's comments as a 'threat'. They view ALL dissent as a 'threat' in the sense they're a totalitarian regime, but that doesn't mean that all cases of dissent actually practically undermine them. If it did, then there wo...