Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. terrorism The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate government...
Normative democratic theory asserts that democracy insulates economic growth because firstly, all members are given the status of citizens; there are universal political rights for different groups of people within the polity (Durham, 1999). Secondly, democratic regimes strive to esta...
Before turning to the U.S., the authors draw on examples of other democracies, with constitutions often directly modeled on the U.S., that were overturned when an authoritarian leader found a way to corrupt the system. Among these examples were the Philippines in 1972 under Ferdinand Marcos ...
(January 7, 1933 – May 20, 2008) was a Filipino labor leader. A staunch critic of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, his imprisonment in 2006 and 2007 on disputed charges of rebellion and sedition drew international attention. He was a member of 13th Congress of the Philippines with the ...
I have plethora of examples, I am sure we all do. Last week, I wasn’t able to do my job and travel to Kongo Central because “there was no money”. This doesn’t mean that there was no funding (because there is, plenty), this simply means that I couldn’t access it because ...
such arguments directly emphasised the conflict between industry objectives of profit-maximisation with the health of mothers and children, or in short the juxtaposition of ‘property rights and human rights’. This has arguably helped the issue reach an ‘emotional plane’ in the Philippines, and ...
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This would require dominance over Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, India and Vietnam providing significant stand-off distance between the US Navy and mainland China in the event of War. Unfortunately for China, many of these nations are repulsed by China’s efforts to ...
greater or reduced intellectual property rights, respectively. Similarly, for tobacco, a shift in public acceptance had forced a political normative shift towards a very proactive approach to tobacco control despite the significant economic contribution of the tobacco industry. As one trade policymaker ...
In our own time we’ve seen it in Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Cuba, Hungary, the Philippines, Venezuela, and dozens of other countries around the world less well known for the democratic nature of the government. It may call itself left-wing or right-wing, but what really matters is that al...