...California’s People, Economy, and Politics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow California has been known as “the Golden State” for many decades thanks to the Gold Rush, the birth of the Golden Gate Bridge, and more than a hundred years of continuously blooming growth. Even so, some say that the state has lost its shine over the years, and to many others the state’s politics seem unpredictable and turbulent. California’s economy has been plugged in recession since 2007 and the state has suffered severe budget deficits for over a decade. Meanwhile political leaders rise and fall unexpectedly, and special interest groups and wealthy leaders are constantly accused of buying the elections on their behalf. However, issues are more likely to be referred to the voters which are often confused among complex and (sometimes) obscure ballot measures. Moreover, some people say democracy has gone mad, and others agree that California is simply ungovernable. As tense and dysfunctional as California politics may appear, it seriously affects us all and it has to be understood by examining the past and present characteristics of the state starting with its constantly changing population and economy. The persistent implementation of new technologies and the never-ending arrival of immigrants, have transformed California’s economy and have made its society more diverse and multicultural. To understand the process of California today, we also have to comprehend the past about the evolution of the...
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...Vincent Serrecchia Professor Cruz Latino Politics 28 February 2012 Debate Paper #2 According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of liberalism is as follows, “a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties.” The first known use of liberalism in our society was in 1819, and from then on it has always claimed to stand for the greatest social good. As for liberalism being incompatible with identity politics, I disagree. I believe identity politics is compatible with liberalism. Liberalism is considered democracy free while identity politics focus on the self-interest and perspectives of self-identified groups. My first experience with a Latino politics debate wasn’t exactly positive because it made me nervous knowing I had to express my views towards the question that was assigned to our debate. At the beginning of the debate I was a little nervous to speak my opinion because I felt that I did not know enough about the Latino culture, as well as having a hard time understanding the readings. I was afraid that what I was about to say could come off as offending to some of my fellow classmates and, in defense to that, it would cause another debate. However, after having the opportunity to listen to the first debater give their opinion on the question, I felt more comfortable to speak my opinion without the risk of...
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...the Modern Political Process? It is often said that young people lack interest and concern in politics, showing indifference to the modern political process. This claim will be explored in the context of contemporary Britain, acknowledging possible explanations for this apathy and analysing how recent trends may be affecting the level of political interest amongst the youth culture. The difference between old and modern politics will also be discussed, examining how this fits in with youth culture. To begin to acknoweldge why young people may be apathetic towards the modern political process, it is crucial to understand how the youth view politics and how these views have been acquired. For some it would seem that there is a definite lack of education in what politics is, rather than a complete lack of interest. The National Curriculum consists of 4 key stages and it is not until Citizenship lessons at key stage 3 (11 - 14 years old) that British children are taught "knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens" (National Curriculum Online: nc.uk.net) which includes topics on politics. Because of the legal obligations to schools to abide by the National Curriculum many find it difficult or impossible to offer content outside of its scope - the result being that only National Curriculum material is covered. In terms of political education, this means that many children have had no educational of politics since the introduction of the National Curriculum in 1989...
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...Politics brings out a great deal of distress and it shows the most unappealing sides of people when their political views do not correspond. In the presidential election today, there is the republican views and the democratic views, showing what can happen when people’s views in society do not correspond with one another. We see this happen a lot in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, many events happen in result of politics occurring. Caesar’s role in politics leads Brutus to actions that affected many people. In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, shows that relationships between multiple people can be affected both negatively and positively when politics becomes involved, politics has a great deal of power that can strain...
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...Social Media’s impact on Politics Social Media has had a lot of impacts in the government. It affects the governments in different ways such as:Globally, Politically, economically, and Involvement. As we know now a days the government likes to use social media to keep us informed or as youths like to say it to keep us Hip. The Government doesn’t just use social media to keep us Hip, but they also use it for campaigning. As said here “It has become fairly common for political campaigns to produce commercials and publish them for free on YouTube instead of, or in addition to, paying for time on television or the radio.”(Tom, Different ways of doing it). Politicians use social Media to do things like this in order to save money. Meaning when they are campaigning they also try to save money. “Personal communication via social media brings politicians and parties closer to their potential voters.”(European Parliamentary, Politicians).This shows how politicians are brought together with the people that could potentially vote for them. “Reactions, feedback, conversations and debates are generated online as well as support and participation for offline events.”(European Parliamentary, People). Due to social Media more and more youths are involved in politics, this means youths are no longer left in the dark they are knowledged. “41% of young people engaged in at least one act of participatory politics during the prior 12 months...
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...What is politics and why is it important? “Politics” is a word that poses a multitude of meanings because of its international character. It originated from ancient Greece from the greek word for a city state which in terms originates from the word for community. It meant the “matters of the city”. Through the years and into the different languages its meaning drifted apart to some extent. In general this word is associated with the governing process. The way society is being ruled and the way people are being influenced and molded to believe in their representatives and their ideals and goals. This idea explains politics more as a tool for a one-way communication between the governor, whether he is the president of the republic or of the company or any other executive member that has power over a collective, and said collective. Being a one-way channel, this leads to the easy abuse of the method and the present day “bad ring” to the word. Even so this does not diminish the importance of “Politics”. Politicians and politics serve a vital role in society because, love them or hate them, in the current state of the international, or at least, local, community no other alternatives exist for the healthy life of a civilizations. Leaders and their one way communication will always exist at least for now. This is why politics is so important for us. The mentioned abuse of the system only occurs due to its reliance on trust. This explains why it so easily corruptible. It takes...
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...Organizational Influence of Power, and Politics October 5, 2013 Abstract In researching power and politics, you find that they play a very key and large role in how the world works. This is especially true in the world of business. These influences govern how everyday decisions are made, and even how employees interact with one another. In businesses both large and small, the impact of power and control depends completely on the individuals using it and what their long-term goals are. Ultimately politics may directly influence who has the overall power and determine what the culture of the workplace will become. This paper demonstrates how the sensitive uses of power and politics affects our everyday lives. It also shows recognition to the importance of personalities, diversification, and fair power distributions, and how these traits can ultimately improve the overall quality of organizational life. Introduction Power and politics, two substantial and critical components of business, people desire to have the achievement and preservation of power, especially to wield the art of its influence. Humans are by nature competitive and anyone can see that competition surrounds us everywhere in the business world. Those who desire great success, the ability to have large incomes and social influence drives many people. Some people more than others perhaps get caught up in the competitive nature of the business world. Some...
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...What does politics mean to me? At the beginning of this course I stated that defining politics as just a body of government is such a difficult task to do, because it is so much more than that. Before taking this course I despised anything that dealt with politics. I thought politics was a boring and an irrelevant topic, that is in my world of course. When I started to engage in the Discussion Board questions, it exercised my mind to view politics from a different perspective. At first I felt as though politics was something someone invented to be able to control people in society and that it was a way to control who becomes rich and who becomes poor, but now I have realize that there is more to politics than I thought. According to Merriam-Webster (2015), politics is defined as, activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and keeping power in a government. Personally, I feel as though politics on a whole may seem as though it is the best way for society to live by, but honestly more than half of the people associated in politics are not there to help nor do they care or try to understand the struggle people go through, as I stated at the beginning of the semester. They only care about themselves and their pockets. As students, I believe we can and should reinforce the origins of politics. It sounds a tad easy than it actually is, but I strongly believe that if given the chance not only could society put a stop to the dirty game...
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...INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS POLITICS Power is the capacity to influence others through the control of instruments of reward and punishment – which can be tangible or intangible. Definitions of power abound. German sociologist, Max Weber defined power as "the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance." Along similar lines, Emerson suggests that "The power of actor A over actor B is the amount of resistance on the part of B which can be potentially overcome by A." Power appears to involve one person changing the behavior of one or more other individuals – particularly if that behavior would not have taken place otherwise. Sources of Power are: (vi) Legitimate power – derived from the position e.g. kingship, managerial (vii) Reward Power – derived from control of resources e.g. promotion, recommendation, training etc (viii) Referent power– derived from association with powerful people (ix) Coercive power – uses the ability to force other people to act against their wishes through the fear of punishment. (x) Expert power – derived from the possession of expert knowledge or information that others need but have no alternative access. Politics is also the study of influence and the influential • Influence is measured on the basis of the number of shares one or a group has in the preferred values or attributes • The more values or attributes shared...
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...Indian Politics and Politicians Indian Politics refers to the activities of the political parties associated with the governance of India as a country. A Politician is person who is professionally involved in politics. It is to be said politics is the art and technique of government. Every idea contains an intention, similarly political idea also contains intention for implementation, but recently people observe negative sense. Introduction to Indian Politics Mahatma Gandhi stated regarding the place of ethics in politics. He told that politics without ethics and principles were not desirable. The principles are the moral principles. According to his philosophy political, life should be governed by truth, morality and self-purification. Gandhiji’s politics were bound up with truth and non-violence. He also prescribed that country should concern with the morals of her leaders. Devotion to truth was drawn by him to half corruption. He had no intention to indulge the religious matter. He interpreted that religious matter is a death-trap because it kills the soul. He also expressed that “For me there is no politics without religion, not the religion of the superstitions or the blind religion that hates and fights, but the universal religion of toleration”. Roles and responsibilities of Politicians The role of the Politicians is to deal with national issues and are driving the country in full gear. It is the duty of the Politicians to check Corruption, nepotism, crisis in...
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...What is Politics? 1. Introduction When questioned, “What is politics?” what kinds of image do people have? Nowadays politics is an essential factor for our everyday life. Almost in every country there is governance to control the country, and politics to support the organization. According to Merriam Webster’s definition of “Politics”, politics is an activity that supports people’s lifestyle by creating rules to control governance with maintenance, repair and destruction. However, people would normally think that politics is about the government holding beliefs to aim for an organization to benefit for themselves and have small interest to the citizens. In fact this view of politics cannot be denied when looking at such examples from the past and now. 2. Politics in the Past 2.1 The Root of Politics When did politics start? This question cannot be answered, as there are no specific dates of when it had started. If there were an answer to this question, probably the start of mankind would have been the beginning of politics, since the nature of politics is very similar to that of rule and control. Countries that had monarchs, for instance a country that was ruled by kings and emperors were classified as divine; a more like authoritarian government style. Until the French revolution, this divine was the absolute and most common way of ruling a country. These monarchs can be dated as early as 2100 BC in Sumeria, which is said to be one of the longest and lasting...
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...animal". He and his equally famous disciple Plato strongly denounced politics. Plato went so far as to say: "O, men of Athens, if I was engaged in politics, I would have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself." Since then, however, politics has pervaded every sphere of life, and the number of politicians has grown beyond measure. There is politics everywhere, in government generally, in the administration, in schools, colleges, universities, art, literature, and even in sports and games. In fact, there is hardly any sphere of life and activity, male of female, which is free from politics and the insidious influences of the fast-growing tribe of politicians of various hues and types sincere ones (their number is indeed small), insincere ones and downright hypocrites (their tribe is fast growing), and others who fall mid-way and share the traits of both the good and the bad. Of course, it would be unfair to paint them all with the same brush. The lament of Aristotle and Plato has become pointless in modern society, despite the advance of civilisation and the remarkable progress of education and general enlightenment. Politics and politicians have not only grown amazingly, but have also prospered without let or hindrance. This may indeed be described as the age of politics; politicians are supreme everywhere. The gates of politics are wide open; anyone (preferably people with some means and a mastery of rhetoric but there is no bar on others...
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...Max Beckham Management Individual Paper 6 December 2015 Power And Influence The Bad-----------The Good-----------The Ugly Perhaps due to negative connotation, many people through out the work place avoid office politics as much as possible. But the truth is, to ensure your own wellbeing and the success of future projects you must navigate your way through the minefield known as, “office politics.” In order to survive, one must keep up with the politics in their workplace and learn how to “play the game.” Office politics are evident when important decisions at work are made, this encourages workers to begin in political behavior to ensure they get their way. Some people have more power over other employees, either through hierarchy in business or determined by length of time with company. Whether you are the pencil pusher at the bottom of the totem poll or the CEO you will have to face the fact that you must try to be politically correct in the workplace. For everyone in the company receiving a promotion this can be of utmost importance. To deal effectively with office politics, first you must accept the reality of it. Once you’ve done this, you must figure out a plan or strategize on how to cope with the political behavior happening in the office. The best way to this is to listen, letting others take the reins at the beginning. Use the information you gather to build a strong sense of identity around coworkers which promotes the personality traits and attributes...
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...is still the best solution to rule a community- compared to its alternatives. Starting with the definition of democracy itself I will explain its different kinds followed by the main existing alternatives. In addition to that, democracy’s pro and con’s will be discussed ending with a conclusion. ‘It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!’ (Hitler, 1935). This statement, taken out of a speech of the German dictator from the 1930’s Adolf Hitler, ironically explains the term democracy very well. Demos means translated the people and kratos rule; the people rule the state (Hague and Harrop, 2010). Talking about this form of government we distinct between the direct, Classical version and the indirect, representative democracy (Hague and Harrop, 2010). Classical democracy, based in Ancient Greece, is the ‘only pure or ideal system of popular participation’ as most decisions were made directly by the people (Heywood, 2007:76). Nevertheless, the high level of political participation also brought major disadvantages as every single decision required a gathering of all male Greeks holding the right to vote which took a lot of time (Heywood, 2007). Hence, not everyone could always join these gatherings. Moreover, the boundaries set by the rights to vote contradict today’s anticipation of equality. Another disadvantage, also criticized by Plato, is the probable lack of competence as the majority of the electors...
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...IMPACT OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS ON EMPLOYEES’ JOB SATISFACTION IN THE COMMERCIAL BANKING SECTOR OF SRI LANKA K.A.M.S. Kodisinghe Faculty of Business Studies and Finance, Wayamba University, Kuliyapitiya, Sri Lanka menakakodisinghe@yahoo.com ABSTRACT This research has been mainly based on the model of perceived organizational politics proposed by Ferris, Russ and Fandt (1989). Four constructs namely perceptions of organizational politics, job satisfaction, perceived control and understanding have been taken into consideration. Further the locus of control introduced by Robbins (2005) was also taken as the next construct. The research studies carried out on the relationships between the above mentioned variables seem to be inconsistent. Some researchers have found that no correlation exists between these variables whereas other studies indicate a weak to moderate relationship between these variables. Many theoretical findings and researches on the perception of organizational politics – job satisfaction relationship have been originated from the western organizational context. It seems that information about Sri Lankan environment is almost nil. The researcher has attempted to find out whether there is a relationship, positive or negative among the above mentioned five constructs in the Sri Lankan environment. The researcher selected the commercial banking sector for this study as it is the most developed and promising sector. The sample of the study consists of 300...
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