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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
It was an atrocity not forgotten by Philippine Muslims.
The Philippine Hukbalahap movement, known simply as the Huk, was the culmination of internal Philippine conditions rooted in the country's pre-colonial period.
This party was inspired by Soviet communism and it aimed to establish a Soviet-type government in the Philippines.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EK19Ae03.html   (6473 words)

  
 Philippines
The Philippine Organic Act of July 1902 stipulated that, with the achievement of peace, a legislature would be established composed of a lower house, the Philippine Assembly, which would be popularly elected, and an upper house consisting of the Philippine Commission, which was to be appointed by the president of the United States.
Political parties were organized, and, although open advocacy of independence had been banned during the insurgency years, criticism of government policies in the local newspapers was tolerated.
The Philippine defense continued until the final surrender of United States-Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula in April 1942 and on Corregidor in May. Most of the 80,000 prisoners of war captured by the Japanese at Bataan were forced to undertake the infamous "Death March" to a prison camp 105 kilometers to the north.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/philippines/all.html   (18060 words)

  
 Political Science
Political science courses can be combined with courses in other areas such as criminal justice, environmental studies, or business to prepare for careers in both the public and private sector.
Political Science students are active in (and often lead) the student government, the campus organizations of both political parties, the NAACP, and service organizations.
Political ideas and values are addressed in their original historical context as well as independently of any particular historical or cultural limitations.
www.shsu.edu /catalog/pol.html   (3499 words)

  
 Philippines - Voting and Elections
Elections in the Philippines are the arena in which the country's elite families compete for political power.
Until 1972 Philippine elections were comparable to those in United States cities during early industrialization: flawed, perhaps, by instances of vote-buying, ballot-box stuffing, or miscounts, but generally transmitting the will of the people.
The formerly unwritten rule of Filipino politics that political killings be confined to followers and henchmen and not to the candidates themselves now seemed to have been broken: Thirty-nine local candidates were killed in the 1988 campaign.
countrystudies.us /philippines/86.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Political Science - The New School for Social Research
Political philosophy of international relations, history of western political thought, the concept of sovereignty in the age of globalization.
Comparative Politics and Latin America; political disaffection as a manifestation of a crisis of representativeness; new forms of participation and political representation; and the close relationship between sectors that are economically excluded and those politically and culturally excluded.
Political philosophies of Spinoza and Hobbes in the areas of epistemology and emotion, theories of political bodies and democracy, and theories of the affects, and their impact on the idea of the body.
www.newschool.edu /gf/polsci/phd-students.htm   (2116 words)

  
 Courses
An analysis of the institutional development of the presidency, legislature, courts and political parties in response to changes in the cultural, economic and social environment of American politics.
An analysis of the politics of welfare and the social and economic forces that shape it.
Primary focus is on the politics of colonial rule, the dynamics of African response to colonial authority and the formation of modern African states.
www.unca.edu /politicalscience/courses.html   (2093 words)

  
 Political Science
Political science courses can be combined with courses in other areas such as criminal justice or environmental studies to prepare for careers in both the public and private sector.
A minimum of 15 hours of advanced political science is required for the B.A., 18 for the B.S. At least 12 hours of the advanced political science must be taken in residence.
This course is a survey of the development of the party system from the founding of the republic to the present, together with an examination of party processes, party machines, pressure groups, party finances, the electorate, nominating techniques, political campaigns, and elections.
www.shsu.edu /catalog/2004-2006/pol.html   (3182 words)

  
 Forum
In some places there may be a need for new restrictions on political finance activities or for better enforcement of existing laws, while other countries may need more disclosure and a greater public awareness of the role of money in politics.
He attributed this not only to improvements in the quality of democracy and to public revulsion at political finance scandals, but to the growing tendency of international aid agencies to require that recipient countries adopt greater transparency and stronger anticorruption measures-all of which have stimulated the academic study of money in politics.
Illegal political contributions are largely responsible for the political-business collusion (or so-called crony capitalism) that precipitated the East Asian financial crisis, with a cruel economic impact on the countries thus affected.
www.ned.org /forum/asia/june01/session1.html   (889 words)

  
 Rockhurst University Department of Political Science
Although political leadership is the principal focus of the course, leadership is also considered in a wider context.
A study of the development, organization, functions and activities of major and minor political parties, interest groups, and voting behavior in the United States at the federal, state and local levels.
A comparative study of the political institutions of the former communist states in Eastern Europe and Russia with particular emphasis on current problems stemming from the dramatic changes which began in 1989.
www.rockhurst.edu /academic/polisci/courses.asp   (1462 words)

  
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
The minor in political science is designed for students who wish to have a formal secondary area of concentration.
An advanced study of international politics from the standpoint of theories of international politics, individual, group and state behavior; the relation between continuity, conflict, and change in the international order; and an extensive examination of the paths and obstacles to world peace.
Introduction to political behavior; influences of culture; ideology and social structure on political life; group influences on political behavior and major factors in leadership; psychological bases of participation in normal and extreme politics.
www.csun.edu /search/cat9698/PoliticalScience.htm   (4478 words)

  
 E-newsletter:Liberal Times Manila - Foundation for Liberal Politics in the Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In this context, the notion that democratic, platform-based, and publicly accountable political parties are crucial in a democracy, has been the single most important message of the liberal Foundation in the Philippines during the past years.
In principle, all major political forces seem to agree as to the underlying structural causes of this crisis and the necessity for fundamental reforms.
This I have noted particularly in two vital political areas: the reform of the electoral system, and the way political parties are organized and financed.
www.fnf.org.ph /enewsletter/index.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Political Science Courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Study of two types of political organizations important in American politics the organized interest group and the political party.
Particular emphasis is placed upon several themes and conceptual problems consistently appearing in the professional literature of public administration, such as politics of administration, bureaucratic efficiency, administrative responsiveness and responsibility.
The course treats political theory as embracing the history of ideas, the study of ideology, the methodological critique of the social sciences, the conceptual analysis of normative ideas, and the study of political symbols.
www.nmu.edu /politicalscience/pscourses.htm   (1636 words)

  
 ARCHIVE: ASU 1998-99 Graduate Catalog: Political Science
This examination is the occasion for the student to defend the dissertation, both as to methods and conclusions, and to demonstrate general competence in the area of concentration.
Faculty emphasize political behavior and use survey research, experimental designs, and content analysis to collect data and conduct statistical analyses of mass voting patterns, campaign strategies, party politics, the role of the media in political communication, and elite-mass linkages.
Another cluster of faculty emphasize critical theory and international political economy, employing archival sources, statistical data, and texts of legal norms and state practices to conduct analyses of global inequalities in wealth and income, the evolution of statecraft, and the impact of hierarchically-ordered gender and race categories in North-South relations.
www.asu.edu /aad/catalogs/1998-1999/graduate/political-science.html   (1221 words)

  
 Asian nationalisms, social revolutions
Sometimes with a majority of their own party or as the leading party in a coalition, they are strong enough to run subnational governments.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) split from the Communist Party of India at its Seventh Congress.
Examples of militarily defeated communist parties are found in the former Federation of Malaya and the Republic of the Philippines in the 1950s, the Republic of Indonesia in the mid-1960s, and Burma/Myanmar more recently.
www2.hawaii.edu /~pollard/movements.html   (3575 words)

  
 Political parties, interest groups, and other movements around the world
Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
Parti des Verts de l'Île de la Réunion, Green Party
Rainbow Party of the Macedonian minority in Greece
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1232 words)

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