what is meant by polictical puluralism?
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Political pluralism refers simply to there being a plurality of political stances. For instance in America, there are liberals, conservatives, populists, communists, socialists, libertarians etc.
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Progressivism is a political philosophy whose adherents promote public policies that they believe would lead to positive social change. As a broad characterization of political leanings, political progressivism mostly refers to social liberalism, social democracy, or green politics. Progressivism may also mean prefering moderate change, as opposed to minimal or maximum change. In this sense, it is contrasted with reactionary, conservative, as well as radical ideology. Progressive logic is the value logic that gives an underlying unity to this diversity of views.\n\nAround the world\n\nUnited States\nSee main article - Progressivism in the United States\n\nProgressive Party 1912 (United States) \nProgressive Party 1924 (United States) \nProgressive Party 1948 (United States) \nProgressive Party (United States) for current parties \nProgressives dominated left-wing American politics from the 1890s to the 1920s. Today the term refers to movements on the left ranging from liberal to social democrat.\n\nEarly in the 20th century, progressives worked to reform the political process in the US. In several states, they succeeded in reducing the power of political bosses by instituting presidential primaries and non-partisan elections. They exposed corruption, and established public control of the existing monopolies over public resources, such as water and gas works. They were the driving force behind the reform and regulation of child labor, the institution of public education, and the right of women to vote. Their efforts contributed to the writing and ratification of the 17th Amendment (the direct election of senators) in 1913, and the 19th Amendment (right of women to vote in federal elections) in 1920. They sought to improve transportation for the public. They also pressured state legislatures to raise the property tax in order to spend more money on schools, parks and other public facilities. They usually worked at the state level to make changes.\n\nAustralia\nThe term progressive is popular in Australia, since many on the left usually support either the Labor Party, the Democrats or the Greens, parties opposed to the right-wing Liberal Party of Australia.\n\nCanada\nThe term progressive is also popular in Canada, since many are further left than the Liberal Party of Canada. Most supporters of the old Progressive Conservative Party of Canada did not consider themselves progressive although arguments have been made that the Mulroney government implemented progressive environmental policies. The David Orchard wing of the old PC Party was progressive in nature while the Red Tory faction, which included former Prime Minister Joe Clark, was less so. The New Democratic Party often considers itself progressive, and attempts to appeal to progressive voters.\n\nThe Progressive Party of Canada briefly rose to prominence in the 1920s. The Progressive Canadian Party, composed mostly of anti-merger Progressive Conservatives, was formed several months prior to the 2004 general election.\n\nIreland\nIn Ireland, the Progressive Democrats (in Irish, An Páirtí Daonlathach, literal back-translation: The Democratic Party) is a political party in the Republic of Ireland founded in 1985. The Progressive Democrats’ policies are based on economic liberalism. The party is often described as right wing by supporters and critics alike, but they have several policies which are closer to the left wing.\n\nNew Zealand\nJim Anderton formed the New Zealand Progressive Party by splitting from the Alliance (New Zealand political party).\n\nThe Progressive Green Party was formed in 1995, but has now disbanded.\n\nProgressive voters also support the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the New Zealand Labour Party.\n\nCriticism\nEconomist and Cato Institute Fellow, Brink Lindsey argues that progressivism is the belief in moving forward, as opposed to conservatism which favors the status quo. From this he derives economic policies and their outcomes from per
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Well, an oligarchy is A TYPE OF government.\n\nA) Vertex is A TYPE OF shape? No.\nB) Equestrian is A TYPE OF horse? No.\nC) Requiem is A TYPE OF music? Yes.\nD) Domicile is A TYPE OF home? No.\n\nTo be honest, I didn't know the meaning of requiem, so I eliminated A, B, and D (a perfectly good strategy, by the way). Then I went to Wikipedia and searched for what a requiem was, and sure enough, it's a type of music.
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geo - geography\npolitical - politics\nstate - government.\n\nThis question is referring to the "boundaries" people invision, with regard to the way the 'place' is governed.\n\nEg: local government as opposed to state government, as opposed to the senate (or however it works in your country)\n\n\nyou can think of it as:\n\nHow has your country divided itself up into workable political units.....\nThe boundaries are dynamic - they can change, furthermore, they do not exist physically, they are a social construction used to govern the society.
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I'm not sure I exactly understand the supposition you're making.  In general, however, I would argue that moral and legal can be viewed as a Venn diagram - an act can be both, one of the other, or neither.  We probably wouldn't want it any other way, actually - hence the saying that "you can't legislate morality."
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Progressivism is any school of thought that advocates moderate or radical change to political institutions and policies.  In other words, it's a synonym for one of the various meanings of the word "liberal."\n\nDon't plagiarize this for your paper!
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I am happy to disabuse here.\n\nLiberalism does not denote support for any type of hatred. In fact, by definition, liberalism represents open-mindedness, erudition and individualism. None of this is at all related to "hatred".\n\nRemember that the terms "liberal" and "liberalism" are often thrown around as generalized political pejoratives, especially by people who themselves hold relatively closed-minded attitudes. Anyone can throw a word around pretending what it means, but the dictionaries are the final arbiters of semantic verismilitude. \n\nAre you a friend to the English language? Can you trust a dictionary? I am totally unafraid of dictionaries. Are you?\n\n\nLiberals do not like government intursion in personal freedom (into personal health and family, etc.), and also tend relatively to disdain militarism and violence and preparations for violence (which is not really all that "hateful", is it?).\n\n\nGood luck.
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Anarchy, and one in which all countrymen are moral. (And a theocracy, if everyone believes, but then it's a god's dictatorship) That is the problem with communism- for it to work, you need a strong dictatorship.
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There is Virtue Ethics,Utilitarism, Moral Unversalism, egoism, deontalgogy, and Nominalism.
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Totalitarianism is a typology employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior, while absolutism is a political theory which argues that one person, who is often generally a monarch, should hold all power. This is often referred to as the "Divine Right of Kings", implying that a ruler's authority stems directly from God. Prominent theorists associated with absolutism include Augustine of Hippo, Paul of Tarsus, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes.\n(In short totalitarianism characterizes the political practices of a particular government, while absolutism means that the political power is being practiced by only ONE person: another word for it is oligarchy).
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http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-frz&p=political%20debate%20traditional%20logic%20rules
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.... liberal means you want a change... which means you want someone else in office and don't agree with him.. \n\nliberal = you want change...
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some people don't hold to Poligamies.  Because they are unclean and porkamies.\n\nBaconmies is good tho'.\n\n.
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OK break out your dictionary:\nliberal:\na-Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. \nb-Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. \n\nI am a liberal. I volunteer at food pantries and soup kitchens. I donate to Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army. Most of these groups are run by Christian organizations, although I don't consider them conservative.\n\nLet's define conservative:\na-Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.\nb-a supporter or advocate of traditional ideas and behavior\n\nWhich of these 2 definitions fits better with "helping your fellow man"? I think it fits better with liberalism, (Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, free from bigotry) not conservatism (tending to oppose change).\n\nThe reason "liberals" complained about Bush's Supreme Court picks is because they were afraid of what these people would do to the Constitution and Bill of Rights if given the chance.\n\nPick up a history book sometime. Remember who championed the Civil Rights movement? Kennedy - a liberal democrat. Who started Social Security? FDR - a liberal Democrat. Who started Habitat for Humanity? Jimmy Carter - a liberal Democrat. Notice a pattern here?
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Crooked shamlections by crooked machines and illegal voter roll purges, ect.  Unconstitutional laws that go against hundreds of years of legal president regarding habeas and torture. Then there is the Dictator Dumbya Big Lie Iraqi Crusade.  Economic policies that are intended to separate the USA into a few very rich and a vast majority of poor, just like most banana "republics". Then all the corruption with Halliburton et al, the Dumbya Coup's crony companies, into which the national wealth is dumped, which is ANOTHER banana "republic" characteristic.
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just a piont of view, but normally to divide something symmetrically you have to do it at the widest piont along the centre line. where as assymetricaly is off the centre line at a narrower piont and therefore not a symmetry,this only applies to poloygons and symmetric shapes.  hope this helps
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Mine has a little different meaning but it is much better than being one of the little people where it is me,me, me all the time!!\n\nLiberalism is an ideology, philosophy, and political tradition that holds liberty as the primary political value.[1] Broadly speaking, liberalism seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of minorities are guaranteed. In modern society, liberals favour a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed\n\nMany of the me. me. me people are an abomination of poor parenting and usually can be classified as Fascist.