Essays on Neoliberal

Neo-liberalism encourages economic liberalism, promoting the divide between the rich and the poor; it is active today, that is why it’s neo or new. However, it has lost dominance since the 1990s because of growing awareness of, and resistance to, its negative consequences. Peters and Bourdieu point out that The World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, the Asia Development Bank (ADB), the OEC, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the GATS have promoted neoliberal policies like privatisation, free trade, lowering labour costs and shrinking public expenditure (qtd. in Jiang 13). The neoliberal policies imposed by ...

Globalization is defined as a social, economic, and political process that makes it easier for people, goods, ideas and capital to travel around the world at an unprecedented pace. Globalization makes the world look and feel much smaller. It can be also described as a process of complex interconnections between various societies, cultures, individuals and institutions that happens worldwide. Though globalization itself is not absolutely new and novel, its rapid development is mostly associated with the introduction of new modern technologies. Very often globalization is considered to be a modern or very contemporary phenomenon, and is associated mostly with ...

CHAPTER THREE: MAN AND ARAB MASCULINITY

As Carabí and Armengol (2014) show in their study, Arab masculinity is a hybrid concept entailing adherence to traditional patriarchal values held for centuries in the Arabic world and supported by the religious component of Islam; however, it also “allows liberal values” which might contradict this traditional patterns. Cultural and societal representation of Arab masculinity is thereby rather complex and might emerge in a variety of contexts including family and society on the larger scale. In these representations, stereotypical images of man in traditional Arab context might enclose controversies and correlations between liberal-secular masculinity and conservative masculinity image entrenched ...

Some of the prevailing social and economic problems in America are attributed to the neoliberalism in the country. This paper suggests that neoliberalism in America is the cause of 2008 financial crises, inequality, the detrimental situation for workers and the economic growth, reduced social welfare, and aggravated crime.

Economic Impact

One of the major economic impacts of the neoliberalism in America is the 2008 financial crises. Among the other white collar crimes associated to the neoliberalism, financial crime is another nightmare attributed to the introduction of the free market. According to Burton (10), various studies have indicated that the neoliberalism in ...

»WHILE THE ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS OF PUBLICLY LISTED COMPANIES RESEMBLE THOSE OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENTS, IN PRACTICE, THESE MECHANISMS ARE OFTEN LARGELY INEFFECTIVE.«

Introduction 3

The Concept of Accountability 4 Governance and its Relationship to Accountability 5 Publicly listed companies and accountability 6 Accountability with regards to various participants 9 The Challenges of Technology 11 Conclusion 12

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Introduction The governance and accountability of the corporate world has been a significant focus for many since the economy fell apart during the 2007 financial crisis. Prior to this event, there was a lot of public trust in corporate structures; however, after the financial crisis, ...

Differences

The neoliberal approach has been in the frontline of advocating for a wide economic liberation and policies, which extend the abilities and rights of the private sector over the public sector, particularly the shutting down of the government and state power over the economy. The concept of neoliberalism is in support of the deregulation, privatization, reducing government spending, free trade, and fiscal austerity. On the other hand, Deneulin and Lila argue that the human development approach is pegged on the tenets that development is purposely geared to improve human lives not merely on the basis of enhancing one’s ...

Many Latinos from South America, Central America, and Mexico have made decisions to either legally or illegally to immigrate into the United States of America over the past decades. Similarly, many Asian populations have migrated into the United States of America either legally or illegally. For decades, film makers have been capturing the experiences and stories of the immigrants in the United States of America. The exponential increase in the number of the immigrants over the past decades has led to the surge of high-quality documentaries, like Crossing Arizona, produced in the year 2006. In this film, varying degrees ...

Introduction

This literature seeks to explore the correlation between class issues and schooling based on an Australian model of study. Most of the authors in this review agree that there is a correlation between class issues and the way schools are perceived and operated. The rise of neoliberalism has led way to an induction of creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. Australian schools have shifted from the dynamics of the 1970s and 1980’s where the idea of a more balanced school system was part of educational reform. However, as of 2009 this has shifted and ...

How Governmental Decisions Caused Obesity In The United States

Within the framework of the liberal political doctrine and deregulated economy, the government imposes guilt upon citizens themselves for their health issues. Citizens have to demonstrate higher level of personal responsibility for their own health. On the other hand, obese citizens are potential clients for various businesses such as gyms, pharmaceutical companies, and beauty industry companies. Complete absence of obesity would mean fall of the aggregate demand for various goods and services such as fitness programs at gyms, healthy nutrition programs, detoxification meals, fitness devices (e.g., running tracks), etc. According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), the top ...

The economy is made up of three main sectors; private, public, and the social economy sector. The private sector comprises of businesses, while the public sector is mainly the government. The social economy sector is composed of non-governmental not for profit institutions and organizations, cooperatives, charitable organizations, and social enterprises (Neamtam 1). A social economy can be said to be a distinct financial system established with the aim of improving the wellbeing of the communities, both socially and economically. The social economy has been in existence for a long time, although the first application of the cooperative principles to ...

Cinema transformed from a tool to display attractions to a medium to express feelings in which directors convey their opinions and ideas. Therefore, political and social events around the world started to become subjects for more and more films. Encapsulating the society’s ideologies and myths, films became a potent means for manipulation and for reinforcing the society’s norms and values. However, for the directors themselves, films soon transformed in artistic works in which they could use subversive techniques in order to question and to critique agents of power. The 2010 Hindi film “Robot” and the Korean film “ ...

Brown’s work is a clarion call to democratic action. Advanced democracies today have always tried to think rationally about the neoliberal government. The article seeks to explore the nature of transformation for both an individual and state in neoliberalism into self-standing entrepreneurial units which may be compelled to contend for investment in other such units. Therefore, this is defined as the eclipse of homo politicus by the all-encompassing political figure of homo economicus. The primary aim of the book as the title indicates is to explain that neoliberalism has continued to render the democratic and independent political agency ...

Financial crisis is not a new word in today's economy. The world's economy has consistently been a victim of the financial crisis, and these cases will continue to happen. The global financial crisis in 2008 relates to the 1930's great depression that nearly brought down the economy of the United States. The actors in the financial sector have grown big and are becoming uncontrollable. These financial institutions have now become tough to monitor and control. Government and central banks have a duty of controlling commercial structures through proper supervision and regulation of financial market (Flannery 275). Due to the ...

Economic transformation in Africa is tied to the colonial legacy. The spectre of colonialism haunts growth and development efforts. The African economy as it is known today has its roots in the colonial exploitation and appropriation of resources. Colonialism introduced capitalism with its idea of the free market but this free market benefited the colonizing nations, leaving unprecedented levels of poverty throughout the continent. Understanding the history of colonial primitive accumulation is critical to understanding the economic realities of present day Africa, in particular, the continent’s insistence on trading with countries like China. This paper seeks to explore ...

Introduction

In the recent history, Gun violence in America has been an issue of huge concern. In this annotated outline for my research, it details down the summary of the main points of my projects as well as providing the working thesis statement. The outline also provides the section headings. Underneath each section heading is a list of the identified resources that I will be utilizing in my research. The outline also provides an annotation for each research.

Summary of Main Points

The research will be looking at the current literature surrounding the controversial issue of gun control in America. I will be covering ...

Introduction

American education has been reported as average when compared to other leading countries. Finland has a top ranked education system. More than half a million 15-year-olds around the world took the Program for International Student Assessment in 2012. The test is administered every three years and focuses largely on math, but includes minor sections in science and reading. It is often used as a snapshot of the global state of education. The results, published today, ...

This paper concentrates on financial strategies and judges their prosperity focused around their effect on development and neediness decrease. The Millennium Development Goal of splitting compelling pay destitution by 2015 communicates the accord of the worldwide advancement group that neediness decrease is of overriding essentialness. There is likewise agreement that national neediness lessening methodologies and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers specifically, are an essential vehicle for centering national arrangements on decreasing destitution. Underneath this obvious agreement, there are, be that as it may, huge contrasts.

Humorously, this is an ideological stance that neoliberals themselves ...

Kwame Nkrumah was one of the most prominent African leaders who guided his country Ghana through the difficult postcolonial years. His philosophical and political views contributed to the idea of free and prosperous Africa significantly. Being born in goldsmith and retail trader’s family, Kwame pursued his higher education in the US, where he obtained both Bachelor and Mater degrees. During the years spent in the US Nkrumah actively studied the socialist ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and nationalist ideas of the black American leader Marcus Garvey (Britannica, 2013). The nationalist ideas on the one side and ...

“The Dynamics of Social Change and Mexico’s EZLN”

The purpose of this essay, as stated by the author, is to provide a better understanding of Latin American social movements and to elucidate the apparent confusion and theoretical deadlock surrounding the study of Latin American social movements in the Mexican context. The author analyzes and identifies various forms of struggle and social movements, as they relate to the quest for social justice and political power sought by the peasant and indigenous communities of Chiapas and elsewhere in Mexico. The author attempts to explain the developments that led to and followed the January 1994 uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de ...

IS THE WORLD ECONOMY BECOMING MORE GLOBALIZED, MORE INTERNATIONALISED, MORE WESTERNISED OR MORE NEOLIBERAL? DISCUSS

Introduction The world economy is a contemporary topic of study in the current century because of its uncountable benefits. People need to understand the economic situation of the world to foster local, regional, and international development. There are numerous benefits of understanding the economic trends in the world. Understanding the world’s economic trends enhances an individual’s purchasing powers, economization, and creating a platform of countering the effects of any economic problem such as recession and depression (Cannan, 1976: 34). From the past experiences, it is notable that the world economic recession affected many people and institutions. Although some ...

Communication

1b. Satire is an influential form of art that has the power to highlight the insufficiencies and paucities in specific human behaviors as well as the social issues that are eventual outcomes of these in a manner in which they transform into ridiculous, often hysterical, which is thus humorous and engaging, and finally reach a wide range of audience. Satire also has the capacity to safeguard its creator from guilt and accountability for the criticism, as it is implicitly expressed instead of being overtly expressed; and eventually, it develops into a powerful tool for dissidents in challenging or domineering political and social ...

Reframing the Framework of the Eradication of Global Poverty

St. Claire’s paper entitled “Global Poverty: Development Ethics Meets Global Justice” claims that in the current development framework which is the neoliberal globalization, it is only the global elite who are benefitting from it. The writer mentioned that the free trade has pushed the rural poor in desolation because of the dominance of the agriculture business where the big agrochemical businesses lord. The free trade also killed most of the local business as the products of mass production reigns in every market all over the world. The paper mentioned that the current indicators of global poverty tend to ...

Power is the process of production, especially through social relations, of the effects that shape capacities of participants. This is normally in an attempt of determining their fate and circumstances. The concept of power forms the core of many international relations. Power entails two vital analytical dimensions. The first dimension is the kind of social relations under which power works; in either relation of interactions or social relations of social constitution. The second dimension is the social relations’ specificity through which effects are mitigated; diffuse/indirect or direct/specific. These distinctions bring about the taxonomy and four main concepts of power: ...

The military controls much of the political and economic state of Egyptian affairs. Throughout history, the images of Egypt's revolution show that the Egyptian military supported the civil disobedience in Tahrir Square. The recent events in Egypt show that Egyptian military forces maintain opposition to terrorism. Some Egyptians believe that the Muslim Brotherhood can gain unity amongst the Islamic countries in the future and create a united country and free Palestine. However, the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), brought the military body to avow a peaceful conversion of authority within a democratic system. This fact ...

Communication

Compare and contrast Graham Murdock's framework for understanding citizenship as a complex ideal of modernity with Anna McCarthy's framework for understanding citizenship as a Cold War discourse for governing. Identify the central conceptual framework for each. Compare how each is concerned with neoliberalism. Identify one strength and one weakness in both frameworks. Graham Murdock’s purpose was to highlight how television fulfills the rights and representations of the citizens through his framework of modern citizenship (Murdock, 2010). Amongst the many rights that a citizen is entitled to, right to information, right to experience and right to participation should be fulfilled by ...

Introduction

This essay shall explain in academic, journal-level language, what neoliberal urbanization is. The task requires the student to imagine that he or she has been invited by the editor of Canadian Dimension, to write about the neoliberal urbanization situation in Toronto. The description involves two main ideas. The first concept describes how neoliberal urbanization is characterized, in terms of the transformation of urban space and types of re-structuring of multi-scalar politics. Exploring this aspect speaks to class, gender, and race politics as witnessed ascriptive identity – which is connected with neoliberal urbanization, in general. The second idea explains neoliberal urbanization’ ...

Introduction

Neoliberalism is a form of economic liberalism that offers support on free trade, deregulation, privatisation and reduction in government spending with the aim of enhancing the role of private sector in the economy. Privatization focuses on transferring the control of a given economy from public sector to the private sector. The policy does this with the aim of enhancing efficiency of the government, economic growth and development of the nation (Harvey, 2005). It is also an economic policy that focuses on monitoring the flow of the market economy thus playing a role in intensifying and expanding the market. It does this ...

1. Throughout the 1980s, both South Korea and Taiwan engaged in a series of reforms towards democratization, with both having been under the control of authoritarian governments. Although South Korea and Taiwan differed in terms of their domestic political context, there is an understanding that both shared a similar road to democratization, characterized by the following elements: growing protest movements, diplomatic relations with the United States (US) and government reform initiatives. Understood as the prime manifestation of dissatisfaction towards authoritarianism, the rise of protest movements in South Korea and Taiwan account for their contextualized stories of democratization. South Korea, ...

Introduction

This study aims to explore how the manifestation of mercantilism has provided support to globalization. There is an understanding that financial developments have helped sustain globalization amidst internal hindrances mostly involving the emergence of monopolies and external interferences in the form of market globalization. At the same time, however, financial developments became a sustainer of globalization due to its depreciative effects to excess capital. It is therefore noteworthy to investigate globalization, in light of the events that triggered the global financial crisis of 2008 – something that this study seeks to discuss (Blankenburg & Palma, 2009; Boyer, 2000, pp. 111-145; Helleiner, 1995, ...

Ne Neoliberalism refers to politically motivated ideologies that allowed shifting of economic factors from the public sector to the private sector. According to these ideologies, a government encourages private investors through a series of policies and changes in the market structure. For instance, governments initiated tax reforms in broadening of the tax base, reduced deficit spending, imposed limitation on subsidies, withdrawal of fixed exchange regime, and encouraged privatization. Neoliberalism in the Middle East and Egypt had a significant impact on the socioeconomic and political perspective. Neoliberalism in Egypt ensured free market and private enterprises regardless of socially harmful inflicted on the society ( ...

This essay argues that, neoliberalism has created a continuum of deservedness, one that favours some groups in their claims to social rights, while at the same time inhibiting others. The Themes essay covers corporate and globalization policies, conflict resolution, and foreign policies. Since the advent of neo-colonialism, its main objective has been to remove all the barriers of commerce among the economies of the world, and the privatization of all the available services and resources. Therefore, in this context, public life is placed at the mercy of the market forces, while the extracted profits only benefits the few social elites. ...

Latin American countries had adopted capitalism as an economic system that arose from the industrialized Europe and the more developed United Sates. However, capitalism did not solve the societal problems of many Latin American societies. Instead, capitalism created a society where a group of elites controlled the state and the economy of many Latin American countries. Even with the rapid economic development that many Latin American countries experienced in 19th century, economic development was not witnessed among the lower middle class and the peasant farmers. Abject poverty was still a feature of a large percentage of the Latin American populace. The urban poor ...

Introduction

Neo-liberalism or rather neoliberal policies encompass a dominant social, political and economic model built upon the diminished role of the state whose role is relegated to the administration of poverty and the management of social conflict. This is usually meant to ensure the non-interference with corporate profits. This model is further characterized by the abandonment by the state of its roles as the representative and mediator in the midst of other social actors. The effect of such neoliberal policies is that the social territory is left to the mechanisms of the market with no or little interference by the state. ...

The public opinion in China is shaped by the influence of the media to a considerable extent. The control of the media has spread to the realm of politics in the nation and thus, the media sector possesses incredible power, being supported by over 2,000 magazine and newspaper publications. Both these categories of print media fiercely compete for the attention of the public as well as the incentive of acquiring the lion’s share of a prized advertising market in the country. However, the state consistently monitors and reviews the policies of the media to gauge the extent of newspapers ...

The concept of ''liberalism'' emerged in the early 19th century in European political literature. For the first time this term was used in Cadiz Constitution in Spain in 1811, when a group of politicians defined the constitution drawn up by them as liberal. Later this concept was included in the English, French, and then in all the European languages. The term ''liberalism’' comes from the Latin ''liberalis'' which means freedom (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Today, liberalism is a complex system that characterizes the economic and political relations in the country. Initially, liberalism was a purely political notion; economic sphere, although emphasized, was not ...

ABSTRACT

This paper examines some of the contemporary theory regarding rhetoric in the electronic age. It begins by considering the fate of English Departments faced with the much-vaunted ‘death of the book’, but quickly moves on to the weightier matters of the rhetoric of the visual and the consequent enfeeblement of rhetoric in the electronic age. It considers both the positive and negative impacts of digital media. It goes on to argue and eventually conclude that the deterioration of rhetoric (which it argues began before the digital revolution) and the homogeneity of the rhetoric of the visual is a deliberate policy ...

• Scenario Plan

Science Workforce science is becoming a new method of hiring; big data is being utilized instead of traditional hiring methods in order to determine the best candidates for certain jobs. Firms now provide proprietary data science mining in order to score candidates to find out who will be the best hire. This provides instant numerical assessments of the skills and experience of a hiring candidate.

Technology

Technology is rapidly creating fewer positions for people that require a higher skill set; grunt work is being accomplished by machines and software that eliminate working-class jobs in the digital economy. This will have a dramatic effect ...

The development and modernization of emerging countries and cultures is a complex and many-faceted issue. Without a keen understanding of the cultural mores of the country in question and an excellent grasp of the concept of development, it is nearly impossible to conduct an in-depth analysis of the issue. Countries that are still emerging into modernization may face a variety of different issues, many of which are compounded by conflict, either past or present. Without knowledge of both the recent history of the country and the history of conflict within the country, it is difficult to understand the issues that the country ...

Abstract

A comparison of The Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence with globalization and the economic development of Peru shows that the countries described in The Tropic of Chaos are similar to Peru in at least two aspects: (a) violence and ethnic clashes pervade in these countries; and (b) their economies are all affected by extreme weather conditions. When comparing present day Peru with the countries from the global south, the contrasts are more pronounced in the areas of (a) agricultural economy; (b) investment on local infrastructure; and (c) achievements in education. This essay looks into the book ...

Facilitator:

The Rise of China as an Economic Superpower since The 1970s Most nations in the Middle East acknowledge the authority of America in the control world’s economy; however, China assumes a different stand (Yee, 1997). The lucrative Chinese economy stands out as one that believes in conquering the world and becoming one of the best hubs economically. The rise of China to greatness economically is a story of both creativity and optimism. The first step by the economy was beating Japan took control the middle ease economy before the attention of the country shifted to the rest of the ...

Introduction

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California is a book that is authored by Ruth Gilmore. The content in the book is as a result of research that was done in California Prisons (Gilmore 34-45). The author takes an ironic reproach to the conservative politicians and self-proclaimed criminologists who argue that prisonisation is the rational process to end crime rates and dispel fear from the streets. She takes a sharp critique at the unprecedented prison expansion in the United States. California is nicknamed ‘the Golden State’ since it houses natural beauty within rectangular borders. The power of the ...

Introduction

The term ‘industrial relations’ was coined in the 18th century and was commonly used in nations like North America and Great Britain. Subsequently the term personnel management came to be applied and then the evolution of human resource management as an internal body of the organization was evolved in 1980s. The above mentioned three terms represent both academic enquiry and practical task. The term industrial relations, in the beginning, was largely associated with public sector and manufacturing organizations and left out large private sector firms. Also the existence of industrial relations and trade unionism were synonymous. This is mainly ...

The debate between the neorealists and the neoliberals had swept the international relations theory for the past decade, especially in the United States. The ‘neo-neo’ debate had shifted the views of many theorists regarding the international system and the definition of what is international politics. Both neo-realism and neoliberalism are considered the progeny of the main theories of realism and liberalism respectively, presenting a new definition and framework to determine the nature of issue. Under these two progenies are also several versions, which diversifies the debate of both IR theories on issues pertaining to international relations and politics. However, while ...

ABSTRACT/INTRODUCTION

This paper has two very useful references that give a great deal of information about the topic—the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform and the International Institute for Sustainable Development websites. They define the meaning of the term sustainable development and how it has evolved over time since the 1987 Bruntland Report and the 1992 Rio Summit, and the UN website in particular has a great deal of information about the various summits and conferences that have occurred since Rio as well as plans and actions underway from various governments and stakeholders on a wide variety of development and environmental issues. ...

In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2010), Naomi Klein found numerous examples of how the United States imposed a system of free trade, free markets and laissez faire capitalism on the rest of the world over the past forty years, through manufacturing crises to impose ‘shock treatments’ and structural adjustments on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe, or simply taking proper advantage of a crisis that was already underway. She calls the many “orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market ...

Introduction Scholars of international relations have deemed the neorealist-neoliberal debate as the conventional paradigm of their discipline. Yet, the emergence of social constructivism in international relations has challenged that standard, and critics both acclaimed and disputed the approach in relation to the established ones in place (Zehfuss, 2002, p. 2). Whereas social constructivism proved influential within scholarly circles of international relations (Checkel, 1999, p. 545), its extent of influence has received indefinite assessments. The extent to which social constructivism has transformed international relations serve as a gap that this study seeks to ...

Introduction

An initially challenge faced by any scholar attempting to study neoliberal ideology in more detail is the apparent lack of written literature on neoliberalism from a neutral or sympathetic point of view. In real sense, everyone writing about the ideology do so as part of a critique of the ideology. According to this critical analysis, neoliberalism refers to the rejuvenation and spread of one specific aspect of liberal tradition, namely economic liberalism. Funder mentally, economical liberalism refers to the notion that states should abstain from intervening in the economy, and instead leave space for individuals to participate freely in self-regulated markets. ...

The purpose of this research paper is to determine what the term neo liberalism means and the impact of neo liberalism in the modern day political economic and social agenda. This paper will assess the impact of neo liberalism in the United States of America as well as in any other country where global capitalism is in effect. It will provide an account of neo liberalism as a set of concepts and principles. The paper will seek explain how the various sets of principle that are part and parcel of the neo liberalism are being implemented by governments. It will ...

What is Neoliberalism?

Neo-liberalism has always been liked to “privatization,” “deregulation,” “decentralization,” or “tax reform.” The famous definition of neo-liberalism is by Paul Treanor who defined it under the book “Neoliberalism: Origins, Theory, Definition” as: “a philosophy valuing the market existence and operation as it is, distinct from any of its previous links with the production of goods and services . . . and where the market and similar structure’s mechanics are seen as normative by itself, enabling the related actors to be ethical and responsible in their human actions and replacing for all the pre-existing moral beliefs (Fish, p. 1).” Interestingly, neoliberalists ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation supports a “Development Dialogue” series in order to encourage and promote dialogue, communication and debate on subjects between North and South global divisions. In June 2012 the Foundation published a book edited by the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives titled No Future without Justice. The civil society reflection group was established in the fall of 2010 and is comprised of members of a variety of civil society organizations (CSOs). At first the group came together informally in order to discuss the numerous global crises that are happening simultaneously. By November of 2010 the group ...

Article Review: “Constructivism, identity and neoliberal (in) security”

Article Review

This paper examines the practical nature of the security practices of nation-states. Of great importance is the examination of the relationship between national security and the global capitalist economy. Nations, such as the US, are committed to extending their economic and political power by participating in free trade and free markets1. Contrary to the need to realize the national security objectives, the aspect of realizing the objectives of achieving the objectives that come with global economic growth is subject to contradict with those of realizing enhanced national security. This brings in the subject of defining state identity ...

As a society moves in the direction of neoliberalism, its punishment becomes harsher

Globalization in a country such as America has resulted to harsher penalties in punishment (Cavadino and Dignan, 2006). For instance, the death penalty is the most used form of capital punishment in the United States. Since globalization has resulted to the faster movement of information across borders, information concerning forms of punishment to be used among various nations has been readily accessible. Countries that are adopting correctional and penal policies similar to the ones in America have experienced an increase in imprisonment rates.

Prison populations have increased over the decades. Small crimes are being treated as severe crimes. In America, ...

Challenges for leaders in Post modern education

There are numerous frameworks that are used to assess models of administration and leadership and also outline the changes that are needed in the process. Various approaches are used which involve leadership as management, value leadership, trust cultural leadership and spiritual; leadership. The notion of postmodern leadership by educational leaders can be seen to agree and concur with the principles that are used to explain subjective models (Moos, 2008). This is a generally recent model of leadership which has no generally accepted definition. Key features that may characterize postmodernism may include situations whereby multiple realities exist, situations are understood at a ...

Book Review - Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politic

Lester K. Spence's 2011 book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politics takes a long, hard look at the current state of African-Americans in the predominant political discourse. In essence, Spence explores through this book and its scholarship the idea that rap and hip-hop culture may actually be bad for black politics; "this work represents an attempt to examine the core questions of black politics as well as the politics of the present using rap and hip-hop as the vehicle" (Spence 157). Despite galvanizing many African-Americans and creating a unique subculture, it is claimed that the ...

Neo-liberalism and Other Current Issues in Public Education

Neo-liberalism is defined as cluster of economic policies advocating for economic liberalization, open markets and free trade. It advocates for the privatization of government owned businesses and enterprises, support for the role of the private sector in the society and deregulation of markets.1 A clear example of the effects of neo-liberalism is where the wealthy keep getting wealthier as the poor people keep getting poorer. Liberalism refers to ideas that are political, religious or even economic. It has been used as a strategy to hinder social conflict in the United States.

Neo-liberalism is more concentrated in shifting the control of ...

Neo-liberalism has always been connoted as “privatization,” “deregulation,” “decentralization,” or “tax reform.” Fish (p. 1) defines neo-liberalism as “a derogatory term to a group of economic and political policies which is founded on the positive effects of a free market system. The most popular definition of neo-liberalism is by Paul Treanor who defined it under the book “Neoliberalism: Origins, Theory, Definition” as: “a philosophy valuing the market existence and operation as it is, distinct from any of its previous links with the production of goods and services . . . and where the market and similar structure’s mechanics are seen as normative by itself, ...

It is well known that education is the key to success, and that every individual has a right to proper education. This means that since education is a right for all the American citizens, the government is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that all its citizens get the basics of education that is compulsory up to a given age. The idea is to equip the citizens so that they can handle the responsibilities ahead of them, and also be set to deal with the competitive status of the modern life. However, there are various developments in the world, accelerated by globalization ...