Essays on Social Democrats

For this comparative research, we selected Spain and Germany, two countries of the European Union with similar political parliamentarian systems. Personification is a distinctive feature of presidentialism and it seems reasonable to examine to what extent this trend occurs in European parliamentary systems today.

The position of political leaders in parliamentary systems is different from the position occupied by them in the presidential republics. Lijphart identifies three characteristics that distinguish essentially presidentialism and parliamentarianism (Lijphart, 2000). Firstly, in a presidential system the executive chief is elected directly by the electors by popular vote and therefore without legislative intervention, so ...

Capitalism and socialism are to some degree restricting schools of thought in financial matters. The focal contentions in the socialism versus capitalism verbal confrontation are about financial fairness and the part of government. Socialists accept monetary imbalance is awful for society, and the legislature is in charge of lessening it by means of projects that advantage poor people (e.g., free government funded training, free or sponsored medicinal services, standardized savings for the elderly, higher assessments on the rich). Then again, entrepreneurs trust that the legislature does not utilize monetary assets as productively as private undertakings do, and hence society ...

Introduction

The green parties are formally organized political parties that are based on the principals of the green politics. Such parties are associated with the principles of social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and the environmentalism. They strongly believe that the issues stated above are interrelated as a founder for the world peace. They typically embrace the principles of social democratic economic policies and forming coalitions with the leftists. The green parties emerged in the middle of the 90th century. This paper shall critically and coherently discuss what led to the emergence of the green parties in Germany. The paper shall also ...