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Politics is a process people determine social, economic decisions.
Politics has three main elements [Power, Authority, Violence]
Power can manage the distribution of Public resources, and it also exert one's influence to others.
Authority means government rights such as legality, legitimacy.
Marx Webber declares three elements of legal rights. First, legal authority like USA president. Second, traditional customs like kings of Saudi Arabia. Thrid, Charismatic authority like a god.
We have numerous some types of governments. First of all, Monarchy. It was very common shape of government in ancient and medieval times. And recently, it is general most monarches have limited power.
Democracy is a shape of government that people have their own sovereign power. Democracy has two basic principles, all citizen have equal authority and enjoy universal freedom.
Totalitarianism is a political system that nation dominates personal privacy and ideologies. That government remains their power to use their Ideologies and political propaganda.
Communism is a certain shape of governments which make use of loyalty towards commuism Ideology. Most of them compose their government through Marx's Ideology.
Political Parties are a political system which gain power and remain the power through vote. USA, for example, they have two main parties [democratic vs republican]. USA's parties have weak central organization and they don't have absolute Ideology. Two parties's powers are entirely different from geography. And democratic party has their initiative along the seaside town. Political parties in Sweden generally join together and form united government.
In politcal system that voting matters, some people have favorable rights than others. In advanced countries, rate of femal votes are high, but that doesn't guarantee the political position of women.
As rate of young people votes are low, the center of politics is likely to be senior citizens. As a result, USA seniors are more powerful than youngers.
Interesting
What is the representative shape of government? Europe is the birthplace of Democracy. Democracy from ancient Greek is spread out to other nations below the Europe. And recently, it seems to Europe take another way. Europe is composed of welfare states generally. They need enormous money and workforce to maintain their welfare, so governments collect a heavy tax. Europe implent certain policies that government collects most of citizen's capitals and distributes them to public goods. And then, they still respect personal choices about house, jobs. Is this Democracy or Socialism?
Discussion
Why did the Commuism fail? Truly, is the Democracy the only way? The examples early mentioned, if we lived in Ideology which is mixed with democratic and socialism, what problems we have?
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