This blog will also be about political violence. But unlike last week, I will talk about acts of political violence that are society initiated. In this week, we were presented with some namely rebellion, civil war, revolutions, terrorism, and structural violence. …

Now, we have reached Module 4 which is all about political violence. But in this week, we just talked about the first half of the module which is state-initiated political violence. We talked about four of them namely coup d’etat, war, political repression, and genocide. But like in my week…

In this week’s lesson, we talked about social movements. So we discussed 4 theories of social movements namely Collective Behavior Theories, Resource Mobilization Theory, Political Process Theory, and Cultural/Psychological Theory. …

So this week’s discussion is all about radical democracy. This type of democracy is focused on the differences of people. It acknowledges that people have different views and opinions and that they should all be considered and accepted. Radical democracy also states that there is no democracy if there is…

In this week’s lesson, we talked about deliberative democracy. Deliberative democracy is where argue, debate, or exchange claims and contentions in achieving public good. As discussed, this is where political decisions should be the outcome of discussion and debates among people. For me, I am in favor of deliberative democracy…

This week’s lesson is all about participatory democracy. We talked about what participation is and its history, what its benefits are, and also its weaknesses. As Uhlaner (2015) had asserted, political participation are those activities done by the public to sway public policy directly or indirectly, through influencing the selection…

This week, we talked about pluralism, catallaxy, and public choice theory. With the three topics that we have discussed, what I am most engrossed about is pluralism, most especially, elite pluralism. David Marsh defined elite pluralism by agreeing that there is a plurality of power, however, he also argues that…

The lesson this week is about democracy, mainly liberal democracy. Liberal democracy as discussed in class focuses on freedom and civil liberties. Collins dictionary defined it as “a democracy based on the recognition of individual rights and freedoms.” And what engaged me most about this is the fact that our…

How did it emerge? Has it gone too far? What is Identity Politics? To give a brief definition of what Identity Politics is, it is when people of a particular gender, race, religion, or ethnicity create a union and organize politically for them to be able to protect their group’s interests (Maguire, 2016). For…