Reasons Behind My Choice of Country, Zimbabwe
Many consider Zimbabwe as a poor and undeveloped country. I was one of the many who had the same bias on Zimbabwe before the research. After having a deeper understanding and a closer look on the inner view of Zimbabwe, I now think that Zimbabwe is the land of opportunities and hope. Although Zimbabwe is not yet global, many positive changes are happening to Zimbabwe to develop the country. I believe that Samsung should expand business and move my family to Zimbabwe because of the fair and effective type of government, the rapidly growing business field, and the freedom of religion in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe's Semi-presidential system creates an effective system of checks and balances by having the prime minister and the president elected separately, often from rival parties. Semi-presidential system of government provides cover for the president, provides the ability to remove an unpopular prime minister, and remain stable on the president because of fixed terms (Semi). The type of government of the United States is a representational democracy, based upon the organization of the government into three branches, the executive, law, and judicial. US has no prime minister but has one president to represent the country as well as state governors and leaders to represent the individual state. The type of government in the US focuses on the citizen's voices and let the citizen's idea to be heard. Representative democracy can sometimes be hard to follow because it is hard and tough to listen to everyone's ideas and consider everyone's thoughts. I believe that Zimbabwe's type of government can reduce the minor/major issues with each state and the country itself because there is a prime minister an...
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...and furious work environments (Snyder). Zimbabwe's field of business is not yet developed but it provides business owners for greater success in the future and a variety of business ideas. Compared to the US, Zimbabwe has more opportunities to grow big and global.
I believe that Zimbabwe is the best decision for the choice of country because Zimbabwe offers a safe religious life where God's concerns are discussed religiously and taken seriously. US doesn't offer a safe religious life for religious followers when the number of people supporting the idea of same-sex couples are growing. Zimbabwe's field of business is not yet large but is growing slowly. Successes are easy in Zimbabwe, compared to USA's field of business where small businesses are crushed down by the gigantic, rich businesses. Zimbabwe also has an effective system of government that I am very fond of.
Transition: Ethiopia has a proud heritage and country. You learn lot when you research a foreign country if you want to live there.
The two countries I have chosen to compare are China and Canada. Their systems of government are very different and have different powers and rolls in their country. Canada has a system of government very similar to our own. While china's government appears to be similar as well, but it is quite different. Canada's government democratic and is parliamentary in form but, very much like our own. Like all large governments it is representative democracy.
Discussions of which constitutional form of government best serves the growing number of democratic nation’s are being debated around the world. In the essay “The Perils of Presidentialism”, political scientist, Juan Linz compares the parliamentary with presidential systems as they govern democracies. As the title of Linz’s essay implies, he sees Presidentialism as potentially dangerous and sites fixed terms, the zero-sum game and legitimacy issues to support his theory. According to Linz, the parliamentary system is the superior form of democratic government because Prime Minister cannot appeal to the people without going through the Parliament creating a more cohesive form of government. By contrast, a President is elected directly by the
Within parliamentary systems, the government i.e. the legislature consist of the political party with the most popularly elected Members of Parliament (MPs) in the main legislative parliament e.g. the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister is appointed by the party to lead as the executive decision-maker, and the legislature work to support and carry out their will (Fish, 2006). In presidential systems, the President is directly elected with the support of their political party, with the legislative being separately elected and, in the case of the United States, being made up of representatives from different states (BIIP, 2004). This essay will provide examples to suggest that Presidents are generally more powerful than Prime Ministers. As two of the oldest forms of parliamentary and presidential governments (Mainwaring and Shugart, 1997), the United Kingdom and the United States will be the main focus of this essay, but other parliamentary and presidential countries will be mentioned.
In recent time Malawi has achieved steady economic growth. Malawi is still a very impoverished country, but many are optimistic about the future of
Both Jamaica and the U. S have their strong suites but in terms of where is better for a child to grow up the United States is the better candidate. A good government is the key to having a successful country and the U.S has that. The health care system is much more reasonable and allows many more people to be covered. Plus the educational system is superb. So to ensure that a child grows up in the best possible environment with the best possible access to resources they may need throughout life, should be raised in a stable country such at the United States of
Discussions of which constitutional form of government best serves the growing number of democratic nation’s are in constant debate all over the world. In the essay “The Perils of Presidentialism”, political scientist, Juan Linz compares the parliamentary system with presidential democracies. As the title of Linz’s essay implies, he sees Presidentialism as potentially dangerous and sites fixed terms, the zero-sum game and legitimacy issues to support his theory. According to Linz, the parliamentary system is the superior form of democratic government because Prime Minister cannot appeal to the people without going through the Parliament creating a more cohesive form of government. By contrast, a
The way that a country is controlled by the government depends on the relationship between the legislative and executive authority. Most democratic nations, today, generally use one of two governmental systems, either a parliamentary system or a presidential system. Today most of Europe prefers to use a parliamentary system, whereas the presidential form of government is preferred in places such as South Korea, South America and the United States. The differences between these two governmental systems are not obvious at first, but there are some key differences. However, neither one of them is necessarily superior to the other.
Every country differs in their preference of political system to govern their countries. For democratic countries, two possible choices of governing are the presidential system and the parliamentary system. Since both the presidential and the parliamentary systems have their own strengths and weaknesses, many scholars have examined these two forms of government, and debate on which political system is more successful in governance. In this paper, I will first provide a detailed analysis of both the parliamentary and the presidential system. I will also evaluate each system’s strengths and weaknesses, addressing any differences as well as any commonalities. Finally, I will conclude by using historical examples to analyze and support the presidential system, which would be a more desirable system for a democratic government.
There has been a continuous debate in this forum on Mugabe and the crisis in Zimbabwe. Mugabe’s legacy and the independence movement in Africa are symbolic of a continent’s defiance to western dictations and imposed standards of measure. To understand Mugabe’s present antagonism with the west it is important to trace its roots into the wars of liberation and Mugabe’s rise to power. The ZANU-PF party that led Zimbabwe into independence was built on a platform of liberation against white domination and economic empowerment of the masses. Their ideology was tied to socialism. Fighting against a minority white led government and threatening foreign interest alienated Bob from the central and conservative western political-aristocracy into closer ties with the Kremlin and Cuba. His stance against the power sharing arrangements under the March 3rd 1978 agreement in Governor’s Lodge in Salisbury endeared him to more nationalist heroes and intensified nationalist campaigns for total liberation.
This article which I have chosen to read, is about a ruined city of southeast Zimbabwe south of Harare. Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city on the plateau in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Zimbabwe was supposedly a city that controlled much trade and culture of southern Africa during the 12th and 17th centuries because it was stationed on the shortest route between the northern gold fields, and the Indian Ocean. Archaeologists believed that this masterful stonework was built somewhere around 1100 and 1600 A.D.
... trade influenced the steady decline of Great Zimbabwe. More than 20 million ounces of gold were extracted from the land and used for trade. The combination of falling world prices of gold and the depleted supply of gold resulted in the crash of Great Zimbabwe’s economy which rendered the nation unable to import food to supply their dwindling harvests as monoculture had set in.
Angola has one of a fastest growing economy in the world and annual average GDP growth is 11.1%. However, they still have a higher rate of poverty and not many people are educated well enough. Since 2002, angola have been working hard to fix and improve ravaged infrastructure and damaged social and political institutions ( provides residential care for people with special needs). Now, Angola is ranked 102 in global peace index. (http://www.visionofhumanity.org/#page/indexes/global-peace-index/2013/AGO,MWI,ZMB/OVER) In recent years, income disparity has spread in Malawi due to the economic growth which results an increase in extreme poverty like Angola. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Malawi) From these, many serious crimes are happening in Malawi and also Angola, such as robbery, carjacking, violent crimes and they are occurring routinely. For example, large-scale demonstrations by civil society happened in July 2011 because of the fuel shortage due to shortage of foreign currency and it became the situation to issue 20 people dead. Not just these problems that I listed, there are more human rights that are violated in Malawi. Malawi is ranked 74 in global peace index. (http://www.vis...
Poverty and hunger in Zimbabwe have increased in the past years. Most fear that this may problem will only magnify as time goes by. In a Zimbabwean city, a reporter reveals that some of the Zimbabweans are relying only on porridge. The reporter also stated that some children are no longer going to school due to the hunger they are suffering. Not only is hunger a very nation wide prevailing issue another horrendous problem is poverty.
According to Linz (1990), he called “The perils of presidentialism” focuses mainly on the general problem of presidential system rather than focusing on its specific sub-type like semi presidential systems. He argues, “The superior historical performance of parliamentary democracies is not accident” (Linz 1990:258). He also said that from the performance of both government systems one can conclude that parliamentary system of government performs better and accomplishes a stable democracy rather, presidential systems, especially in deeply divided societies. (Linz