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7 Free Ways to Promote a Small Business Online
Everybody is on social media that the online community has now become synonymous with Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest people – to name a few. It will pay off well to be relevant as possible on social media if you want to extend your reach to as many people as possible. Under its hood is several different platforms where you can build branding. Which, might we add, most of them you will not have to pay for. Just add the content and fill with pictures and videos or snippets of texts, and you are set with a fun and exciting post. Social media is a candid podium that allows you to create an image for your brand or your blossoming business. It is where you talk, sell, and-of course-promote your product or service.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Top 12 classifieds in Fort Worth, Texas
Unlocking Opportunities: How Free Classifieds Come in Handy to Buy/Sell Anything in Fort Worth, TX Free classifieds websites have transformed the way people buy and sell products in Fort Worth, Texas. These virtual marketplaces provide people with hassle-free and inexpensive ways of reaching out to buyers or sellers. Herein, we will explore the several benefits of using free classifieds in Fort Worth that will help these residents make informed decisions and bring new opportunities.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
China in Xi’s “New Era”: The Return to Personalistic Rule
In the post-Mao period, Deng Xiaoping and his associates initiated fixed terms of office and limits on tenure, as well as a statutory retirement age; power was devolved from the Communist Party down to government agencies in addition to regular meeting of Party organs. All this was done in a bid to diffuse authority, normalize political life, and put dictatorial powers under lock and key. At the heart of this institutionalization project lay the practice of regular peaceful leadership succession that Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao followed. Routine premortem succession was an achievement rare for a communist regime and, as it would prove, the single most significant contributor to China's "authoritarian resilience." Yet today, Xi Jinping appears to be pulling China back into a personalistic dictatorship decades after its emergence from institutionalized collective leadership. He has clearly signaled that he will stay in office beyond what had been considered his term limits, which were to expire in 2022. This paper examines why institutional norms and conventions established since Deng Xiaoping's time could not prevent another strongman leader in the mould of Mao Zedong from rising.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Polarization versus Democracy
Where would we expect ordinary people to act to check the authoritarian ambitions of elected politicians? An answer to this question is the key to understanding the most important development in the dynamic of democratic survival since the end of the Cold War: the subversion of democracy by elected incumbents and its emergence as the most common form of democratic breakdown. This paper provides an explanation in terms of which political polarization undermines the public's ability to serve as a democratic check: In polarized electorates, voters are willing to trade off democratic principles for partisan interests. It shows such evidence that questions the practical relevance of conventional measures of support for democracy and underlines the importance of understanding the role of ordinary people in democratic backsliding.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
The End of History Revisited
Until only a few years ago, many argued that liberal democracy was the most just and attractive political regime. The most famous manifestation of this optimism was Francis Fukuyama's thesis of the "end of history". Ironic but true: many of the social scientists who at the time rejected Fukuyama's work with a flick of the wrist were themselves adherents of similarly far-reaching assumptions. Now, with the tides of history turning fast, theory's hypotheses are turned on their head. Indeed, a number of authors today forecast that as the conditions that made liberal democracy possible fade, it is likely to be supplanted by illiberal democracy, competitive authoritarianism, or outright dictatorship. Such conclusions risk being just as rash as the more optimistic ones that preceded them.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
30 Years of World Politics: What Has Changed?
From its emergence in 1990 until the present day, the political climate has shifted from democratic gains and optimism to what Larry Diamond called the "democratic recession." Underpinning these shifts has been a reorientation of the major axis of political polarization, shifting from a left-right divide defined largely in economic terms toward a politics based on identity. A second great shift, technological development, has also introduced effects no one foresaw, including the greasing of wheels for the rise of identity-based social fragmentation. Other gradual changes that have further changed the environment in which democracy has to function include the move toward neoliberal economic policies, the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and lowered expectations regarding democratic transitions. Sustaining democracy will need rebuilding the legitimate authority of the institutions of liberal democracy and resisting those powers that aspire to make nondemocratic institutions central.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Covid vs. Democracy: Brazil’s Populist Playbook
Covid-19 has had unambiguously tragic human consequences in Brazil, worsened by the "executive underreach" of President Jair Bolsonaro in failing to follow public-health guidance. Still, the democratic impacts are mixed. The health crisis might have taken away the ghost of military intervention-so alien to Bolsonaro's proclaimed affection for military coups-and emboldened the elites, holding their positions firm against his "performative golpismo." The pandemic has sharpened societal polarization and promoted partisan filters even when people read or receive information about an issue so close to their health concerns. If the pandemic is a crucible, Brazil’s democracy will likely emerge brittle but intact.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
How Authoritarians Use International Law
Two of the great trends of our time are legalization and autocratization. Both of these are now extending to the level of international governance. Gaining greater power on the international plane, the authoritarian regimes now turn to international law for shielding themselves against criticism, in order to foster their illiberal projects. Their strategies range from hijacking multilateral institutions and setting new norms to unilaterally claiming jurisdiction over perceived critics abroad. The authoritarian design for international law thus requires of democracies a more imaginative response than so far provided.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
The Arab Spring at 10: Kings or People
A decade after the outbreak of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress-one democratic, aspiring to replace the dominant leaders of the region, another modernizing in its seeming form, which purports to replace the people inhabiting it. Where the latter project is currently ascendant, it is probably fated to founder on internal contradictions. Although the Arab publics may be ambivalent about democracy, the region still retains considerable democratic potential.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Why Strongmen Win in Weak States
Accounts for the ascendance of illiberal political movements across the West have centered either on the relative roles of economic squalor or "cultural backlash." Yet many of those "authoritarian populist" leaders out of the West-from Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines to Vladimir Putin in Russia to Narendra Modi in Indiaderive their legitimacy neither from economic promises alone, nor from social conservativism, but from a third commitment-to restore public order and state authority. Without such state capacity, this platform will remain particularly appealing to voters for some considerable time since the general erosion of state capacity in many developing democracies has gone hand in glove with deep crises of democratic confidence and an openness to populist alternatives.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
The Collapse of Afghanistan
There is a conventional wisdom that the Afghan republic fell because societal values were incompatible with democracy and the country was simply ungovernable. This article traces the state's collapse to the highly centralized political institutions imposed after the 2001 U.S. invasion. Instead of offering citizens an opportunity to oversee their government in a meaningful way, Kabul-centric institutions-holdovers from the country's authoritarian past-undermined citizen trust in government. The post-2001 system was incepted with huge amounts of foreign aid, which fostered corruption. Afghans were unwilling to fight for a government which did not treat them with dignity after twenty years.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
