{"title":"The Eu as a Global Actor Addressing the Challenge of Contested States","authors":"Eleni Chytopoulou","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.123020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.123020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perception of Ngozi Town Elites towards UPRONA Political Party in 2021","authors":"L. Ndikumana","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.123022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.123022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The National Anticorruption System in Mexico: Democracy and Efficient Governments 2016-2022","authors":"Mario C. Chavarria Suarez","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.123024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.123024","url":null,"abstract":"The origin of the State as a form of social organization was linked to democracy as a form of government; both analytical categories entail essential qualities in people such as equality and freedom, but with different characteristics, powers, and obligations. The Rule of Law can be an effective check on the exercise of state power; democracy, in turn, can be the most appropriate political system for the protection of fundamental rights. In the context of a deep inequality gap, Mexico lags in fighting corruption. Since the promulgation of the general law regulating the National Anticorruption System (NAS) in 2016 (Congreso de la Unión, 2017), efforts have been made to coordinate the work of Mexican authorities at all levels of government for the prevention, detec-tion, and punishment of acts of corruption. Faced with social disenchantment with politics, democracy, and the weakening of state sovereignty, it is worth asking what is the relationship between the Rule of Law and democracy? What is the socio-political context on which the NAS emerges? How has it worked institutionally? And what have been its repercussions in the configuration of the Rule of Law? These questions are part of a national research agenda, but also of a global agenda in contemporary democracies. I attempt to contribute to the study of a complex relationship between the Rule of Law (as one of the dimensions of quality democracies), democracy (as a form of government in Mexico) and the fight against corruption in the country (as one of the indicators of the Rule of Law) based on the NAS, recently passed into law, and facing serious challenges to function with all its capacities and powers. This relationship between Rule of Law-Democracy-Controls of legality represents one of the biggest obstacles in the path to democratic consolidation.","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Effects of Regional Economic Integration: The Case of the Abraham Accords","authors":"Mona Elinat Massalha","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.124038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.124038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70554213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strengthening the Democratic Project: Information as the Foundation of the Fourth Estate","authors":"A. Kakabadse, N. Kakabadse","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.122015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.122015","url":null,"abstract":"Studies show that citizen dissatisfaction with democracy is on the rise. Equally, trust in public institutions is on the decline, but despite this, citizens desire to shape the future of society is growing. The contribution of this paper is three-fold. First, the varying interpretations of democracy are scrutinised in order to surface the nature of scrutinized liberal democracy. Second, the negative impacts of democracy cycles are highlighted as shaped by the interests of elites in their pursuit of economic gain thus undermining liberal democracy and the adoption of diversity. Third, and through such influence, the independence of the fourth estate is diminished requiring the institutionalisation of the custodiary in order to promote a fourth democratic wave. Thus, the aim of our paper is to surface a free flow of contrasting perspectives from multiple entities and in so doing make the case for regulation which limits undesired monopolistic and oligopolistic interests.","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) and the Challenges of Corruption in Africa","authors":"Gbemi Odusote, Yakusak Aduak","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.123019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.123019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Role of “Four Histories” in a New Era","authors":"Dongxin Shu","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.123023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.123023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy and Administration of Social Justice in Nigeria: A Critical Assessment of the Fourth Republic","authors":"Ayodele Aluko, H. A. Aluko, Funke Ogunjimi","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.122011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.122011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian-Iranian Strategic Partnership in Syria: Converging Interests but Diverging Goals","authors":"Tan Tan, Mariia German","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.121001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.121001","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic partnership is an evolving phenomenon, and there has been no consensus on its definition. But the academic endeavors by now manifest some degrees of congruence on the constitutive features of strategic partnership. This study first generalizes the constitutive features of strategic partnership. Then through the lens of these constitutive features, the relationship of Russia and Iran is examined. They have some converging interests in Syria: the common perception of a Western challenge, a high degree of military-security cooperation, similar economic motivations for their interventions in support of Assad regime, and the geopolitical importance of Syria to both countries. How-ever, they have diverging goals in Syria too: serious ideological differences, the instrumentality of Syria in Russia’s strategy, rivalry for influence, divergent policies to Israel, and potential competitors as energy suppliers. Thus, in the framework of the Syrian crisis, Russo-Iranian relations are difficult to characterize as typical strategic partnership. Their relationship is “tactical rather than strategic” and their interactions are “pragmatic rather than systematic”.","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Fronzaglia, Clayton Vinícius de Araujo Pegoraro
{"title":"The WHO Directions on COVID-19 and Brazilian Health Public Policies: An Analysis from the Political Sociology of Public Action","authors":"M. Fronzaglia, Clayton Vinícius de Araujo Pegoraro","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.122014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.122014","url":null,"abstract":"The paper first describes a brief history of the World Health Organization and its public actions during the last decades. Then, it describes its organizational structure and its roles in global health governance. It also emphasizes some global WHO actions in this field. The objective is to show the WHO actions as part of the referential analysis of public policies, according to Jobert and Muller (1987). We then present the referential theory and describe how it helps us understand international organizations’ influence in maintaining or changing specific paradigms in public policy. Afterward, we provide a brief history of Brazil’s actions during the SARS H1N1 pandemic to illustrate how the WHO guidelines and the International Health Regulations have served as a paradigm for Brazilian public policy in this area. Then, we demonstrate that by not following the WHO recommendations to combat the pandemic, the Brazilian government generates a conflict of references expressed both in the clash between the central government and the Ministry of Health and in a federative clash opposing national and regional governments.","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}