Political Pictures - Best of FN 2007 picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 13 image entries
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This is the sixth contest in the series of contests "Best of Freaking News pictures of 2007". Today's category is the "best political picture". All the entries were nominated by the Freaking News staff, so this contest is for voting only. Authors, please feel free to edit your authors comments, but please don't change the titles or otherwise edit the entries.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 3/16/2008 6:00:00 PM, Ended: 3/19/2008 6:00:00 AM
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* Art of controlling the state and society;
* Set of social ideas and purposeful activities, based on the ideas, linked with formation of vital relations between the states, people, nations and social groups.
Thinkers of the past defined politics differently: as “imperial art” to control all other arts (oratory, military, judicial, etc.) and skill “to protect all citizens and whenever possible, to make them the best out of worst” (Plato); as knowledge of correct and wise government (Machiavelli); as leadership of machinery of state or influence on this leadership (Max Weber), as struggle of class interests (Marx). Modern political scientists define politics as activity, concerning the public interests, expressed in behavior of public groups and also as set of behavioral models and institutes, regulating public relations and creating both the imperious control as well as competition for possessing the powers.
Two key approaches for understanding the politics exist in modern political science - consensual and confrontational.
Consensus between the people. Politics is created by publicly fighting groups of people, mutually defined in concepts "friend / enemy".
* Level of competence of officials and their rational use for duly and complete solution for the tasks, put by the supreme political management of the state;
* Accuracy of the scientific analysis with use of modern modeling methods of projects of large political resolutions, which excludes or at least, reduces the risk of acceptance of inadequate resolutions by political management of the state.
Major factors determining the credibility and efficiency of politics, are its conformity to objective requirements for development of material and spiritual life of society, correct account of real economic opportunities of the state, its national - ethnic peculiarities, conditions political and geographical position. Accordingly, politics can promote or apply brakes on progress of the society.
Politics - multi dimensional social phenomenon, which can be considered as the tool of conscious self-regulation of the society. Entire series of definitions about politics exist, which are suggested by various theoretical directions, in which, one of the basic aspects of political activity is emphasized: institutional, legal, economic, psychological, social, anthropological, etc.
In general view, politics can be determined as the social activity, directed towards preservation or change of the existing sequence of distribution of power and ownership in state organized society (internal policy) and world community (foreign policy, world politics). |
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