Political conditions in foreing countries
USA:
Actual president: Barack Obama
The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, respectively
The United States is a representative democracy. Citizens elect representatives to national, state, and local government; those representatives create the laws that govern U.S. society. Although nothing in U.S. law requires it, in practice, the political system is dominated by political parties. With rare exceptions, elections are decided between the two major parties: Democrats and Republicans. Although citizens vote for individual candidates, most candidates are affiliated with one part or another. Therefore, much of U.S. politics boils down to party politics.
Main political parties
United States has a two-party system:
-party Democrats ( D ): progressive in the social sphere, it favors government intervention to regulate the market economy .
-party Republican (R, or GOP): socially conservative, liberal capitalism defends and insists on national defense.
USA:
Actual president: Barack Obama
The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, respectively
The United States is a representative democracy. Citizens elect representatives to national, state, and local government; those representatives create the laws that govern U.S. society. Although nothing in U.S. law requires it, in practice, the political system is dominated by political parties. With rare exceptions, elections are decided between the two major parties: Democrats and Republicans. Although citizens vote for individual candidates, most candidates are affiliated with one part or another. Therefore, much of U.S. politics boils down to party politics.
Main political parties
United States has a two-party system:
-party Democrats ( D ): progressive in the social sphere, it favors government intervention to regulate the market economy .
-party Republican (R, or GOP): socially conservative, liberal capitalism defends and insists on national defense.
Brazil:
Actual president: Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff of the center-left Workers’ Party was inaugurated to a four-year presidential term on January 1, 2011, inheriting a country that had benefited from 16 years of stable governance under Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (2003- 2010).
Rousseff had to contend with several political challenges. Mass demonstrations took place across Brazil in June 2013, with protesters calling for better quality public services, among other demands. Rousseff implemented some policy reforms in response to the demonstrations, but smaller-scale protests have continued to occur and could grow in size in the lead-up to Brazil hosting the World Cup in June and July 2014. The Brazilian Congress has provided additional challenges for Rousseff, with some sectors of her multiparty coalition opposing her legislative initiatives. Although Rousseff’s approval rating declined significantly during 2013, it has partially recovered and stood at 41% in February 2014. In the 2014 elections Rousseff was elected again.
China:
Actual President: Xi Jinping
China is an industrializing nation, growing economically, socially, and politically. Although China is currently the second largest economy in the world after the United States.
Today, China’s political stance as a Communist state plays a large part in citizen’s lives like the moderating of media such as the Internet. But most notable of the negative effects of China’s political stance would be the restrictions of self-expression in the citizens, and the extremely large wealth and development gap between the urban and rural areas of China
The Chinese people are increasingly frustrated with the Chinese Communist Party and the political situation in China is very delicate.
The discord inside China is partly a result of the income and wealth disparity between China’s growing middle class and the masses of poor, rural residents, Locke said. He also said the Chinese government’s human rights record was worsening.