The fascist rise to power in italy

In the dawn of the 21st century, the advanced countries of the modern world have united around a single political system - democracy. However, it has not always been that way, and democracy was much opposed even in the recent past. A bright example of this struggle is the period that followed World War I. There were no real victors because the war inflicted serious damage not only to most European economies but to the people's belief in democracy. Thus in some countries the parties that opposed democracy were able to use the advantage and gain power. The disappointed post World War I society and the ruined economy combined with Mussolini's effective tactics and propaganda were the reasons behind the success of fascism in Italy.

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Pluralist Power Political

Compare and contrast the pluralist and ruling elite accounts of political power

This essay will discuss the above question and analyse the relevance of similarities and differences to the modern political system. It will look at empirical evidence from a number of pluralist and elite writers and explain the weaknesses in both arguments.

The differentiation of the distribution of political power between the pluralist and elitist accounts is relatively simple to determine loosely. The elite approach argues that there is one group which dominates in a political system, although that class is not necessarily determined by the economic system. Pluralist theories state that political power should be regarded as analytically distinct from economic power and, in contrast to elitists, power is not concentrated in the hands of a single group, but widely dispersed among a variety of groups and actors.1

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Air Power War

‘Air power theory’ had a harmful affect on foreign relations and military planning both before and during the Second World War. With the word limit in mind, the essay will focus on the European theatre and more specifically on the roles of Britain and Germany, as the principal and rising powers. Interwar air theory needs some definition, there were many theorists and the similarities between their arguments will form the basis of the definition of ‘air power theory’ used in this essay is discussed in the first paragraph.

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