Baptist Polity in the New Order

The Good Polity

Depicting a good polity, one that is morally superior and desired, is relatively easy. Utopian writers have drawn various designs for centuries. Some prefer direct democracies to representative ones; some see much merit in local government; others extol the merits of world government. There is surely much merit to this visionary approach, if only because it allows one to clarify the values to w...

First Baptist Church

a critical discourse analysis of the new york times and the tehran times news articles, covering the u.s.-led war in afghanistan

تحقیق حاضر متون خبری روزنامه های نیویورک تایمز و تهران تایمز را به صورت تحلیل انتقادی کلامی مورد بررسی قرارمی دهدکه درمورد جنگ به رهبری آ مریکا در افغانستان است. هدف از این تحقیق نشان دادن تاثیر ایدیولوژی و نگرشهای نویسندگان متون خبری است که ممکن است پنهان باشد. برای انجام این تحقیق 20 متن خبری) از هر روزنامه 10 متن خبری) به صورت تصادفی از سایت اینترنتی روزنامه های نیویورک تایمز و تهران تایمز ا...

Electronic Elections in a Politicized Polity

Since the 2000 presidential elections, the evolution of electronic technologies in American elections–from voting machines to computerized voter registries–has occurred within the context of a highly partisan, polarized, and politicized environment. The decision about the type of voting systems to use within a given state has become especially political and these debates have affected the confi...

Distillation of the United States Polity

The Home Box Office’s series The Wire (2002–2008) provides an informed critique of the decline of the democratic American ideal of the ‘city upon a hill’. From its inception as a police procedural, it expanded its interests across the dystopian city of Baltimore to consider the linkage between drug crimes, policing, the collapse of blue-collar life, social deprivation, institutional compromise,...