Politics Weekly Newsletter - Friday, January 30, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Why is the U.S. Foreign Ministry called "State Department"? What is the reasoning behind the somewhat odd and awkward naming of the U.S. Foreign Ministry as "State Department"? I get the department being the American equivalent of ministry but in what way ... united-states foreign-policy   asked by amphibient 10 votes answered by Bobson 10 votes Where is the USA's report on enhanced interrogation techniques located? I'm writing an assignment about torture in first world countries(or torture "executed" by them). I've been looking for the report on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, written after 9/11, which was ... united-states   asked by Anickyan 3 votes answered by crc32 1 vote Why don't politicians decide to pass laws that make themselves really rich? Why don't US politicians in the senate, house of representatives, and supreme court decide to give themselves, say, 100 million dollars each? I understand that the politicians doing so wouldn't get ... money   asked by Kyth'Py1k 1 vote answered by alfonso 3 votes Why is the US president allowed to grant a pardon So I was reading today and I read for about the thousandth time about a presidential pardon, and I started to wonder Why is the president allowed to grant a pardon? What are the limits of a ... united-states president presidential pardon   asked by wyatt 1 vote answered by Ne Mo 2 votes What is Iran's stance on the UN regulating technology in the field of cyberterrorism? As of recently, Iran has emerged on the world stage of cyber technology after recent sores over Stuxnet. However, Iran is still behind other world superpowers like Russia and the US. Essentially, if ... un iran   asked by Script Kitty 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Was the change in government in Ukraine legal? President Putin recently called the change in government in Ukraine an "anti-constitutional coup and a military seizure of power". Obviously, the interim government and their Western allies disagree, ... constitution ukraine   asked by Yannis Rizos 34 votes answered by Julian Schuessler 42 votes What are the advantages/disadvantages of a mandatory voting system? Living in a country with mandatory voting and experiencing the results in another one with no compulsory voting I'm wondering what the advantages and disadvantages of mandatory voting are. voting-systems voting   asked by Sven Clement 22 votes answered by JKor 9 votes Can you answer this? What scholars formally describe and operationalize group identity salience? It is thoroughly discussed by rabushka and shepsle 1972 and Cornell and Hartman, but I am having difficulties finding other sources. nationalism identity-politics   asked by alfonso 1 vote

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