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Politics and public policy

There is no getting away from the fact that politics can be an extremely dirty business. In this era of creeping nationalism, it is important to both understand how we got here, what can be done about it, how people’s rights can be better protected within existing frameworks (or even how we can construct better frameworks), how we can improve education so that voters better understand the ramifications of their choices at polling stations, and what we can do going forwards to help support the good and ameliorate the bad.

Although politics is deeply entrenched in every aspect of our daily lives, people only see an issue as becoming political when it deviates from their expected norm. For example, the right for homosexual people to have legally recognized marriages has been brought into law in many countries over the past few decades. Opponents claimed that this devalued traditional heterosexual marriage, although it was never specified exactly how or what form this devaluation took as heterosexual marriage is still equally as valid as before such reforms.

Noted actor Jeremy Irons said that such marriage reform meant that he would soon be able to marry his own son, despite existing incest laws explicitly forbidding this. A row of metaphorical dominoes overseen by politicians is social problems inadequately addressed by the state. In the United States’ justice system, punishment and retribution have long been prioritised over assistance and rectification. This has led to the privatization of prisons, the militarisation of the police, extremely high numbers of civilian deaths by police shooting, and recidivism among ex-convicts.

Politicians oversaw the allocation of ridiculous and unnecessary budgets to police forces and have now started responding to calls to curtail this excess and really think about how best to allocate resources. This has been assisted by various reports and research into what programmes and services can help heal society, all ably assisted by political science proofreading services, as statistics and interviews are the raw data that can help appropriately inform useful decisions. The avoidable and preventable deaths of victims such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have led to international protests, which during the COVID-19 pandemic are absolutely necessary to lead to useful action such as the slashing of police budgets and the expansion of social services to take responsibilities out of police hands where they are not needed.

These duties include dealing with mental health crises or homelessness issues that they have previously been called upon to resolve while fully armed despite woefully inadequate training.

Representation and accountability

Although politicians are ideally supposed to be reflections of their constituencies, many countries’ electorates often complain of feeling separated from and unable to relate to their representative and vice versa; there is a classic test in English journalism where a politician is asked to name the price of regular grocery items such as a pint of milk or four-pack of apples. The blame for the disconnect is often levied at either politicians’ sheltered and privileged upbringings or money and power-brokering interfering with activities that are supposed to be purely directed towards prioritizing the interests of those they represent.

The difficulty is that politicians are supposed to be able to supervise themselves but as the sayings go “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” and “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” Watchdogs remain answerable to their bosses, who are generally put in place and/or supervised by the politicians the watchdogs are supposed to be keeping in line. In the United States, the House of Representatives has the power to impeach and the Senate conducts the trial; the FBI does not impeach presidents.

Political science also examines how the independence of courts, oversight bodies and opposition parties affects accountability. Historically, such situations have culminated in either civil war or armed conflict with neighbouring countries; however, the militarization of police forces and the advent of the nuclear age make each of these approaches incredibly risky. Alternatives (preferably non-violent) are a hot topic of research and as dealing with such seemingly intractable situations is an international priority for progressing towards world peace, getting your academic paper edited by a political science proofreading service can help align your paper with the style requested by the journal to which you are submitting and reduce the time spent going back-and-forth with peer reviewers on simple revisions such as typographical errors.

While peaceful avenues exist and have even sometimes been used successfully—Ghandi’s hunger strike helped free India from British oppression—these rely on a compassionate population capable of holding those in power to account. Totalitarian dictators seem happy to let their own people die—or even have them executed—to service their own ego and repress dissent.