Are the Poor Politically Free?

I argue that poverty does not impede or reduce political freedom in the concept of positive and negative freedom. By saying that the poor are politically free, the poor may lack a particular item, but they mean that they lack any side of political freedom. First, we define political freedom as a negative concept of this word. It is "freedom in the absence of human or human intervention in human activities" (Berlin 1969, p. 4). "Because everyone is their own master, this is from themselves, not because of the reasons they influence themselves, since they are being moved by a conscious goal.

After President Putin took office as president (2002 - 2004), Freedom House evaluated Russia as "partial freedom" and the scores of political rights and civil liberties were less than five points (one point was the most freedom , 7 points is the most freedom). Between 2005 and 2008 Freedom House said that Russia is "not free" according to its "World Freedom" report, political power is 6 points, citizen freedom is 5 points there were. Kremlin cracked on civil society, continued to put pressure on domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and made the two national democratic funds supported by billionaires' philanthropist George Soros "an unhappy organization" There. "The regime also saturated the information environment through nationalistic propaganda, while suppressing the most popular alternative sounds, strengthened its strict control over the media.

Freedom House ranks countries as "free", "partial freedom" or "not free" and evaluates the country's "political rights" and "civil liberties" to provide ranges for each category I use a scoring system to do. Score "The country and region are given two evaluations, political right and civil liberty, based on their political rights and civil liberties, where 1 is the maximum degree of freedom, 7 is the minimum degree of freedom It corresponds to a specific total score range. "

Out of the 49 countries designated as free, the following 11 countries have the lowest overall score on political rights and civil liberties (starting with the lowest freedom). Syria, Eritrea, North Korea, Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Somalia, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Saudi Arabia. "Ethiopia has experienced the most serious political turmoil in the past few years but the protests of Oromo's people against the rights of the country and the land have caused widespread dissatisfaction and a disproportionate and deadly force by security forces against protesters When expanded to use, Ghana integrated, opposition candidate Nana Akho Ad adds to the current John Mahama in the December presidential election which is the most stable democracy on the African continent.