Study Questions
By admin • Mar 22nd, 2006 • Category: Issue Three: AccessGold
1. To what extent does money influence the political process?
2. How have technological innovations produced both paths and roadblocks to power?
3. How do grassroots efforts around the globe, such as boycotts, provide access to power?
4. Historically, what is the correlation between countries that possess well-defined property rights and wealth and power?
5. Do wealthy people have a greater right to govern than others? Why, or why not?
6. Are countries rich in natural resources necessarily powerful? Why, or why not?
Gods
7. Since the 1980s, how has the rise of the religious right in the United States affected the balance of power? What are some similar movements in other nations?
8. To what extent does a spiritual connection to a higher power give an individual access to personal power? Can personal power translate into access to political and economic power? If so, how?
9. To what extent is access to political and economic power meaningful to individuals and societies?
Glory
10. To what extent are modern democracies more likely to become powerful than other forms of government?
11. How has the need for personal glory driven the course of history?
12. How do human rights’ activists and freedom fighters provide access to power for the people they represent?
