... many different governments and many different cultures. With the great variety of cultures, religion, and governments it was a surprise to see that many people wanted the same goals in their life style. Many of these cultures wanted a fair government that would protect them as well as allow them ... some time, there were many problems with this type government. There was never the ability to move up and the king made the decisions based on what he thought was best rather then what the people wanted. Later the feudalism government developed to become a more democratic system. Which is th...

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... democratic state. For that purpose, in this essay I will examine the fundamental and legal issues of why in Kazakhstan there is a low concernment of people in exercising their right to vote and participate in the all-nation referendum, guaranteed by the Constitution, and propose some possible solutions for this unavoidable problem. ... the youth's participation in elections is rather low. As for instance, in 2007, only 7.5% of candidates in local Maslikhats were young people under 30 years old, and only 1.5% of the elected deputies belonged to this age group. This rate is very low, consi...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... notion of 'legitimacy' is too broad to be discussed as one concept, it covers input legitimacy, output legitimacy, legality, will of the people, democratic legitimacy as well as many more. As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary ... good intentions. There is no procedural democracy which can be abused by a malicious state as there are no free and competitive elections and people do not have to choose their political representatives as The Party does that for them. This paternalistic approach to the ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate