... undermine the democracy, Historian Edgar Mowrer writes "What can be said for a republic that allows its laws to be interpreted by monarchist judges, its government to be administered by old-time functionaries watches passively while reactionary school teachers teach its children to despise the present freedom"Therefore showing the flaws of the Weimar Constitution such as Article 48 being ... wing parties such as the Friekorps were volunteer units made up of former soldiers who hated socialists, blaming them for Germany's defeat in WW1. The Friekorps had no objection in killing those who...

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... institutions "presaged the consolidation of a new kind of moneyed aristocracy. And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among ... policy. In the older states, reformers fought to lower or abolish property requirements for voting and officeholding, and to equalize representation. A new generation of politicians broke with the old republican animus...

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... Italy to carry the message of voting against communism. The message the United States routinely tried to implore was that the elections of 1948 was a choice between "democracy and communism, God and godlessness, and between order and chaos-(Kalyvas), as the Attorney General would state repeatedly over radio broadcasts to Italy. The radio broadcasts also hit Italians who worked in the ... ...

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... control over the State. Finally, Venezuelan crisis can be visualized as a case where the transition has remained stagnated. Therefore, a new order of politicians is struggling to be born because the old older remained very strong and is unwilling to die. New leaders, such as Hugo Chavez (current president) have been able to emerge. Chavez is now the result of decades of ... bad administrated politics, a political crisis with a hopeless and desperate society looking for a drastic change, a rejection of the old political parties. Thus, he is now responding to the popular call for this new...

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... can draw such a conclusion that 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, considering the fact that young people in the age range of 16-29 constitute ... ...

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... corruption, bribery, and graft.8 Popular opinion of the democratic organ appeared low; it was held that politicians used power for their own gains, standing against the people rather than the old absolutist bastions of court and corporation9. Criticism of the lower house often stemmed from the fact that it was quick to cooperate with and bend to the will of non ... ...

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... appointed by lot and served a year term with the opportunity to serve there only twice in their lifetime and not in succession. Members had to be at least thirty years old and there were at least fifty members from each of the ten tribes. Ghana as a transitional democracy, has attempted representing the various constituencies at the cabinet level by having one ... ...

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