... systems, are usually termed advanced liberal democracies or modern democracies (O'Neil), most of which are in the global north like the UK, USA, Germany, Canada and others; by and large have relatively high levels of economic development and prosperity. It is no surprise then, that the post- cold war era saw many states democratizing since like a towering lighthouse guiding emerging States; development, just as ... Sachs 1992 postulates, seemed to be pointing to the direction of democracy. For this reason some Authoritarian ... It is prudent and imperative to note that, Athens had slave...

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... they were forced to pay heavy taxes to the French regime (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and ... per hectare of land (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor). This horrific time period came to an end during the late 1970s thanks to a war started with Vietnam. The war resulted in a Vietnamese invasion in...

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... of evidence is pointing towards a trend of weakened governmental accountability in the last years as some major corruption scandals took place in 2013. Nevertheless, corruption and the lack of political agencies' autonomy has been a hereditary problem from the earlier communist regime. A case that shows corruption embodied in the appointment of political actors in order to suit the personal good of the individual, is when president Zeman pushed for his proté ... of governance is possible if case like these get sufficient attention from the media, the public and the judicial instit...

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... the "Cold War-. In Italy the people had won the right to vote in a "free- election and choose the type of government they deemed fit to effectively govern the nation. The 1948 elections in Italy led promise that the people, for the first time, would be able to decide for themselves how their country would begin their existence in this "new world-. The landslide Christian Democrats victory in these elections showed the ... them best, or did outside interference from America corner the voters of Italy into having only one choice? This paper will examine how much influence the United States...

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... the democracy was undermined at the start because of the stab in the back legend. The Dolchstosselegende was a key reason for the doubtfulness in democracy and thus the failure of the Weimar Republic. Another key reason for the eventual downfall of the democratic republic was its failure to bring about fundamental socio-economic-judicial change. The political structure of Germany changed from an autocratic, authoritarian system to a democratic one. However, there was still people in ... "[Germany] remained on a continued war footing: at war with itself, and at war with the rest of the w...

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... of internet voting will have an impact on democracy. With internet voting as a subject of debate in today's society, it is evident that society is evolving and in response democracy will evolve. The right to vote and exercising this right is fundamental in democracy. However, as highlighted in Harrop's aritcle "Why Internet voting is bad for democracy," a majority of citizens to not exercise ... simple and it does not need to be made easier through internet voting, but he believes that "internet voting is the worst possible choice for democracy." In addition to voter apathy as one of the ...

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... Civil society groups fulfill an important function as they work voluntarily to bring about positive social changes and provide better services to the people. According to the book Civil Society and Government, "productive tension " exists between civil society and government. When the government institutes too many rules and regulations over civil society, civil society will "wither away." However, if civil society is ... can "collapse into anarchic disorder" (Rosenblum, 2001). Hence, how far should the government be responsible for growing civil society in order to achieve an opti...

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... interests. We have pluralism to make sure that people's viewpoints are represented via factional groups that then transmit that viewpoint to the representatives in Congress and Senators. This gives a notion of the significance attained by bureaucratic interest factions in that seldom is a critical component of legislation advanced by Congress unaccompanied by consent from the organizational agency that was involved with the execution. Brandeis University's well known professor, Peter ... rational decisions more often than individuals, even if it does take time, through the process of ...

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... the Electoral College not only inaccurate in reflecting the preferences of the people, but eliminates that possibility of major public approval granting presidency, as it should. When the constitution was ratified, it would never have been expected that a single state gain and maintain 38 million people (California), while another would do the same with less than one million (Alaska), and so had no reason to expect a shift in the efficacy of the ... representative Electoral College. But now, with the ... ...

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... a kind of equality that entails freedom of movement in the social sphere, the liberty to pursue one's goals. In the United States, Tocqueville notices this stable equation of liberty and equality that transcends the social towards the political into democracy - etymologically translated to 'the rule of the people' – and materializes into a system where "it is the majority that governs in the name of the people"4. However, since he, like many other ... and of executing the laws. The authority of a king is physical and controls the actions of men without subduing their will. But th...

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... stand for re-election too often and must be involved directly in production. This, Guerin says, provides safeguards against bureaucratization. Similarly, Conlon covers the healthcare system as being purely voluntary, based upon the needs of the community, and without profit motivations, suppressing the chance of the corruption of today's privatized American system and not forcing an institution that the people do not wish for upon them. Though they differ ... . To achieve success, hunger for power and wealth must be eliminated from the societal spectrum of capability. Education and freed...

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... and arson of opposing parties' headquarters. Not to mention the multitude of persistent issues that added pressure to the people's already agitated state, such as gasoline shortages and electricity cuts, as well as major economic problems and a weakening currency. In response, a new revolutionary movement was created by the name of "Tamarod" in order to rally the people against the Muslim Brotherhood and even set a date, June 30th 2013 ... , for a new revolution to bring about the downfall of Morsi's regime. Many people speculate, and this has in fact been confirmed by a number of politi...

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... candidates to choose from than in a small republic, therefore it's more likely that a worthy and uncorrupted candidate would be chosen as representative in an extensive republic. A major concern of the Anti-Federalists that was the foundation of their demand for a small republic was the fact that they believed a small republic would guarantee that the voices and opinions of all the people would be heard. The Federalists completely disagreed and explained ... that in actuality if a person were to have a differing opinion in a small republic, that person would be ... ...

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... to politicise the workforce was due to 'the conservative nature of the social system and cultural values'28 and they were doomed to fall away as the 'emblem(s) of an intellectual rather than a political movement, without much influence on the majority of the people'29. This view is echoed in the writing of Matsuo Takayoshi, who states that liberal ideas were 'limited to the middle class in Tokyo; the common people in general had ... no political consciousness and tamely followed the government's policy of expansion on the Asiatic continent.'30 Indeed, Japanese social values of ob...

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... . 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. First of all, it is important to underline that in the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in particular in the Second Section, named as ... "The Individual and Citizen ... ...

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... the best people for the job would rise to the top while the general vote is supposed to represent the aggregate opinion of the people on the policies put forward. Yet this aggregate opinion is simply the aggregate of what seems to be best to the citizens and is therefore open to exploitation by the incumbent regime. Should citizens be influenced unduly by a regime which represses dissenting speech and thought (as with the North Korean ... example), then although the processes of aggregate democracy may be respected, the outcome would not be democratically legitimate. Misinformation could...

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... a fundamental shift in the terms of national political debate. The Jacksonians' basic policy thrust, both in Washington and in the states, was to rid government of class biases and dismantle the top-down, credit-driven engines of the market revolution. The war on the Second Bank of the United States and subsequent hard-money initiatives set the tone "an unyielding effort to remove the hands of a ... exceedingly fragile. According to the Jacksonians, all of human history had involved a struggle between the few and the many, instigated by a greedy minority of wealth and privilege that hoped...

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... in the discussion, "the majority of American people feel a disconnect both from the Democrats and from the Republicans that real issues that affect people's lives in terms of the cost of groceries, employment, issues of shelter, certainly healthcare and prescription drugs, those are driving the concerns that American people feel and yet we"re not getting very much of that from the discourse of the party candidates of both major parties," (1). People tend to place the ... responsibility of social issues upon the government, expecting our leaders to resolve our society's "social ills" whe...

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... government officials, using numerous techniques to pressure them into meeting their particular interest groups wants opposed to the parties beliefs to stay in office. "The ethical problem is that most people view the involvement of money in the system as inherently corrupt. Further, most of the time the relationship between lobbyists and elected officials is clouded. We have a murky system where money changes ... have an edge over those who don't, which is unequal opportunity for ordinary people to have an impact on government. An examination of the interest group system in the United S...

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... underlying argument that capitalism leads to corruption is easily refuted because liberal democracies simply create laws to prevent this type of corruption and since the rule of law applies to all citizens these people are held accountable for any laws they break in spite of how much wealth or power they may have. Branco's assertion does not, however, stop with ... 's leading nations have accepted that capitalism supports liberal democracy one in particular has offered a counter to this dyad. The article "The Myth of the Autocratic Revival: Why Liberal Democracy Will Prevail" by Deudney a...

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... , and its general development. The reality is that it is not the country's fault, but the people who were in control of its wealth. This mismanagement of the country's wealth resulted in the decline of its political institutions, in economic inflation and in popular discontent. In addition, other reasons for the Venezuelan political problems are compounded by the elements that were critical to the origins and long term stability of the political system, namely, strong ... affairs. This fundamental division putted the Pacific port city of Guayaquil, the country's principal economic center...

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... an underlying consensus amongst all political parties of a secular, democratic republic. Second, Rudolph and Rudolph have analysed the role that traditional caste and community grouping played in Indian democracy. These groups translated an external political system into the language of the masses. This brought democracy closer to the people in the absence of civil society and independent interest groups. Community mobilization also became a means of empowerment of more ... social groups such as the unification of Dalits under Scheduled Caste movement culminating in the formation of a p...

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... in the nation's large ethnic population, whose preservation of distinct values and beliefs inevitably influences the convictions of all Australians within society who either accept or reject such cultural variables. In addition, these collective attitudes contribute to the shaping of the government policies that regulate the welfare of all migrants and potential migrants. Consequently, if one considers that the fundamentals of democracy involve the "government of a country by its people ... " (Hutchinsons, 1994:308), it becomes clear that multiculturalism's influence on persons within Au...

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... of sight, out of mind" approach, but it is clear to the rest of the world that a problem that is not being talked about is still a problem. Fact of the matter is that what may no longer be verbally articulated due to speech restrictions is still present in the minds of people, and this creates a silently hostile environment which is even more dangerous ... than an openly hostile one. An alternative to a phony PC environment where people are aware that they must respect their peers - although uniformed as to why - is the idea of pluralism, a framework of interaction in which groups show ...

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... and minority groups in Nigeria are also represented in the legislature. In the presidential elections of 1999, the election committee approved nine parties for local elections and three parties with the highest votes were allowed to contest in the elections. Each of these parties once again reflected its regional base in one of the country's main ethnic groups: The people's Democratic party representing the northern Hausa, the all people's party representing the eastern Igbo, and the alliance for ... democracy of the western Yoruba ... ...

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