... in order to achieve a sharper picture of the forces sweeping modern societies toward a more egalitarian future"1. There aren't any actual definitions coined by Tocqueville for the 'key' terms he uses, so in "Democracy in America", we get more of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of ... it is the first type, liberty "in terms of the benefits produced by the political life of a free government" that concerns us, for it targets the characteristics of liberty in a democracy, of which Tocqueville points to "a dynamism of general political participation" – so the ... as its d...

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... performance scores where it does on our scale. By defining democratization in the first section, focusing on the two variables- inclusion and governmental accountability- a comparative democratization scale to measure the level of this democratization achieved in the countries being studied will be established. The case selection will be in the second and the case summary in the third sections ... the people. Some cases of the lack of inclusion involve discrimination of the Roma minority. The government continuously fails to integrate them into the society and little public support exists...

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... assessments, but it fails to capture a larger historical tragedy: Jacksonian Democracy was an authentic democratic movement, dedicated to powerful, at times radical, egalitarian ideals "but mainly for white men. Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. Its origins stretch back ... , enlarging, and then plundering public institutions. More broadly, the Jacksonians proclaimed a political culture predicated on white male equality, contrasting themselves with other self...

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