... is an extremely powerful and influential tool. The internet is used to process multiple daily transactions from business correspondence, overseas purchases and online banking. As the internet becomes an increasingly integral component to everyday life, the question of implementing online voting has been widely discussed and debated as demonstrated in articles "Why Internet voting is bad for democracy" by Froma Harrop and ... voter may not be an informed participant which Harrop views as a threat to representative democracy. However, Harrop overlooks that as society adopts new behaviors ...

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... this appointment for several months. (Freedom House, 2014) This suggests the notion of returning a favour to Klaus as he supported Zeman before the presidential elections. A survey conducted by World Justice Project (2014) shows that when a high-ranking government official is involved in an act of bribery, seventy-five percent of the people being surveyed believe that although there ... will be an open investigation, no conclusion will be ever achieved. Further corruption was indicated on a local governance level when European Union funds for infrastructure improvement were accused of mi...

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... academic Cherian George, who has called for more press freedom, was denied tenure at Nanyang Technological University, and when letters of demand were sent by the government to bloggers and online media commentators to apologize and remove remarks that allegedly defamed government officials or the courts (Shah, 2013). The foreign media played up the fact that Singapore fell 14 places to ... ...

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... in the 1950's and lead Colombian politics with an autocratic regime until 1957, when Liberals and Conservatives signed an agreement make a coalition government (Frente Nacional) and overthrow Pinilla from power. Ever since, the two democratic parties had shared governmental power until 1974 when Colombian first presidential elections took place. In other words, Colombian real transition to democracy was initiated in 1957 ... two parties consolidated their power and as a result of a joint effort along with some members of the military, were able to establish a democratic rule, putting an...

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The Republic of Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world, and its democratic development was represented by chairmanship of the OSCE in 2010. During 24-year history of Kazakhstan's independence, there has been observed a fair progress in the development of ... countries such as Denmark (27%), Finland (34%), Norway (42%), Sweden (46.3%), and France (48%). Up till now, 484,000 people with disabilities accounting for 3% of the country population have been ever elected to any legislative authority. Moreover, due to limited abilities, these people face different challenges with regist...

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... (NAA) created in 2002 and the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection created in 1999 and mandated to investigate against corruption. Neither of these already existing institutions has ever successfully conducted an investigation that led to the prosecution of a government official charged with corruption. This lack of compromise and will to battle against such an important obstacle to democracy ... of strategic action plans from donor agencies, a judicial reform has never been seen in the country's history and thus, the executive branch remain in complete control o...

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... two types of what I would call democratic incarnations is done by emphasizing the inevitability of democracy "in a social sense" as a phenomenon naturally emergent from and alongside the modern world, whereas democracy in a political sense can only derive from humans exercising their freedom of choice. A causal relationship is the point in which social democracy and political democracy meet, for in ... political life is contrary to the French state's desire to provide guidance, and Americans "organize themselves to provide what they need for themselves"15 because political education is ...

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... "global political phenomenon of 'democratization." That is, Democracy was hailed as the best form of government hence, an increasing process of democratization in many parts of the world especially in Africa; Army Generals traded their military fatigues for suits to contest elections as politicians in an unprecedented era of democracy. The word democracy was coined from the Greek ... , which was developed around the fifth century BC in the Greek city-state of Athens, was a direct democracy which held the most participatory form of politics that Western civilization has ever seen. Th...

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... diminish communist and socialist ideals prior to the 1948 elections. The Truman administration felt it was imperative in protecting democracy and freedom in the western world to stop the spread of communism, and that Italy had to be the starting point. The intervention into the Italian elections of 1948 was ... over how desperate Italy was in need of financial aid in the wake of the devastation brought on by the effects of the second world war. The United States used this angle as their "trump card- to pressure de Gasperi into weeding out leftist opposition in his cabinet ... among othe...

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... to wonder if anything short of positive federal protection for slavery would spell doom for their class "and the white man's republic. In the middle remained a battered Jacksonian mainstream, ever hopeful that by raising the old issues, avoiding slavery, and resorting to the language of popular sovereignty, the party and the nation might be held together. Led by men like ... ...

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It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. However, it is necessary to examine on what grounds democratic regimes acquire their ... of an authoritarian ruler to provide what we need and want as we vote for the party with the policies we most desire. Democracy is also supposed (in an ideal world) to be largely meritocratic and so one would hope the best people...

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The Weimar Republic was a democratic government that came into power after the First World War. It is clear that this democratic government was destined to fail from the onset for several reasons. The Dolchstosselegende, failure to bring about fundamental socio-economic-judicial change, Ebert ... . The conservative elites owned and controlled media, industry, judicial system, police, army, religion and basically most aspects of German life. Histotian Michael Burleigh displayed how conservative elites believed "their world had collapsed" due to the creation of the republic. Because of the elit...

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... Occupy Movement is particularly exemplar as a current example of such an embodiment. Gibson writes that the movement seeks to push for radical reform by "laying the framework for a new world by building it here and now". The Occupy Movement is organized on the basis of a larger general assembly to form popular consensus, which is reserved for pivotal decision, which ... ...

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... sought to establish the rules and procedures of an effective democratic regime, although political instability, ethnic disunity and bureaucratic corruptions still persists in Nigeria, like many other democracies in the world. On the other hand, despite China's three decades of economic reform and global trends of democratization, the political regime of China remains stubbornly authoritarian. China's historical legacy of over 2,000 ... groups and people who are not a part of the Central Committee which is almost the whole of China, cannot take part in decision making, which means approx...

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... for industrialized nations. In this sense a capitalist economy not only supports the values of a liberal democracy but it also helps to extend them on a global front. Although most of the world'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 ... ...

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... solution to racism and intolerance wish to deal with the problem with an adolescent "out 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 ... ...

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Today, the meaning of democracy is subject to interpretation. Many societies around the world claim to function democratically, calling themselves democracies, often skewing the literal meaning behind the word, "rule by the many," by the people. In the United States of America, we define ... importantly to vote. Our leaders have set out to teach the importance of this type of democracy to other nations, hoping to bring forth participation and democratic government around the world. In the end, it all comes down to freedom, the ideal by which our nation was founded, and according to Jean Beth...

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