... became widely accepted as legitimate weapons in the political struggle" The political disorder that was clear among the left wing allowed the antidemocratic right wing to remain in control of aspects of German life and thus potentially jeopardizing democracy of the Weimar Republic. It is evident that Germany's attempt at being a democracy after WW1, the Weimar republic, was unavoidable of disaster from the beginning. The Dolchstosselegende, failure to bring about fundamental socio ... -economic-judicial change, Ebert Groener Pact, right wing violence, the split of the left wing, and Arti...

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Civil society is defined as "the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values, covering common interests whether it be political, economic, cultural, scientific, anthropological, social interests" (Mathi, 2008). 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 ... away." However, if civil society is left unchecked, the state can "collapse into anarchic disorder" ...

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... . However such critiques ignore the democratic underpinnings of the Indian political system and the distinctive context of its establishment. Democracy is essential to address India's developmental challenges in view of its diversity and need for responsive government. While criticisms of casteism, communalism, criminalization of politics and corruption are warranted, they represent an incomplete process of deepening of democracy rather than failure of democracy itself. An understanding of strengths and limitations of Indian democracy requires ... casteism has been a negative force in In...

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... 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 "Internet Voting can Reform ... 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,...

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... a small republic. James Madison, a Federalist and a fierce proponent of the Constitution, responded to their concerns in the Federalist Papers, reassuring the Anti-Federalists that the form of government laid down by the Constitution was not only the best, but the only way to preserve the rights of the people. It is evident that although the intention of both the Anti-Federalists and of Madison was to protect the rights of the people and although they both agreed on a republican form ... of government, they drastically disagreed as to any further details ... ...

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... fact, any sort of political ideology. The CNRP, on the other hand, is known to have liberal democratic tendencies when it comes to their political stance and rhetoric. Having now fully obtained both a historic preamble and an explanation about present day politics in Cambodia, it is important to shift emphasis towards the reasons as to why Cambodia still struggles to ... successfully implement democracy and establish itself as a politically stable nation within the region. Corruption & Transparency Cambodia, as many other Southeast Asian countries has been held back from ... which const...

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... organize and delegate power within such a large nation. However, the power struggles between the political parties do not negate the fact that each still holds to ensure the values of the Constitution. Not only is it the uncertain economy and the threat of terror overseas, it is the lack of personal issues being addressed that make the American people leery of the government. Aside from these very important issues within our nation, Americans are still guaranteed basic ... freedoms and this guarantee is upheld and enforced ensuring we maintain a healthy democracy. In the discussion "Dem...

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... . So, unfairly, democracy is undermined in the name of efficient government, primarily because of the Electoral College, which embodies the American precedent that federalist comes before democracy when it should be the other way around. The unequal distribution of democracy, due to the process of electing presidents through the Electoral College, is seen to run parallel with the unequal distribution of representation of the people in the Electoral College. The reason there is a constitutional mandate that the populations of each state and ... be relied on to reflect the views of the peo...

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... was this period that caused the first wave of change in the army's position. The army's image in front of the Egyptian people was completely shattered; there were many errors in the management of the country, because the military is simply not trained to run the internal affairs of a country, as well as many violations of human rights, for instance, the crackdown on the NGO's and the arrest of its employees, except for the foreigners who were sent safely ... in Egypt is the relentless attempts by every regime to reconstruct the authoritarian regime that reigned before the 25th of Januar...

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... of the people can be secured. To achieve success, hunger for power and wealth must be eliminated from the societal spectrum of capability. Education and freedom of information is at the heart of the success of anarchy in opposing the neoliberal (capitalism of the free market) order, therefore anarchism may only exist when the people develop the capability internally to make it. The day people learn to look within themselves for sovereign guidance rather than externally is the ... day the people are made sovereign....

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... Nigeria has vacillated between authoritarian military regimes and democratic civilian republics and has had a variety of federal state and local political arrangements. (O'Neil (2010) page 543). However, over the years Nigerians have developed a number of important components of successful democracy namely the fourth Republic which includes a diverse and vigorous media, an educated and often critical elite, outspoken human rights organizations, a growing middle class and a respected legal ... polyarchy and further more Dahl's concept of polyarchy is also very idealistic. On the other ha...

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... is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power since the assembly and the courts were regarded as the people and that no power was above them. Hence, they could not be reviewed, impeached or punished. This is very indicative of a principle highly exalted in the advance democracies that is the principle of popular sovereignty, where the citizenry or the masses are seen as the true source of power and authority of the government. Article 35(1) of the ... Ghanaian constitution holds that "sovereignty resides in the people of Ghana from whom government derives all its powe...

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... genuine paternalist concern, the Jacksonian rationale for territorial expansion assumed that Indians (and, in some areas, Hispanics) were lesser peoples. As for slavery, the Jacksonians were determined, on both practical and ideological grounds, to keep the issue out of national affairs. Few mainstream Jacksonians had moral qualms about black enslavement or any desire to meddle with it where it existed. More important, they believed that ... the mounting antislavery agitation would distract attention from the artificial inequalities among white men and upset the party's delicate interse...

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... attempting to answer why democracy made such limited headway during the 1920's, was the failure of its official outlet. It appears that the Diet's lower house was little other than a constitutional nicety, its wings easily clipped by the conservative elements in Japanese politics – the structural makeup as defined by the Meiji constitution made it so. The ambiguity surrounding the role of the emperor and the military in the structure of Japanese government is commented on by ... tamely followed the government's policy of expansion on the Asiatic continent.'30 Indeed, Japanese soci...

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The topic of democratization is an important aspect of the world's contemporary political environment as much discussion evolves around its evolution and spread as a universal value around the globe. It is a political process that has started its third wave in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. (McFaul, 2002) This was followed by a very significant phase in the progression of democratization ... countries have had some kind of a problem with corruption and political involvement in the jurisdiction or police forces...

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... push government to enact policies that benefit small constituencies at the expense of the general public"(Woll). The typical person, whether they are educated or not in the matters of public policy, cannot register his viewpoints sincerely at a ballot. That is why it is important to have a pluralist society, where everyone has a say even if sometimes it is not in favor of the majority of the population. Political groups can influence government, as well as ... the individual as elucidated by President Truman's statement "In all societies of any degree of complexity the individual is ...

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... the way to the building of 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. 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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... delves into this relationship it becomes clear that it is not always harmonious. In order to understand why the relationship between the two has caused such a contentious debate a deeper look into the term liberal democracy must occur. The concept of liberal democracy encompasses liberal and democratic values like limited government, individual rights, the rule of law, political equality, as well as the democratic process as a whole. Although a capitalist economy supports ... why a relationship between capitalism and liberal democracy is advantageous. The concept of rule of law is a cor...

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... within the last month of the election strongly aided the Christian Democrats push for political control as the people of Italy began to weigh the enormous value of aligning itself with the United States, and the only way to guarantee its continuance would be to vote against communism. When examining the outcome of the 1948 elections in Italy after the fact, it is easy to understand why the Christian Democrats were victorious. The enormous aid from the CIA, the NSC ... , Truman administration, and the United States government clearly swayed the citizens of Italy to vote against communism....

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... seen in lobbyists and interest group members restrict lower status citizen's equality in the legislative process. Another knowledge it seems necessary to have as a lobbyist for interest groups is the ability to give important policy information to members of congress (Lincoln). Although this is true, there lacks a way for the average American without high levels of education or knowledge a way to properly express themselves to elected officials. People ... with high levels of education and social status have an edge over those who don't, which ... ...

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... 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 sufficient respect and ... tolerance of each other, and coexist and interact without conflict or assimilation(6). Pluralism entails the free exchange of ideas and that one hundred ...

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... some of the nation's wealth to ease the lives of the poorer members of their society. If a non-democratic regime performs these functions then why should we not consider it legitimate? Largely it would not be considered so due to the application of our 'democratic standard' to countries where such political systems do not apply. Representative democracy, bound up with a strong legal system of rights, is helpful in preventing excesses of the ... state in terms of offences ... ...

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... transitions to democracy and how these have influenced their current political situations. First, let's consider the Colombian case. It is important to recall that Colombia was able to achieve its transition to a final democracy after surpassing one of the most dramatic periods of its history, which was very notorious for its violent era popularly known as "La Violencia." After being governed by civilians for many years ... , Rojas Pinilla overthrew the government in the 1950's and lead Colombian politics with an autocratic regime until 1957 ... ...

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... of thought and to inhibit social involvement, compromising liberty in the process. The authority of the majority, thus, is the threat we should be concentrating on in answering this question, for it is the one most specific to modern democracies that Tocqueville analyzes in "Democracy in America", and as we will see, the one most powerful because of its means. Before being able to discuss why Tocqueville thinks the dominant authority of the ... majority is such a dangerous threat to ... ...

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... on Democracy in Australia What is the causal connection between multiculturalism and Australian democracy? In seeking a justifiable answer to this, the significant elementary constructs of the question must first be defined. Within context, multiculturalism can be seen as "the practice of retaining the individual characteristics of the various cultures within a society (Heinemann, 1994:709)," and is a significant part of Australia's identity. This cultural retainment is clearly reflected in the nation's large ethnic population, whose ... imports come from this region, demonstrating that...

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