... 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 ... a contextualization of its origins, which gave it ... ...

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... 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 ... enforced ensuring we maintain a healthy democracy. In the discussion "Democracy in the Danger Panel" with Bill Moyers and his colleagues, the health of our nation is reviewed and we find that while th...

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... adequately governed by the people's will rather than a mechanized imposed one. Although these sources speak of entirely different aspects of society, they unite under the critical ideal of collectivist (ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively) rule. It is crucial for anarchism in practice to be compatible with anarchist theory and embody the proper balance between ... and liberty. Structures must be anarchical in organization in order to fulfill the ideals presented by anarchism as a theory. Therefore, the organization of anarchy must ...

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... middle class and minorities has increased, thus establishing inclusiveness and competition at the same time. (Dahl (1971) Page 21) In Nigeria, the president is directly elected by the Nigerians and separately elects members of both chambers of their legislature, the National assembly. In an effort to ensure that the president serves with a national mandate, Nigeria's constitution requires that the winning ... presidential candidate obtain both an overall majority of votes and at least 25% of the ballot cast votes in at least two third of the states. So, based on Dahl's theory of polyarch...

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... broadly, the Jacksonians proclaimed a political culture predicated on white male equality, contrasting themselves with other self-styled reform movements. Nativism, for example, struck them as a hateful manifestation of elitist puritanism. Sabbatarians, temperance advocates, and other would-be moral uplifters, they insisted, should not impose righteousness on others. Beyond position-taking, the Jacksonians propounded a social vision ... they believed that personal rectitude and industriousness, not alleged political inequalities, dictated men's failures or successes. The Jacksonians, wit...

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... 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 obedience to authority and respect of hierarchy were so ... ...

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... to allow such practices to occur (communist-Czechoslovakia), while on the other hand it is completely feasible (democratic), depending on which side of the fence (or ocean) to reside on. As the elections of 1948 grew closer, the United States continued to intervene heavily by pulling at the heartstrings of the Italians using overt operations and massive propaganda campaigns to ensure democratic victory at ... propaganda campaigns that emerged at this time are generally credited with the success the Christian Democrats enjoyed and with the rapid decline of the Popular Democrat Front (PDF)...

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... 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 Groener Pact, right wing violence, the split of the left wing, and Article 48 of the Weimar constitution. All displayed how the Weimar ... 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 attemp...

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... 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 in regard to which form ... strong national government. Realistically, Madison explained, factions will exist within the government as well, because there must be some element of interest in order for judges to make decisions, therefore once again a strong na...

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... and the government have different roles to fulfill and should remain distinct and independent. Civil society is a zone of freedom for individuals and groups to shape their norms and determine for themselves the internal structure of group authority, purpose and identity. In contrast, the government is a domain of common purpose and identity, characterized by overarching public norms made and enforced by a legal framework ... government to "grow " civil society will be perceived as an attempt to control the freedom of expression of its people. This is evidenced from the fact that alth...

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... 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 Democracy" by Nobuo Ikeda. These articles represent different views ... 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 ...

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... reflected in the federalist body. This stipulation makes perfect sense, and provides perfect results, but only when implemented correctly. An accurate reflection of the public can only be seen when democracy is supported by federalism when the number of representatives in legislatures like the Electoral College reflect the people and the states. According to documents A and D, however, show that the ... hold presidential office, indicates one thing (the democratic principle), the Electoral College could easily prove to support federalism more than democracy. One of the avenues of expres...

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... nothing has remained constant in Egypt for the past three years; positions have changed, alliances have changed, and the Egyptian people's overall view of things has changed, not necessarily to the better. Nevertheless, the question of whether the army is fit to rule Egypt under a democratic state remains the issue three years after what has been described as the biggest revolution in Egypt ... right to assume that the army, as an entity, has been a uniform body acting out a certain agenda throughout that period, or is it that the army's position has changed since Mubarak's rule to the ...

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... 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 ... government to be modular, and not follow one specific agenda too closely, unless agreed upon by the majority, following the Madisonian view of the separation of po...

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... seems to be giving way largely due to the fact that in most liberal democracies welfare liberalism is giving way to neo-liberalism and thus equality of opportunity is now giving way to equality of right. For Branco, this movement towards overall inequality is due to the low value capitalist nations place upon social programs. Once again, Branco provides an astute ... for liberal democracies Deudney and Ikenberry remain skeptical about the stability that capitalism can maintain in an autocratic China. For Deudney and Ikenberry the fall of autocracy is inevitable because capitalism inevi...

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... income in 2012, their largest share in Internal Revenue Service figures going back a century. With money being the most important thing and inequality of incomes increasing among Americans, the fear of the elite running the government is present. "Most elected officials within the political elite are dependent upon wealthy families and corporate leaders for their initial financial support, and military ... "Many interest, including some very widely shared interests, do not get organized and recognized (Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir, Tolbert 437). Although the majority of citizens may support an in...

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... 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 ... Overall, the Czech Republic scored on the comparative democratization scale in the middle compared to the two other countries. There are no major cases of violation of inclusion, b...

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... organizations. Furthermore, conditions within Cambodia's prisons are extremely poor, with inmates being victims to regular guard beatings and sexual assault cases. As with many other sectors of Cambodian society, the prison system is also plagued with corruption, where guards often demand high bribes in return for visiting rights for the inmates' family members as well as a way for the ... marginalized and forced to experience horrific conditions with little to no justice brought upon their perpetrators. Furthermore, the implementation of a new penal code which is aimed to combat so-call...

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... officeholder risks suffering severe penalties (Thorley). In a democracy, elected and appointed officials have to be accountable to the people and as well be responsible for the actions and this is the principle of probity and accountability. Ghana must hold accountable and put in place some penal codes against public servants or officeholders as did the Athenians. The Council or Boule, what would ... the executive and legislature. The courts can be represented on the vetting panel as Ghana transitions to an advanced democracy. The court,as the system evolved served as a platform of acco...

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... 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 present in the minds of people, and this creates a silently hostile environment ... and accept cultural, racial, religious, gender and all other differences. For this reason, the existence of political correctness is an enemy to societal growth and the progression of acceptance of minorities; moreo...

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... words, Colombian real transition to democracy was initiated in 1957; however, its democracy was not established until 1974. However, it is very significant to acknowledge that the democratic rule in Colombia has been difficult to sustain because of the influence of violence and corruption from the Guerrilla movement, Paramilitary groups, and drug trafficking lords. In addition, Colombia's political system has been ... not able to maintain its position, its political and social stability, and its general development. The reality is that it is not the country's fault, but the people who ...

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... their representatives, to address personally as well as to direct individual and collective appeals to public and local self-administrative bodies. As follows, the next is about that citizens of the Republic have the right to elect and be elected into public and local self-administrations as well as to participate in an all-nation referendum. ... limited ability to solve problems through deputies and legislative authorities as well as to become deputies themselves. Secondly, in my opinion, there is a problem with Kazakhstan's political transformation, where the political elite is the in...

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... 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 supposed legitimacy and whether other types ... has grown up and been socialised into thinking that their system of government is the best. Therefore it seems as if it is almost impossible to analyse regimes from any perspective oth...

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... ;self-government" that produces "institutions guaranteeing that rulers remain responsible to electoral majorities" 6. The differentiation between these 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 ... assistance from, or control by, government", says Alan Ryan. Tocqueville applies his typical comparative method and observes that in America the reaction to the lack of a centralized polit...

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... sees multiculturalism as a significant force for Australia as it progresses into a dynamic twenty-first Century where globalisation will dominate sociological existence. Indeed, the onset of such globalisation is already reflected in Australia's labour markets and consequent policies, which demonstrate an undeniable reliance on the international trade market. As such, it would be justifiable ... apply to any persons who: "Owing to well-founded fear of bring persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the...

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