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Social Justice and Democracy in Education

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

The Evolution of American Democracy

James Madison and John Jay (Federalist party, 2005). Opposition to a strong federal government was known as anti-federalism, and ...

De Tocqueville: "Democracy in America"

customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...

Should Power in a Democracy Be Diffused or Concentrated?

opposition. If the government behaves in a way not seen as fitting, either personally or by them way in which they are using their...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Nineteenth Century Imperialistic Activity

counterrevolution against communism, which stemmed from it a radical rejection of liberal constitutional politics, the fascist mov...

Constitutional Guarantees

the majority rule. Other nations which are considered incredibly different, and which further illustrate the complexity of constit...

Putnam: "Making Democracy Work"

Yes. Putnams introductory pages clearly explain his reasons for using Italy as his "laboratory": two regional governments, one in ...

Media Monopoly and Democracy

the press that acts as a check and balance on the way political power is wielded, able to questions decisions and policies and inf...

Connection Between Democratic Freedom and Arts Education

long held beliefs, intellectual theories, and works her way deep into the root causes, in her opinion, of much of the social and r...

Democracy as Viewed by Aristotle

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

Democracy and the Peaceful Transition of Spain

Franco y Bahamonde of Spain died on November 20, 1975, he had been the chief of state and the commander in chief in that country s...

Models of Liberal Democracy and Interpretations

of freedom to pursue material wealth" and other objectives, according to Participatory Democrats (Hudson 10-12). Protective demo...

Women's Contributions and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

Japan's Post 1991 Reform Failure

the crisis took place, they were all but a part of an even bigger force: the fact that a majority of Asian countries are all seeki...

Experience and Education by John Dewey

its time schedules, and classification systems and rules (18). Here, due to this, Dewey points out that schools are therefore mark...

Aristophanes on Democracy

to see that Aristophanes was a conservative through and through and seemed to prefer an almost aristocratic rule to a democratic o...

Free Market and Monopolies

of the act is sometimes difficult. What Can Governments Do About Monopolies? In the governments camp is the Sherman Act in whic...

The Foundation of Merit Public Service in American Democracy by Patricia Wallace Ingraham

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Class Roles, Political Changes, and Their Impacts Upon Socialism, Monarchies, and Democracies

people and it is the people who decide the issues through elections. Theoretically, democracies should be formed for a long term b...

'Democracy The God That Failed' by Hoppe

system, he fails to make the point that the society would be much better off with a monarch in charge. Of course, one can look at ...

Postwar France and Democracy

very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Democracy Problems of Zimbabwe and Zambia

original named Northern Rhodesia while it was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the Un...

Defining a Fair Society

Some values to emanate from democratic societies include the right to be heard, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and all the...

Topics of Sociology and Theory

for a time. It appears that Marxs ideas come from life experience and his own prejudices as well as sociological observations in t...

Social Life and Intellect in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...