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Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Compatibility of Capitalism and Democracy?

labor power (Wikipedia, 2005). Marx was concerned about what people did with their labor power, how they related to it (Wikipedia,...

Virginia's Way of Life and American Revolutionaries

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

Middle East, Democracy, and Islam

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

Dictatorship, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy According to Plato

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

Western Settlement, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

'Computer Professionals and the Next Culture of Democracy' by Shuler

may be agents in the transformation of democracy, but democracy is not something that is inextricable with computer science (2001)...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Manufacturing and Democracy in the US and Japan

parties is hampering Japans progress towards a true democracy" (Anonymous, 1996, p. 12). While some areas have noted considerably...

Iraq and Democracy Don't Mix

of the most devout of Islam nations, and so for the people, the notion of equality is ludicrous because a non-believer can never b...

A Review of The American Civil War The Last Capitalist Revolution

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

Nation States and Development, or Democracy

after close to half a century of communist rule, when communism fell in the Soviet Union, to be replaced by provisional government...

American Democracy Legitimacy and Global Perceptions

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...

Netherlands and Consociational Democracy

claimed that this form of democracy has outlived its usefulness. The question is, has it? If in fact there is something that can b...

Democracy and Decision Making by the People

a system of checks and balances. It is designed to meet the needs of as many people as possible (Montgomer, 2003). It seeks to avo...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Anthony Down and Thomas Hobbes on Political Ideology

as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...

Japan's Rise During Prewar and Postwar Periods and Its Problems

catalyst and to some extent the cold war would prod Japan to its ultimate height. Still, turning outside of the general traditions...

Democracy and Human Nature

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Separation Between Church and State

this section, well try to answer if a liberal democracy requires a strict separation of church and state. In theory, at least, a d...

American Capitalism's Tenets

way they had not been before. Democracy truly had the ability to empower both the people and the government; the people no longer...

Athenian Imperialism and Democracy

the war with Persia Athens started to rebuild, but there was an interesting imperialistic view, perceiving all other Greek states ...

The Reforms of Cleisthenes and the Importance of the Trittyes

determined by birth were disposed of and ten trittyes (thirds) were created each called after called after local heroes (Leveque a...

Hesiod's Fable and Other Similar Works

Four political works in ancient history are examined. Athenian democracy is part of the inquiry but many issues pertinent to polit...

Philosophical Critique of Iris Marion Young’s Concept of the Distinction Between Self-Development and Self-Determination

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

The Digital Divide - 6 Blogs

information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot" that was given by The Digital Network; which is a...

Democracy in Europe

and perhaps within nations will act as springboards to the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), su...

Why Freedom of Speech is Vital to Democracy

apparel policy" ("Court cites landmark student free speech case in finding district unlawfully suspended students for protesting s...

A Comparison Between the British and French Governments

that of Britain. In France, there is the idea that the power is with the people, but in Britain there is a sense that one institut...