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Vandana Shiva/Earth Democracy

same name to refer to the worldview of Native American and other indigenous peoples throughout the world who have "understood and ...

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...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...

Administrative State and Democracy

in the issue of democracy and the administrative state. Both of these issues rely on the people of this country and both of these...

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...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Growth of Asia Versus Latin American and African Growth

or mismanaged economically, such as was the case in Eastern Europe when it suffered under communist regimes, this process is frust...

Twenty First Century, the U.S. Electorate, and Democracy

color and female people were patently excluded. Despite the many changes that have taken place in Americas democracy, especially i...

Contemporary Democracy in the United States

and if they were not happy with the political leaders they could do something about it. This all sounds incredibly powerful and...

6 Decades of the United States' Latin American Foreign Policy

Although President George W. Bush has a good relationship with Mexicos President Vicente Fox, indeed even leaned on that relations...

Homosexuality and Latin American Gender Roles

of their culture to be replaced by Catholicism. In short order the indigenous population was dominated and overcome by the Europea...

Democracy and the U.S.

fault was seen to be a personal failing, rather than a condemnation of the US system of government. When terrorists attacke...

Democracy Concepts of Jean Jacques Rousseau

citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...

Challenges and Current Trends Regarding Latin American Countries' Distribution

American communities are a stronghold in South Florida now. The focus on global and international development into Latin America ...

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...

Democracy as a Political Science Discipline

to be aware of the impacts ones actions have upon the rest of society. THE IDEA OF DEMOCRACY The emphasis placed upon material w...

Relationship Between Capitalism and Democracy

on to say that "Democracy and capitalism are like a lion and a bull pulling a sled together" (Wallace, 1996). It is a precarious c...

US Democracy's Shortcomings

world. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle alike all mused on the principles of democratic rule. Even Machiavelli, the Sixteenth Cent...

Citizenship, Democracy, and the Effects of Taxation

operations. The imposing of taxes on individuals may appear to be a limitation to personal freedoms and a quelling of efforts tow...

Capitalism and Democracy

unleashed a joining together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in a way they had not been bef...

Comparing Democracies That Are Developed and Developing

In eight pages the U.S. and Indonesia are compared in a discussion of an older democracy with an emerging example of a developing ...

Human Rights and Latin American Indigenous Women

roles between the male and female in the more ancient components of indigenous society, these differences were justifiable in term...

UK and Democracy

cruel autocrats; guarantees citizens certain fundamental rights that non-democratic systems are unable to grant; insures citizens ...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Qaddafi), Dictator of Libya

region. However, this period of calm was fleeting because when the Turkish Empire wrested control from the Arabs, a prolonged per...

Prospect of Global Democracy

by critics, encouraging readers to conjure up huge armies divided by race, language and religion, moving forward across thousands ...

Democracy and its Forms

turns on anything and everything that is not ethnically "pure" (Ignatieff, 1993). This can quickly lead to war. What happens is...

Latin American Drugs, Children, and the National Political Influence of Global Organizations

which they have had to beg, steal or sell themselves simply to stay alive. Street Children and Drugs Scanlon, Tomkins, Lynch, an...

Western Civilization of the Future

countrys blossoming authority. The two incidents that prompted such a drastic stance toward foreign policy dealt with Russi...

Disagreeing with the Assertion That Modern Latin American Neoliberalism Results in Democratization

that the concept of democracy is conspicuously absent from this equation. By its very nature, neoliberal policy is responsi...

Latin American Industry

as Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guat...