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CAPITALISM WITHOUT DEMOCRACY - KELLEE TSAI

these smaller groups "different." The Chinese will do almost anything to avoid being different from the whole of an organization o...

What's Wrong with Democracy (Book Review)

geared for someone who already knows much about Athens. That said, this will appeal to those with much knowledge about the roots o...

Why Democracy is Difficult

others; and America is comprised of people of differing educational attainment. If these traits are in fact necessary for democrac...

Democracy in the Digital Age by Wilhelm

a divide now but that does not mean that the problem cannot be corrected. Wilhelm (2000) hints that the conversations which occu...

Richard Sclove's Democracy and Technology

villagers is that before a new technology is adopted, there is an enormous democratic discussion as to its implications and introd...

Hans Herman Hoppe's Democracy the God That Failed

he illustrates how based on the Ricardian Law of Transformation, one can explain why there have been rising levels of crime, loss ...

Democracy Determinants in Countries

government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendments of the Constit...

E-Voting and a Compromised Democracy

is, is rather frightening. Yet, e-voting has received much acclaim throughout the world. French MP Andr? Santini claims that E-dem...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

Democracy and Mexico

if it failed; 2. a high level of economic development; 3. a favorable international political environment, with outside assistance...

Comparisons of Democracy

constitution 2001, with the aim of increasing the rights of minorities (CIA, 2003). The relative newness of this state can be s...

Democracy and The Role of the Citizen

2006). Hudson (2006) acknowledges that he used to support the idea of removing barriers to increase voter turnout, but notes that...

The Threat to Democracy from Police Brutality

in this case reduced the problem to "four empirical questions" that, when answered, might shed light upon the issue, the two most ...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

Brazil's Democracy Obstacles

that Brazil has instituted some democratic reforms (Baiocchi, 2003). Yet, problems from the nations past invade the resolve of the...

Race Matters by Cornel West and Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Tenured at the University of Chicago, Elshtain is a Spellman Professor of Philosophy and Political Ethics. Her views, consequentl...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Democracy by Robert Putnam

into wards to allow for citizen participation and government to maintain the facilities within their area. The idea being that cit...

Iraq and Democracy

a lot. Lives were lost in the struggle. Some do not think it was worth it. In understanding democracy and the process of democra...

'Live and Let Live' and Stephen Carter's Etiquette of Democracy

social theorists for over a century. Perhaps one of the best approaches to addressing the concept of democracy, though, came not ...

Big Business, Capitalism, and Democracy Theories of Linda Moran, Lepore and Cohen, and Russell Ackoff

to their superior. This panel manages to set policy for the organization. One can see where this would be advantageous and does ta...

Distribution of Wealth and Democracy

1929. While profits soar, wages have steadily decreased and workers systematically laid off. The United States is predicated u...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Dahl, and Joseph Schumpeter on Democracy

In five pages similarities and simplicity are examined in a comparison of the concepts espoused by this trio of political philosop...

The Balance Between Elitism and Democracy in America

In a paper that contains three pages the precarious balance between two extremes is discussed within the context of the Federalist...

Mancur Olsen's Dictatorship, Democracy and Development

try to find a theory that would incorporate both and work well in a system of government. Olsen (1993) recognizes that "The star...

Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti

In five pages the political process and its implications are examined in a critique of the text by Michael Parenti. There are no ...

Life and Times of Liberal Democracy by C.B. Macpherson

In a paper consisting of five pages Macpherson's arguments as presented in his text are considered in terms of their persuasivenes...

Inequality Despite Law in a Democracy Paradox

In this paper consisting of eight pages a discussion of US inequality includes an examination of affirmative action and probes the...

Colonial and Post Colonial American Democracy

In five pages this paper examines the US independence from Great Britain in a consideration of liberty's meaning and the cost of a...