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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville and Objects

a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...

Promoting Democracy Through Imperialist Power?

to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural persp...

Morocco and Democracy

15). An examination of political commentary pertaining to the development of democracy in Morocco shows that while some progress h...

Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx on Equality and Liberty

Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?

political values," which are necessary in order for representative democracy to flourish, values such as "separation of religious ...

“Struggles in Steel” and “The Possessive Investment of Whiteness”

that when something powerful happens, it happens to white people in many respects. That is what gets the majority of the viewers t...

A Consideration of a Non-Binding Resolution to Prevent the Dispersal of More U.S. Troops to Iraq

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just observed, the key to effective decisions in regard to Iraq and other critical issues is biparti...

China's Role in the International Steel Industry

and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value of competition...

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...

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...

Did World War I Make the World Safe for Democracy?

treaties were thought with some justification to be "partially responsible for World War II," the tremendous suffering caused by W...

Is Democracy Possible in Libya?

lifting economic sanctions against the country (Thompson, 2006). The renewed ties, however fragile, between the U.S. and Libya mea...

International Relations and Economics

United States was not always at the center of this development, particularly in the beginning. It came to be at the center, howev...

Designing a New Political System

can stand for election, telling the electorate what they stand for any their policies. The electorate will then vote for the perso...

Media Concentration and Democracy

TV" (Turner). The commission wanted the entrepreneurs to thrive; they wanted competition to arise so the audiences would have a ch...

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 ...

Putnam: "Making Democracy Work"

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

German Democracy Critique

An analytical consideration of reunification democracy in Germany is discussed as are its social and political construct implicati...

Transition from 'Francoism' to Democracy in Spain

In ten pages this literature review examines Spain's transition from a dictatorship under General Francisco Franco to a democracy....

Russia and Democracy

status (Hollander). Nevertheless, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, there were immediate moves to plunge into the new form of ...

Views of Mikhail Gorbachev by Russians and Americans

In five pages this paper considers the very contrasting views of Mikhail Gorbachev by his fellow Russians as a destroyer of their ...

New Russia and the Survival of Democracy

to fall back to their old way of government. A U. S. News poll that was conducted in Russia revealed growing pessimism conc...

University and Democratic Life

more probable that the faculty member would only have the best interest of the university in mind and decide admission policies ac...

College Campus and Democracy

more probable that the faculty member would only have the best interest of the university in mind and decide admission policies ac...

Constitutional Guarantees

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

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...

Democratic Historian Alexis de Tocqueville

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

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...

Types of Leadership in Various Societies

certain settings, such as prisons or the military (Brennen, n.d.). * Democratic: More people-focused than authoritarian leaders. A...