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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...

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...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Democracy Threatened by Internet Voting

to push one button but their finger made its way to another, or perhaps the computer will crash in the middle of a vote five minut...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

'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...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

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...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

Totalitarian Model Testing

be found in existence in each. These conditions include: * Domination by a single political party; * Consistent deference to one ...

Comparative Analysis of Democracy Featured in Reflections of the French Revolution by Edmund Burke, Discourse on Origins of Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

could be held as a slave, recognizing the fact that for people living in democratic societies to have freedom of religion is of ut...

Philosophies and Democracy

In five pages the statement 'Democracy is not a mechanical device, it is, rather, a living organism that can only flourish in cert...

Individual Citizen and the Golden Age of Athens

In six pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in an assessment of the system with evidence offered by writers Thucydides an...

Democratic Spanish King Juan Carlos

In eleven pages this research paper examines how Francisco Franco's dictatorial form of government was replaced in Spain by King J...

Democracy Supporter John Locke

In six pages this paper discusses how Locke's political philosophies may be regarded as advocacy for democracy in a consideration ...

UK and US Systems of Government

In five pages these famous democracies are examined in a comparative analysis of their similarities and differences and assessed f...

Works and Beliefs of C. Wright Mills

In a paper consisting of 7 pages American sociologist C. Wright Mills is discussed in terms of his works and beliefs along with hi...

Individual Liberty Perspectives

In five pages this report examines models of anarchy, socialism, liberalism, and democracy as they relate to individual liberty wi...

Current U.S. Democracy

In five pages the present status of democracy as it manifests itself in the U.S. is examined in terms of correction of previous mi...