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Democracy Meanings According to Plato and Alexis de Tocqueville

In five pages this paper examines Plato and de Tocqueville's views regarding democracy in a contrast and comparison of what democr...

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...

Dahl/A Classic Study

equality that are assumed to be the bedrock of the American political system. However, the empirical premises examine the reality ...

Athenian Democracy and its Influence

In eight pages this research paper discusses how Athenian democracy exerted a significant influence upon contemporary democracy. ...

The Aftermath of the First World War

themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...

Views on Slavery and its Justification or Lack of

In 5 pages various perspectives of slavery are examined in this comparative analysis of Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a...

Ideas and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

In six pages the history of ideas is examined within the context of Democracy in America in an evaluation of de Tocqueville's argu...

Are Democratic Priniciples Universally Applicable?

by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democratic principle...

Deliberative Democracy

in the interest of society and that the democratic process insured that would be the case was held by many of the early figures in...

Democracy in Arabic Countries

continent, and once again we will not rest until victory is Americas and freedom is secure" (Kyodo World News Service). His point...

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...

The Exposition Speech of Booker T. Washington

The writer discusses the speech that Booker T. Washington made in 1895 at the Atlanta Exposition. The writer reveals that the spee...

1916 Text Democracy in Education by John Dewey

the baby chick, that shortly after it hatches makes a few stabs for food, as in beak-eye coordination. Masters that concept and b...

Pre 1914 Democratic Transition

particular that stood out as more detrimental than the next; rather, as each one occurred -- often on the heels of one previous --...

Brazil, 'Social Democracy,' and Discrimination

its very least, and revisionist history at the most. The dynamics of "social mythology" We might say that social mythology is a w...

Size of Society and Democracy

seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...

South Korea Democracy Development

in history by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democrati...

U.S. Democracy and Worldviews

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

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 ...

Principles of Democracy and the Autocratic State

differences that exist between these two governmental styles and the autocratic government style. Fortunately, there are ...

US Democracy's Shortcomings

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

U.S. Democracy's Character

In four pages this paper examines the identity, character, and theory rooted in U.S. Democracy with references also made to the Am...

Anthony Downs's Political Parties Theories

An analysis of American political parties, elections and party switching from the years 1980 until 1998 are considered within the ...

Middle East, Africa, and Democratic Peace Theory

stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...

Marijuana and America's Democracy of Special Interests

In five pages this essay discusses the shifts in American democracy in a consideration of the government's opposition of marijuana...

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...

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...

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 ...

US Democracy and the Increasing Influence of the Internet

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses how the process of American democracy is being profoundly influenced by the Intern...

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 ...