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  • Tocqueville Believes Democracy
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    Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Paris on July 29th, 1805. Growing up in Metz, France, the youngest child of Herv Tocqueville and Mlle. De Rosanbo, he showed great intellectual promise from his earliest days. By the age of 16, his academic career was a brilliant one, his schoolwork earning him a special prize and two first prizes. He was an avid reader, reading books hardly accessible to a boy of his young age. It was during these years that he developed his critical think...
  • Democratization And Nationalism In The Russian Federation
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    Soviet Politics and hope of Democratization The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union signified something far more meaningful than a mere political event. The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successors of the Soviet Union. March, 1985 marked a turning point in the Communist rule of Russia. Mikhail Gorbachev, having just been promoted to the position of General Secre...
  • Important Part Of Greek Politics
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    Democracy: From Early Athenian To Present Day Politics. When following current events we can't help but witness politicians use terms such as "defending freedom", "liberty", or "democracy", but one is simply left wondering if the general public, or even the politicians themselves, know what those terms really mean or where they come from. The reality is that most don't. The ideals of living in a democracy have been drastically changed from their original meanings and diluted into persuasive poli...
  • Least Serious Competitor To Liberal Democracy
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    THE PRIMACY OF CULTURE By Francis Fukuyama Democracy's Future -Francis Fukuyama argues that for any new ideology or political trend to emerge that rival those of liberal democracy, it requires the precursor of developments at the level of civic society and culture. Accordingly, he sees the only civic society, and culture that seems poised to do so is Asia. Fukuyama bases his judgment on the claim that for the consolidation of democracy, there must exist four levels of change: On the first level ...
  • Public Makes The Industry In Nations
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    Democracy vs. Dictatorship Essay written by heather Imagine the next time you step into the voting booth your ballot only lists one candidate to choose from. Or perhaps your ballot lists four candidates, but they are all from the Liberal party. Dictatorships are one party political systems that are ruled by one leader or an elite group of people under the principle of authoritarianism. Some feel that dictatorships are the most effective form of government because decisions are made quickly and e...
  • New Democracy When Jackson
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    The New Democracy When Jackson took office many things changed. The Spoils system was put into affect. The everyday man now had a bigger voice, and for once in a long time the people; not the electoral collage or corrupt senators and congressmen ran the nation. When the Federalists had dominated, democracy was not respected, but by the 1820's, it was widely appealing. Politicians now had to bend to appease and appeal to the masses, and the popular ones were the ones who claimed to be born in log...
  • Important Agents Of Political Socialization
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    There may be many ways in which culture can affect political structure of one country or another, yet, arguably the most important way that a country's culture affects democracy is through political socialization. According to Alexis de Tocqueville and his book 'Democracy', he defines culture as an ordered set of symbols, and in turn, political culture as a set of values and orientations through which one perceives and reacts to authority. The way that this set of values and orientations is gain...
  • Athenian Democracy
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    A Democracy is defined as a government of, by and for the people. Originally, democracy meant rule by the common people. In this sense, and even before the beginning of modern class society, it was very much a class affair. It meant that power should be in the hands of the largest class: the poorest, least educated and the propertyless. As a result, democracy was feared and rejected by the educated, the cultured, and the wealthy. In classical Greece, democracy was seen by the enlightened and the...
  • Similarities Between Britain And Japan's Political Systems
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    In 1900 Britain was in many respects the world's leading nation, enjoying a large share of world trade, a dominant position in the international money market, and possessing a far flung empire supported by the world's most powerful navy. Japan was a complete contrast, sharing with Britain only the fact that it too was a nation of Islands lying off the shore of a major continent. Until the 1860's it had possessed a social and economic structure more akin to that of feudal, rather than twentieth c...
  • People Vote For Different Philosophies
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    Our Government, The Democracy In a perfect world, where everyone is informed, intelligent, and aware of their system of administration, democracy would work perfectly. In a world where there are different personalities, dissimilar concerns and divergent points of view, democracy falls short of the ideal of having all people being equal. Similarly, having a king or an equivalent in control of a country sounds fine on paper, but there would be different philosophies, disputes within the king hiera...
  • Burma's Military Leaders
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    The Prospect of Democracy in Burma The prospect for the development of a democratic state in Burma has recently become a remote possibility. Burma's military leaders have been holding talks with the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). The dialogue started while Aung San Suu Kyi was still under house arrest. When she was released in 2002, the international community and the people of Burma expected the process to evolve to the next stage - su...
  • Suharto's Indonesia With Its Economic Growth
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    It seems to me that, if it is admitted that some day we may be forced to have some form of democracy in Siam, we must prepare ourselves gradually. We must learn and educate ourselves. We must learn and experiment so as to have a better idea of how a parliamentary government would work in Siam. We must try to educate people to be politically conscious, to realize their interests so they will not be misled by agitators of mere dreamers of Utopia. If we have a parliament, we must teach the people h...
  • Political Effects Of Technological Progress
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    Technology, it seems like such a common word. It brings to mind images of palm pilots, two-way pagers and electric cars. Whether or not we realize it, we live in a day and age where almost everything around us is a product of technological manufacturing. Despite how common it is in our everyday lives, rarely do we ever consider technology as having any political impact. How often do people associate their daily television watching with government Though rarely recognized, it is a logical and pow...
  • Basis Of The Reforms Of Solon
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    Rebecca Barnes Solon first came to prominence around 594 BC when he was awarded archon for his patriotism when the Athenians were fighting a war with Megara for possession of Salamis. It was later that he was elected eponymous archon in response to the civil unrest of the times. Solon used the legislative power that accompanied this position to institute a number of economic and political reforms that would abolish exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substitute a system of control ...
  • Tocqueville's Discussion Of Political And Civil Associations
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    Tocqueville uses a cultura list and historicist perspective when explaining how democracy came to be as it is in America. He is also an institutionalism, in that it is the form and function of voluntary associations (free institutions) that do the work and maintain democracy. In Volume I of the book he describes many of the factors (cultural, historical, political, religious, intellectual) that created the "national character" of America and that contributes the birth and state of democracy in A...
  • Citizens Information On Politics Through Newspapers
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    Journalists have two main roles in today's modern political scene. Robert W McChesney describes these two roles as "indispensable functions... within democratic theory". He sets them out as such: First, the media system must provide a rigorous accounting of people in power and people who want to be in power... This is known as the watchdog role. Second, the media system must provide reliable information and a wide range of informed opinions on the important social and political issues of the day...
  • My Own Principles
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    Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, was one of the most brilliant individuals in history. His interest were boundless and his accomplishments vary upon the line of philosophy, and being a naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician and writer. Being the foremost speaker for democracy for his day, he earned the respect of his political peers. Though all knew he was brilliant, he himself said, "I know my own principles to...
  • Active Citizens Of A Democratic Society
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    Two days ago I watched a talk show called "Vzgliad" (a look at something) on a Russian satellite program. This talk show is usually about political issues. The invited expert was Aung San Suu Ki, the Nobel Prize winner of the world for 1991 and the leader of democratic movement of Burma (Myanma), a country between Thailand and India. The topic of the show was "Forms and methods of educating to basic principles of democracy". The show started with the following word of the invited expert: " We, i...
  • Military Intervention In A Democracy
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    To what extent can Argentina's transition to democracy be considered incomplete? Analyse with reference to events since 1983 Since 1983 Argentina has been hailed as a democracy. Certain people believe it is a democracy, other countries pretend it is a democracy but this idea is in fact far from the truth. The country may well have taken steps towards becoming a democracy, especially compared to how it was before 1983 but from analyzing the history and facts, the truth is, Argentina has a long wa...
  • Legal And Civil Society In Kyrgyzstan
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    Kyrgyzstan was the first of the Central Asian republics to acquire democratic institutions and aspirations after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Kyrgyzstan has been seen as the most democratically minded country in this region where authoritarian government is the norm. For the last years Kyrgyzstan has acquired reputation of country of "benevolent authoritarianism". My research seeks to reveal the inhibitions toward establishment of fully-fledged democracy in Kyrgyzstan. Many factors contribu...

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