In his eulogy delivered before the Athenians in 431-430 B.C during the Peloponnesian wars‚ Pericles states‚ “we are called a democracy‚ for the administration‚ is in the hands of many and not of the few.” In this quote‚ Pericles is communicating the idea that they are a democracy because the type of government that they have is special to them as well as very inclusive‚ unlike other governments at the time. The eulogy of Pericles should be considered accurate to a moderate extent because while on
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DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: NIGERIA’S DILEMMA Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya Department of Political Science Usmanu Danfodiyo University‚ Sokoto‚ Nigeria E-mail: oisarafa@yahoo.com‚ elegantlv@aol.co.uk Abstract Despite its enormous resources and huge potentialities‚ Nigeria remains grossly undeveloped. Consequently‚ political instability‚ abject poverty‚ acute youth unemployment‚ heightened crime rate‚ poor health prospects and widespread malnourishment have been the main features of Nigeria’s
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preparing gd http://mbaforum.ascenteducation.com/corruption-is-the-price-we-pay-for-democracy-t381.html http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/hot-debates-big-fight/28739-corruption-price-we-pay-democracy.html http://www.careerride.com/GD-corruption-is-price-we-pay-for-democracy.aspx Autocracy democracy corruption i wud like to differ... as corruption is not exactly the price we pay for democracy.... in china there is communist govt.. but there is too corruption... in europe there
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A fear of democracy runs throughout liberalism The relationship between Liberalism and democracy can summed up by Winston Churchill’s famous remark‚ "...democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms..." A fear of democracy does runs throughout 19th centrury liberals due to many reasons‚ one of them being their fear of collective power. On the other hand by the 20th century Democracy became more accepted in liberalism and the fear of democracy no longer remained. Plato
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Political Research 43: 309–335‚ 2004 309 The structural context of recent transitions to democracy RENSKE DOORENSPLEET Leiden University‚ The Netherlands Abstract. In general‚ the literature on democratic transitions has focused on political processes and choices of actors in explaining regime change‚ thereby failing to investigate whether structural factors affect the recent rise in transitions to democracy. An analysis of the influence of these structural factors is however important‚ and it has
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matter if democracy is still expanding in Great Britain or anywhere else in the world? Democracy‚ a form of government by the people‚ expanded somewhat dramatically in Great Britain between 1830 and 1914. Examples of democratic expansion in Great Britain include the increase of male suffrage and the regulation of working conditions. This expansion wasn’t dramatic because women still couldn’t vote during that time period. The increase of male suffrage helped the expansion of democracy in Great
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2012 Island Politics When looking at politics‚ totalitarianism and a liberal democracy are about as opposite as you can get. Totalitarianism is basically a dictatorship whereas a democracy is freer. In a dictatorship everything down to what you can eat is controlled. A democracy is about as free as you can get and you have a say in pretty much everything through the power of voting. All the options you have in a democracy‚ such as where you live‚ what your social status is‚ and what you do with your
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Although there are many virtues to enjoy about democracy and democratic forms of government and political systems‚ this form of government has still many impending challenges yet to be accomplished. In that sense‚ I agree with Winston Churchill‚ on the grounds that “democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried” (Churchill). Looking at democracy through both its weaknesses and strengths in comparison to other forms of government makes it evident that it is the
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democratization. While it has succeeded and brought democracy to some countries‚ governance in others have remained the same. Amongst the countries involved in the Arab Spring‚ there are poorer countries like Syria‚ Tunisia and Libya. Thus‚ given the international spotlight that these countries were under‚ it is critical for us to know if democracy is an ideology that should be embraced by poorer countries. I feel that poorer countries should embrace democracy except if they are confident that their leaders
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that for some reason or another people as a whole do not like change. Even though democracy keeps an individual or a group take power the people of the government will not be taken advantage of or be mistreated. Many things is not about an idea being or bad‚ sometimes change is not fair to all the people. But why did the Athenian democracy fail in about 100 years if it was a government made for the people. Before democracy the people in ancient Greece were run by the people on top of the wealth and power
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