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    Chapter 1 Democracy in the Contemporary World  Democracy in Chile  During the early 1970s‚ Chile had a democratically elected government under President Salvador Allende.  The government was liberal towards the workers and the poor people of Chile.  Various welfare policies were adopted by the government for emancipating the poor such as milk for the children‚ distribution of land to landless farmers‚ and restricting the entry of foreign companies.  Military Coup of 1973  A military coup led

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    Democracy in the Middle East The general perception in Western countries is that nations in the Middle East cannot practice democracy because of religion and culture of the people in these nations. This perception does not match the real reasons the people in the Middle Eastern nations have hard time installing democratic leaders. The biggest obstacle in installing democratic governments in most nations in the Middle East is the manner in which power is and retained in the countries. Most nations

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    The Future of Democracy in Pakistan Friday‚ August 17‚ 2007 (11:56 PST) Related Articles Constitution must be implemented in letter and spirit not in mere words Election 2008: Political Disintegration in Balochistan Elections 2008: Benazir Factor May Affect the Results Related News Govt assures conducive atmosphere for upcoming elections: PM Soomro 112 European Union observers have been arrived to monitor the general elections Poll on schedule‚ says Musharraf Imran terms Jan 8 poll plot

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    presidency. By implementing the spoils system‚ opposing the nullification crisis‚ and vetoing the bank‚ for the most part Jacksonian Democrats guarded American laws and liberties. Initially‚ Jacksonian Democrats did not guard political and individual democracy. While abolitionists were trying to do away with slavery‚ Jackson enforced the Gag Rule‚ which made abolishist petitions unable to be read in Congress. (Doc F) This shows how Jacksonian Democrats took

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    Introduction to Politics‚ Tutorial Group #11 25 April 2014 Third Wave of Democracy Third World democracies are declining and an influential authoritarian state like North Korea shows no sign of democratization. Therefore‚ Liberal and democratic stagnation could signal the end of the third wave of democracy‚ unless reserve wave prevention policies are implemented. A wave of democratization is a period of time where countries move from nondemocratic values to a democratic regime (Diamond‚ 1996: 20).

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    Capitalism and Democracy The political system and the economic system of the United States have been intertwined since the very founding of our country. Although there are many different views on how well the systems work or how they function‚ this has been a common thought shared by all different sides. Some have an optimistic view of capitalism‚ while others feel as though capitalism favors too few people. Two major points of view‚ the conservative and the “reform” liberal‚ describe how capitalism

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    At the outset of Alexis de Tocqueville’s work‚ Democracy in America‚ the theorist asserts‚ regarding the spread of equality‚ that‚ “The gradual development of equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact‚ and it has the principal characteristics of one: it is universal‚ it is enduring‚ each day it escapes human power; all events‚ like all men‚ serve its developments‚” (Democracy‚ Book‚ 6). Tocqueville uses the term ‘equality of conditions’ to describe socially formal equal footing among

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    Democracy Is Not Capable of Empire There are reasons why many of history’s greatest empires have tended to be either oligarchic or monarchial in nature. In observing the development of two of the ancient world’s most prominent models of representative government‚ the Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic‚ it can be concluded that when coupled with the political‚ economic‚ and social changes that come with expansion‚ the complications inherent with systems with democratic design prove incapable

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    Democracy - the best government system Democracy- the best way to govern. The term ‘democracy’‚ like many other political terms‚ was first discovered in Ancient Greece. It consists of two short words: ‘demos’ which means either ‘a citizen in a particular city-state’ or ‘the lower orders’‚ and ‘kratos’ which means either ‘rule’ or ‘power’ - but these two are not of the same meaning. The original meaning of democracy is the rule by the poor or by the rabble. Aristotle had a clear argument stating

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    The need and cost for democracy The word democracy derives from the two greek words ‘Demos’ and ‘Kratos’. ‘Demos’ meaning people‚ and ‘Kratos’ meaning power.1 Although political equality has been hailed by many people; there are still a lot of critics who doubt its cost and/or efficiency2 Democracy being doubted by some great thinkers makes it a very interesting thing to look at. It is so self-evident and accepted in our everyday life; that it would be rather hard to look at objectively. In

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