Is democracy compatible with elitism? Introduction: To analyse the compatibility of democracy with elitism it is first important to define both the terms democracy and elitism. Democracy is in its simplest form is the rule for the people by politicians etc‚ and elitism is most simply known as ‘a class that rules and a class that is ruled’. This therefore opens up the question‚ do those in higher positions effectively rule those lower down‚ democracy within elitism‚ and the effects if elitism was
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a tyrant. According to Socrates a tyranny degenerates from a democracy when a popular charismatic leader gets power and naturally does not want to give it up so he takes all
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think as highly of the American regime‚ but instead establishes what he believes genuine democracy ought to be. He does not describe the modern liberal state of democracy that we now have‚ but instead states that “The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy” (Maritan‚ 14). He claims America needs to “…raise up the religious and spiritual potential of its democracy to the height of the cross” (Maritan‚ 18). Claiming it has this supreme potential indicates
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Democracy: Then‚ Now & Tomorrow POLI 341(Ancient & Medieval Political Thought) 15/10/2014 The on-going debate about how transitional democracies (especially in Africa) can progress to advanced liberal democracies has received inputs from various scholars and thinkers of diverse backgrounds. While some have called for changes in the political economic institutions of these states‚ others have suggested alterations in the socio-cultural superstructure. One thing
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Democracy Through Time Democracy as a concept has changed and evolved through the years. Lao-Tzu‚ a Chinese philosopher‚ advised a form of government that had many democratic values to his emperor. His work‚ Tao-te Ching‚ was written in the sixth century B.C. before the term democracy was even coined. Some time later‚ in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.‚ the Greeks gave this idea a name and put it into effect. In the work The Origin of Civil Society (1762) Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues
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towards restoring democracy. Literature review of 1980s led to this thinking that two democratic countries do not go to war with each other. The policy
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the birth of Liberal Democracy? The Netherlands can use the work of Hugo Grotius‚ Justus Lipsius and Dirk Van Coornhert to support the claim that they are the birth of Liberal Democracy. However‚ one must also look at the influence Ancient Greece had on the birth of Liberal Democracy‚ as many of the leaders and theologians helped to create Liberal Democracy. One of the key figures that support the idea that the Netherlands can claim to be the birth of Liberal Democracy is Hugo Grotius. Grotius
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Representative Democracy. The Openstax American Government textbook describes a Democracy as a political system in which people govern themselves (pg. 8). This system can come in the form of a Representative Democracy or a Direct Democracy. Direct Democracies are ones in which the citizens themselves participate directly in making laws (pg. 14). This type of government occurred in Ancient Athens. The United States Government‚ on the other hand‚ comes in the Representative Democracy form. This means
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Carl Becker wrote about the ideal democracy in a government. The main purpose of the work is to make evident the nature of democracy. He compares it with other forms of government that depend on autocracy and the leadership of the few rather than the many. His concrete definition of democracy is “democratic government has always meant one in which the citizens‚ or a sufficient number of them to represent more or less effectively the common will‚ freely to act from time to time‚ and according to established
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America: Democracy or Republic? Despite popular belief‚ The United States of America is‚ in fact‚ not a democracy according to the true meaning of the word. America is in actuality a republic. Although it is often referred to as a democracy‚ a democracy in its truest form is a nation in which the people do the actual voting on the issues at hand. A true democracy would place the power completely in the hands of the people‚ which can prevent matters from being handled in a timely matter. The founding
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