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    Exporting Democracy

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    Can Democracy be Exported to the Middle East? The true definition of democracy has been hotly debated by philosophers and politicians for several centuries. In essence‚ it is simply a political ideology in which citizens have power to self-govern and the freedom to participate in public affairs. In this type of system‚ people create their own laws and obey them. Democracies are understood as a fundamentally “just” regime because outcomes favor the majority of the population as opposed to the

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    Democracy in Germany

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    The collapse of the democracy in Germany between 1928 and 1934 was not contributed by one single event but by a wide ranging‚ and large number of factors‚ making it vulnerable to sudden shock. In some ways‚ the complexity of contributing factors to the collapse of democracy can be depended on the shaky foundations‚ lack of a democratic tradition and flaws within the constitution. Like the article 48‚ it created opportunities for the corrupt high commands to abuse the democratic authority‚ the appointment

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    Theory of Democracy

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    The demography of Rohingya in Rakhine State in the Future Theories of Democracy IPO 231 Date: 27 July‚ 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The study on theories of democracy is interested but complicated to practice in political situation in Myanmar. Because there have been changed the dictatorship government to the democratic government in the past years‚ it political and Human Rights rose such

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    Demerits of Democracy

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    Demerits of Democracy More emphasis on quantity than on quality: Majority party holds the reins of government. Inefficient & corrupt‚ who have neither intelligence nor vision‚ get themselves elected. Rule of the incompetent Democracies are run amateurs. In it‚ every citizen is allowed to take part‚ whereas everybody is not fit for it. Locke calls it the act of running administration by the ignorant. He says that history records the fact that a few are intelligent. Universal adult

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    strengths of Representative democracy? Representative democracy is a form of democracy which emerged in the 17th century that implements the majority of citizens in a state are represented by a minority of office holders‚ in the UK we have Representative Democracy through Parliament. Citizens are represented by Members of Parliament who are elected through their constituencies. Representative democracy is considered a more effective form of government than direct democracy because of the following

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    Dahl, on Democracy

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    Democracy has become the most widespread political form of government during the past decade‚ after the fall of all its alternatives. During the second part of the 20th century‚ the 3 main enemies of democracy‚ namely communism‚ fascism and Nazism‚ lost most of their power and influence. However‚ democracy is still only to be found in less than half of this world’s countries. China with a fifth of the total population "had never experienced a democratic government" and Russia still doesn’t have a

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    Transition to Democracy

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    CRITICALLY ASSESSING SOUTH AFRICA’S TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY By By Zaahir Samodien Date: 20 April 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. BACKGROUND Page 1 2. ASSETS SINCE TRANSITION Page 1 1. Deepening of democracy Page 1 2. Governance Page 1 3. Building of the Economy Page 2 4. International / African Partnerships Page 3 5. Social Improvements Page 4 6. Tourism Page

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    Democracy in Bangladesh

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    and thus push Pakistan into the War of Liberation in 1971. These were the only two instances where the general peoples say affected the overall political system. After liberation‚ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman‚ Ziaur Rahman and Hossain Mohammad Ershad were the three prominent leaders. All of them proclaimed democracy but none showed any sign of acknowledging people’s opinion. Political change usually came with major coups and elections were mostly scams. Actual democracy in Bangladesh started from 1990

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    Rise of Democracy

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    and the creation of the First French Republic. Ensuing the creation of the Republic‚ the amount of violence escalated as the Republican regime looked to crush counter-revolutionary actions in France while straining at the same time to avoid defeat in war by the accumulated forces of Austria‚ Prussia‚ and Britain. The so-called Reign of Terror was put in place to annihilate both foreign and domestic forces of counter revolution. Once these foreign and domestic threats were in check in the spring of 1794

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    mistakenly believe that the Constitution is based off of the Ancient Greek’s idea of democracy‚ in which people voted themselves on issues pertaining to their government (Samons 1). While the founding fathers did use a kind of democracy‚ it was a representative rather than pure democracy. The American government does‚ however‚ use direct democracy in certain states‚ for better or worse. The theory behind direct democracy seems to fit what the American people want exactly. The people have a direct say

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