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    Democracy in America

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    Despite democracy blooming in colonial America‚ democracy was still a work in progress as evident by the introduction of voting‚ public assemblies‚ and an increase in personal freedoms.Grade OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to analyze a series of sources related to the causes and effects of exploration and answer questions. PLAN: • handout DBQ test part A • Students will analyze 6 sources‚ identify main ideas and answer questions asking them to identify democratic and undemocratic aspects/features

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    Democracy in Brief

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    What is Democracy? There seems to be a great confusion what the word Democracy means. In spite of the fact that at least in some parts of the world one can hear it from the media every day. Democracy by definition means the government by people. That means that all the people should be able to have their say in one way another in everything that affects their lives. Dictionaries usually say that this right can either be exercised directly (by every member of a community having the possibility to

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    Athenian Democracy Essay

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    modern day Democracy meaning the rule of the people. That is where each person votes about what they would like to happen. Whatever has the most votes wins‚ obviously. There is no king or dictator to say no to one’s vote. One problem that immediately comes up in a democracy is who is going to be able to vote. Can anyone vote? Should there be an age limit? Do you need to be a resident? Certain gender? Many question pop up and cause many problems with democracy. The earliest democracy in the world

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    Liberal Democracy

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    Types of Liberal Democracies Like all PESCS‚ there are two types of Liberal Democracy: 1. Theoretical or Direct Democracy (DD) 2. Practical or Indirect Democracy (ID) DD is a concept whereby all members of society take part in all aspects of decision taking in that society. While this may work in smaller communities‚ the larger a group or community becomes‚ the more difficult it is to include everyone’s opinion. In DD‚ there are also no restrictions as to who may take part in the decision taking

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    Democracy and Dicipline

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    Democracy without discipline is a body without soul. If there is no discipline in the country‚ democracy will degenerate into a monocracy i.e.‚ a Government by a unruly crowd. In fact‚ in Greek ‘Demos’ means crowd. The word ‘curacy’ is from the Greek word ‘Krait’ or ‘Cratos’ which means power. A lack of discipline in democracy justifies Plato’s criticism that democracy is the divine right of the ignorant people to rule ignorantly. 6It is true that democracy is based on the free will of the people

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    Democracy and the Internet

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    but on the other narcissitic and self important “we broadcast to our friends instead of learning from strangers”. In his eyes‚ the consecuence of this is the fragmentation of society‚ making all truths personal‚ therefore‚ taking a step away from democracy. “The web is the next stage of capitalism” he says in his interview on BBC Radio 4‚ explaining that the foundation and the values of the Internet‚ which can never be detached from it‚ are obsessed with being decentralised or ’on the edge’‚ and that

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    Industrial Democracy

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    Industrial Democracy By Bertell Ollman Democracy‚ industrial‚ is the application of the doctrines of democratic theory to people’s lives as workers. Democracy is always rules by the people‚ and the key questions it raises are which people? Over what range of problems are they to rule? How much power should they have? And through what mechanisms and procedures should these powers be exercised? Industrial democracy is the attempt to supply answers to these questions in regard to people’s lives

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    Representative Democracy

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    So‚ the question asks are elections good for democracies? When I analyze this question‚ I immediately think about the word democracy and the type of democracy that is implemented within the U.S. The website “whatisdemocracy.net” describes democracy as the government by the people. The website also explains how people should be able to have their say in one way or another in everything that affects their lives. Which Is why democracy is either direct (by every member of a community having the possibility

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    The Philippines And the struggle for democracy The second half of the 20th century brought many new countries in Southeast Asia. A majority of these countries began to use western democracies to shape their government. The Philippines is among the newly democratized developing states. The Philippines has been directly influenced by the United States in developing its autonomy as a democracy. Because of continuing corruption and dynastic rule‚ contradictions in political culture‚ and semi-authoritarian

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    Democracy Fail

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    ail In Pakistan‚ democracy has been tried several times‚ and each time it has failed‚ there is no doubt about that. It has failed to provide people with necessities of life‚ provide security and uproot poverty and corruption. There have been several reasons given to us repeatedly for its failure such as weak judiciary‚ lack of education‚ strong military influence in the country etc. However‚ we must realize that these are not the reasons for the failure of the system; rather these are problems emanating

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