Essays 151 - 180
into wards to allow for citizen participation and government to maintain the facilities within their area. The idea being that cit...
one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...
on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...
people and it is the people who decide the issues through elections. Theoretically, democracies should be formed for a long term b...
and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...
Franco y Bahamonde of Spain died on November 20, 1975, he had been the chief of state and the commander in chief in that country s...
in the issue of democracy and the administrative state. Both of these issues rely on the people of this country and both of these...
of freedom to pursue material wealth" and other objectives, according to Participatory Democrats (Hudson 10-12). Protective demo...
to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...
and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...
citizens is a working for a government, local, state or federal (Drucker 7). After this introduction, Drucker goes to the heart ...
the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...
Tenured at the University of Chicago, Elshtain is a Spellman Professor of Philosophy and Political Ethics. Her views, consequentl...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...
system, he fails to make the point that the society would be much better off with a monarch in charge. Of course, one can look at ...
very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...
he illustrates how based on the Ricardian Law of Transformation, one can explain why there have been rising levels of crime, loss ...
villagers is that before a new technology is adopted, there is an enormous democratic discussion as to its implications and introd...
a divide now but that does not mean that the problem cannot be corrected. Wilhelm (2000) hints that the conversations which occu...
original named Northern Rhodesia while it was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the Un...
government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendments of the Constit...
is, is rather frightening. Yet, e-voting has received much acclaim throughout the world. French MP Andr? Santini claims that E-dem...
to push one button but their finger made its way to another, or perhaps the computer will crash in the middle of a vote five minut...
states was that new governments that came into being as a result of the dissolution of the Soviet block, such as East Germany and ...
color and female people were patently excluded. Despite the many changes that have taken place in Americas democracy, especially i...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
form did not escape criticism. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle each condemned the form of democracy used and suggested that it was d...
constitution 2001, with the aim of increasing the rights of minorities (CIA, 2003). The relative newness of this state can be s...
and if they were not happy with the political leaders they could do something about it. This all sounds incredibly powerful and...
scholarly texts of this type. Both Elshtain and West have much to say and are never shy about saying it. A debate between these ...