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Democracy in Argentina

In ten pages this paper discusses reasons why Argentina has pursued a path of democracy and considers recent political events that...

Marijuana and America's Democracy of Special Interests

In five pages this essay discusses the shifts in American democracy in a consideration of the government's opposition of marijuana...

Imperialism and Athenian Democracy

This paper consists of eight pages and compares imperialism to Athenian democracy with the assistance of Thucydides and the qualit...

Thomas Hobbes and Plato II

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical views of Hobbes and Plato regarding the state and democracy as re...

Marx's Capitalism Concepts and Plato's Dialogues on Democracy

In five pages this paper compares Plato's perspectives on democracy with Marx's concepts of capitalism. There are 4 other sources...

Why Thucydides, Marx, and Plato View Democracy as the Worst Form of Government

In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...

Democracy and Negative Political Campaigning's Impact

In seventeen pages this paper examines the destructive effects of negative political campaigns upon democracy in a consideration o...

The Exposition Speech of Booker T. Washington

The writer discusses the speech that Booker T. Washington made in 1895 at the Atlanta Exposition. The writer reveals that the spee...

Social Democracy and Globalization

democracies continues, while at the same time doing so in a divergent manner as compared with golden age of post World War IIs rap...

Post Unification Germany Political Party Competition and Voting Behavior

Kohl found equal voter support in both East and West Germany. Kohls electoral success proved to significantly reinforce his compr...

Virtuous Republic Ideal

In six pages this paper examines America's historic concepts of democracy and the importance placed upon the virtuous republic con...

Democracy Benefits and Risks

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

Reflections of Democracy in Henry David Thoreau's Life Without Principle, Resistance to Civil Government and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance

In five pages a comparative analysis of democracy as it is represented in these essays is presented. Four sources are cited in th...

US Democracy, Pragmatism and Virtue

In eight pages this research paper on US democracy includes the connection between pragmatism and virtue, the differences and simi...

Conservative and Political Ideology Divisiveness

In five pages this paper considers Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti and Moral Issues by Shaw in a consideration of politic...

Year 2031 and the U.S. Government's Strengths and Weaknesses

In thirteen pages this paper examines the year 2031 in an evaluation of the U.S. democracy and government's strengths and weakness...

Democracy in the United States

Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...

Habermas on Nations, States and a European Constitution

the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...

Hegel And Tocqueville

the Roman Empire. As such, it was a political power. Hegel seems to be suggesting that God can be Spirit only if the Triune God i...

Patrimonialism in Syria

is to compare it with Webers concept of patrimonialism where he described a system of leadership that is based upon military perso...

Brazil's Democratization Process and the 'Rational Choice Model'

is wise for us not to make a judgment about this action, bur rather make an effort to view it as reality, instead of being influe...

Religion According to Alexis de Tocqueville

replete with meaning, should be required (Smidt 176). That statement is rather strong but Tocqueville did not mean that the govern...

American Individualism According to Emerson, Bellah and de'Tocqueville

This 5 page paper examines various types of American individualism by analyzing literary works. The pitfalls of individualism were...

Indonesia and Early Democracy

In five pages early Indonesian democracy is considered as it was enacted by President Suharto and how Sukarno's earlier presidency...

Critically Reviewing the City State of Athens in Ancient Greece

In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...

Dahl/A Classic Study

equality that are assumed to be the bedrock of the American political system. However, the empirical premises examine the reality ...

Individual Choice of Democracy

In seven pages various definitions of the elusvie term of democracy are examined with the representative type mentioned as the pro...

The Aftermath of the First World War

themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...

Criticism of the Individual Regarding Democracy

In five pages Ayn Rand and Alexis de Tocqueville's perspectives are applied to the problems of the individual as the result of dem...

Self, Legitimacy, and Democracy in Habermas and Connolly

I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...