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create delay and confusion, hindering commercial decision making processes, which need to be decisive and rapid in order to respon...

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

avoiding issues. The different speeches by the candidates can then be assessed. Often on the promises they make, but also on the a...

economies was structural in nature (Onis). They believed that implementing a development strategy that relied on free market forc...

of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

influences we first need to consider aktuelles Verstehen and erkl?rendes Verstehen. The first of these is aktuelles Verstehen is o...

light of that, what would Tocqueville say about democracy in America today? Likely, he would say the same things but would be much...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

became the law of the land (Rempel). While such a system may seem chaotic, and perhaps even very close to...

rule over another. We must recognize that those individuals that flocked to the Americas were not just the most destitute of Euro...

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

in ancient Greece comes to us through their stories, their tragedies. "Greek tragedies dealt with universal themes that are still ...

It states, "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representative...

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...

may be agents in the transformation of democracy, but democracy is not something that is inextricable with computer science (2001)...

claimed that this form of democracy has outlived its usefulness. The question is, has it? If in fact there is something that can b...

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

labor power (Wikipedia, 2005). Marx was concerned about what people did with their labor power, how they related to it (Wikipedia,...

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

parties is hampering Japans progress towards a true democracy" (Anonymous, 1996, p. 12). While some areas have noted considerably...

this section, well try to answer if a liberal democracy requires a strict separation of church and state. In theory, at least, a d...

way they had not been before. Democracy truly had the ability to empower both the people and the government; the people no longer...

as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...

a system of checks and balances. It is designed to meet the needs of as many people as possible (Montgomer, 2003). It seeks to avo...

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...