"An open, democratic society in the third world is at best nothing more than a chimera, a pipe dream, a utopian fantasy." Stable, idea based political parties rarely come about from third world democracy as the concept is setup to yield. ... However, in the third world the majority is stricken with ignorance and poverty and is unable to defend themselves. ... Brazil was a great example of this; they were the development model for the third world initially with their GNP tripling. ... Similar, if not the same, conditions exist in the third world today. ...

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Thirdly, there is a large political focus on issues such as pay equity and abortion rights. There is a definite difference in the political party preference of men and women. Men are eight percentage points lower than women in supporting the Democratic Party. ... This difference is similar to that of party preferences, and may be attributed to a rise, since 1960, of single-parent households. ... Greenberg is on who believes the flight of the white man from the Democratic Party is based on Race and the resentment towards a big government. ...

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For example, in the 2000 election, Ralph Nader ran as a Third-Party candidate and won 2.74% of the votes. Since he was part of the Green Party, many environmental based SGIs supported him, and raised awareness of the issues Bush and Gore did not bring up. ...

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For example, let's say that Pennsylvania went to the Democratic Party; therefore all of Pennsylvania's electors will be expected to vote for the candidate in the Democratic Party. Rarely, I mean very rarely, does an elector vote for the other party but it could happen. ... The third evidence has to deal with slavery and women. ...

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Political participation could be anything from voting to actually joining a political party. ... "55 percent of Americans have access to the Internet, with over a third "wired" Americans going on-line five or more hours a week. ... Partisanship is the voter identification for a specific political party, such as the Democratic or Republican parties. ... The people feel like the party outline of the Democrats and Republicans are similar. Also, it is rare that a third party would win in a major election. ...

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Political participation could be anything from voting to actually joining a political party. ... "55 percent of Americans have access to the Internet, with over a third "wired" Americans going on-line five or more hours a week. ... Partisanship is the voter identification for a specific political party, such as the Democratic or Republican parties. ... The people feel like the party outline of the Democrats and Republicans are similar. Also, it is rare that a third party would win in a major election. ...

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The third is political democracy. ... The third one is under the immature conditions, so first socialists should overthrew the old capitalism machinery, removed the former institution, established the new systems . ... Take the USSR for example, the Communist Party obtained their strength and power by the revolutionary path, subverting the political, social, and other orders in the old era. ... And the proletariat and the poor are "the masses upon which the party or the new bureaucracy must lean and with which its interests are most closely allied" ! ...

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17 March 1918 Most Highly Esteemed Sir, I write to you with an update on the current situation in Petrograd. Last November, the Bolsheviks led a massive revolution against Kerensky's provisional government. From my office, I witn...

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But to prevent a party-line vote from tossing the Chief Executive, the Senate requires a two-thirds vote. ... A third problem with the current democratic system involves how those we elect to hold office are motivated to make the decisions they do. ...

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Lenin changed the course of Russia by ensuring that his party would resort to dictatorship rather than bow to the will of the masses. ... The population was divided into three estates, with the majority belonging to the third. ... Lenin, the father of communism, believed it the job of his party to exercise control of society. ...

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What do you think of when you hear the word "Ireland"? Green grass, hills, dancing? How about "China"? Egg rolls, dragons, crowds? You would think that they are two completely different nations with their own separate governments, religion, healthcare and cultures. But, in fact, they have many ...

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"The Out-of-control Presidency" is an article my Michael Lind in which he makes the claim that the executive branch of the government has become too powerful. The congress, he suggests, is where the power of the federal government was designed to lie and the presidency was constructed to be little m...

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This "pork-barrel" spending has been so highly publicized by the mass media in recent years, that it has now become a major party platform issue (Anderson 33). ... Brent McGoldrick of Third Millennium describes this relationship as a mutual indifference in which the campaigns ignore young voters, and the young voters thus ignore the campaigns (Lee 27-8). ...

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