This can been seen in interest groups ability to influence public officials who hold power to fulfill their wants rather than what the party as a whole wants or what the people want, the majority of interest group members being people with higher incomes and higher levels of education limiting the average citizens ability to influence decisions made, the small group of elites dominating congressional decisions, and the concerning dominance money has in American politics. ... Many politicians claim to have the people's best interest at hand and they ultimately decide what policies are pu...

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And such a development is in the first place of importance for the whole population of Kazakhstan nowadays, which has been also recalled in the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, adopted on the 30th of August in 1995. ... And in the third rule there is an obvious emphasis that the right to elect and be elected, to participate in the all-nation referendum does not extend to the citizens judged incapable by a court as well as those held in places of confinement on a court's sentence. ... Without this broad, sustaining participation, democracy begins to wither and become the preser...

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In order to be able to place the three countries on the comparative democratization scale accordingly, the expectations of democratization have to be established. ... Turning our focus to the Czech Republic, a lot of evidence is pointing towards a trend of weakened governmental accountability in the last years as some major corruption scandals took place in 2013. ...

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The constitution of Nigeria also holds that if no candidate succeeds in winning a majority of total votes and obtaining the two thirds threshold in the first round, a second round of voting will take place a week later, pitting off the two candidates in a run off. ... Other than the president, several small parties and minority groups in Nigeria are also represented in the legislature. ... (O'Neil (2010) Page 553) This justifies Dahl's theory about broadened participation combined with political competition, based on which different ethnic groups and small groups in Nigeria have a ch...

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Introduction Having experienced a recent economic boom prior to the 2008 global financial crisis and a flourishing tourism industry, Cambodia lies at the forefront of becoming a rising star within the Southeast Asian region. However, in order to do so there are major political issues and concerns d...

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They again added that the Athenian democracy was the first known democracy that developed in a small size city-state which provided its citizens with a sense of active engagement in public affairs. ... Ghana must hold accountable and put in place some penal codes against public servants or officeholders as did the Athenians. ...

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