According to the federalism principle, the American government is separated by lines of policy, where the national government centralizes the views, policies, and responsibilities of the entire country. ... So, unfairly, democracy is undermined in the name of efficient government, primarily because of the Electoral College, which embodies the American precedent that federalist comes before democracy when it should be the other way around. ... This dichotomy between the population in a state and representation in the Electoral College not only proves ineffective in supporting democracy in Ame...

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During the 1930's, the New Deal was established to supplement democracy and to promote the formation of interest groups. ... However, interest groups today do not properly represent average American's as intended, and oppositely, pose a threat to American Democracy. ... The significant role money has in government decisions and elections pose a threat to democracy, with interest groups giving the vast majority of contributions. ... Although American's believe in pluralism, the fact that certain interest groups are not equally represented as others show the imminent threat it h...

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From another angle, however, Jacksonianism appears as a political impulse tied to slavery, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the celebration of white supremacy "so much so that some scholars have dismissed the phrase "Jacksonian Democracy" as a contradiction in terms. ... Its origins stretch back to the democratic stirrings of the American Revolution, the Antifederalists of the 1780s and 1790s, and the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans. ... Proposed cures for this sickness included more democracy and a redirection of economic policy. ... Only after taking power did the Jacksonian...

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The American view of the Asian "other" largely affected American assumptions from the beginning, as they believed most Vietnamese were politically immature and lacking a sense of nationhood. As we can see from the beliefs of the American subcommittee, "the idea that indigenous political traditions or abilities might permit the Vietnamese to govern themselves in the postwar period was almost inconceivable," and this rested on "pervasive American assumptions of Vietnamese subservience and susceptibility to external control," (Bradley 89, 93). Mecklin proves this to be the case when he stat...

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Therefore, in order to have a better understanding we will first discuss what exactly is globalization followed by an analysis of the question, does globalization promote democracy? ... In a proud democratic society such as Canada it is essential when we evaluate the impacts of globalization in Canada by examining if indeed globalization promotes democracy. In Comparative Politics: Principles of Democracy and Democratization by John Ishiyama he mentions that "several scholars have pointed to the positive benefits of economic globalization in stimulating market growth and development"...

• Word Count: 1932
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Gallup's 2010 publication Religious Perceptions in America: With an In-Depth Analysis of U.S. ... The American Muslim population is expanding as "the target of hate crimes and discrimination;" this abuse and obvious encroachment of the civil rights that American citizens are born with requires an addressing. ... In Homeland Insecurity: The Arab-American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11, sociologist Louis Cainkar interprets the cumulative post-9/11 experience of Arabs (Muslim and non-Muslim) living in metropolitan Chicago. ... American scholar J'Lien Liese examines the compli...

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The collapse of the World Trade Centre (WTC) in New York America, which were executed by the group of terrorists, was seen by many scholars as a defining moment that ended the post-cold war era. ... It officially shapes the image that the United Stated as the only superpower nation, promoting regional security settings and running an unlimited engagement in international issues such as dominating the military and non-military agenda, particularly in terms of democracy, economy, human rights, environment, and managing the cross-border threat (transnational threats). ...

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