Policies were made by the government in order to minimize economic disparity in the United States after the Great Depression. ... The significant role money has in government decisions and elections pose a threat to democracy, with interest groups giving the vast majority of contributions. ... With money being the most important thing and inequality of incomes increasing among Americans, the fear of the elite running the government is present. ... For example, the National Rifle Association, which opposes gun control laws, has convinced legislators that its members will vote for or against ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

History Before being able to focus on the problems Cambodia has faced on its road to establishing a democratic government, one must shed light on Cambodia's rich history. ... Although some may have though that of the Anti-corruption law passed in 2010 as a breakthrough in Cambodia's fight for transparency, this was not entirely the case. The newly passed law, also the first of its kind in the nation's history, provides for the imprisonment of up to 15 years for any officials found guilty of corruption (Moore 2006). However, the law is weak in its nature and thus is likely to ...

• Word Count: 3095
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The concept of liberal democracy encompasses liberal and democratic values like limited government, individual rights, the rule of law, political equality, as well as the democratic process as a whole. ... Unfortunately, for Branco his underlying argument that capitalism leads to corruption is easily refuted because liberal democracies simply create laws to prevent this type of corruption and since the rule of law applies to all citizens these people are held accountable for any laws they break in spite of how much wealth or power they may have. ... For capitalism, individual rights and the...

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The unpopularity of the army at that time was also triggered by their refusal to surrender power to a civilian government for almost two years. ... According to Freedom House Organization, " The November 22nd declaration violates the most basic principles of the rule of law and accountable democracy". This was followed by a number of other totalitarian measures, for instance, Hisham Kandil's government drafted a protest law to limit the demonstrations and pacify the people's growing discontent, which clearly goes against the very idea of revolution and against any logic t...

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Two of the key pieces of legislation passed during the 1920's will also be considered, the Universal Suffrage Bill and the Peace Preservation Law, both of 1925, as together they illustrate the cautious balance between progress and retreat that punctuated interwar Japanese politics. ... Party politics had, after a two-decade struggle, finally become a weight in government, but not without compromise. ... Finally, the role of the emperor himself as the ultimate source of Japanese authority meant that any action on the part of government could be overruled by recourse to an imperial preroga...

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As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Whichever way the situation is examined, it is always examined through the prism of a mind which has grown up and been socialised into thinking that their system of government is the best. ... Any governing regime must perform certain functions as a bare minimum, such as defence of the population from both external and internal threats via the military and enforcement ...

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The Weimar Republic was a democratic government that came into power after the First World War. It is clear that this democratic government was destined to fail from the onset for several reasons. ... The constitution although guaranteed basic political liberities such as freedom of speech, equality before the law and gave men and women over the age of twenty the right to vote, the constitution allowed the president to have the right to close parliament and issues decrees at any moment under Article 48. A most undemocratic element, which, if misused, could undermine the democracy, Historian Ed...

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In this paper the success of democratization will be measured by the sum of the level of inclusion and governmental accountability achieved. ... Nevertheless, the attitude of the demos towards democracy greatly depends on the quality of governmental accountability. ... Vertical without horizontal accountability only creates disaffection with the government or the regime. ... In both cases the commitment to uphold the rule of law is what creates a strong governmental accountability. ... This kind of commitment to enforce the rule of law on politicians as well as the citizenry is consistent in t...

• Word Count: 2022
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Let us suppose that all the members of the community take a part in the government, and that each of them has an equal right to take a part in it. ... Liberty was definitely a political ideal that Tocqueville clung to – "I had conceived the idea of a moderate and orderly liberty, restrained by [religious] belief, mores, and the laws, it had become my lifelong passion" -, so his multiple uses of the concept should not surprise us. As Melvin Richter notices, there were three ways in which Tocqueville delineated liberty as a concept: " first, in terms of the benefits produc...

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" That is, Democracy was hailed as the best form of government hence, an increasing process of democratization in many parts of the world especially in Africa; Army Generals traded their military fatigues for suits to contest elections as politicians in an unprecedented era of democracy. ... One popular definition is the one given by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address as, government of the people, by the people and for the people. Democracy may be in two forms; direct or Ancient Athenian democracy which is typical of ancient Greece specifically Athens where the citizens, that is ...

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The first one indicates that citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan have the right to participate in the government of the state's affairs directly and through their representatives, to address personally as well as to direct individual and collective appeals to public and local self-administrative bodies. ... The last, but not least one implies that citizens of the Republic have the equal right to serve in a public office and that the requirements for candidates for public offices shall be conditioned only by the character of the office duties and shall be established by law. ... So as ...

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(Dahl (1971) Page 2) Since it is almost impossible for a government to be responsive to all of its citizens, Dahl calls our everyday conception of democracy Polyarchy. ... Dahl's purpose of Polyarchy is to determine conditions favor or impede a transformation into a political regime in which opponents of the government can openly and legally organize into political parties in order to oppose the government in free and fair elections. (Dahl (1971) Page 2) Now considering the political Regime of Nigeria, I can say that it presents a struggle to institutionalize stable governments. ... (O&...

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To the frustration of both self-made men and plebeians, certain eighteenth-century elitist republican assumptions remained strong, especially in the seaboard states, mandating that government be left to a natural aristocracy of virtuous, propertied gentlemen. ... The Jacksonians' basic policy thrust, both in Washington and in the states, was to rid government of class biases and dismantle the top-down, credit-driven engines of the market revolution. ... Under the Jacksonians, government-sponsored internal improvements generally fell into disfavor, on the grounds that they were unnecessary...

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• Grade Level: Graduate