And also from my point of view, the population of Kazakhstan more worries about the problems of material well-being, social order and security, rather than democratic principles and the human rights. ... Today Kazakhstan supports such rules of the game, when it is safer and more profitable for economic and political elites to keep a status-quo, even if it is strategically ineffective, rather than to bear the costs and risks of transition to a true democracy model. ... But its introduction is also related with definite problems from the side of state and political elites themselves, who are int...

• Word Count: 1572
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Additionally, the education level and social status of interest group members and lobbyists give them an immediate advantage in influencing Congress. ... The stable hold of power by the elite upper class seen in lobbyists and interest group members restrict lower status citizen's equality in the legislative process. ... People with high levels of education and social status have an edge over those who don't, which is unequal opportunity for ordinary people to have an impact on government. ...

• Word Count: 1921
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Education had been universalized, and social mobility seemed to be on the increase. The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ... Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state meant that the role of the military and imperial court could easily outweigh that of civilian government, any serious questioning of the social order was crushed without mercy, and any libe...

• Word Count: 2458
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate

Page 7 of Robert A Dahl's book "Polyarchy-Participation and Opposition" (1971), provides a figure conceptualizing liberalization, inclusiveness and democratization with the help of which countries can be termed as either inclusive or closed hegemonies, or competitive oligarchies or polyarchies. On t...

• Word Count: 2103
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. ... More directly, it arose out of the profound social and economic changes of the early nineteenth century. ... Beyond position-taking, the Jacksonians propounded a social vision in which any white man would have the chance to secure his economic independence, would be free to live as he saw fit, under a system of laws and representative government utterly cleansed of privilege. ...

• Word Count: 2407
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate

It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. ...

• Word Count: 2466
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate