In the mid 1800s, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his novel Democracy in America. This work was an extensive study of American democracy. ... As Tocqueville sees it, there are many dangers facing American democracy, mostly lying in societal attitudes and tendencies. ... In Tocqueville's eyes, another danger facing American democracy is the excessive love and need for equality. ... In this novel, there were also some aspects of American society that, according to Tocqueville, helped to preserve democracy. ...

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Comparing America to Sparta and Athens American society does reflect Spartan and Athenian society in many ways. ... Unlike liberal America, Sparta and Athens were conservative societies. ... Much like America, Athens eventually had a form of democracy and its citizens directly selected representatives to run their government. ... They first started out with a Tribal government, then a monarchy, an aristocracy, it was ruled by Tyrants, and then finally a popular/direct democracy. ... Overall America most reflects Sparta and Athens in their governments. ...

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"The fuel of democracy is information." ... In many instances, the precious fuel needed to achieve and obtain a democracy is running low, or is at times, nonexistent due to the inadequate amount of information. ... Putnam in "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," Journal of Democracy 6, no.1 (January 1995) p. 20. In which he concludes that Americans increasingly prefer social isolation to social involvement. ... Illegeracy also creates continuous enormous obstacles in our goals of achieving the American Dream, upward mobility, and an ideal democracy. ...

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The Internet and Democracy It is often said that information is the cornerstone of democracy, and at no time is information more fundamental than during elections. ... Statistics show that most internet users are Caucasian, north-American, and male. ... It is likely that technology will enhance political life and democracy online. ... Most opportunities are limited to a privileged group, dating back to the democracy of Athenian times. Democracy seems likely to continue s it has been up to this point and will indefinitely unless the ambiguities associated with online politics are erad...

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eLearning as Priority of the @LIS Programme: Linking Europe and Latin America on Information Society Fabio Nascimbeni, MENON Network 1. The @LIS Programme, bridging EU and Latin America on IS issues The cooperation programme @LIS-Alliance for the information society - is the result of the political dialogue between the Heads of State or of Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1999 and aims at extending the benefits of the information society to all citizens in Latin America and at reducing the digital divide between those w...

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The American government may not carry out all of these responsibilities perfectly, but it has proven itself to be a government that works. ... The Challenge of Democracy Brief Edition. 28 Aug. 2003 . ... The Challenge of Democracy. ...

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Tocqueville's well-known study of Democracy in America primarily focuses on American society, not its governmental or political system. ... The answer, he concluded, was in the commitment of Americans to the idea of democracy and self-government. ... By utilizing a jury system among peers and engaging in a discourse with the exchange of ideas, democracy still had its flaws. ... These were the true advantages of democracy. ... It was the consciousness of victory over a false theory of government or self-dominion which affected mankind for ages, that gave joy to the true American. ...

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He thought of modern democracy back in Roman Empire, and he figured out the social classes and the fact that every citizen has a job to do in their community. ... He too believes that the best government out there is American Democracy and that every citizen has a job to do for his community. ... They both agree the perfect government could possibly be a republic democracy, but only with the right people running the government. ... These two were great minds and thought very similarly and shaped government and society in America....

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Violent was what led to the American Revolution. 7. Social Change- the change that came out of it was the American Democracy Eight things that have prevented violent class based revolution in the United States are as followed: Constitution- the Bill of Rights and the freedoms they represent. ... Unemployment in America is 6% and it has been climbing. ... Things made in America will cost a little more because of the cost of labor. ... Monopoly- a lot of Americans were upset because one person set the prices and there was no competition. ...

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As Thomas Jefferson said, "Subdividing property so that many, not just the few, have a voice in political affairs, is essential to a healthy democracy". Education gives one an opportunity to earn money, own property, buy goods and contribute to the social and political aspects of our country, which gives us a healthy democracy." ... White people have higher occupational prestige and have more education than African Americans in general. Average income for an African American is 62% of what a white person's income is. ...

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Here in America, many modern and postmodern cultures do battle about if it is better to teach our children the skills of moral reasoning, which is a very postmodern concept, or should instead be taught to accept some traditional American values and beliefs such as religion. ... They serve as you can probably tell, to justify and explain all of our social structures and institutions, including democracy, law, science, ethics, and aesthetics. ... A grand narrative in American culture might be the story that democracy is the most enlightened form of government, and that democracy can and will l...

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For generations most American people believe that there is nothing better than Democracy. It is true Democracy is great, however why hasn't our government ever considered Socialism for a change. ...

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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, reform movements were sweeping across America. As Americans moved into the twentieth century, there was one thing that was necessary: change. ... None of these reform movements were able to become powerful enough to have a great influence upon America. ... Farming in America had typically always been a family enterprise. ... The depression caused Americans to see that these barriers needed to be broken. ...

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Living in the twenty first century America, I would say that yes, we do have freedom as a society, but this has been further and further developed as society further develops. ... For example the presence of freedom in the twenty-first American culture is dependent on the societal institutions that make the social process of freedom possible. ... The American dream of freedom has come true because of each of the interrelated parts in agreement with one another, the commonality and desire for a free society. We are free because we limit the power of government with democracy. ...

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Stewart Ewen, in his essay "Chosen People" addresses the topic of consumerism in the middle class of America and suggests different negative effects. ... Ewen's purpose is to inform the reader of the materialistic rise in the American modern middle class. ... This new sense of achievement created by the industrial revolution allowed them to believe that they had made it, they achieve the American dream. ... From "Scientific America" Ewen quotes, "Factory industrialism as producing the accoutrements of a 'democracy,' one 'which invites every man ...

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America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... It also became associated with "republicanism, Protestantism, democracy, laissez-faire, economic theory, progress, and empire building" (Smedley 188). During the early 19th century, America had become a financial powerhouse, dominated by whites. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ...

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With this huge of a gap it comes as a surprise that only a small portion of American adults are actually aware of how large the gap is. ... The question on everyone's tongue behind this curtain is "Can democracy stop inequality from rising?... According to democracy if a concentration of wealth begins to appear within a smaller group then they vote to have the concentration redistributed. Unfortunately the poor vote less often than the rich and they do not even vote on the basis of economic self-interest because many Americans distrust government (Eduardo Porter 2014). ... According to Ed...

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This seminar will concentrate on explaining the significance of the four basic traditions that Robert Bellah and the other the social scientists that worked in his team in the early eighties identified as underpinning North American society. An assumption is made that all modern western democracies share these basic traditions, with varying degrees of emphasis. ...

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In Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor's essay titled "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism's" the authors aim to identify what the new institutionalism is and how we can identify it. The author's start off by describing how there are three key different approaches to how we can begin to understand what the new institutionalism is and that we can only understand it through the context of three separate elements. The different institutionalisms, as described by the authors are historical institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism, and sociological ins...

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The transformation into 20th Century America reveals the empowerment of women in marriage and the fluid social structure associated with overcoming class barriers. ... Heckerling provokes the similarities between Regency England and the egalitarian American society despite the 19th amendment stating "The right of citizens shall not be denied on account of sex.... The political shift to democracy enabled a versatile social hierarchy as it was ultimately the 20th Century American citizens which determined social protocols. ... The shift from Regency England to 20th Century America has resha...

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Here the concepts of democracy were aspired to, as each individual would be given an equal right to participate in legislation, and the government thereby a true embodiment of its people. ... The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. These ric...

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With the discovery of America and the following expansion of economic markets, a new manufacturing class arises. ... (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." ... In America capitalism was based on a laissez-faire economic system. ... These laws allowed the American working class to bridge the gap with the upper-class bourgeoisie running government. ... Afterall, the examples of 19th century Britain and America after the Great Depression prove Marx's...

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It soon became clear with the invasion of Iraq that the plans had been premeditated by the coalition's American leadership for quite some time. ... Men, women and children representing no other social group than society itself chose to attend to demonstrate their shared antipathy not only to the war in Iraq, but to a whole host of other American foreign policies that they are in disagreement with. ... As the whole of the collective domain recognise this, Blair's position became in response one of a moral crusader championing what he would maintain are shared values of freedom and dem...

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He advocated for equal treatment for every American in the United States. ... Globalization has had an immense influence on the ethnic map of America. From the beginning of 1960, immigration has heightened in the American society. ... The society will become reorganized; democracy and mass ownership will solve the capitalist power. ... The economic implications of Black Americans differ from that of other minority groups. ...

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Community informatics is a technology strategy or discipline which links economic and social development efforts at the community level with emerging opportunities in such areas as electronic commerce, community and civic networks and telecentres, electronic democracy and on-line participation, self-help and virtual health communities, advocacy, cultural enhancement, and others". ... Corporate America has undergone rapid transformation in the space of merely five to ten years; from scarcely a million users of the Internet in 1990, the current estimate is 125 million users and growing expo...

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