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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After the seventeenth century crisis of order, Europeans gradually moved towards the idea of liberal democracy and capitalism, hoping to model their society with the ideals "liberty, equality, and fraternity.... The Americanization of Europe began, causing the implementation of more American values and morals into European culture. ...

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