While I acknowledge that many other indicators can and have been used (see for example Gwiazda 2016; Lijphart 1999; Diamond and Morlino 2005), I have limited the criteria to these four due to constraints of time. ... In this essay I assess both countries against each of the four indicators and conclude that consensus democracies perform better as they are more representative, supported by the fact that the Netherlands performs better than the UK on all the indicators. ... Literature Review This essay contributes to research on the quality of democracy, in particular on the democratic performan...

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In Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace," from 1795, he gave inter alia the following reason for the assumption that liberal states be peaceful against each other (Sa-rensen, 1993: 91). ... For example, Great Britain and the United States of America went to war in 1812, even though they were both democracies at this time (Smith, et al, 2008: 52). ... One reason is, for example, that a democratic country is attacked by an authoritarian state (Smith, et al., 2008: 54-56). ... That such an aggressive' method works, show the example of Serbia, where a military intervention results in the estab...

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Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... This essay will compare and contrast two post-communist countries, focusing on Poland, who has had a fairly successful' transition to democracy, and Romania, who shows clear signs of a complicated and uncertain transition towards democracy. ... Poland is an example of a country that has had a very smooth transition from communism to democracy. ...

• Word Count: 3450
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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ... First to be discussed are rights that protect individual's religion and ethnicity as examples to how the majority has discriminated against the individual. Rights that promote the rule of law, such as the ...

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The over-empowerment of this position can be seen in several examples, which I will describe in the following essay, along with examinations of the institutions that are responsible for this concentration of authority within the federal government. ... An example often brought up is the privatization of many Crowne corporations, which resulted in the removal of some of the juiciest political plums available. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate