Essays on Democracy

A functioning democracy is defined by various characteristics, like freedom of speech, equality, human rights, rule of law and many more. When autocratic rulers or monarchs were in power these achievements of modern society obviously weren’t guaranteed. They might even have respected momentarily those rights,...

Early Nineteenth Century America was a time of dramatic and rapid change. The American economy was shifting from agriculture and farming to a system that valued labor within the industry. The economic shift created advances in both technology and American values. The Nineteenth Century saw...

Andrew Jackson’s presidency is amongst the most disputable presidency in American history. He was a unique politician who was very strategic in his missions. He was bold, fearless and authoritative. However, this president was very popular amongst ordinary citizens despite being in a poor relationship...

The characteristics of new media due to its plasticity and interactivity as open participation and non-hierarchical made social media attractive to many of its users. Social media and other forms of new media has both its merits and demerits in making the world more democratic....

Democracy, according to Abraham Lincoln former American President is a government of the people by the people and for the people. In other words “Democracy is a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity are involved in decision making”....

Democracy is a concept with a variety of potential meanings, and it is not simple to grasp or define (Rusell J.Dolton, 2007). Democracy is by far the most challenging form of government – both for politicians and for the people. The term democracy comes from...

The concept of Democracy and Non-Democracy began with the advent of the State. The clear distinction between the two concepts became clear when democracy came into practice in 508 BC. The first form of democracy, what is known today as Athenian Democracy, was introduced in...

Under the current electoral voting system general elections are decided using the first-past-the-post system (FPTP) and Members of the House of Commons are elected in single-member constituencies. The first-past-the post system is known for its simplicity, because under this system voters simply put a cross...

Brimming with death, destruction, and despair, the plots of Greek tragedies are often considered the darkest of theatrical genres. However, it is this same dismal theme that occurs in one of the most well-known works of ancient Greece, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, working to represent a past...

Centuries ago, the most common way for a king or emperor to earn political legitimacy was to associate with the prevalent religious ideology of their polis. The commonly held notions of the Divine seduced the emperors to rule in the name of God. But gradually,...

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” by Abraham Lincoln Abstract Many studies have been conducted to explore how reputation impedes/ enhances the growth of private companies. But...

Italy has had a very interesting relationship with social democracy. After World War II it seemed that social democracy was really going to persist in all of Europe and solve all the problems that European nations had. However, Italy was a State that had figured...

The common story that the American Constitution is the light of overall democracy obvious despises common norms in several cases. “Our Constitution has at least one radical feature: It isn’t designed for a society with economic inequality.” is somewhere along the line to what Professor...

The approach of media innovation, internet, and social media and with their ascending to conspicuousness in this era has escalated the aggregate disdain of postmodern culture for the truth. The development of media innovation and its effect in present-day life is unmeasurable molding both the...

According to Tom Christiano’s democracy, democracy is defined as a system of government where its citizens exercise the power of voting through group decision making, characterized by equality among the participants. Citizens have the power to vote into office the public officials they want to...

You can’t have a free democracy if you don’t have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people. – Rupert Murdoch As Murdoch’s empire grew larger, and his influence on the public-eye stronger, many political leaders saw his media domain...

During the pre-modern ages there was less contact between people who had exposure to other cultures. These people worshipped and believed in their gods which they shared and was unquestioned within and outside they place of residence. These pre-modern societies were ideological controlled by themselves....

Elizabeth Anderson argues that democracy has non-instrumental value, as its worth is largely derived from the act of participation by the members of democratic culture, organization and government. She illustrates this with the example of a non-democratic form of government, Singapore, where the regime claims...

Origin. Bangladesh was a product of three successive partitions. The first partition took place in 1905 during the British colonial period, named as East Bengal to placate the Bengali speaking Muslims who were lagging the majority Hindu population in socio-economic development. The act was also...

The never-ending conflicts in the Middle East can be traced back since before World War Two. Though there have been many peace plans to end the conflict, sadly there has been little peace. America and many other countries have tried to solve the problem in...

For this assignment I will be utilizing the Afrobarometer’s dataset for each scenario’s answer. Determining if there is an immense relationship of bivariate existing within the three scenarios’. Designed for describing the relationship among different variables a statistical technique is a bivariate analysis (Frankfort-Nachmias &...

The efforts of American “cultural producers” during World War II constructed and realized the ideal of a democratic American army within the minds of citizens doubtful of whether remaining democratic while engaged in warfare was at all possible. While the cultural producers ultimately proved successful,...

Athenian democracy has provided a fundamental, archetypal foundation for the contemporary political landscape witnessed present-day. Socrates’ vigilant efforts to democratize truth are demonstrative of an exorbitant level of consciousness which irrefutably exceed that of the polis by comparative measure; Socrates renounced this sociopolitical structure to...

To what extent do pressure groups strengthen pluralist democracy? Pressure groups can be categorised into many different types, depending on their ideologies and ambitions. ‘Insider’ and ‘outsider’ are the two main categories in which pressure groups correspond to – insider groups being pressure groups that...

After over 16 years, it seemed as though the Democratic party was going to win since the Republican party split. The Democrats nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912, in Baltimore on the 46th ballot. The Democratic party was filled with many progressives and progressive reforms and...

The Republic of Chile is a representative democracy with a presidential republic type of government. Citizens elect government officials and representatives every four years. The government is divided into three independent branches: the executive, legislative, and judiciary. The national capital of Chile is Santiago, where...

Acceptable Methods of Protest in America The United States of America is a country that is run by a democratic government, in order to protect the rights and liberties of the citizens in its discourse community. When social issues arise, citizens have the right to...

The democratic peace theory postulates that liberal democracies are hesitant and unlikely to engage in armed conflict with other democracies. This idea dates back centuries to German philosopher Immanuel Kant and other 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers. By examining the political similarities, economic system, geographical location, and...

In An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen dissects the social malaise that arises from democracy’s twin failures to sanction controversial scientific breakthroughs and to allocate liberty and sovereignty to the area of scientific research. In this way, Ibsen challenges the confines of democracy and...

America has long been recognized as a democratic nation, a nation operating under the will of the people. The forefathers of America fought incessantly against British tyranny to start anew in a land of freedom and opportunity. Because America revived the ancient Greek ideology of...