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| | What Is Democracy? - Defining Democracy |
 | | Diane Ravitch, scholar, author, and a former assistant U.S. secretary of education, wrote in a paper for an educational seminar in Poland: "When a representative democracy operates in accordance with a constitution that limits the powers of the government and guarantees fundamental rights to all citizens, this form of government is a constitutional democracy. | | | For this reason, it is possible to identify the time-tested fundamentals of constitutional government, human rights, and equality before the law that any society must possess to be properly called democratic. | | | In a direct democracy, all citizens, without the intermediary of elected or appointed officials, can participate in making public decisions. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/whatsdem/whatdm2.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy |
| | Center for Voting and Democracy - Provides information to the public about the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, and the influence of money in elections. | | | Centre for Democracy and Development - A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. | | | International Republican Institute - Non-partisan Washington, DC-based group which conducts programs outside the United States to promote democracy and strengthen free markets and the rule of law. |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Democracy
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| | Democracy’s Arrow |
| | Decades later, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt echoed this fear: “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. | | | Corporate corruption of politicians and government has steadily shredded our democracy. | | | In the last three elections, the incumbent reelection rate was over 98 percent. |
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| | democracy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Despite the increase in the number of countries holding multiparty elections, however, the United Nations issued a study in 2002 that stated that in more than half the world’s nations the rights and freedoms of citizens are limited. | | | It insists that necessary restraints be imposed only by the consent of the majority and that they conform to the principle of equality. | | | A democracy of this sort was possible only in a small state where the people were politically educated, and it was limited since the majority of inhabitants were slaves or noncitizens. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/de/democrac.html
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| | The Balkans: Democracy Triumphant |
| | Their voters, whom they promised independence, might mind being lied to — but that is the least of their problems, as voters can always be manipulated. | | | Ethnicity and party membership became synonyms, voting mirrored census results, and politics transcended taxes and plunder to become a game of life and death. | | | Ethnic parties that came to power in Bosnia after the 1990 election all had "democratic" in their names: Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), Serb Democratic Party (SDS), and the Muslims' Party of Democratic Action (SDA). |
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http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m042502.html
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| | Polis |
| | This period, called the Age of Athens, lasted very briefly; it was also the first democratic state in human history. | | | Look closely at American electoral politics and you will see that all politicians shift between these two poles in their political rhetoric. | | | All major government decisions and legislation were made by the Assembly; the closest we've come to such a system is "initiative and referendum," in which legislation is popularly petitioned and then voted on directly by the electorate. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/DEMOC.HTM
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| | The Democratic Delusion- by Justin Raimondo |
| | The liberal revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries ushered in the era of "democracy," in which the society of contract replaced the society of status in the economic sphere. | | | In Ethiopia, where protestors challenging the election results were mowed down by government troops, it may very well be that the parties supporting President Meles Zenawi got as many seats as | | | The president of the United States has taken up this cause and declared that the goal of our foreign policy is to ignite a " |
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6289
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| | E-democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American Democracy and Computer Mediated Communication - A Case Study in Minnesota — Ph.D. by strategist and e-democracy.org co-founder G. Scott Aikens. | | | Ross Perot was for a time a prominent advocate of EDD when he advocated "electronic town halls" during his 1992 and 1996 Presidential campaigns in the United States. | | | As in a direct democracy, in an EDD citizens would have the right to vote on legislation before parliament, author new legislation and recall representatives at any stage. |
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| | Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), Washington, DC |
| | Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), Washington, DC CSID 2005 Conference Report | | | Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. State Department | | | CSID recently held a conference on the subject of "Shari'ah and Democracy" in Abuja, Nigeria, on July 7-9, 2004. |
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| | Democracy - The Ultimate Political Strategy Game |
| | Democracy starts with you as President (or Prime-Minister) of a modern country. | | | The object of the game is to stay in power as long as possible (there are no limits as to how many terms you may be elected president). | | | The country is a run as a simple democracy where you need to get over 50% of the vote each election in order to remain in power. |
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| | Representative democracy - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | A representative democracy may provide for recall of elected representatives that voters become dissatisfied with. | | | This often involves more powers than a constitutional monarchy or participatory democracy would allocate to the legislators, so almost all constitutions provide for an Independent judiciary, and other measures to balance representative power with citizen power: | | | The United Kingdom exemplifies a representative democracy; Germany has been one since 1949. |
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| | USAID Democracy and Governance |
| | The United States is vigorously engaged in all corners of the globe, acting as a force for peace and prosperity. | | | Democracy programs promote the rule of law and human rights, transparent and fair elections coupled with a competitive political process, a free and independent media, stronger civil society and greater citizen participation in government, and governance structures that are efficient, responsive and accountable. | | | USAID democracy and governance programs have had a measurable impact on democratic progress around the world, according to a new study by Vanderbilt University and University of Pittsburgh professors. |
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http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/democracy_and_governance
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christian Democracy |
| | It is not, and never can be monarchical, or republican, or oligarchical, or parliamentarian, or partisan in politics. | | | Christian democracy is the ensemble of Catholic doctrine, organization, and action in the field of popular social questions, i. | | | By involving the ethico-juridical and economical action of Christian democracy in political agitation, he fell into a mistake which was the more unfortunate as the parties of his day made use of it to bring about a violent political crisis. |
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| | Christian Democracy Encyclopedia Article @ OnlineReligion.com (Online Religion) |
| | The largely Roman Catholic country has elected two Christian Democratic presidents (Fidel V. Ramos, a Protestant, and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a devout Catholic, both from the ruling Lakas-CMD party). | | | Major Christian Democratic influence can also be seen in the politics of Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, and Slovenia. | | | Christian Democrats in the country have been known for their advocacy of a shift from the present presidential system to a parliamentary form of government through constitutional amendments and through establishing peace talks with Muslim separatists and communist rebels. |
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http://www.onlinereligion.com/encyclopedia/Christian_democracy
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| | Definition of Democracy |
| | Our Electoral College is an example of voting via a Representative Democracy. | | | Most people we polled for this article didn't realize the Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the constitution. | | | If the United States is not a democracy, what is it? |
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http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/Structure1.htm
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| | Democracy |
| | In a democracy, politicians are elected, but also removed from office upon the will of its citizens. | | | Unfortunately, history shows that only armed revolutions bring about significant changes, for democracy is in fact the very last thing which politicians, their political appointees, those who finance their political campaigns and the vast majority of civil servants want to see in Canada and the so-called Free World. | | | This Web page to democracy was maintained in place by the following people, while I was imprisoned, in inhuman conditions of incarceration, for fighting for democracy, liberty and justice: |
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| | ODYSSEY/Greece/People |
| | The form of democracy practiced in Athens was not the same as democracy in the United States today. | | | The written laws were intended to create a more just system of government, but conflicts between the nobility and the poor continued. | | | Democracy gradually developed over about 2 centuries -- from 507-318 BC. |
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http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/democracy.html
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| | Democracy |
| | While the Charter, the Universal Declaration and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provided a strong normative foundation for a United Nations role in promoting democracy, the onset of the cold war effectively stalled United Nations support for democratization. | | | States are called on to promote and consolidate democracy by taking actions to strengthen human rights and fundamental freedoms; the rule of law; electoral processes; civil society; good governance; sustainable development; and social cohesion and solidarity. | | | The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the Assembly in 1966, conferred binding legal status on the right of individuals to participate in the processes that constitute the conduct of public affairs, and further strengthened the protection accorded to participatory rights and freedoms. |
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http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/democracy
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| | Technorati Tag: democracy |
| | Democracy Theory of M. Williams 2005 political philosopher of the year. | | | Breakaway theories of the harmonic constitution, fractal micro-federalism, dialectical constitutionalism. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. |
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| | Ancient Democracy - History for Kids! |
| | There is no king or tyrant, and anybody can propose a new law. | | | So most democracies sooner or later end up choosing a few men who will do most of the voting, and the rest only come when there is a really important vote. | | | When democracy proved to be successful in Athens, many other city-states chose it for their government too. |
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| | Democracy |
| | Supporting democracy not only promotes such fundamental American values as religious freedom and worker rights, but also helps create a more secure, stable, and prosperous global arena in which the United States can advance its national interests. | | | As the nation's primary democracy advocate, DRL is responsible for overseeing the Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF), which was established in 1998 to address human rights and democratization emergencies. | | | Democracy and respect for human rights have long been central components of U.S. foreign policy. |
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| | Extreme Democracy |
| | With a network-centric approach to advocacy (what I used to call nodal politics), members of the activist network connect as peers, and they all have authority to act and make decisions relevant to their context. | | | Extreme Democracy is a collection of writings, many written as the Howard Dean campaign was playing out. | | | Along with three Extreme Democracy authors (Aldon Hynes, Adam Greenfield, and Britt Blaser), I spoke about the book on a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City Monday. |
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http://extremedemocracy.com
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| | The Writings of Greg Palast |
| | Let me tell you a story about the Secretary of Defense you didn't read in the New York Times, related to me by General Jay Garner, the man our president placed in Baghdad as the US' first post-invasion viceroy. | | | Garner arrived in Kuwait City in March 2003 working under the mistaken notion that when George Bush called for democracy in Iraq, the President meant the Iraqis could choose their own government. | | | Misunderstanding the President's true mission, General Garner called for Iraqis to hold elections within 90 days and for the U.S. to quickly pull troops out of the cities to a desert base. |
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| | Democracy - US Department of State |
| | Latin America's embrace of democracy represents a profound shift in political culture that bodes well for the region's future, despite the serious challenges ahead, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. | | | Democracy Can Stem Rising Unrest in Nepal, State's Boucher Says | | | “There are 34 democracies in Latin America" Rice tells reporters in Chicago, and Those democracies are worth defending, especially since some of them are still fragile and must resist the encroachments of would-be autocrats from both the left and the right of the political spectrum. |
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| | Democracy Dialogues - US Dept of State |
| | Democracy Dialogues is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs. | | | The Democracy Dialogues Web site will address specific topics of democratic governance through readings, videos, photos, and historical documents, with a new topic introduced every two months. | | | Exploring the impact of women in today's society. |
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| | Greater Democracy: Democracy for a connected world. |
| | So much is the government shaken that it had to vote for a condemnatory parliamentary resolution. | | | As a result, worldwide agitation and protests have evidently become a terrifying prospect for policymakers of countries such as Pakistan where democracy has been held hostage by the army. | | | Even Condoleezza Rice was constrained to note publicly that this "severe" Islamic condemnation of caricatures was getting out of hand and threatening to block "the progress that the US was endeavouring to achieve" on many international fronts. |
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| | Iraq - Freedom Circle Directory |
| | Six members of Congress, three Democrats and three Republicans, are calling for a full debate [for April 5] on ending the Iraq War." | | | Democracy: The God That Failed: In Iraq, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, by Justin Raimondo, 12 Oct 2005 |
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http://www.freedomcircle.com/topic.php/Iraq
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| | Democracy Now!: radio and TV news |
| | Author Stephen Kinzer discusses his new book, "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq." In it, he writes that the invasion of Iraq "was the culmination of a 110-year period during which Americans overthrew fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons." [includes rush transcript] | | | Immigration Crackdown: 1,200 Undocumented Workers Detained Across U.S. In what is being called one of the largest immigration crackdowns in recent U.S. history, 1200 undocumented workers from 26 different states were rounded up and detained late Wednesday. | | | "'Democracy Now!' host brings criticism of war coverage to Tucson stage" |
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| | Democracy in international politics - openDemocracy |
| | Anwar Rizvi, recently in Iraq, asks: is this civil war? | | | John Crabtree reports on the race for second place in Peru | | | Faisal Devji marks the arrival of a global Islam to challenge liberal democracy |
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| | Democracy - Internet TV Platform - Free and Open Source |
| | New channels arrive every day and you can subscribe with a single-click. | | | "I'm pleased to support the Democracy platform, because it will enable, for the first time, a large-scale Internet video creation and distribution platform which, because it is based on open standards and open source software, will be available to everyone." | | | Democracy - Internet TV Platform - Free and Open Source |
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http://www.getdemocracy.com
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| | Copyright © 2006 by Center for Democracy and Technology. |
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