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As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an area of the world vital to American interests [1] yet generally entrenched in non-democratic, authoritarian rule, [2] [3] it has been the subject of increasing interest on the part of the American government and democracy promoters, particularly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 ...
In their 2022 book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, Gorski and co-author Samuel Perry, a professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote that white Christian nationalists share a set of common anti-democratic beliefs and principles that "add up to a political vision that ...
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Reader lauds Mike Murphy and Todd Young as examples of how democracy can work. Others have questions for Senate candidate and Supreme Court concerns.
Democracy: government answerable to citizens, who may change who represents them through elections. Equality before the law: laws that attach no special privilege to any citizen and hold government officials subject just as any other person. [34] Freedom of religion: government that neither supports nor suppresses any or all religion.
Musk, the world's richest person, and a cadre of aides have laid off more than 10,000 workers and dismantled programs throughout the U.S. government, from the Department of Education to the ...
Guided democracy, also called directed democracy [118] and managed democracy, [119] [120] is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some cases, as an autocratic government. [121] Such hybrid regimes are legitimized by elections, but do not change the state's policies, motives, and goals ...
This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and the threats it faces.