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2. History of democracy - Wikipedia

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   A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power. [2] Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities of their citizens that differentiate them fundamentally from earlier forms of government: to intervene in society and have their sovereign (e.g., their representatives) held ...

3. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy - Wikipedia

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   Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.. The work studied the roots of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in different societies, looking especially at the ways in which industrialization and the pre-existing agrarian regimes interacted to produce those different political outcomes.

4. The Revolt of the Elites - Wikipedia

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   The de-nationalization of society tends to produce a class who see themselves as "world citizens, but without accepting… any of the obligations that citizenship in a polity normally implies". Their ties to an international culture of work, leisure, information – make many of them deeply indifferent to the prospect of national decline.

5. Democratization - Wikipedia

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   The three waves of democracy identified by Samuel P. Huntington. A wave of democratization refers to a major surge of democracy in history. And Samuel P. Huntington identified three waves of democratization that have taken place in history. [6] The first one brought democracy to Western Europe and Northern America in the 19th century.

6. Democracy: An American Novel - Wikipedia

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   Democracy: An American Novel is a political novel written by Henry Brooks Adams and published anonymously in 1880.Only after the writer's death in 1918 did his publisher reveal Adams's authorship although, upon publication, the novel had immediately become popular.

7. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy - Wikipedia

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   Gunitsky stated that the book "accomplishes" its argument on how democracy developed on the continent, "usefully critiques explanations that emphasize economic development or the role of the working class" and "is an exemplary case of a deeply researched controlled comparison, one that performs the valuable service of offering paths to more questions."

8. Democracy - Wikipedia

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   Cosmopolitan democracy, also known as global democracy or world federalism, is a political system in which democracy is implemented on a global scale, either directly or through representatives. An important justification for this kind of system is that the decisions made in national or regional democracies often affect people outside the ...

9. Criticism of democracy - Wikipedia

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   The inability of governments around the world to successfully deal with corruption is causing a global crisis of democracy. [34] Whilst countries that have high levels of democracy tend to have low levels of different forms of corruption, it is also clear that countries with moderate levels of democracy have high corruption, as well as ...