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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 ...
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.
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.
The Dark Side of Democracy; Democracy and Its Critics; Democracy in America; The Democracy Project; Democracy Realized; Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom; Democracy: The God That Failed; Deterring Democracy; The Dictator's Handbook; Disloyal: A Memoir; Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide; The Disruption of American Democracy
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.
Susie Coughlin was concerned when her daughter struggled with reading skills at her public school.. The mom of two was disappointed her district didn't teach phonics as part of its literacy program.
They have characterized most modern democracies as democratic polyarchies [3] and democratic aristocracies; [4] they have identified fascist moments in modern democracies; they have termed the societies produced by modern democracies as neo-feudal; [5] and they have contrasted democracy with fascism, anarcho-capitalism, theocracy, and absolute ...
WAKEFIELD, N.H. - Four people were found dead on Christmas Day in Wakefield, New Hampshire from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said. State Fire Marshal Sean Toomey said police ...