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  2. Politics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    [41] [42] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices the United States were 2023 the 27th most electoral democratic country and 3rd most participatory democracy in the world. [43] In foreign affairs, the United States generally pursued a noninterventionist policy of "avoiding foreign entanglements" before World War II.

  3. Democracy in Marxism - Wikipedia

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    [35]: 61 In his view, mass democracy was crucial, but could be guaranteed only to the revolutionary classes. [35]: 61–62 In the concept of New Democracy, the working class and the communist party are the dominant part of a coalition which includes progressive intellectuals and bourgeois patriotic democrats. [36]

  4. U.S. policy toward authoritarian governments - Wikipedia

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    The essence of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine is the use of selective methods to advance democracy and contain the wave of communism. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] David Vine believe locating military bases in repressive nations is critical to deterring "bad actors" and advancing U.S. interests. [ 9 ]

  5. Political ideologies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [202] [203] Democracy in both the United States and European countries are threatened by rising anti-establishmentism and the resulting extremism and polarization. The two-party system and Congressional gridlock make the United States more susceptible to polarization than countries with other systems, though this structure also prevents ...

  6. Communism - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, communism is widely used as a pejorative term as part of a Red Scare, much like socialism, and mainly in reference to authoritarian socialism and Communist states. The emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally Communist state led to the term's widespread association with Marxism–Leninism and the Soviet ...

  7. United States involvement in regime change - Wikipedia

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    Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.

  8. Democracy promotion by the United States - Wikipedia

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    Noam Chomsky argues that "U.S. democratic rhetoric and undemocratic substance have a long history," [104] and the United States only supports democracy "if and only if it conforms to U.S. economic and strategic objectives." [105] Such power dynamics associated with democracy discourse can be influential.

  9. Communist Control Act of 1954 - Wikipedia

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    The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in or support for the party or "Communist-action" organizations and defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities ...