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Aristotle's Politics points out the same dilemma but proposes a different solution: instead of 'reducing democracy', he suggests to reduce inequalities with what we nowadays call a welfare state. The United States has seen an ongoing clash between pressure for more freedom and democracy (coming from below) and elite control (coming from above).
Democracy in America (1835–1840) Notes on Democracy (1926) I'll Take My Stand (1930) Our Enemy, the State (1935) The Managerial Revolution (1941) Ideas Have Consequences (1948) God and Man at Yale (1951) The Conservative Mind (1953) The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) A Choice Not an Echo (1964) Losing Ground (1984) A Conflict of Visions ...
The Jan. 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the larger effort to overturn the results of the election, have brought new attention to the larger need for political reform — fixing the ...
"Consumers, investors, executives and other employees all have a right to advance their interest in a democracy" (p. 223), but individually, not through anthropomorphic entities. A clear separation of business and politics will not be easy because "the largest impediment to reform is one brazen fact: Many politicians and lobbyists want to ...
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is a 2010 book by political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson.
Just 34% of survey respondents from the U.S. said they think social media is good for democracy in the country.
(The Center Square) – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is spearheading a new initiative called Governors Safeguarding Democracy alongside Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. GSD brands itself as a nonpartisan ...
Dewey argues that democracy is a way of life and an experience built on faith in human nature, faith in human beings, and faith in working with others. [2] Democracy, in Dewey's view, is a moral ideal requiring actual effort and work by people; it is not an institutional concept that exists outside of ourselves. "The task of democracy", Dewey ...