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The inability of governments around the world to successfully deal with corruption is causing a global crisis of democracy. [31] 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 ...
Criticism of the United States government encompasses a wide range of sentiments about the actions and policies of the United States. Historically, domestic and international criticism of the United States has been driven by its embracement of classical economics, manifest destiny, hemispheric exclusion and exploitation of the Global South, military intervention, and alleged practice of ...
A 1912 newspaper cartoon highlighting the United States' influence in Latin America following the Monroe Doctrine. Americentrism, also known as American-centrism [1] or US-centrism, is a tendency to assume the culture of the United States is more important than those of other countries or to judge foreign cultures based on American cultural standards.
The survey comes at the end of a campaign where both sides have said the other is bad for democracy. The survey included 2,516 voters nationally and was conducted from Oct. 20 to 23. The margin of ...
For the first time, two countries displaced North Korea as the lowest-ranked states in the Democracy Index – in Myanmar, the elected government was overthrown in a military coup, and protests were suppressed by the junta, which ultimately resulted in its score going down by 2.02 points; Afghanistan, as a result of the 2021 Taliban offensive ...
How Democratic is the American Constitution? is a 2001 book by political scientist Robert A. Dahl that discusses seven "undemocratic" elements of the United States Constitution. The book defines "democratic" as alignment with the principle of one person, one vote , also known as majority rule .
A long view over the arc of history shows that most democracies fail, says a former State Department advisor.
Current U.S. law requires that the Chinese social media app TikTok be shut down or sold to an American buyer — something Trump in his first term wanted to accomplish by executive order.