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  2. Democracy promotion - Wikipedia

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    Democracy promotion, also referred to as democracy building, can be domestic policy to increase the quality of already existing democracy or a strand of foreign policy adopted by governments and international organizations that seek to support the spread of democracy as a system of government. In practice, it entails consolidating and building ...

  3. Democracy promotion by the United States - Wikipedia

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    Although American democracy promotion efforts in the MENA region take a more balanced top-down/bottom-up strategy than those of the European Union and engage in more politically sensitive areas such as state institution building, [77] some question the assumption that pushing for liberalizing reforms is a worthwhile endeavor given that regimes ...

  4. Civic engagement - Wikipedia

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    The four different ways include upgrading and providing e-services, making information more transparent, allowing e-democracy, and a service they call co-production. [39] E-services would allow digital technologies to improve the efficiency of urban services within a city.

  5. Political representation - Wikipedia

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    The descriptive and symbolic views of political representation describe the ways in which political representatives "stand for" the people they represent. [2] Descriptive representatives "stand for" to the extent that they resemble, in their descriptive characteristics (e.g. race , gender , class etc.), the people they represent. [ 5 ]

  6. Is social media good or bad for democracy? Your answer ... - AOL

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    The answer apparently depends on where you live. A report by Pew Research Center , a think-tank in Philadelphia, carries this headline: “ Majorities in Most Countries Surveyed Say Social Media ...

  7. Political positions of the Democratic Party (United States)

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    B) The United States must continue to push forward to promote democracy and freedom in other countries around the world because these efforts make our own country more secure. Democrats chose A over B by 65–32%; Republicans chose A over B by 56% to 39%; independents chose A over B by 67% to 29%.

  8. What's democracy's greatest threat? One historian has a ... - AOL

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    Nick Seabrook explains his new history, "One Person, One Vote," and the way gerrymandering stymies everything from gun reform to democracy itself.

  9. American nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Acknowledging the conception of the United States as accountable for spreading liberal change and promoting democracy throughout the world's politics and governance has defined practically all of American foreign policy. Therefore, democracy promotion is not just another measure of foreign policy, but it is instead the fundamental ...