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He maintains that democracy rhetoric is also employed according to American-defined categories such as promoting economic liberalization, citing a 1989 USAID report's calls for political decentralization and encouraging "democracy and pluralism" as a means of empowering rural landlords who would support free market economy at the expense of ...
If Chomsky and Herman's comparison of Soviet and American spheres of influence were to be even remotely fair from an analytical standpoint, they would have to base it on (a) the United States and the other Western industrial democracies versus the Soviet Union and its Eastern European Communist allies, or (b) the United States, the other ...
In it the authors argue that contrary to conventional wisdom, the dramatic increase in inequality of income in the United States since 1978—the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while the income of the lower earning 80% grew only 20% [1] —is not the natural/inevitable result of increased competition from globalization, but of the work ...
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates is a non-fiction book detailing the similarities between economics and piracy.Author Peter T. Leeson (born July 29, 1979), shows in this book how pirates instigated democratic practices for their mutual profit, ideas which preceded the methods of society in the 16th century.
Theodemocracy is a theocratic political system proposed by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.According to Smith, a theodemocracy is a fusion of traditional republican democratic principles under the US Constitution with theocratic rule.
In the United States the majority governs in the name of the people, as is the case in all the countries in which the people is supreme. Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph. Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces.
Tariffs in United States history; Protectionism in the United States; Friedrich List, German-American economist; Import substitution industrialization, a key feature of the American System adopted in much of the Third World during the twentieth century; Lincoln's expansion of the federal government's economic role
Rummel states that "By democracy is meant liberal democracy, where those who hold power are elected in competitive elections with a secret ballot and wide franchise (loosely understood as including at least 2/3 of adult males); where there is freedom of speech, religion, and organization; and a constitutional framework of law to which the ...