Category: Democracy

Democracy means a rule by the people and its evolution of Greek government evolved as a direct opposite from the dictatorship form they hated. Therefore, democracy has developed in a setting where people feel oppressed and generally being dictated upon or where unfair means are perceived to exist or a combination of more than one…

Politics is an essential part of nowadays life. Politics are obligations of a state in regard to society and personality. Politics is, first of all, power and the ability to govern the state and its citizens. There are a lot of different types of political modes, but the main of them are democracy, authoritarianism, and…

The legislative branch of the United States government is Congress, a bicameral house that comprises the House of Representatives and Senate. Its primary mandate is to enact laws and provide oversight to federal and state agencies, the army, and other public institutions. As a representative democracy, Congress is a mix of diverse ideologies, competing interests,…

Conceived in lectures, seminars, and discussions with students, Robert Dahl’s Democracy and its critics is addressed to a broad readership. In this work, the author now crosses the bridge between applied political science and political philosophy. Accordingly, the theoretical context of the study has also become broader, including not only modern nation-states but also the…

Introduction In the contemporary world, representative democracy is believed to be an elementary principal. In fact, the ideal of democracy in Europe, for instance, is based on the representative democracy. The model of democracy is designed in line with reverence to human civil liberties and the tenets of a bylaw. In essence, the European Council…

Lipset and Rokkan argued that Western European party systems had enjoyed relative stability since competitive electoral politics was incepted. However, modern scholars claim that party systems that were established after 1978 have been characterized by a lot of volatility, and stability is almost absent. Lipset and Rokkan (1976) had argued that party systems have an…

Table of Contents Introduction Practical Application of Democracy United States as a Democratic Country United States as an Undemocratic Country Recommendations Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Democracy refers to a system of governance where citizens play a significant role in making decisions on how they are to be governed (Sullivan 19). Citizens exercise their rights by…

Introduction There exist numerous types of democracies and each of them has its own peculiarities. The scholars managed to work out concrete distinctions between two of these types, namely majoritarian and consensus democracy. The majoritarian and consensus models of democracy are absolutely opposite to each other with their main differences being party system, the presence/absence…

Democracy is supposed to be maintained by citizens who communicate with their government to make society better. Judging by the political engagement and political knowledge of the American people, they seem to be democratically active and healthy. Every day I can see ideas people spread through social media, mostly Instagram today, encouraging to change their…

Table of Contents Abstract How Wealth Inequality Affects Democracy in America Method Review of Literature Discussion References Abstract Democracy has always been associated with social inclusion and a closing gap between the rich and the poor. However, theory and reality change in the historical perspective – so does the situation with inequality. Undoubtedly, a deeper…