Democracy Index

voting laws designed in a way that inherently infringes on the rights of people, or is their purpose primarily to protect the integrity of the voting system? While this issue is controversial, the limits these laws place on some voters infringes on democracy and furthers…

Speaker’s Credibility is a strategy that use Trustworthiness to raise the reliability by arguing against self- interest, and working against your own interest makes people who know your ideas more persuaded. For instance, Donald Trump, a presidential candidate, suggest a tax policy that would tax individuals with 25 percent, 20 percent, 10 percent and zero. He also argues that this plan is against his self-interest since he will pay a more tax than before. One-sided appeal is another persuasion…

historians have suffered less from these dissenting views than from their own inability to make clear just what they mean by “democracy””. He profusely argued that despite what was being written and the consensus of the different parties, they were not experiencing any imputed backlash. It was implied that their viewpoints and writings were more like a fantasy of American democracy because one man could not change the way it was to be. However, every subsequent president and governing official…

Should incarceration mean the eradication of basic civil liberties granted to every citizen of the United States under the Constitution? That answer should obviously be no, however in the United States penitentiary system the deprivation of the legal right to vote, also known as disenfranchisement, is quite common. So much so that as of 2006 it was estimated that 5.3 million people were declared ineligible to vote as a result of their conviction, 1.7 million of which have already completed their…

Ratification Democracy is a complex idea in that it can be used to describe a form of government, a method of choosing a government, a way to judge the way a state exercises their political power, a political culture, or a term applied to a whole society. However, for this paper, democracy will not be viewed as an event or process but rather a journey, involving several transitional phases before it can reach maturity over a period of time. Democratizing states and established democracy…

1. The primary objective of this paper is not to comprehensively educate the reader on all facets of the cultural domains within South Africa, rather inform the reader about the various cultural domains that will be identified with regards to South Africa. The first cultural domain will be the highlighting of key historical moments that have influenced South Africa’s current historical standing. The Second cultural domain that will be addressed will be the different types’ of political and…

Drawing on Plato’s Republic, I will argue that Frank Underwood is a true tyrant due do his close relations with Thrasymachus and his definition of justice, and his relentless drive for power that takes advantage of the unnecessary appetites of the democracy and finally, I will conclude Frank Underwood is truly a tyrant because all his unlawful desires will only leave him in a state of…

to organize their people. The Athenians, Sparta, and later the Roman Republic are examples of early forms of democracy. There where many systems of government in history some being oligarchy, monarchy aristocracy, and many others with slight variations. Why and how did democracy grow to such popularity, and how has democracy changed since its creation. The exact date of when democracy was first used in society is unknown but historians estimate it is approximately 500 BC in Athens Greece.…

Well into the history of mankind, we see that there was a great power that a white man had many privileges over those of different race, religion, gender, and etc. A white male was most likely dealing with the laws being passed throughout the country and making decisions that gave them the upper hand in America. Most African Americans were targeted for being unable to vote and have the same rights as the whites when they spoke up about inequality they faced the whites did not clearly see the…

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and has had a difficult path to democracy characterized by the ongoing struggles between generations of family dictatorship and civil war. Sean M. Lynn-Jones, an editor for the Belfer Center Studies in Harvard university, defined contemporary democracy as having several common elements. First, democracies are countries in which there are institutional mechanisms that allow the people to choose their leaders. Second, prospective leaders…