Democracy Index

I think that there is a big difference between being a farmer and being a president. However, these jobs are both important in modern life. President’s life isn’t as easy as many people think. Of course, a president can’t make decisions on his own, his team always helps him, but he still feels pressure. He is responsible for the whole country, and it’s really hard to satisfy each citizen. Moreover, a president needs to travel around the world very often to negotiate or visit important meetings.…

Patrick Porter argues that the timing is right, based on four distinct trends, for policy leaders to examine the benefits and dilemmas of an alternate grand strategy. He proposes ideas for a new strategy that encourages varying levels of retrenchment and a willing acceptance of multipolarity. One of the trends, hegemony fatigue held by Americans, deserves further context by introducing additional political dilemmas. Appearing to abdicate American leadership under an increasingly polarized…

In this article, Gary Remer (2000) explains the idea that during the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the speaking was done in more of an oratory way than in a conversational way. The government wanted the deliberation to be more conversational between the representatives from the states, making them believe they had a say in decisions. The ratification of the Constitution was more told, than making a decision inn a conversational method among the representatives. The…

America’s Gift To My Generation We can all justify that we as citizens are “free” but are you sure we are really free citizens I mean sure everyone can prove a thing or two that shows that there is freedom, but no one really knows what freedom is we just think what the government tells us,to go with it. If we are really “free” then why don’t we all have equal rights I mean it’s just common sense. People aren’t seeing it and it’s affecting the way we live not just here in America, but all around…

Should the voting age be lowered to 16? As the 2016 Presidential Election debate season comes to a close, many teens have been more involved than ever in their political views. Many leaders in today's government believe that the youth have a unique perspective and they’ll never have those experiences again. Another idea often thought of is that if we let uneducated adults vote, why not let smart youth vote. Overall, many leaders in today's government want to lower the voting age in order to…

I know far too well the dangers of being surrounded by people who agree with me. In general, my life is based within one small bubble, which is my school. My current high school is incredibly small with only about 490 students in both middle and upper school. My graduating class is one of the largest in recent years and we only have around 69 people. My school has a reputation for being more “liberal” than the other private schools in the city. The majority of people at my school don't have…

Preliminary Relationships Relationship between educational levels, age and voting in the last federal election Relationship between voting in the last federal election and interest in politics Factors that have an influence on voting in the last federal election: Age, Highest education level, Interest in politics, Source of media to follow the news and current affairs + Frequency to follow the news and current affairs, Participation in political activities + Frequency of participation,…

Both Han Feizi and Confucius did not hold an important government position. Kongzi believes that if someone is a filial son and a good brother, then he is already taking part in government position so there is no need to speak of participating in government. Han Feizi did not hold an important position in the government of his state due to the fact that he was a stutterer who could not speak his own counsel. Differences: The Ruler ” On the hypothetical level, Confucians and Legalists…

people, compulsory voting is not freedom it's not intrinsic, it does not fit in democracy, the right of the people. After examining these sources there are many reasons voting should not be required by law. First, one of the many reasons that compulsory voting should not be enforced is that compulsory voting is not associated with freedom. It simply does not give freedom to the people…

Thus, they not only protect freedom of assembly as a basic right, they made a special point- in the First Amendment- of protecting the printing press.” (5) The Founder Fathers wanted a representative democracy like the one that the Romans and the ancient Greeks had. A democracy where people had a chance to choose their laws and they had the right of a total freedom of speech. As television being the new way of news media people don’t have the right to say something or the corporations…