Direct democracy

Analysis Paper #2 After reviewing the background of The Voting Rights Act (VRC) of 1965 from the case files from www.nytimes.com, I will brief discuss the purpose of it. According to the required reading of the New York Times, “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was encated to address entrenched racial discrimination in voting.” Voting was never considered equal when it came to women or people of color. In our history, many states never allowed those two groups to vote. However, they wanted…

but how far does that value extend? Roberts-Miller writes a detailed article discussing democracy’s intricacies and how demagoguery holds an immense impact on democracy. She begins by claiming that an effective democracy requires its constituents to engage in thorough and intelligent deliberation and discussion of the problems in that democracy, thus creating possible pathways towards solutions (Roberts-Miller 459). Behind this claim is her premise that her readers reside in a democratic…

There are many differing views about democracy, but “currently, there are three prominent streams within pragmatic political philosophy: Deweyan democratic perfectionism, Rortyan ironism, and pragmatist epistemic deliberativism” (Talise 2014 123) that provide for the conception of liberal democracy and its implementation. Though each of these philosophical explanations offer their own unique conception of democracy along with how to fulfill democracy’s enactment, pragmatist epistemic…

comparative politics to gain a greater understanding of the world and how the giants that came before us laid the foundation for the field of study. So in relation to understanding the factors that determine whose preferences are represented in Democracy, we turn to these authors to highlight the critical – and often dissenting – opinions on interest representation. To be clear, I will argue particularly that Elite power theory as first posited by C. Wright Mills…

On November 9, 2016 many United States citizens woke up to the shocking news that their next president would be Donald Trump, someone that countless people thought was a complete and utter joke of a candidate until he actually did the unthinkable and won. Soon after the election, many of the large polling services that predicted the incorrect outcome were quick to point to the obvious increase in turnout from the rural sections of America, specifically the Rust Belt states Michigan, Wisconsin,…

During the nineteenth century there were two concepts of governmental belief, Liberalism and Conservatism. Both concepts displayed beliefs as to how a country should be run. Liberalism though specifically is a political philosophy emphasizing on the economic liberty of the individual as opposed to utilitarianism. This political group expresses several ideas in regards to freedom of speech, equal opportunity, how powerful the government should be, market economies, as well as free trade.…

states should involve themselves in other sovereign states(United Nations) in order to pursue liberal objectives”.This policy went hand in hand and made it clear that it was now the united states turn to promote both a free market and a political democracy, which Wilson later did as he entered the Great War to give opportunities to promote his goals. On April 2 , 1917 ,President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany, As he promised in his speech he wanted to, a new world that…

is a system of government in which voting is knowledge-based. The way democracy in America works is that a campaigning politician will reach for a center audience in order to appeal to the common people while really having plans for the left or right. More often than not, the common people are not as educated on the important topics at hand. Many voters are ignorant, uneducated, or misinformed. Epistocracy is a form of democracy but instead there is a test that determines if someone’s vote…

When this biased districting was found, the court decided to redo the redistricting and shift part of one district to the other so that there would be equal representation of each party (Supreme Court Justices). Although redistricting based on party affiliation is important, it is not always the main cause. “While partisan gerrymanders have been accepted by the courts, racial ones have not. The Voting Rights Act requires map makers to consider race to a point” (Supreme Court Justices). Race…

centuries, the United States has led the western world as an beacon of democracy, allowing the people to rule themselves as they please. Our concepts of democracy are based on the simple definition of “rule by the people.” There are many definitions of democracy, yet they still center around this basic concept. In James Danziger and Charles Smith’s Understanding the Political World, they set the basic conditions for a democracy: “governance by leaders whose authority is based on a limited…