Media democracy

disagreement is essential to the vitality of democracy, while dissent is effectively its cancer. I agree with Boorstin’s distinction as it applies in a historical context because disagreement promoted the rights of the people, while dissent seriously endangered them. However, I do not believe his distinction holds entirely true in contemporary America because the federal government’s protection of people’s rights is too secure for dissent to significantly weaken democracy. During the sequence…

The Haitian government was one of the worst governments in history for several reasons which Impacted their ability to recover after the earthquake in 2010. The biggest reason that had the most impact on Haitian society (and still does today) was that the Haitian government was never properly ordered. The people were overtaxed, which made Haitian society poor and made Haiti the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Along with that the Haitians were unable to fix many of their problems such…

Different from Wang’s literati arguments, Yan Fu successfully offered his scientific explanation of the need of change. Yan Fu’s unique interests and standpoint is the advanced western thought of Darwin and Spence on Evolution of specie, “The idea is that people and things exist in profusion, surviving on what the natural environment provides, but when they encounter others, people and things struggle over the means of survival” (De Bary 646). For surviving, species need to compete with other…

Ancient Greek democracy and French democracy have some similarities, as well as some differences. On the one hand, both democracies have an Assembly, a Constitution and courts of law, although these factors may vary slightly between the two democracies. On the other hand, citizenship is not granted to the same people, the types of democracies are different, and warfare is handled differently. There is a considerable resemblance between Ancient Greek democracy and French democracy. In 510 BCE,…

In the 18th century, the British government was a complex system built upon laws and customs, and centered on the monarchy. While the monarchy was not as powerful and revered as it was in neighboring European countries, it certainly stood as a symbol of leadership for the nation and people. The fine line created between the relationship of the Crown and the people was vital to the balance of Britain’s political, social, and economical power and became increasingly more so with the rise of…

Foucault introduced “governmentality” in his study of the autonomous individual’s capacity for self-government in the context of the problematics of power. Defining government as “the conduct of conduct” and as a term ranging from “governing the self” to “governing others,” Foucault uses this notion of government in connection with the link between forms of power and processes of subjectification. Today, the world government possesses solely a political meaning. However, Foucault’s notion of…

government did not know how to manage their basic needs productions. This article explain how a socialism economic model is not that efficient is your government does not have the right people to administer it. Discussion: Venezuelan transition from democracy to a socialism have been the worst thing that could happened to the country. When the government started to implement their socialism system to the Venezuelan society, things started to get out of control. Privates companies begins to…

Voter Eligibility and Registration Voting, which could send a direct message to government about how citizens want to be governed, is at the heart of democracy. Among the thirty-one democracies, the U.S. has been experiencing a relatively low turnout in different levels of elections. The decrease in turnout, as discussed by many communication experts, could be in part attributed to voters’ apathy. Aside from voter attitudes, institutional barriers, such as difficulties of registering,…

Napoleon was a child of the Enlightenment. He favored the French Revolution and was a fiery Jacobin. The Jacobins drew their political thought from Enlightenment thinkers, most particularly from Rousseau. Rousseau blamed much evil in the world on the uneven distribution of property in his book, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. He also believed society was more important than its individual members believing that individuals alone could do very little, but through involvement in a larger…

Moreover, the conclusion of the ceremony was a speech delivered by a top Athenian citizen. Even though, Thucydides records the speech from Pericles in first person, there can be some uncertainty that he wrote every single thing Pericles. Thucydides himself says that the speeches are not exact, but are meant to symbolize the key thoughts of what was said. Pericles was perhaps one of the most important and powerful Greek statesman, speaker and general during the Peloponnesian war. Pericles'…