Social democracy

why it is called a democracy (Document 3). Pericles was a wise and able statesman that led Athens during its golden age. He introduced direct democracy to Athens. In document 3, “As for social standing, advancement is open to everyone, according to ability...” Pericles describes democracy where everyone had an equal opportunity to advance and serve their country. However, everyone was also expected to participate in civic affairs regardless of their social position. Democracy has spread…

reflect and constitute the Athenian polis ? -Jentina Gregory Athens the “city hall of wisdom” is the place where the first seed of democracy was sown . The democratisation of Athens coincides with the flourishing of “Tragedy” as a major genre in Athens In this paper my point of focus is the relation between the “Greek Tragedy and Athenian Democracy” and to note how far these two are interdependent on each other . Greek Tragedies took its subject matter from real socio political…

Both The Federalist Papers and Democracy in America largely praise democracy, but they have their fair share of criticism reserved for democratic government as well. The issues of majority factions, persecution of dissenting opinions, and individualism are touched on in one or both works as examples of flaws in democracy. The primary threat to democracy, as James Madison articulated in Federalist #10, is the influence of factions on political life. The existence of competing factions can lead…

the theories say that democracy can be achieved when the appropriate conditions are present; while other theories suggest that democracy has to be achieved organically by the society itself. The modernization theory, “traces democracy to broad…

I. Southeast Asian countries, due to their historical and social complexity, continue to deviate from widely held political theories. In this paper, I will employ the work of Alexis De Tocqueville and Robert Putnam to show how the Philippines and Thailand prove to be enigmatic in that regard. I argue that we see a largely active civil society but low democratization in Thailand and the Philippines owing to their authoritarian histories and lack of democratic institutionalization. I chose to…

Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl argue that democracy requires rights and civil liberties for citizens beyond election time. In other words, Schmitter and Karl define democracy through a procedural concept in which they focus on minimum standards and procedures that allow countries to be considered democracies (Dickovick and Eastwood, 2016, p. 91). On the other hand, Seymour Martin Lipset is a proponent of the theory of modernization and argues that democracy is the result of economic modernization…

Democratic Party, though how democratic was he? To be democratic means one's support of democracy, which is defined as rule by the people directly or indirectly by elected representatives. Andrew Jackson promoted democratic social/election and banking policies, but his Indian removal policies were on the other hand quite undemocratic. Jackson strongly believed in people’s rights for involvement in government, this social/election policy was democratic because it increased the power of many…

In his work, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville details his experience with the curious case of American democracy. Unlike most other nations that embrace the system, the United States developed it almost naturally and without much strife. There was a certain equality of conditions present about those in the New World; no one was automatically set above anyone else in social stature. All arrived to start anew, and were, with the exception of the relatively few Southern plantation owners…

United States is a democracy which means, it is a system of government where members ruled directly. Democracy is important to the U.S because this form of government provides freedom to its citizens. This form of government encourages political parties and interest groups to help with the policymaking process. A political party is a group of political people who operate the government with elections and determine public policy. Public policy is unwritten principles in regards to social issues.…

democratization in the late 20th century, there has been a number of democratic regimes which have experienced at least some degree of authoritarian backsliding (the decline of democracy). While research has focused on economic and institutional factors contributing to authoritarian backsliding, little research has focused on the social factors such as ethnic diversity. Ethnic diversity can be measured by the percent of citizens in a country that are not a member of the majority ethnic group.…