Totalitarian democracy

Introduction For many years, the U.S has been known to be a country that thrives on democracy. In other words, the U.S most closely resembles a democratic regime. However, many now believe this to be false. The U.S is now being viewed an authoritarian regime. The U.S. still possesses democratic ideals. It does not possess any aspect of an authoritarian regime. Democratic Regimes Regimes are much more complex than states and governments. Regimes are often perceived in a negative way. When one…

a written Constitution. Parliamentary Democracy- democratic form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties) with the greatest representation in the parliament(legislature) forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor. Presidential Democracy- a system of government where a head of government is also head of state and leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch. Constitutional Democracy- government under law in which…

autocratic is for power. Most governments want complete and total control because it benefits them. An oligarchy is when a few rules over many, an aristocracy has to do with class ranking, having high society making decisions for the people, and totalitarian is having the government have total control and dictation over the people. Countries that use autocratic governments presume that people are not very intelligent and astute to make the best decisions for the country. Those governments like…

Perhaps what makes the United States identifiable as “the land of the free” is its system of democracy. The Constitution and an enumerated Bill of Rights that our founding fathers created give citizens the ability to do and say pretty much anything acceptable within the law as long as they do not infringe on another individual’s rights. The Constitution provides an outline for the government as well as a way for citizens to elect the president through the electoral system. However, results over…

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…

Democracy was founded by the Greeks in 507 B.C. In Greek democracy means “power of the people” and today that meaning still stands. In America people are the ones who have the power to change things, not the president or anyone else who holds a high title. With democracy everyone has a voice and an opinion to share. When the people vote it gives them the power that they have craved. Everyone votes for who they want to lead their country to success. Voting and elections has a positive impact on…

de Tocqueville and “Democracy in America” In the last century, we have seen democracy become the dominant form of government around the world. Even governments that our totalitarian and undemocratic by nature, like the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, still want to refer to themselves as democracies. This state of affairs would seem to confirm Alexis de Tocqueville’s perdition about the spread of democracy. Writing in the early 19th century, He could see the democracy would eventually…

nationalism. They promised adherence to an autocratic leader. Both structures were controlled by autocrats who permitted only their political party. Individual rights were not given to the citizens. The government was unparalleled. There was no democracy. Fascists did not have a classless society, which the communists did. They thought that each social division had its position and job. Fascists were nationalists, while the Communists were internationalists, aspiring to join workers globally.…

loved God and nature and that all his acts were motivated by honesty and patriotism for his country. By saying so, Nicholas not only tries to justify his acts but also proves that his acts were legitimate and concordant with the ideology of the totalitarian government. There is much truth in Michael Billington's…

According to Robert Dahl, there are seven minimum requirements to determine if a country is democratic. These specific procedural norms must be followed in order for democracy to thrive, and although these procedures alone do not define democracy, they are necessary for its presence and continuance. Schmitter wonders if officials elected constitutionally are able to exercise power without being restrained by unelected people. Dahl sets the first criteria that, “[c]ontrol over the government…