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de·moc·ra·cy
/ diˈmäkrəsē/
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n.
(pl. -cies)
a system of government by the whole population or all eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
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a state governed in such a way.
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control of an organization or group by the majority of its members:
industrial democracy.
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the practice or principles of social equality.
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DEMOCRACY REMAINS ELUSIVE IN MIDDLE EAST
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 3/3/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...removed, Iraq was to be made into a democracy that would serve as a model for the entire...is that we seem far away from creating democracy in Iraq. Perhaps one of the problems with instituting democracy in Iraq is that the very familiar idea...
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Democracy & Hypocrisy.(Christian-Muslim relations)
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat News Service; 4/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...which championed the idea that Islam and democracy were compatible. Bukay claimed that...the Islamist claim that parliamentary democracy and representative elections are not...but that Islam actually encourages democracy. They do this in one of two ways: either...
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Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia: The Winds of Change.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...The ideology of the Asian democracy is an intellectually and serious...challenge to Western liberal democracy because it appears at first...case for so-called Asian democracies. The former revolve around...the very notion of an Asian democracy seen as a contradiction in...
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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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Democracy Promotion Reconsidered.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 5/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...beneficial effects of democracy on security. They...studies that show that democracies rarely go to war with...show is that liberal democracies almost never go to...important, liberal democracy is more than "electocracy...Authority. And illiberal democracies have fought each other...
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Democracy Ltd.
Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; If the word "democracy"--repeated over and over in the...start examining work by In the Name of Democracy, the newly formed activist research...happening here and to prevent the idea of democracy from being hijacked by people who have...
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Democracy or Bust?
Magazine article from: Harvard International Review; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...happened in the 20th century is democracy." Yet today, for many developing...and Asia, the value of democracy is not quite this self-evident...Getting Results Yet critics of democracy say that in the area of economic...superior because, unlike democracies, they are not beset by constantly...
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Democracy on-line.
Magazine article from: The Futurist; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...only the beginning of an Information Age democracy Over the last 200 years, new information...transformed the possibilities and practice of democracy. For example, the early-nineteenth...system of government. Problems with Democracy Today, it is hard to imagine that such...
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Democracy, globalization, and the problem of the state.
Magazine article from: Polity; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...imminent and serious threat to democracy is widespread. Impressionistic...citizens of the Western democracies nonetheless feel themselves...that globalization threatens democracy is widely shared, it has...some prominent scholars of democracy to suggest that political...
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Democracy essential to achieving fundamental goals of peace, human rights, Development, says Secretary-General on international day.
M2 Presswire; 9/16/2008; 700+ words
; ...International Day of Democracy. Let me thank...New and Restored Democracies, and its chair...the Community of Democracies, whose chair...us. Supporting democracy is a central mission...and again, that democracy is essential to...Consolidated democracies do not go to war...
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 "The Independent (Bangladesh)")
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Democracy, governance and development, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh); 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...arguments in favour of democracy as being conducive...evidence, is that democracies rarely go to war against...not think Iraq is a democracy). The other, which...up' problem while democracies permit catharsis - the apparent chaos of democracy in fact serves as a...
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democracy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...tested. Contemporary democracies are all very different...one of representative democracy. Here, citizens elect...been suspicious of democracy as a dangerous and...origins of popular democracy in the French Revolution...view. In the modern democracies there is little consensus...
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Democracy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY. In the simplest sense, democracy is rule by the ruled. In a democratic political system, government power is legitimized by the consent of the governed. Consent is expressed in a variety of forms, including annual election...
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Democracy in America
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, by Alexis de Tocqueville. The most influential study of the United States ever written, Democracy in America owes its enduring significance to the complexity of...
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Democracy, Representative and Participatory
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Democracy, Representative and Participatory Democracy was born in the Western world in the form of participatory democracy, making the term participatory democracy redundant. The word participatory discloses the core meaning of popular sovereignty...
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Research, Democracy
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...now believe the reasons for democracy ’ s emergence are...decisive argue that third-wave democracies are fragile because democratic...privilege. Some fear that fragile democracies can be overloaded with citizen...participation is essential in democracy, and see i
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