Illiberal democracy

Social Media, A Threat to American Democracy? Social media is a large threat to 21st century American democracy. Social media has become a very dangerous need in today’s society. “To many, it appeared as if social media was eating away at the very foundations of our democracies” (Kossow, 2). Social media, especially nowadays, is very threatening and dangerous for society in many scary ways. People of all ages, men and women are very influenced by social media and have more than one source of social

President Assad was given an outstanding western education, receiving a degree for ophthalmology from a London-based medical school. Naturally there was hope that since Assad had spent time in one of the most consolidated democracies, he might have been more willing to implement democratic measures in Syria than his father. Assad’s rise to power was actually through a series of rather lucky events for him. Originally his older brother was selected as his father’s heir but an

From being ruled by an authoritative government, Indonesia now has become a model for democracy in Asia. Over the years, Indonesia has slowly made the transition to democracy. Its new presidential election is clear evidence of this transition because the Indonesians chose to elect a common man to be the president: an official who they thought would understand their struggles. Within 15 years, Indonesia has transitioned from a bureaucratic-authoritarian regime to a formal presidentialism. The newly

I affirm Resolved: The United States ought to promote democracy in the Middle East Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, and is one with representative institutions and a rule of law. Observation 1: when we talk about promoting democracy, there are many ways to carry out this promotion. The United States is not obligated to take one course of action. Rather, the US can alter and adjust its approach to what is most suitable for that

Carey et. al’s "Report from the Field: Two Surveys of Political Scientists.": Alarming results Carey et al’s “Report,” alarmed me for two reasons: the lack of importance attached to women’s representation by the American Political Science Association’s members and the lack of country knowledge or experience of the electoral reform consultants. The first, I will rationalize out as realistic, even if I disagree at a fundamental level; and the second, I will criticize as a problem that should be addressed

that I think has created the most success for the government and its people is democracy. The definition of democracy is a “political system of mass participation, competitive elections, and human and civil rights (Roskin 88).” This is the clear definition of democracy, but there are many different forms for example there is a representative democracy and illiberal democracy. These follow the same guideline of democracy, but have there own individual definition. Unfortunately, there is no perfect

trials promote democracy within their state and in the whole world. There are various ways through which there are developments of democracy by different administrations of the United States. The approaches to democratic promotion range from realism, liberalism and constructivism (Carothers, 55). Realism is seen to offer democracy from a perspective of both a classical and structural realism (Monten, 112-156). Democracy promotion through realism may be viewed as a situation when democracy may reduce

the makers of public policy in free, competitive election. 2. Procedural Democracy: Countries with free and fair elections for the real policymakers and eligibility of all adults meet the minimum requirements for this. 3. Substantive Democracy: Procedural democracy + more political rights and civil liberties 4. Democratization: the transformation from a nondemocratic regime to a procedural democracy to a substantive democracy. Either as the first government in a newly independent country or by replacing

First of all, Friedrich and Brzezinski (1965) distinguish between traditional autocracy and ancient tyranny, and in the other hand, totalitarian dictatorship. In their view, totalitarian regimes exemplified by communist and fascist dictatorships are qualitatively different from traditional autocracy in that they harness modern means of communication and a mass party in systematic effort to exert control over the subject population, primarily for ideological purposes. In all autocratic regimes, the

Duality as Vitality: Israel’s Democratic and Jewish Identity Israel is both a Jewish and Democratic state. The skeleton of the state is that of a binary philosophy: a dual identity which on the one hand is a democracy and also a Jewish state. A democracy is a state which respects the inalienable rights, such as freedom of expression and suffrage, and intrinsic dignity of every human being. A Jewish state is a state with a core Jewish cultural and national identity, which respects equality of religion