Illiberal democracy

Democracy and violent civil conflict Violent civil conflict has been attributed to many reasons and there are indeed a web of factors that make violent conflict an issue from economic inequality to employment to deep rooted ethnic rivalry. The literature is indeed very rich. However while there are causes there are also factors that create a conducive environment for violent conflict and one area is the system of government. Systems of government present a classification through which we could assess

Is there a relationship between democracy and making the world a more peaceful place? With the increase in the number of democracies post Cold War, this contemporary question is one, which many scholars of International Relations aim to answer. Whilst many scholars may argue that spreading democracy will make the world a more peaceful place, as claimed with the democratic peace theory, it is necessary to look at factors other than democracy that lead to world peace. By understanding factors such

In the article “Democracy in Decline: How Washington Can Reverse the Tide,” the author, Larry Diamond, details the declination of democracy across the world as a global issue. Diamond explains that, following the Cold War, democracy became vibrant across the world. However, it slowly began to decline, which was seen in Kenya, Russia, Thailand, and Turkey. Additionally, other non-democratic states, particularly authoritarian regimes, are drifting further away from democracy, becoming less responsive

In the article Fareed wrote he defines democracy as simply a government with free and fair elections. It is in essence rule of the majority, so if the majority is filled with ill intent then that is the direction of the government. Basically an unfiltered voice for the masses; and it is not suitable by itself. Liberal Democracy is described as what people think of today when they here of Democracy; it is a government with a system of values/rights built in to protect the people from themselves. It

Issues of time and speed are central to Unger’s proposed re-organization of political institutions in Democracy Realized. In basic terms, Unger wants to accelerate politics so that lawmaking can keep up with the now rapid speed of economic and cultural life. For Unger, slow political time, in the form of traditional constitutional governance, is a conservative impediment to progress and a recipe for low political participation. Progressivism requires institutional innovation to become more responsive

text called “Clash of Civilizations” (Huntigton, Clash of Civilizations). Main Idea Fukuyama implies that human history must be analysed as a confrontation between ideologies, which will come to an end with the “Universalization of Western Liberal Democracy” (Fukuyama, End of History, 3-18) after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Paper Over time the democracy in the United States has changed a lot. On 1796, democracy was first ratified when George Washington published his farewell address, marking one of the first peaceful transfers of power in american history and cementing the country’s status as a stable, democratic state. I will be talking about the different types of democracy in the United States, how democracy has changed for the United States, and even go into detail about how democracy can benefit a country has

was that democratic states tend not to fight other democratic states. This theory has been associated largely with writings of Michael Doyle and Bruce Russet. Early authors like Immanuel Kant also foreshadowed the theory of peace between liberal democracies in his essay “Perpetual Peace” written in 1795. The idea that

higher than liberal ones or the relation between non-liberals. Additionally, it does not take into consideration that “non-democracies are just as capable of establishing peace both amongst themselves and also with democracies” (Tziarras, 2012). Another flaw identified by many critics to the theory is that there is no sufficient statistical evidence to demonstrate that democracies never, or hardly ever, go to war among

two democratic countries have ever been to war, if we are talking about ‘war’ in the sense of military action (Griffiths et al., 2008). For example, ‘353 pairs of states engaged in wars between 1816-1991 and none was between two democracies: 155 pairs involved a democracy and a non-democratic country, and 198 involved two non-democratic states fighting each other’ (Griffiths et al., 2008). A reason for why democratic peace theorists stress that democratic states fight with only non-democratic states