Children need to learn how to participate in a democracyMortimore, Peter
How are laws and decisions made in a constitutional monarchy? How do citizens participate in a representative democracy? What is a constitutional republic? How does it work? Is democracy the same as divine right of kings? Explain what distinguishes a constitutional democracy from a direct...
(1) Of greater importance is that in all democratic regimes the principal officers of government are chosen through competitive elections in which the bulk of the population can participate. Democratic systems thus have a common institutional core that establishes their identity. Authoritarian regimes--...
we know that democracy has an AI problem. But we’re learning that AI has a democracy problem, too. Both challenges must be addressed for the sake of democratic governance and public protection.
How did democracy change or evolve from Solon to Pericles? How does Thucydides describe democracy? How were poor people able to participate in Athenian democracy? How did Greek philosophers contribute to democracy? How are Pericles and direct democracy related?
Because in democracy, participation is crucial. The key is to stimulate their interest in participating," she said. "Only by making actual improvements can we call for more participation and nurture a sense of belonging." "Residents have the right to be informed, to participate and to vote fr...
Those questions lead to ones about the limits of democracy. All democracies have boundaries limiting what the majority can decide. We all have rights: the things that cannot be taken away from us. We cannot vote to put someone in jail, for example. ...
“Cleisthenes, I think probably partly for his own personal self-promotion, put himself forward as champion of the majority view, which was that we must have some form of popular, ‘people’ regime,” Cartledge says. To participate in the demokratia, a person had to be free, male and ...
Last October, Li Chaolan put the ballots once again into the mobile ballot boxes carried by the election staff to her door as more than 1 billion voters began to participate in a new round of elections to people's congresses at the township and county levels. Li Chaolan, 106, casts her...
We have to get rid of the apathy, we have to get more people involved. We know that if we can’t have a democracy in the United States, we can’t have democracies throughout the world, unless people participate. 在乎人民,他们会承诺要确保他们拥有的资源会被用在公民身上, 而不是用在打仗...