How democracies grow up: countries with too many young people may not have a fighting chance at freedom.(ARGUMENT)Cincotta, Richard P
For example, the mid-18th-century democracies were designed under the assumption that both travel and communications were hard. Does it still make sense for all of us living in the same place to organize every few years and choose one of us to go to a big room far away and create laws ...
The Democratic and Republican Parties are increasingly atodds in many aspects. Politicians put the interests of their political parties and factions above those of the country and attack and pin blames on each other. Minutes after the indictment was announced last week, Trump, who is running ...
In this last conceptualization, property-owning democracies may be socialist or not. When people’s shares of capital are widely but non-equally distributed or they are tradable, the system is not socialist. In any case, both approaches are consistent with what follows. The term “major means ...
For example, many government ‘blunders’ have revolved around IT schemes and big capital investments, for which there are several different but inadequate major project evaluation systems. And UK central government has never yet had any coherent programme for improving government ...
aThat is, Thucydides presents democracies as unable to determine what threats are real, how grave they are, whether and to extent they should be feared, and what threats are not real or should not be feared. 正在翻译,请等待...[translate]...
. These organisations now carry out many functions previously done by Whitehall but do not count in the personnel numbers. In 2017 the UK government as a whole spent as much on contracting with firms for goods and services as it did on paying public sector...
especially democracies, are often more likely to consider law in their decision-making processes. In general, democratic publics impose cost on leaders who’ll make legal commitments but later break them in war. And I think a more compelling theory suggests that states commit fewer violations if ...
Perhaps some follow-on questions are: 1. how do we best mitigate these downsides? 2. how does an organisation prevent any changes to democratise itself from falling back into the dictatorship or oligarchy that preceded it? There are surely many organisations that have gone down that path as ...
Most advanced democracies contain some elements that could be termed socialist. Nationalized healthcare, mass transit systems, and even public libraries all are examples of government services that are owned and run by government agencies, subsidized by taxpayers, and available to all. ...