I agree that competitive election is one means of realizing democracy, but we must not forget that the original purpose of democracy is to “let people rule,” or to say, giving people the right to decide. The purpose is not, or...
Democratic defeatists maintain that democracy is a decided disadvantage for states in the preparation for and conduct of war. This long-standing argument鈥 stretching from Thucydides in 406 B.C. to twentieth-century classical realists鈥 ... MC Desch 被引量: 43发表: 2008年 ...
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When the act of union formation is correctly understood, the logic of creating a union through signed statements is even clearer. Ultimately it is unionization itself—not the process through which employees choose to form a union—that creates lasting democratic practices within the workplace. 展开...
like a democratic polity, is many things linked by a common phrase, that different people want these different things for many different reasons and with many different expectations, and that it is both easier and more difficult than is often thought to know when their expectations have been rea...
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Because of the self-reinforcing cycle of wealth, access to political power, and the impact of public policy on the economic relations of society, plutocracy is a rather common form of government, even where the nominal model of governance is democratic....
Thus the firstdilemma of progress is that we do things in spite of some evidence that the consequences ofdoing them may well turn out, in anticipated future retrospect, to be undesirable and detrimental in normative terms. If that happens, we do things that we cannot do in good conscience,...