Democracy includes the executive branch as well as the civil-rights movement; poll workers and voting machines as well as the maldistribution of opportunity created by the allotment of wealth; lobbyists' and corporations' influence over public policy as well as civil-society institutions based in communities, labor unions, and identity- or issue-based groups. Immigrants' rights should be seen as central to a vibrant democracy, along with reforms such as the establishment of Election Day as a holiday, felon re-enfranchisement, a national right to vote, voting rights for the District of Columbia, and ballot accessibility for people with disabilities and for language minorities. * Structural voting alternatives:
... is an essential mechanism of democracy—it is the means to hold officials accountable to the ... “electioneering communication” definition: They referred to then-Senator Clinton by name sho...
Tuesday is the day to get in your ballot for the 2010 General Election. And if you don't already know that, you may want to think twice about voting. Seriously. Participatory democracy by definition depends on participation. But that doesn't give license to uneducated participation, which at this late stage leads to uneducated guesses at a time when soon-to- be elected leaders turn to us for direction. This is not the direction our leaders need or should want.
All these words still ring clearly in my ears. The funny thing is, people were shouting them four years ago and I'm still hearing them today. I looked up the definition of "democracy" in the dictionary and I didn't see anything that said you could only have two serious political parties in a democracy. I looked up the word "republic" also, and I once again noticed no mention of a limit on how many different parties could represent the people of this nation. On the contrary, I noticed that, according to the definition of a free republic, it is necessary for a government to be truly representative of the citizens of the country. So what happens if the two main political parties in a two-party system don't represent the people of a country anymore? You need to have choice--serious, honest ...
Gone are those innocent days at the turn of the century when the worst accusations being leveled at peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks were that they facilitated the unauthorized swapping of Metallica songs among tech-savvy teenage boys. The Informed P2P User Act (HR 1319), written and sponsored by Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-CA, aims to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer. David Sohn, senior policy counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, concurs that the definition of P2P technology in the bill is broad and may have unintended consequences. Sohn says the broadness of the language may also have a chilling effect on the development of software.
This is why relations between the United States and the Islamic world - broadly defined - are now stuck. Americans broadly have second thoughts about promoting democracy in our lands because they fear Islamist victories, and Arabs-Muslims see this American hesitation as confirmation of a deep streak of insincerity and hypocrisy. A fascinating theme at this year's U.S.-Islamic World Forum was clarity in the overall perceptions and priorities of both worlds. Some broad patterns do prevail in these widely diverse societies. The one that I found most fascinating was the divergence in Muslims' emphasis on "respect" and Americans' emphasis on "interests. A fascinating new global poll by the Gallup organization, covering societies with one billion Muslims, clearly reaffirmed something that th...
... to democratic norms - and even the definition of democracy - are virtually identical among Ameri...
[Hillary Clinton] has taken the bold and audacious step of running to become America's first woman President. She has always been willing to stand up for the least of us to make all of America better for all of us. In all the years I've known Hillary Clinton she has always kept her commitments and that's just one of the reasons I will keep mine. More than 60 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune, formed an extraordinary alliance to make America better. The challenges feeing our country require another such alliance: Hillary Clinton is my Eleanor Roosevelt and we are her Mary McLeod Bethune, fighting side by side to restore the promise of America. When I vote for president this time, I am borrowing a phrase from my husband-we don't seek "perfect servants" but "public serva...
... president must inject the principles of democracy, human and constitutional rights and civil rights ... fighting to expand America's definition of democracy so that it equally includes all peopl...
By Elizabeth Benton Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- At the request of Mayor John DeStefano Jr.'s campaign manager, the Democracy Fund board has voted to clarify the definition of a post-election expenditure, allowing candidates to pay outstanding bills and staff salaries while still restricting payments for parties and bonuses.
The term 'neoliberalism' has since around 1980 become a quite widely used exhortation in some political and academic debates. Prolific employment of a term does not signify, however, that it is clearly defined. In this article it is suggested that while the concept itself has become an imprecise buzzword in much of the literature, it might still be given a more precise definition. If this is done, then the term could become a useful analytical device in order to describe some recent trends in economic thought and political theory, even if it would be an obvious overstatement to say that we live in a neoliberal age or a neoliberal world.
... tending in the direction of freedom or democracy". The same dictionary describes neoliberalism also...
... individual rights and liberties in its definition of democracy, the priority was given to the idea o...
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