Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet
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Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet
Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a “cyber-realist research agenda,” the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice–while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being self-evident. The debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy can teach us about the challenges and oppor
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Republic vs Democracy
Posted by admin on Nov 16, 2008 in Recent Posts | 50 comments
Our system of government was never intended to be a democracy. Although many believe that we live in one, they have never been asked to vote on the decisions made by said government. Yet they believe that they are empowered just the same. We are not.
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Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
Posted by admin on Nov 14, 2008 in Recent Posts | 5 comments
Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His insightful work has become one o
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