Questions tagged [democracy]
For questions about democracy, a system of government in many countries involving citizens voting, as opposed to dictatorships and other forms of government where normal people don't have control of what it does.
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Is there a correlation between Gov't economic policies/performance & collective action
Based on my reading of polsci and econ literature, I believe there is an extensive literature studying how collective action (e.g., through labor strikes or occupation groups) can influence economic ...
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Are there prominent persons who expressed a believe that a government run by people chosen by sortition is more effective than a typical democracy?
Wikipedia's page on the history of sortition explained that some people believe that sortition solves the problems associated with representative democracies. Are there any scholars, politicians, ...
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Which democratic country has the strictest laws concerning political lobbying?
Second, lobbying in Singapore is restricted through the strict
regulation of both political donations and election expenditure as
well as limited campaigning time.
This is to avoid what has happened ...
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What is the difference between left communism and anarcho-communism?
I was reading about the term tankie on Wikipedia and it lead me to other terms such as red fascism and left communism. The Wikipedia articles on Left Communism and Left Communists (Weimar Republic) ...
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Democracy as a means for growth progress [duplicate]
Is there any correlation beten democracy and development/progress.
If yes is it by data(interpolating democratic countries vs Human development index etc.) Or using deductive reasoning (conclusion ...
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Are there legal ways to end a democracy?
It seems to me that if the majority of people want to end democracy it is still not possible.
Is there a self destruct mechanism for democracy?
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When the majority votes against someone [closed]
Background
Mr. X has recently joined a group of friends. The group voted that Mr. X has to buy lunch for the group. The group had two arguments:
They argued that it's according to democracy and the ...
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Is there any practical way to bring the military generals under accountability in Pakistan?
A huge number of people in Pakistan see the military as the savior of the country. There is a popular opinion inside Pakistan that the Pakistan Military's dominance must exist as long as the Indian ...
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Why is Singapore placed so low in the democracy index?
Singapore has one of the lowest scores in the democracy index among OECD developed countries. It has always been.
Why is that?
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Eligibility criteria to become the prime minister of India and what is "office of profit"?
Eligibility
According to Article 84 of the Constitution of India, which sets the principle qualification for member of Parliament, and Article 75 of the Constitution of India, which sets the ...
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Exploring the causal mechanisms between democratization and economy growth
I have been reading a lot recently on a classic polsci question on the relationship between democratization and economic outcomes(see Boix & Stokes, 2003; Coppedge, in press; Epstein, Bates, ...
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Are there other countries that subscribe to the same definition of democracy as China?
The debate over democracy in China has been a major ideological
battleground in Chinese politics since the 19th century. China is not
a liberal democracy. The Chinese government and the Chinese ...
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What are some progressive critiques of the concept of democracy and human rights?
I have traced a philosophical line of thought in my mind that “human rights” as commonly defined (and also “democracy”) may suffer a kind of disjunction between their “statutory” and “purposive” ...
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Are the reasons why the NED chose to fund a certain organization made publicly available?
NED is a grant-making foundation, distributing funds to private
non-governmental organizations for promoting democracy abroad in
around 90 countries. Half of NED's funding is allocated annually to
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What all has to happen in post-2023 election Thailand before it can have a new prime minister?
After some surprisingly strong support for "change" seen
...on 14 May 2023 to elect 500 members of the House of Representatives...
Wikipedia's 2023 Thai general election; Government ...
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To what extent (if any) does Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi answer reporters' questions, or at least appear to?
CNN's June 22, 2023 Biden makes trade-offs and Modi steps out of his comfort zone during elaborate state visit at White House includes the following:
But Modi, for one of the only times since he ...
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Is there a reason beyond protection from potential corruption to restrict a minister's ability to personally relieve and appoint civil servants?
In democracies like the UK, where ministers have considerable executive power, these ministers are still restricted (by law or convention) in their ability to get directly involved with the work of ...
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Political system fairer than democracy? [closed]
Let's say a country has 1,400,000 citizens. Elections are held about, for example, joining the EU. 1,000,000 people decide to do A, while 300,000 people decide to B, and 100,000 decide to do C. In a ...
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Is Norway a rentier and resource-dependent country?
I have been reading a lot on the rentier state literature and have noticed that papers published in the last two decades focus on the typical rentier cases such as Saudi Arabia or Venezuela. However, ...
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Is the USA Democratic? [duplicate]
I know this sounds weird since the USA is always regarded as a democracy or a republic which means people but when I study how elections are conducted and the actual system, it doesn't sound like a ...
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Why did African Americans and Native Americans vote too oppositely on the Affirmative Action poll?
I found a tabular analysis on Wikipedia about affirmative action. It shows: "Supporters and opponents of affirmative action in California 2020".
Popular Group
For Affirmative Action
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Can Rahul Gandhi ask other democratic nations to intervene in their democracy?
Rahul Gandhi a sitting Member of Parliament of India who went to London and asked Europe and USA to intervene in what he sees as the collapse of democracy in India, which is a sovereign nation.
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Any successful example of democratic socialism in Latin America/South America that lasted at least twenty years?
Yes, I know there are versions of authoritarian socialism in South America that have been tried, but I want to know if there are any successful democratic socialist communities that lasted at least ...
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The changing relationship between Democracy and Economic Growth (log GDP)
There has been contradicting evidence on whether being a democratic state is correlated with economic growth and/or higher GDP per capita. For instance, Barro (1997) argues in his book that a ...
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Is there such a thing as an optimum size for democracy? [duplicate]
Democracy has been around for a long time, and varying through history, it has worked out more-or-less satisfactorily for the people.
In the world, people are usually nice, but some governments turn ...
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Are there examples of laws/patterns that prevent "Manufactured Consent"
This is a rewrite of a more biased and now closed question I thought had a good core.
In the 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, Herman/Chomsky argued that corporate mass media have a symbiosis with the ...
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Is Chomsky's propaganda model valid?
In the 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Chomsky argued that corporate mass media essentially controls the minds of the general population as an alternative to ...
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As a voter in a democratic country, how can I influence a single issue?
If I am a regular citizen in a democratic country, I exercise my political power by voting (somehow) for regional leaders and the national leader. If I agree with all the positions of a particular ...
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Why is Singapore currently considered to be a dictatorial regime and a multi-party democracy by different publications?
The 2011 parliamentary election clearly demonstrated that Singapore
has transformed into a competitive authoritarian regime. Not only did
the ruling People’s Action Party’s share of the popular vote ...
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How does modern day lobbying align with the ideals of Popular Sovereignty?
A core principle of The Declaration of Independence, Popular Sovereignty, is the idea that a government only exists to serve the will of the individuals it represents.
I understand this to mean that ...
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Is the practice of lobbying in the United States as it exists today constitutional? [duplicate]
A core principle of The Declaration of Independence, Popular Sovereignty, is the idea that a government only exists to serve the will of the individuals it represents.
I understand this to mean that ...
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Can a member of the royal family stand in parliamentary elections?
In monarchies where the monarch has limited power, with the government being mostly democratically elected, can a member of the royal family stand in elections to become a Member of Parliament and ...
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Could the government legally create an election in which only some people could vote? [closed]
I was considering that if I were in some lawmaking position I would consider advocating that abortion rights should be voted on by females and the result of that election would become law.
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Soviet funding for Communists
Russia has spent over $300 million on influencing foreign elections since 2014, US officials say
How does this amount compare with the money that the USSR spent on supporting various communist parties ...
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The paradox of majority power vs. contracts
For this question, let us assume that the only principle we care about in public decision making is majority power: the majority of citizens should be able to do whatever they want. There seems to be ...
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Why do the "Free World" oppose any system other than western form of democracy? [closed]
I have an impression that the Free World, in principle, is opposed to any system of government other than the Western form of democracy. At least the leader of the free world, the USA, likes to ...
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Political terminology or example for a leader making their crime a norm by highlighting an opponent's small mistakes?
Let's say that politician A is a corrupt person. His opponent is a moral guy with an honest reputation. The reputation of politician A is badly affected when a news story breaks about his corruption. ...
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Are monarchies like Kuwait authoritarian, autocratic, constitutional monarchies, or mixed political systems?
I am trying to find a clear conceptual difference in terms of how different monarchies are defined or classified. For example, let's consider three countries with monarchies: Kuwait, UAE, and Norway. ...
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Why is the US listed as a "flawed democracy" in the Democracy Index?
I was reading Wikipedia's Democracy Index and it shows the United States as a "Flawed Democracy". Reading in more detail, the article points out that the US has low scores in "...
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Apart from democratic republics, are there any other types of govt that elect representatives?
Apart from democratic republics, where a democratic republic is defined as a country that is effectively 'rule of the many', mostly through elected representatives, there any other types of ...
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What research has been done into "emotion-driven" politics?
Byung-Chul Han and other authors have pointed out that political discourses are undergoing a transmutation from the style prevailing in the 1980s to the current one, where post-truth, emotion and ...
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What is the point in having a democracy if it is unable to elect the smartest people? [closed]
Check this answer:
https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/11185/32479
The government is supposed to be representative of its people. If the people are a bunch of idiots then the government should ...
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How can democracy not be the rule of the poor?
Democracies are based on political equality. All individuals have equal weight in electing representatives. Parallel to the process of bringing individuals into the political arena of equal footing, ...
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Is democratic politics a force of unity? [closed]
Democracy involves competition among various political parties. Parties are partial and partisan. Their competition tends to divide any society. Is it correct to say that democratic politics is a ...
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Why are democracy and liberalism correlated?
For the purposes of this question, let me (loosely) define:
Democracy = situation where the government is chosen by the
population (using some ‘reasonable’ voting rule)
Liberal state = state which ...
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Does this "kind" of decentralized government even have a name?
Related to the problem of political ignorance, I was thinking about a goverment system as described below, and I want to know if this or something similar even has a name ("decentralized ...
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What is a successful policy against lobbying in a democratic country?
The US government is drowning in lobbyist that undermine the democratic power of the people in favor of wealthy corporations/oligarchs. My question is: are there any significantly successful policies ...
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What are the possible solutions for a "stupid people in large numbers" situation in a democracy? [closed]
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It's said that "Democracy counts the heads but doesn't weigh the brains". I think there's a book with that title but I didn't read it.
So, what if the less intelligent people ...
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How can a direct democracy, like Rojava, protect minorities from pure majoritarianism?
In representative democracy, often people can use the monopoly of violence for a good cause by enforcing protection of minorities that are enshrined in constitutions that can be violently imposed. ...
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What is the basis on which expats are allowed to vote in their home countries? [duplicate]
Despite being an expat (having a long-term permanent residence in a another country and not paying any taxes or similar obligations back in my country of citizenship), I still have the right to vote ...
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