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Between Democracy and Citizenship
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Between Dictatorship and Democracy
Janine Hartley ID 94458894 Major Essay 22/10/01
Most countries have now moved from dictatorship, or other forms of minority rule systems of governing the majority, to systems of government resembling democracy. I use the word ‘resembling’ because I ask how, in a globalised economy, can democracy as we know it be effective for groups such as, the unemployed, the worker, indigenous peoples? ...
Previously my research subject was to examine Australian democracy and citizenship from a feminist perspective. ... In 1994 Clintons National Security Advisor Anthony Lake said, “Throughout the cold war we contained the global threat to market democracies now we should seek to enlarge their reach”, this statement was expanded by commentator and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of the New York Times Thomas Freedman, “ Democracy and the free market is the way of the future”, America being the gatekeeper and model for this wonderful new world order called globalisation. But Chomsky points out that America undermines democracy, a country’s development is slower when the U. ... portrays itself as the world leader in progress, wealth and democracy. ...
Mauritania is a small country in northwest Africa, it claims to be a democracy and at the UN Conference Against Racism also claimed to have established in 1998 a human rights commission to promote tolerance and the indivisibility of human rights. ... According to Habermas, ‘the relation between capitalism and democracy is fraught with tension’, large companies donate to political parties and the favor is returned when governments develop policies. ... Citizenship is becoming global and democracy is gaining support from countries previously under dictatorship or monarchy. ... Enforcing the western culture on people to which it is foreign is inhumane and it is perpetrated in the name of Democracy and freedom.
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Title: Between Democracy and Citizenship
Words: 1648
Rating: None
Pages: 6.6
submitted by: jhartley
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