PPT-CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY

PHILIP KITCHER IN COMPLEX SOCIETIES THERE IS A LOSS OF COMMUNITY AND THIS IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE HEALTH OF ANY DEMOCRACY THE ECONOMIC PRESSURES OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES DISTORT THE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION AND THEREBY UNDERMINE DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND INSTITUTIONS. Democracy is both a sacred and a promiscuous word. We all love her but we see her differently. She is hard to pin down. Everyone claims her but no one can possess or even name her fully. To give any definition for a class to learn would not be particularly democratic. To have any open-ended discussion about possible meanings could be reasonably democratic. Perhaps like ‘. L/O – To identify the key features of the Democracy movement . Deng’s opposition to Political Reforms. Although Deng believed in . economic reform . and . Westernisation. he was . very conservative . A great democracy cannot be content to provide a horizon-expanding education for some and work skills, taught in isolation from the larger societal context, for everyone else. Yet this is what the pos Chapter 1-. Democracy in Perspective. Chapter 2-. Facing Controversial Issues. Chapter 3-. How We See Things. Chapter 1- Democracy in Perspective. The Meaning of Democracy. demos. (the people) . kratia. Prepared by. Lyle McCurdy, Ph.D.. (Revision 4). Primary Source: . StopShariahNow. http://www.stopshariahnow.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=. article&id. =328&Itemid=149. Aug 09, 2012. Popular Politics and Partisan Identity. The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue . Jackson's Democratic Agenda . Property and Democracy . The Dorr Rebellion . Women and Minorities and Democracy . Democracy in EU Policy and MENA Perceptions After the Arab Uprisings. The Arab . Transformations . Project: Political, Economic, and Social Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa. Andrea Teti. everyday . life. . Prof. Dr. . Fábio. Lima . Quintas. Director. fabio.quintas@tse.jus.br. Electoral Judiciary School. Superior Electoral Court. Sumary. 1. Our Political and social backdrop. 2. . Brasilian. Ferit. Baca. University of Tirana. E-mail. : . feritbaca@gmail.com. ABSTRACT. .   . The study intends to examine in a deeper point of . view. . the importance of the basic concepts of . society. L/O – To identify the key features of the Democracy movement . Deng’s opposition to Political Reforms. Although Deng believed in . economic reform . and . Westernisation. he was . very conservative . Greece. : The Ancient Greeks governed. under a . direct democracy. . In a direct . democracy, citizens participate . directly. in. the decision making process of . Government.. Rome. : The Ancient Romans saw the rise of. 508 BCE . Kleisthenes. established the first . democratic government in Athens. He diminished the influential families by dividing the citizenry into . demes. and . tribes. Citizens were selected by their demes to serve on juries, engaging in this first . Democracy: Rule by . the People. . Two Types:. A. Direct (pure): rule by the people . themselves.. B. Indirect (representative): rule . by elected representatives.. Why did democracy give way to militarism in Japan? L/O – To identify and examine how Japanese democracy was undermined and why it collapsed in 1932 Japan between the Wars Between 1918 and 1932, Japanese politics went through a period known as ‘