Skimm
Skimm for April 18 Skimmed while studying for finals, good luck students! Quote of the Day: “What Trump did was to let the ghosts out by attacking us … He poured turpentine on a wound that has never healed.” –…
“Democracy” is Just a Word
Fundamentally, support for democracy should be extremely widespread, give or take a dictator or two. However, people tend to support democracy without ever really knowing what it means. Or worse yet, they don’t support democracy because their experience with it…
Indicators of Economic Success
This week’s readings arise a highly debated topic in the political arena — is an authoritarian regime better for the economy, or a democratic one? There are fundamental factors of each form of government that can suggest economic success either…
The Correlation of Power – Militaries and Citizens
There appears to be a consensus that the foundations of the present forms of democracy can be attributed to the use of primarily military authoritarian regimes solving the historically authoritarian forms of government (i.e. aristocracy and oligarchy). The debate is…
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