• Democracy for America (DFA) was a progressive political action committee headquartered in Burlington, Vermont. Founded by former Democratic National Committee...
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    Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that...
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    The Social Democracy of America (SDA), later known as the Cooperative Brotherhood, was a short lived political party in the United States that sought to...
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    liberal democracy for many states, dubbed "third wave of democracy". Portugal, Spain, and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned...
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    The Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean can be compared according to the different definitions of democracy. The V-Dem Democracy indices considers...
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  • America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction is a 2004 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show that parodies...
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  • or local legislature or council. The history of direct democracy amongst non-Native Americans in the United States dates from the 1630s in the New England...
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    rights and democratic institutions. The methodology for assessing democracy used in this democracy index is according to Economist Intelligence Unit which...
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    Democracy: An American Novel is a political novel written by Henry Brooks Adams and published anonymously in 1880. Only after the writer's death in 1918...
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  • Charles Robert Chamberlain is an American political leader. He was the executive director at Democracy for America (DFA), a progressive political action...
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    scientist, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime...
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  • Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America (PDD) is a multilateral forum to support democratisation and development in Central America. Office...
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  • Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public...
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    Howard Dean (redirect from Dean for America)
    nomination to Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. In 2004, Dean founded Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee. He was later elected...
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    "America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy", Bernard Dobski of The Heritage Foundation characterized attacks by liberals on the Electoral College for its...
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    Yvette Simpson (category 21st-century American politicians)
    1978) is an American politician, lawyer, former member of the Cincinnati City Council. She is the former chief executive of Democracy for America.[1] Simpson...
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  • Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist...
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  • American Democracy Television (ADTV) provides nonpartisan programming about representative democracy to Public, educational, and government access (PEG)...
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  • Types of democracy refers to the various governance structures that embody the principles of democracy ("rule by the people") in some way. Democracy is frequently...
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  • The People's Council of America for Democracy and the Terms of Peace, commonly known as the "People's Council," was an American pacifist political organization...
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    democracies. The ancient Greeks did not have a word to use for "rights". The United States of America was and is, a republic, not a direct democracy....
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    Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies...
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    The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim...
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  • "Democracy Manifest" (also known as "Succulent Chinese Meal", amongst other names) is an October 1991 Australian news segment video by reporter Chris...
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  • Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. Deliberative democracy seeks quality...
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  • In political science, the waves of democracy or waves of democratization are major surges of democracy that have occurred in history. Although the term...
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    formed out of elements of the Social Democracy of America (SDA) and was a predecessor to the Socialist Party of America which was established in 1901. Following...
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  • Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy for different countries according to various definitions of democracy...
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  • American Democracy Project may refer to: American Democracy Project (527 group in Florida) American Democracy Project (AASCU initiative) This disambiguation...
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    who identified "five interdependent partial regimes" necessary for an embedded democracy: electoral regime, political participation, civil rights, horizontal...
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