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 R. Chamberlain (section Democracy for America)
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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Alexis de Tocqueville (section Democracy in America)
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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Republicanism in the United States (redirect from Republic not a democracy)
"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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