25 Years After the Berlin Wall: Making Democracy Work in the Rest of Europe
In 1989, the spectacular dismantling of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. Despite the speed of the system #39;s fal...
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, May 1
Visit http://www.democracynow.org to watch the entire independent, global news hour. This is a summary of news headlines from the U.S. and around the world on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Visit the...
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Murder of Democracy - Attack on Dr Dharamvir Gandhi
It is heartening that despite the high stakes in the April 30 Lok Sabha polling in Punjab, there were only a handful of violent incidents. However, the attack on the Aam Aadmi Party candidate...
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BOSTON (TheStreet) -- The United States is supposed to be a democracy, in which all citizens can participate equally. But the growing income inequality of the past decade brought criticism that it's big business and the rich that really rules U.S. policy, not the average citizen.
This criticism gained momentum with the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on McCutcheon v. the Federal Election Commission, which rolled back campaign finance laws to let a person give up to $3.5 million in campaign donations, whether that be directly to candidates, PACs or political parties.
Supporters say it doesn't threaten the inclusion of ordinary citizens in the shaping of policy. But a forthcoming study in Perspectives on Politics suggests government policy already disproportionately favors the interests of big business and the rich over those of the middle or lower classes that government functions more as an oligarchy than a democracy.
The study, by Martin Gilens, a professor of politics at Princeton University, and Benjamin I. Page, a professor at Northwestern University, analyzed 1,779 policy issues over three decades to estimate how much influence the rich, organized interest groups and average citizens each have on policy outcomes. Gilens and Page found that people in the 90th income percentile had the most political influence, followed closely by organized interest groups.
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We Don #39;t Need Democracy
Certainly, nobody likes democracy.
By: Ejaz Ali
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