Destiny And Democracy

Author : F. William Engdahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3981723732

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Manifest Destiny by F. William Engdahl Pdf

Author : Ronald W. Walters,Toni-Michelle Travis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739144350

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Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia by Ronald W. Walters,Toni-Michelle Travis Pdf

This book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional congressional relationship with the city and the way in which this establishes and perpetuates the continuing fight for congressional representation, real home rule and equitable federal benefits for citizens of the District of Columbia. Usually becoming a mayor, member of a city council, or agency head in a major city could become a stepping stone to higher office. In Washington, D.C. however, this has not been the case. Contests for political leadership operate in a unique political climate because Washington, D.C is the capital of the U.S., subject to congressional oversight, has a majority African American population, and has a majority Democratic population. Those who become mayor are therefore, confined to play a local with rare opportunities for a national role. One Objective of this volume is to highlight the difficulties of experiencing political democracy and adequate policy distribution by citizens of the District of Columbia. These analyses conclude that one of the major obstacles to these objectives is the manner in which home rule was constructed and persists, leading to the conclusion that the desire of citizens and their leaders for change is well founded.

Author : Jeff Chester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018918505

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Digital Destiny by Jeff Chester Pdf

With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband, we now have the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news and information, with control over content in the hands of the many rather than a few select media giants. But powerful communications companies have other plans: the big cable, TV and Internet providers are using their political clout to gain ever greater control over the Internet. How does this new media system function? What is at stake?- And what can we do to fight it?

Author : Joshua Muravchik
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0844737348

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Exporting Democracy by Joshua Muravchik Pdf

This book shows why idealism offers the soundest basis for U.S. policy.

Author : William Pfaff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802719676

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The Irony of Manifest Destiny by William Pfaff Pdf

"For years there has been little or no critical reexamination of how and why the ultimately successful postwar American policy of 'patient but firm and vigilant containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies...and pressure against the free institutions of the western world' (as George Kennan formulated it at the time) has over six decades turned into a vast project for ending tyranny in the world. We defend this position by making the claim that the United States possesses an exceptional status among nations that confers upon it special international responsibilities, and exceptional privileges in meeting those responsibilities. This is where the problem lies. It has become somewhat of a national heresy to suggest the U.S. does not have a unique moral status and role to play in the history of nations and therefore in the affairs of the contemporary world. In fact it does not." Cogently, thoughtfully, powerfully, William Pfaff--whose columns and commentary over the past 40-odd years have given him the widest international influence of any American commentator--lays out the historical roots behind the American exceptionalism that has animated our politics and foreign relations for decades, and makes clear why it is flawed and bound to fail. Those roots lie in the secularization of western society brought about by the Enlightenment. "My proposition in this book is that the United States' spearation from 1800 to 1941 from the common history of the west has disqualified it from the mandate it has assumed as the society that embodies the future"...and in many ways is responsible for the impasse in which it finds itself at the end of the disastrous events of the last 8 years. "It has failed to learn from experience because it lacks the indispensable experience Europeans have acquired of modern ideological folly and national tragedy."

Author : Richard Barrett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781105639425

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Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations by Richard Barrett Pdf

THIS BOOK will eventually comprise of two volumes. This first volume provides a historical perspective on the impact of the evolution of human consciousness on world affairs. The first part of the book, Human Destiny, identifies the underlying patterns that have guided the evolution of individual human consciousness and group (societal) consciousness over the past 10,000 years, and the impact that this evolution has had on the quality of governance and level of democracy currently being experienced in nations around the world. The second part, The Evolution of Democracy, describes the seven values that are required to create a high-trust liberal democracy-the journey from freedom to trust. The third part, The Destiny of Nations, explores the impact that the future evolution of human consciousness will have on world affairs with reference to the need for, and the practicalities involved in, creating the conditions that allow democratic nations to work together to resolve the major issues facing the world.

Author : John Lothrop Motley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Democracy
ISBN : BL:A0022133682

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Democracy, the climax of political progress, and the destiny of advanced races: an historical essay by John Lothrop Motley Pdf

Author : R. A. Mullerson
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1617283592

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Democracy--a Destiny of Humankind? by R. A. Mullerson Pdf

Author : John B. Judis,Ruy Teixeira
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780743254786

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The Emerging Democratic Majority by John B. Judis,Ruy Teixeira Pdf

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order.

Author : Lyndon Baines Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
ISBN : SRLF:A0012173266

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Remarks of the President to a Joint Session of the Congress by Lyndon Baines Johnson Pdf

Author : Charles Edward Delgadillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1124477470

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Destiny and Democracy by Charles Edward Delgadillo Pdf

American democracy was challenged by both foreign and domestic threats during the early twentieth century. Millions of Americans were denied their full rights as citizens as a result of social, political, and economic developments that created tremendous inequality, which raised the specter of social disintegration. Similarly, imperialism and autocracy in the world stoked conflicts that threatened to entangle the US, leading to fears that American democracy might be sacrificed in pursuit of victory in a foreign war. Liberals sought to place America's democratic system on a sustainable footing by uniting domestic and foreign policy reform, creating a world-conscious liberalism that dominated American politics for a generation.

Author : Adam Dahl
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700626076

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Empire of the People by Adam Dahl Pdf

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English settlers colonized the New World. Empire of the People explores a new way of understanding this process—and in doing so, offers a fundamental reinterpretation of modern democratic thought in the Americas. In Empire of the People, Adam Dahl examines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labor. By placing the development of American political thought and culture in the context of nineteenth-century settler expansion, his work reveals how practices and ideologies of Indigenous dispossession have laid the cultural and social foundations of American democracy, and in doing so profoundly shaped key concepts in modern democratic theory such as consent, social equality, popular sovereignty, and federalism. To uphold its legitimacy, Dahl also argues, settler political thought must disavow the origins of democracy in colonial dispossession—and in turn erase the political and historical presence of native peoples. Empire of the People traces this thread through the conceptual and theoretical architecture of American democratic politics—in the works of thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, John O’Sullivan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and William Apess. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracy—and a different and more nuanced interpretation of the role of settler colonialism in the foundations of democratic culture and society.

Author : Shane Mountjoy
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438119830

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Manifest Destiny by Shane Mountjoy Pdf

As the population of the 13 colonies grew and the economy developed, the desire to expand into new land increased. Nineteenth-century Americans believed it was their divine right to expand their territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. "Manifest destiny," a phrase first used in 1839 by journalist John O'Sullivan, embodied the belief that God had given the people of the United States a mission to spread a republican democracy across the continent. Advocates of manifest destiny were determined to carry out their mission and instigated several wars, including the war with Mexico to win much of what is now the southwestern United States. In Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion, learn how this philosophy to spread out across the land shaped our nation.

Author : Walter Terence Stace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Democracy
ISBN : LCCN:73018409

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The Destiny of Western Man by Walter Terence Stace Pdf

Author : Stace Walter Terence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1947-01-01
Category : Authoritarianism
ISBN : 0384573851

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The Destiny of Western Man by Stace Walter Terence Pdf