... of learning and on the quality of teaching as a mode of learning. The chapter finally draws lessons from these explorations for the enterprise of mobilizing democracy today. democracy equality ethos Bildung civilization Huntington Samuel Islam Meno pedagogy Plato unilateralism Akbar the Great...

... the admonition to love all their neighbors. But because of their high regard for individual freedom, they were unable to organize themselves against the threat of bad land use. In the end, the novel implicitly claims that the key to moral growth is to love one another. However, a strong and effective democracy...

... convert of the new Republican Party, and his reputation as a defender of democracy and as a disciple of Jefferson was appreciated by many. Claiborne William Charles Cole Jefferson Thomas Sargent Winthrop Papers in Relation to the Official Conduct of Governor Sargent Calvit Joseph Fort Dearborn...

... exploits, and his associations with gambling. He was notably inactive as a legislator, though he did lead a group called the Young Democracy in failed revolt against the Tweed Ring in 1870. Morrissey John Tammany Hall Tweed William M “Boss” faro Elliott Eneas Sullivan “Yankee” Taylor Nelson Lincoln...

....” This chapter gives an overview of the constellation of concepts the book traces—experience, critique, negative dialectics, pedagogy, leadership, democracy—to demonstrate the reparative work that Adorno performs on the practice of American citizenship during his years in the United States. Adorno Theodor...

... democracy militarism A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam. When America uses force in the world, the cause must be just, the goal must be clear, and the victory must be overwhelming. — George W. Bush, 3 August 2000 Since 9/11, the United States carries on more than a few...

... were the fulcrum of Roosevelt’s foreign policy as he called for lend-lease aid for those fighting Germany, announced that the United States would be the “arsenal of democracy,” and set out the ideological justifications for war in defense of the four freedoms: freedom from want and fear, freedom...

...Social anxieties about the war and about what it was doing to the country permeated America. What would happen when the war was over? The plays at the end of the war ask what kind of country the United States will be after the war is won, what form postwar democracy will take, and what the county's...

... John citizens citizenship ambition appropriate for republican citizens political ambition Adams on the role of religion in controlling constitutional government political ambition as the problem for democracy challenges posed by public ambition factions threat of “Federalist No 1 ” “Federalist...

...This chapter argues that Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and FDR’s presidency can teach the American people the necessary place of aristocratic virtues of excellence for democratic life. Tocqueville’s aristocratic sensibility and FDR’s presidency show American citizens...

...This is a book about the necessity of political ambition for the success of American democracy. Democracies face an enduring problem encouraging, harnessing, and inevitably restraining the passions citizens have to wield political power in a civic forum. This book describes how evolving American...

...Discussed in this chapter are US and EU views on democracy and international democratization, as well as normative and instrumental beliefs about the benefits and intrinsic merits of democracy as a political system that underlie the US and EU frames. Despite the growing strategic importance...

...This chapter explores beliefs, understandings, and attitudes toward various aspects of democracy and democratization among the Central Asian populations, discerned through a public opinion survey and focus group interviews carried out in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. It describes how...

... to the failed experiment with “party cabinets” during the era of “Taishō democracy,” which, tragically, devolved into the “techno-fascist cabinets” that steered Japan into the Pacific War. Sat Chō cabal Chōshū domain emperor freedom and popular rights movement Grand Council Dajōkan Ikeda Hayato...

... threats, depending on the dynamics and changing conditions of international politics. Those who criticize Bush for what they say is an arrogant and imprudent commitment to spreading democracy in the Middle East should note that this aspiration is consistent with the traditions of diplomacy that proved...

... of republicanism, independence, and democracy between the 1780s and the 1790s. During the nineteenth century's first two decades, Catholic optimism experienced an increase as church officials were able to retain the hierarchical authority system and enlarge the physical presence of the church in the trans...

...In this essay, Robert W. Williams discusses Du Bois’s ideals of democracy and the impact they had on traditional US democratic theory. He juxtaposes Du Bois’s conceptions of difference with those of Iris Marion Young in order to highlight Du Bois’s distinctiveness. Young believes that difference...

..., John Brown was an indictment of this mentality, pushing readers to continue the fight for racial equality. As with many of Du Bois’s works, central to the book is the concept of sacrifice by all citizens for the good of the democracy. Using the death of John Brown as a symbol...

... the same shift, rejecting the old form of male charismatic leadership. Davari questions whether this is the most effective strategy of achieving a democratic future oriented toward racial justice and radical democracy, and turns to the early writings of W. E. B. Du Bois as a model for better representation...