Democracy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit, MI :
Greenhaven Press,
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Table of Contents:
- What is the state of democracy worldwide? Countries around the world are striving to establish working democracies / Anwar Ibrahim
- Countries around the world are failing to establish working democracies / The Economist
- Free markets foster democracies / Michael Mandelbaum
- Free markets threaten democracy / Robert B. Reich
- The Internet has advanced democratic causes / Clay Shirky
- The Internet has not advanced democratic causes / Hiawatha Bray
- Can there be democracy in the Middle East? Western democracy will never take hold in the Middle East / Michael Scheuer
- Islam remains a barrier to democracy in the Middle East / Whitson G. Waldo III
- The Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to democratic change in Egypt / James Phillips
- The Muslim Brotherhood is not a threat to democratic change in Egypt / David M. Faris and Stacey Philbrick Yadav
- The Muslim Brotherhood's role in democratic change in Egypt remains unclear / Maajid Nawaz
- Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East / Jacob Dayan
- Israel is not an example of democracy in the Middle East / Josh Ruebner
- What should be done to improve US democracy? American democracy is broken / Eric Alterman
- American democracy is not broken / T. A. Barnhart
- To improve US democracy, low-income workers should share the income tax burden / Mary Kate Cary
- To improve US democracy, end tax cuts for the richest Americans / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- To improve US democracy, make the tax code more transparent / Charles Murray
- Corporate funding of political ads will hinder the democratic election process / Ronald Dworkin
- Corporate funding of political ads will not hinder the democratic election process / Hans A. von Spakovsky
- Should the United States foster democracy worldwide? Promoting democracy worldwide increases US national security / Shadi Hamid and Steven Brooke
- Promoting democracy worldwide does not increase US national security / Michael S. Rozeff
- The United States should promote true democracy in the Middle East / Eric Margolis
- Promoting democracy in the Middle East should benefit US interests / Mortimer B. Zuckerman
- A league of democracies would benefit the world and advance democracy / James M. Lindsay
- A league of democracies would not benefit the world nor spread democracy / Charles A. Kupchan.