http://whynationsfail.com/ Democracy, What Is It Good For? [pic]Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson In an earlier post, we reported on our research joint with Suresh Naidu and Pascual Restrepo, “Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality”, which showed very limited effects of democracy on inequality. So one would be excused for paraphrasing Edwin Starr’s famous song and Ian Morris’s forthcoming book, War! What Is It Good for?, and ask “democracy, what is it good for?” Certainly not economic growth,
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most notably Charles Krauthammer who was first to give the Reagan Doctrine its name in his column in the April 1, 1985 issue of Time magazine. The Reagan Doctrine contended that the United States had a duty to oppose the spread of communist dictatorships and to support the freedom fighters that were part of insurgencies defying Soviet aggression. Its policies were rooted in the 1950s anti-communist doctrines long supported by Americans; however it differed in that “containment” was no longer its
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Jan Dröge GLS 312 – International Organizations Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international, non-government organization that focuses on human rights. Founded in 1978, it is headquartered in the Empire State Building in New York City with offices in many other cities worldwide, including Amsterdam, Beirut, Brussels, Geneva, Moscow, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. HRW was originally founded as a private US-based NGO under the name “Helsinki Watch”, created to monitor the former
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of Vienna is formed, consisting of many countries in Europe, they are created to make sure that in the future not one single monarch or country can control more than they should. Also, the people overthrew The Directory, because it was a strong dictatorship and failed at efforts to establish stable representative government. The Enlightenment ideas were tested and proved to be hazardous for the French, and that is what overall caused the challenging of these
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Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, or Pompey the Great, was born in 106 BC in Picenum, Italy to the politician and general Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (Pompey Strabo). Although Pompey the Great came from an aristocratic background, his father was a novus homo, meaning that he was the first in his family to be elected to public office. Pompey Strabo rose through the ranks of Roman government, becoming quaestor in 104 BC, praetor in 92 BC, and then elected consul in 89 BC. At this time, during the civil war between
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UNRISD U NITED N ATIONS R ESEARCH I NSTITUTE FOR S OCIAL D EVELOPMENT Religion, Fundamentalism and Ethnicity A Global Perspective Jeff Haynes UNRISD Discussion Paper 65 May 1995 UNRISD Discussion Papers are preliminary documents circulated in a limited number of copies to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary
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plebians couldn't run office. What happened was that the plebians got to run assembly. Also the laws were posted in the marketplace. They were posted on the twelve tables. 12) They were called the twelve tables. 13) Carthage is at the northern tip of Africa. Carthage and Rome faught in wars because they wanted land. 14) In the first Punic war the Carthagians and Romans both wanted control of Sicily. Rome built a navy from designs of a ship-wrecked Carthagian ship. In the
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Religion……………………………….5 Christianity, Islam…………………………………………..6 Influences of Religion on African Culture……………….6 Conclusion……………………………………………………13 References…………………………………………………...14 Introduction Africa is a continent of diversity. In this diversity there are hundreds of tribes and communities each practicing its own culture and religion. It would be very difficult to define Africa’s traditional religion as it would be difficult to define its culture
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Glasnost': The Decimation of the USSR April 16, 2002 I) Since the beginning of mankind the world has been under various ruling powers with only one goal in mind. A) This led to the rise of monarchies with their kings and queens, the socialists with their presidents, and the communists with their tsarist rulers. B) In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev brought upon the world the idea of Glasnost', which led to the changing of the largest ruling power in the world to a new power benefiting
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