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An edited and abridged version of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the United States, written in 1831 when the democracy was still young, encompassing the history, geography, politics, legal system, economy, and culture of America, and addressing issues such as a free press and racism that are still pertinent in the twenty-first century.
2) Democracy
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Concepts in American government brought to you in a kid-friendly, graphic/cartoon format, with irreverent art and concise text.
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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded as it is familiar. Pinsky, whose remarkable career as a poet itself undermines the view, writes that to...
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La corrupción política se refiere a los actos deshonestos o delictivos cometidos por funcionarios y autoridades públicas que abusan de su poder e influyen a realizar un mal uso intencional de los recursos financieros y humanos a los que tienen acceso, anticipando sus intereses personales o los de sus allegados, para conseguir una ventaja ilegítima generalmente de forma secreta y privada. El término opuesto a corrupción política es transparencia....
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In 1906, my great-grandfather Dr. Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine was the secretary of the Socialist Party of Connecticut and a fellow at Yale University where he taught studies in divinity. He sought to shed some light on the subject of social protection. He had first-hand experience as a reverend in the New Haven religious community. He became very aware of parishioner stealing and other forms of skulduggery used to acquire the most prosperous benefactors....