Democratic Government

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This paper focuses on the relationship between a free-market economy and a representative government, exploring the values implicit in a capitalist society that are conducive to democratic rule. Using the United States as an example, the paper then moves on to examine other cultural values that may be necessary for the creation and maintenance of a democratic society. It looks at the concept of majority rule without compromising the rights and desires of the minority and concludes with a study of voter participation in the USA.

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"Current definitions of representative democratic government "which we might more properly call republican (but not Republican) government" are far more likely to include ideas about economics as well as ideas about the purely political. It is the consensus today of many political scientists "and many just ordinary citizens" that democracy cannot exist in the absence of a free or at least a nearly free market. (There are certainly those that disagree that a free market is a requisite for representative government; the electorate of Brazil that just voted a socialist into the country's highest office, for example.)"

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