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Government Foundations
Source Readings Ideologies. democracy (1867) Walt Whitman. Walt individual.According to Whitman, what is the foundation of democracy?
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Extractions: Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (18191892) was the most distinctly American writer of his age. His praise of democracy and of the dignity of the individual has had an enduring influence upon American culture and the belief in individualism. His focus on the worth of the common American helped to transform the American political culture from its aristocratic roots. During the 1850s, while employed as a carpenter, he composed the poems that make up his major volume of poetry, Leaves of Grass (1855). This work is often considered the most influential book of poetry in the history of American literature. His celebration of the common people earned him the title "the poet of democracy." Whitman was born on Long Island, outside New York City, in 1819. He left school at 13 and became a printers devil. Thereafter, he held a number of newspaper jobs, including editor of the Long Islander newspaper. As a journalist writing prose and verse for New York papers, he developed an interest in politics. His ardent stands for abolition and the Free-Soil movement led to difficulties with a number of publishers with whom he worked. During the Civil War, Whitman chronicled the experiences of soldiers, citizens, and even President Abraham Lincoln in his poetry. When his brother was wounded, he went to Washington, D.C., to see him and stayed on to do all he could to help in the hospitals. His contact with wounded soldiers deeply affected him and reaffirmed his democratic sentiments.
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung
The Role of democracy foundations The FriedrichNaumann-Stiftung of Germany.Abstract of a paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Democratic
http://www.fnf.org.ph/liberallibrary/demfound.htm

Extractions: The Role of Democracy Foundations: The Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung of Germany Abstract of a paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Democratic Cooperation Forum, with the Theme: Building a New Vision for Asia-Pacific Democracy and Human Rights, in Taipei, Taiwan on August 26-27, 2002 1. The German system of political foundations affiliated to political parties (therefore also political party foundations) has long become an important point of reference in international debates aimed at promoting democracy in countries emerging from authoritarian rule. 2. The German political foundations may be called an answer of the democratic Western German society to the dark past of National Socialism: they were formed and publicly funded with the clearly defined goal of infusing in the German citizenship the values and principles of democracy. There exists a consensus that democratic civic education constitutes a pillar of democracy. A new challenge for the political foundations has been the collapse of socialism in the Eastern part of Germany and ensuing re-unification.
Change Of Name
strengthening the moral and spiritual foundations for democracy. Initiativesof Change is open to all. For many Christians it represents
http://www.uk.initiativesofchange.org/general/IC_press_release.html
Democracy At The Barricades
democracy at the barricades. Another senior US civil servant, keen to delegitimisethe NGOs , suggested persuading the foundations that fund them to turn off
http://mondediplo.com/2001/08/02genoa

Extractions: to receive our free monthly summaries, please fill in your e-mail address Heads of state were besieged in July in Genoa. They talked trade and money inside a guarded, if luxurious, compound, while outside the Italian carabinieri confronted demonstrators, only a few of whom were violent. Results: news footage of handshakes and governmental agreements, their details already forgotten - and of an unwarranted death, 600 injuries, beatings and frustration. The next talks will be in the safe enclave of Qatar. by SUSAN GEORGE * After the disgrace of Genoa, multinationals and European and international institutions targeted by "anti-globalisers" have a recurrent problem: how to discredit, weaken, manipulate and, if possible, annihilate the international citizens' movement which has disturbed the gatherings of the masters of the universe since Seattle. Police retaliation and direct repression are the most obvious weapons in the anti-anti-globaliser armoury. This April spring in Quebec smelled of tear gas: the official figure for the number of canisters fired against anti-FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) ( )demonstrators was 4,707 - "excessive" according to a committee set up by the government of Quebec (
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7/9 The 2002 foundations of Political Theory Awards and the results of Politicsof Tragedy; Aryeh Botwinick and William Connolly, eds., democracy and Vision
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Extractions: Science Association Contact us at foundations@political-theory.org New conference listings. John Rawls died yesterday at age 81. The citations for the 2002 Best First Book Prize ; new professional news . Section news: There will be no Plenary Address at the Annual Meeting this year, and the Business Meeting will discuss how future Plenary Addresses should be handled. The 2002 Foundations of Political Theory Awards and the results of 2001-02 political theory searches Andrew Sabl ... Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question New in the bookstore: Beiner and Norman, eds., Canadian Political Philosophy , Jane Bennett, The Enchantment of Modern Life , Guy Story Brown, Calhoun's Philosophy of Politics , H. Lee Cheek Jr., Calhoun and Popular Rule , Gary Gutting, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity , Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry , Petr Lom, The Limits of Doubt , Mapel and Nardin, eds.
Center For The Study Of Democracy, UC Irvine
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF democracy, UC IRVINE RESEARCH PAPERS foundations of LatinoParty Identification Learning, Ethnicity and Demographic Factors Among
http://www.democ.uci.edu/democ/papers/carole.html

Extractions: University of New Mexico @ Center for the Study of Democracy, 1998 Abstract There is limited solid evidence on the determinants of partisan preference among Latinos in the United States. This study makes use of the Latino National Political Survey to explore the partisanship of Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Puerto Ricans on the mainland and, in comparison, that of non-Latino whites (Anglos). We particularly focus upon the relationships between learning, demographic factors and partisanship. Our national data generally validates the overall pattern of preferences found in more limited studies: strong Republican Party preferences among the Cuban-Americans and Democratic partisanship within the other two groups. We also find that the demographic correlates of preference vary substantially across these ethnic groups. One result that does hold for all three Latino groups is an increase in Democrat Party identification with experience of U.S. politics (as measured by age or time in the United States). This result supports a learning theory view of Latino partisanship. We also find that those Latinos who are more integrated into their ethnic culture are more likely to support the party dominant for their group. When we turn our attention to factors that distinguish independents from partisans, we find fewer differences across groups. Higher education and older age tend to be associated with partisanship as has been found for the general US population. For both direction and independence, religion matters for Anglos and Puerto Ricans but not the other two groups. Finally, we examine strong versus weak attachment among partisans and again find age effects. This research demonstrates how learning theories of partisan identification can be elucidated by analyzing an understudied sub-population of Americans. It also underscores the importance of resisting the impulse of grouping all Latinos under a single heading in the study of their political behavior.
CSD UC Irvine--Political Institutes And Libraries
Private foundations with democracy Emphases. William and Flora HewlettFoundation; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation National Libraries.
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Extractions: Entry to US Govt. Documents University Centers Center on Democratic Performance, SUNY Binhamton Center for Voting and Democracy Centre for the Study of Democracy (Queen's University, Canada) Comparative Democratization Project at Stanford ... Center for the Study of Public Policy, Strathclyde Democracy Institutes Freedom House National Endowment for Democracy International Republican Institute National Democratic Institute ... Riggs' Index to International and Democracy Sites Private Foundations with Democracy Emphases William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Charles Stewart Mott Foundation National Libraries US National Archives and Records US Library of Congress British Library Canadian National Library's Canadian Government Information Presidential Libraries F.D. Roosevelt Library Dwight Eisenhower Library J.F. Kennedy Library L.B. Johnson Library ... William Clinton Presidential Materials
Olin Center, Olin Conference. The Theoretical Foundations Of The Relationship Be
democracy. The Theoretical foundations of the Relationship betweenPolitics and Religion in Liberal democracy May 31 June 2, 1985.
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Extractions: Olin Home About Lecture Series Conferences ... Contact Information The Theoretical Foundations of the Relationship between Politics and Religion in Liberal Democracy May 31 - June 2, 1985 Introduction Schedule Sessions The Founders' Intentions: What were the intentions and expectations of the great early modern philosophers who conceived of the separation of religion and politics? What institutional arrangements and intellectual changes did they think were necessary to effect this separation? What did they hope would be the effects on religion? On politics? The State without Religion: What has been the effect on the modern liberal state, in America in particular, of being separate from religion? Has it fulfilled its founders' intentions as a humane and tolerant community bonded together by mutual respect? Has it become the "cold monster" Nietzsche decried? Or has it been compelled to establish its own civil religion? Does it remain endangered by religious intolerance and fanaticism? Paper: Richard J.Neuhaus, Director, The Center on Religion and Politics
Rule Of Law Program Fact Sheet
As former communist and totalitarian governments struggle to build the foundationsof democracy, we assist these newly emerging democracies through a number of
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/rights/law/lawfact.htm

Extractions: RULE OF LAW PROGRAM T he Rule of Law program is at the core of a broader goal for promoting democracy around the globe. As former communist and totalitarian governments struggle to build the foundations of democracy, we assist these newly emerging democracies through a number of programs. Support for the Rule of Law program is based on issues identified by U.S. embassies overseas to aid in the development of democracy. Rule of Law programs focus on six major areas: assisting in constitution writing and constitutionalism; providing citizens greater access to their judicial systems. The State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor ; the Agency for International Development (USAID); the Department of Justice; and the federal judiciary through the Committee on International Judicial Relations which falls under the Judicial Conference of the United States all work closely with a number of private legal and judicial associations, including the American Bar Association (ABA),
Democracy And Philanthropy Project
The mission of NCRP's democracy and Philanthropy Project is to encourage and emboldenfoundations to support advocacy, applied policy research, leadership
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Extractions: Mission The mission of NCRP's Democracy and Philanthropy Project is to encourage and embolden foundations to support advocacy, applied policy research, leadership development, citizenship action and community organizing. Goals Increase foundation payout. Despite 15 years of booming asset growth, foundation giving has declined as a percent of assets. The "One Percent More" initiative, a partnership between NCRP and the National Network of Grantmakers seeks to raise the payout level of private foundations from five percent of their assets to six percent, moving another $3.3 billion in grants from assets to social change. NCRP expand "Foundation Dialogues," which bring nonprofits and funders together to talk about funding priorities, social change, and community needs. Continue and expand our acclaimed research and reporting on right wing foundations' use of philanthropy to support and move their political agenda.
Democracy And Philanthropy Articles Of Interest
democracy and Philanthropy Articles of Interest. Community FoundationsCommunity Foundation and Citizen Empowerment NOT!(RP, Spring 1995).
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Extractions: Suddenly, Critics Hammer Foundations RP , Winter 1996) Why Foundations Should Aid Local Charities (Pablo Eisenberg, Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2/8/96) Community Organizing, Democratic Revitalization Through Bottom Up Reform (NCRP Special Report, September 1995) The New York Foundation and Empowerment-Oriented Grantmaking, One Foundation's Experience with Change (NCRP Special Report, September 1995) Conservative Foundations And Their Activist Grantees (NCRP Special Report, September 1995)
Earn Your Degree With UWA Online
Other notable works UA/UWA Summer Teacher Workshops Using the foundations ofDemocracy Curriculum in Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Schools, Alabama
http://www.colsouth.edu/UWA/mtf_smith.html

Extractions: Professional bio: Classes usually taught: Additional UWA assignments: Committees: Member of the Student Success Committee Member of the UWA Student Life Committee Member of the University Review Committee Chair of the Cooperating Teacher Appreciation/Training Day Committee Member of the Foundations and Secondary Education Search Committee Researching the history of Sumter County, AL especially the Civil War and Reconstruction Periods
Philosophy Of Democratic Government
These books, it is hoped, will help people everywhere to understand the foundationsof democracy and to realize that this system stands on those principles
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Extractions: IN GRATEFUL AFFECTION TWICE during the first half of the twentieth century, totalitarian systems have challenged the concept of democracy. These systems have put forward complete philosophies of man and the state, philosophies strong enough to inspire their followers with a crusading spirit. Democracy has been on the defensive; it has been defended more and more often with the pragmatic argument. But this argument has proved no match for the competing systems. Democracy works, it is true but so did fascism, until it was destroyed from outside. The need for a philosophy that shows democracy to be grounded firmly on rational principles this need is apparent. These considerations have prompted the Walgreen Foundation to issue a series of volumes setting forth the basic principles on which democracy rests. These books, it is hoped, will help people everywhere to understand the foundations of democracy and to realize that this system stands on those principles that are necessary to maintain human dignity.
Table Of Contents; Buchanan: Collected Works; Buchanan And Wagner, Democracy In
8. MoneyFinanced Deficits and Political democracy. democracy in DeficitThe Political Legacy of Lord Keynes © 1977 by Academic Press, Inc.
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Extractions: CONTENTS Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (with Gordon Tullock) ... Part I. What Happened? What Hath Keynes Wrought? The Old-Time Fiscal Religion First, the Academic Scribblers The Spread of the New Gospel Assessing the Damages Part II. What Went Wrong? The Presuppositions of Harvey Road Keynesian Economics in Democratic Politics Money-Financed Deficits and Political Democracy Institutional Constraints and Political Choice Part III. What Can Be Done? Alternative Budgetary Rules What about Full Employment? A Return to Fiscal Principle Footnotes The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution (with Geoffrey Brennan) The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy ... (with Geoffrey Brennan)
SD Website
This open letter to President Bush on helping the Iraqi people establish thefoundations for democracy and human rights was circulated by a group of
http://www.socialdemocrats.org/

Extractions: e-mail: info@socialdemocrats.org SD, USA is the successor to the Socialist Party, USA, the party of Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas and Bayard Rustin and is a member of the Socialist International Two resolutionson democracy in Iraq and labor's role in Americawere debated at a January 8 meeting of U.S. social democrats in Washington. A resolutions committee made up of Rachelle Horowitz, Penn Kemble, Arch Puddington and Richard Wilson put the resolutions into final form. For Democracy in Iraq
Journalists Condemn Secrecy In American Trade Talks: 'Threat To Foundations Of D
IFJ Basic Documents
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Extractions: Journalists Condemn Secrecy in American Trade Talks: 'Threat To Foundations Of Democracy" texte français THE WORLD'S largest journalists' group, the International Federation of Journalists, today condemned a "sinister process of secrecy" that has excluded civil society groups and citizens from negotiations on a new trade agreement between 34 countries to be discussed at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec next week. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is the name given to the process of expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to all other countries of the Western Hemisphere except Cuba. With a population of 800 million and a combined GDP of $11 trillion (US), the FTAA would be the largest free trade zone in the world. In a statement issued today, and backed by its member organisations throughout the Americas, the IFJ claims the new trade pact will be "a charter for state-corporate power threatening the fundamental rights of millions of people in the western hemisphere and undermining social programmes, environmental protection and natural resources." The IFJ accuses governments of negotiating in secret with scant regard for citizens' rights. At the same time more than 500 representatives of corporations in the region have had privileged access to FTAA negotiating documents.

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