Deliberative (Genre) Deliberative rhetoric (sometimes, called “political rhetoric,” “deliberative discourse,” or “legislative oratory”) is a rhetorical genre used to convince an audience to complete or not complete an action. Deliberative rhetoric differs from deliberation in tha...
Delta Blind Billy was an American Delta Blues artist, known for being a blind outlaw. So far only one of his songs has been recovered on a 78 record from the 1920's and the rest of his career remains somewhat ambiguous, due to his run-ins with the law. His name may have something...
DEMAND is an East Midlands-based campaign, founded in 2004, seeking to improve the noise controls at East Midlands Airport. A specific concern is the rising use of cargo aircraft at night and a widening impact affecting Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshir...
DemExit is a political movement and withdrawal of democrats from the Democratic Party.It is a hashtag appearing in blogs promoting the idea that people should leave the Democratic party.In the run-up to the Democratic National Convention and after Hillary Clinton's acceptance spe...
Demisexuality is the lack of sexual attraction outside of strong emotional connection. It is distinct from, but related to, asexuality, the complete lack of sexual attraction. The term comes from the orientation being "halfway between" sexual and asexual. Demisexuals do not exper...
</noinclude>The Democracy 2.0 Summits convene youth leaders ages 16 to 30 to compete for grants to fund their innovative entrepreneurial projects.Thus far, the Democracy 2.0 Grant Summits have convened Millennials from across the country to design and execute creative solutions i...
Democracy House Project is a non-profit organization founded by Professor Jeffrey Nielsen of Westminster College, Salt Lake City and Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah.The Project is an educational initiative using his peer-based model to teach political literacy in communities, ...
This article focuses on the history of democracy in Iraq. Moreover, the article presents various opinions of Middle Eastern scholars and politicians on contemporary debates about the future prospect for democracy in Iraq.The history of democracy in IraqIn the book American Hegemo...
An Introduction Today, if I want to know something, I Google it. If I have information to share I can post it on .org. If I want to kill some time, I can go browse through YouTube to find the latest funny videos. Virtually all of the information the modern world has to offer is r...
The democratic backsliding in India is a contemporary social and political development in India, where the current National Democratic Alliance-ruled government is accused of suppressing democratic institutions and thus democratic values in the Republic of India. It includes subv...
The Democratic Canadian Union was a failed attempt to start a new political party in Canada. T. Slama founded this party in 1999 by posting a bilingual website identifying the party's philosophy and policies, including reducing personal income taxes and Employment Insurance premi...
Democratic communism is a socio-economic system with communism as the economic basis and democracy as the governing principle. This entails that the means of production would be controlled and owned by the entire population and that political power would be in the hands of the pe...
The Democratic Ecologists (Ecologisti Democratici, EcoDem) are an Italian political association formed in 2007 by former members of the Federation of the Greens, then members either of the Democrats of the Left (DS) or of Democracy is Freedom – Daisy (DL), as a faction within the...
Democratic liberalism aims to reach a synthesis of democracy which is the participation of the people in power and liberalism, a political and/or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual. It arose after World War I (with most major nations enacting universal suf...
Although most Democratic voters supported Hillary Clinton her underperforming in parts of the Rust Belt was noted, but it is not clearly supported that this was due to cross-party voting. She had difficulties in Appalachia that included Democratic voters. In interviews in the Gua...
The Democratic Party has over the decades encountered a number of high profile scandals during its time in office. These have resulted in some scandals that have led, in a number of cases, to resignations or imprisonment of these figures. Whilst a certain amount of corruption and...
The term democratic republic has formed part of several states' official names. Despite the term’s meaning, many "democratic republics" are not considered liberal democracies; many republics that are considered democratic do not use the title of "democratic republic" in their off...
Congolese-Kosovar relations are foreign relations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kosovo. History On 10 February 2009, the Head of the International Organizations Directorate at the Congolese Foreign Ministry, Alice Kimpembe Bamba, said that her government had no...
The principles of democratic structuring were defined by Jo Freeman in "The Tyranny of Structurelessness", first delivered as a talk in 1970, later published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology in 1972. They were influential in power network theories, especially those challengin...
A democratically elected government is one which has come into power through constitutionally-mandated elections, although there are disputes about whether this is sufficient to classify a government as "democratic". The term "democratically elected" is often used as a label or c...