Compare / contrast - democracy / industrialization

Democracy and Industrialization

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Democracy and Industrialization

Democracy is a trite concept nowadays but its real meaning and implications are often vague in practice . Political leaders and civic groups abused its significance to justify their actions . Democratic ideas have been able to influence the philosophies behind the world 's most ancient leaders and political figure . The power of democracy has expanded and been carried out during the era of Cleisthenes and Pericles in ancient Athens , Vaclav Havel during the modern Czech Republic , Thomas Jefferson

in his Declaration of Independence in 1776 and Andrei Sakharov through his last speeches in 1989 (Cincotta , 2007

As Abraham Lincoln said , Democracy is government of the people , by the people , and for the people ' It is then generally defined as a form of government in which the supreme power is given to the people and is exercised through their duly elected representatives (Cincotta , 2007

On the other hand , industrialization is the application of technological inventions to aid the mass production of products and services . Often economic development is associated with the level of industrialization that a country has achieved . At the start of industrial revolution in the 18th century , feudal nations have changed into a market-oriented social structure (Cooney , 1997 . Industrialization created entrepreneurs - merchants and traders - who pioneered commercial establishments . The industrialization process has also paved the way for the emergence of the working class into the society

Democracy is not only tantamount to preset principles or laws on the governance of the state government rather is only one of the elements in a societal structure . This means that in a democratic society , the government has a harmonious coexistence with other social institutions This diverse existence is called pluralism ' and assumes that societal institutions are independent in terms of their existence , legitimacy , or authority (Cincotta , 2007 . Economic development led to the establishment of democratic institutions for it entails equality to access and distribution of societal wealth . On the contrary , the concentration of economic wealth in the hands of the few elite capitalists resulted to the loss and bankruptcy of small-scale firms This uneven distribution of wealth had created serious social and political implications . Often , the power of the elite class is exercised to protect their own interests while leaving the working class at the losing end by providing them with unjust compensation and longer working hours

The United States of America

The data presented by the US International Information Program Britain 's colonies in the American land were recognized as the United States of America territories after the Treaty of Paris in 1783 . In turn , The United States founders made a promise for freedom and equality which were exercised by forming a series of laws and policies that were geared to uphold the rights of the Americans . As such , in 1788 , the constitution was promulgated to evoke an electoral system and freedom and civil rights . In the late 1860s after the Civil War , the freed slaves became citizens with a nominal...