Word: egalitarianism
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...January 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland. His father was a tenant farmer and his mother never learned to write, but Burns read voraciously and managed to secure a fairly thorough education. His family had very little money - when his father died, he left the family bankrupt - which inspired the egalitarian, anti-authority themes that would appear in Burns' future works...
Dovidio and Kawakami say the study suggests North Americans need help, in the form of regulations such as workplace quotas and affirmative action, if they expect to realize their egalitarian ideals. "We shouldn't push policies that focus on intentions but rather on outcomes," Dovidio says...
...said that although the major accomplishment of the document was that it forwarded political, social, and economic rights, he stressed that its egalitarian goals have not yet been achieved...
...wise” should rule is as old as politics itself. The ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle preferred what, in Greek, would be termed “the rule of the best.” Such a regime, however, seems to collide fundamentally with the egalitarian principles enunciated in our founding documents and the democratic sensibilities about government held by many, if not most, Americans. We like to think that in America anyone—even the descendant of an East-African goatherd—can become president. Anyone, nowadays at least, who has gone to Harvard.While a government...
...category of a “liberal autocracy,” but while the U.S. has maintained a solid relationship with Egypt, it has not done much to foster democracy there. While this example does seem to speak to the idea that the Bush regime has failed to be egalitarian in their agenda to spread democracy, Traub never truly makes the connection. As a whole, “The Freedom Agenda” is a detailed examination of democracy as it exists internationally. By delving into specific countries and how the U.S. failed in trying to implement democracy there, Traub...