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Jan 01, 2011

The United States of America – A Deficient Democracy

The United States of America are an example that also established democracies show deficiencies in the quality of democracy. The efforts of U.S. President George W. Bush to democratize the world through military means have led to a marked decline in the quality of American democracy. It remains to be seen whether Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, will be able to repair the collateral damage of the Global War on Terror and reverse the deterioration of the former model democracy’s image.

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Braml, Josef, and Hans-Joachim Lauth. “The United States of America – A Deficient Democracy.” January 2011.

Comparative Governance and Politics/Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, ZfVP, Special Edition, 1/2011, pp. 103-132

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