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This 5 page paper asks the question "has globalization undermined democracy?" and answers yes, it has. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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hire local workers, and sell products around the globe. There doesnt seem to be once standard definition of the term globalization, but one formal one is this: "1. The increasing
world-wide integration of markets for goods, services and capital that attracted special attention in the late 1990s. 2. Also used to encompass a variety of other changes that were perceived
to occur at about the same time, such as an increased role for large corporations (MNCs) in the world economy and increased intervention into domestic policies and affairs by international
institutions such as the IMF, WTO, and World Bank. 3. Among countries outside the United States, especially developing countries, the term sometimes refers to the domination of world economic affairs
and commerce by the United States."1 We notice immediately that globalization is a very broad concept, and that it is almost always defined in relation to the United States.
Democracy is an even more difficult concept, as its both a political system and an ideology. Rather than going on and on through various types of democracy, heres one
simple definition: "Fundamentally, [democracy] means a government of, by and for the people."2 It can be an economic democracy, which is based on the "idea that people should have
equal access and to and say in the distribution of the wealth and resources of a country."3 Clearly the U.S. is not an economic democracy. An "electoral democracy" is founded
on the idea "that, to be legitimate, government authority must derive from periodic free, fair, broadly participatory, and genuinely contested elections."4 Or it could be a "representative democracy," which is
a system "whereby people select others to represent their interests in government rather than having direct influence or say over such decisions."5 The United States is a representative democracy; it
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