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An 8 page consideration of the way democracies are evolving away from the strictly Western precepts of democracy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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has become the preferred form of government in a diversity of countries. Interestlingly, however, there has been a definite shift over time away from many of the western precepts
of democracy. Indeed, democracy has evolved in many non-Western countries in step with the cultures and ethnic ideologies of these countries. That ability to be molded for a
unique fit, however, is in itself a feature of democracy. Democracy, after all, is not a single ideology. Instead it is a complicated blend of several key ideologies
that can be traced far back into time. Pure democracies are, in fact, short lived. Customized democracies, on the other hand are resilient enough to deal with the
many stressors presented by the need for national governance. Despite the fact that democracies are now being forged world wide, our contemporary idea
of a democracy revolves around the political system that is in place in the United States. Our countries founding fathers worked long and hard, however, to work out the
details of that democratic system. The democratic system that Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Hobbes, James Madison and many others worked so hard to produce was shaped primarily after the ideologies
of John Locke but that system also diverged from Lockean ideology to one extent or another. That system was customized to fit the cultural and ethnic dictates of our
specific country. Such is the case with many of the democracies that have emerged around the world today. The common
enemy that our founding fathers agreed upon when forging our Western precept of democracy was feudalism. They rebelled against the thought of a system that allotted rights on the
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