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Democracy Chronicles

Josh Stewart articles

Josh Stewart is a married father of two. His current profession is a firefighter and paramedic in Central Florida for the last 10 years. He is currently a graduate student at University of Central Florida working on a masters’ degree in American and comparative policy. His interests include policy formulation theory and voter sentiment.

Direct Democracy or Representative Democracy: Which is Best?

by Josh Stewart - December 17, 2012

Direct Democracy or Representative Democracy

Is This What Democracy Looks Like? The oft-ignored consequences of direct democracy: The absolute power is already in the hands of the voters.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Corruption, Anarchism, Direct Democracy and Referendums, Election Methods, Proportional Representation

Who’s to Blame for Campaign Cash Influence? It’s Everyone

by Josh Stewart - September 7, 2012

Campaign Cash Influence

The Influence of Money on Any Campaign is a More Difficult Problem Than Many Accept But Assigning Blame for Campaign Cash Influence is Not Very Easy To Do

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Corruption, Citizens United, Money Politics

Voter Turnout: Access or Apathy?

by Josh Stewart - August 24, 2012

Our Veterans Low Voter Turnout

A Vitally Important Increase in American Voter Turnout Starts at Home

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Local Elections, Voter Access, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Voter Turnout

Voter ID: An Objective Approach to a Subjective Debate

by Josh Stewart - August 11, 2012

Voter ID Required

Voter ID: An Objective Approach – Voters Should Have Voter ID But We Should Be Guaranteed Access

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Voter Access, Voter ID, Voter Registration

The Politics of Philosophy in the World’s Oldest Democracy

by Josh Stewart - August 3, 2012

World's Oldest Democracy

The World’s Oldest Democracy Became a Society Plagued by Institutionalized Polarization of Politics

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Big Government, Capitalism and Big Business, Money Politics

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Harnessing The Power Of “We The People” On Independence Day

By Jenna Spinelle July 3, 2022

Democracy does not have a singular definition, which is one of the things that makes it so interesting to me — and undoubtedly to many of you.

Florida Doesn’t Need a Speech Czar

By Steve Schneider June 28, 2022

Full disclosure: I’m a liberal Democrat. So, I won’t be sending in my vote-by-mail ballot for Ron DeSantis in November. Nor will I vote for him in 2024.

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Introducing: When The People Decide

By Jenna Spinelle June 25, 2022

Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.

Democracy’s Summer Blockbusters

By Jenna Spinelle June 8, 2022

The summer will be legally and politically charged particularly with the January 6 committee hearings scheduled to begin June 9.

Can American Democracy Have Nice Things?

By Jenna Spinelle June 7, 2022

Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens.

PODCAST: Baby Boomers And American Gerontocracy

By Jenna Spinelle May 23, 2022

Older and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole skew gray-haired, and within the Democratis, the left-leaning youth vote.

A Dangerous Reprise Of American Exceptionalism In Ukraine

By Jamie Lampidis May 15, 2022

The stakes are too high to cave into Putin’s phantasmatic imperial play, and too high to believe that this war can be won by arming Ukrainians.

On The Coming End Of Roe v. Wade

By Peter J. Dellolio May 11, 2022

Anyone who says that the evolution of law has nothing to do with politics is either very corrupt or very stupid. Laws evolved through the centuries.

Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

By Andrew Straw May 5, 2022

Congress should impeach judges who act like that because it is not good behavior, and they were asked not to act that way when they were confirmed.

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The murder of Sidhu Moose Wala has brought attention to the link between Punjabi music and India’s cross-border criminal networks.

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University Educated Less Likely To Endorse Authoritarianism

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From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

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The atmosphere in the interstate polling booth in Sydney’s inner east resembled that of an emergency room waiting for a donor organ.

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Organizational leader’s tweets can influence employee anxieties and this effect is more prominent since the rise of COVID-19, study.

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