Helen Osieja

Education for Democracy in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Democracy in the 21st century is jeopardized in many parts of the world. Yet people who live in autocratic systems struggle for democracy, because democracy is the only political system that respects the rights of the people. The aim of this textbook is to present the tenets of democracy for young people who will soon come of age and become citizens as well as for people who have immigrated to a democratic country from a non-democratic country and do not know what rules apply, as well as for people in democratic countries who tend to forget that in a democracy everybody has rights.

While democracy is by no means a perfect political system, it is the only one in which people of different ideologies, religions, lifestyles and ethnicities can live together: Democracy is based on tolerance and pluralism, characteristics that do not exist in other political systems.

However, democracy does not only imply rights for the citizens- it implies obligations and responsibilities. This textbook can be used for a basic course on democracy or can be incorporated as a supplement for a basic course on political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Research and Writing
• Seitenzahl: 97
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789151981857
• Artikelnr.: 61248526

Autorenporträt

Helen Osieja has taught international relations, political science, Latin American studies, international trade and intercultural communication for more than 25 years. She worked for some months as a political analyst at the Swedish parliament, and saw that the democratic principles presented in textbooks did not match the political reality of the country. While she became very disappointed in the political reality she saw and even doubted that democracy was the best system, she came to the conclusion that what is needed is not to change democracy for another political system, but rather to strengthen democracy by empowering citizens. Democracy is, after all, the government of the people by the representatives of the people. More information can be found at https://democracyandeducation.org