When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Liberal democracy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy

    By the end of the 19th century, liberal democracy was no longer only a liberal idea, but an idea supported by many different ideologies. After World War I and especially after World War II, liberal democracy achieved a dominant position among theories of government and is now endorsed by the vast majority of the political spectrum. [citation ...

  3. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government

    After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. A liberal democracy may take various constitutional forms: it may be a republic, such as Estonia, Ireland, Germany, and Greece; or a constitutional monarchy, such as the United Kingdom, Japan or Spain.

  4. Economic liberalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Liberalism

    In its initial formation, economic liberalism was focused on promoting the idea of private ownership and trade; however, due to a growing awareness of concerns regarding policy, the rise of economic liberalism paved the way for a new form of liberalism, known as social liberalism. This promoted an accommodation for government intervention in ...

  5. Liberalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

    Diamond says that democracy bounced back, and by 1995 the world was "predominantly democratic". [202] [203] However, liberalism still faces challenges, especially with the phenomenal growth of China as a model combination of authoritarian government and economic liberalism. [204] Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of the ...

  6. Types of democracy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_democracy

    A direct democracy, or pure democracy, is a type of democracy where the people govern directly, by voting on laws and policies. It requires wide participation of citizens in politics. [ 4 ] Athenian democracy , or classical democracy, refers to a direct democracy developed in ancient times in the Greek city-state of Athens.

  7. Economic liberalization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalization

    Economic liberalization, or economic liberalisation, is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities. In politics, the doctrine is associated with classical liberalism and neoliberalism .

  8. Modern liberalism in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the...

    Major examples of modern liberal policy programs include the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Affordable Care Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. [5] [6] In the first half of the 20th century, both major American parties shared influential conservative and liberal wings.

  9. Embedded liberalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_liberalism

    By the mid-1930s, the global liberal economic order had collapsed, with the old, highly integrated trading system replaced by a number of closed economic blocks. Similarly, in mainstream economics free market thinking was undermined in the 1930s by the success of the New Deal and by the Keynesian Revolution. After a transition period and World ...