Created: Jan 06, 2007
Updated: Jul 02, 2007
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Democracy Education

Democracy Education

Democracy education is the activity of educating, teaching, training, and imparting knowledge and ideas to people about the concepts of democracy, including ideas about civic participation and people's rights within a democratic state. Med_polar Photo source

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Tn_demnowDemocracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 300 stations in North America.

Tn_wmdemWorld Movement for Democracy is a global network of democrats, including activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy.

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"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."

-Agnes Repplierbr

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democratic principles, democratic values, civic education, democracy movement, citizen representation, local democracy, civic responsibility, participatory democracy, democratization, direct democracy, representative democracy, civil disobedience, direct action, democratic deficit, electoral democracy


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