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-The Role of the Ballot is to roleplay as policymakers since this is the best way to achieve real world education. |
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-Joyner 99, Professor International Law @ Georgetwon, 99 (Christopher "TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW: VIEWS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL SCIENTIST" ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, Spring, 5 ILSA J Int'l and Comp L 377) |
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- Use of the debate can be an effective pedagogical tool for education in |
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-real world of policy analysis,political critique, and legal defense. |
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-Util is the only ethical system available to policymakers. |
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-Goodin 95 – Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University (Robert E., Cambridge University Press, "Utilitarianism As a Public Philosophy" pg 63) |
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-My larger argument turns on the proposition that there is something special about the situation |
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-, aggregates and averages is just not sufficiently fine-grained for that. |
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-Thus the standard is maximizing well being. |
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-AND voluntary political participation is a fundamental ideal of democracy. |
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-Maria Eremenko, "Political participation: Model by Verba in the EU and Russia", National Research University, http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/pdf/participant-papers/eu/Maria-Eremenko-Political-participation-Model-by-Verba-in-the-EU-and-Russia.pdf |
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-"Political participation affords citizens in a democracy an opportunity to communicate information to government |
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-news, discussing politics with friends etc.), but "doing politics" 3 |
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-Contention 1 Democracy participation: |
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-QI serves to shield police from accountability |
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-The WSW is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. The WSWS aims to meet the need, felt widely today, for an intelligent appraisal of the problems of contemporary society. It addresses itself to the masses of people who are dissatisfied with the present state of social life, as well as its cynical and reactionary treatment by the establishment media.;wsws.org; US Supreme Court Expands Immunity for Killer Cops; 15; https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/11/12/pers-n12.html |
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-With the death toll from police brutality continuing to mount, the US Supreme Court |
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-mass repression and dictatorship in response to the growth of working class opposition. |
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-Police violence leads to lack of political participation. |
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-Liz Adetiba is a Politics Intern at The Huffington Post. She is a rising senior at the University of Chicago where she studies political science and human rights. You can reach her at liz.adetiba@huffingtonpost.com.; huffingtonpost.com; Watching Videos of Police Brutality Can Traumatize You, Especially if You're Black; 16; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/watching-police-brutality-videos_us_577ee9b3e4b0344d514eaa5d |
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-Jarrod Doyle was relaxing with friends on July 5 when the hashtag ~#AltonSterling popped |
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-if you don't watch, you can't participate in the society." |
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-Contention 2 Impacts: |
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-Democide |
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-Democracies check political violence |
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-Timmerman 14 (Ashley M. Timmerman, BA at University of Central Florida, Summer 2014, "WHEN LEADERS REPRESS: A STUDY OF AFRICAN STATE," http://etd.fcla.edu/CF/CFE0005428/Masters_thesis_final.pdf MV) |
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-Several alternate causal mechanisms are proposed to explain this finding. Joseph Young (2009 |
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-with a multiparty system before a significant improvement in human rights practices is achieved |
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-Disease: |
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-Democracy is a prerequisite to effectively combatting disease |
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-Ruger 05, (Jennifer Prah, "Democracy and health". Harvard University, PhD, Health Policy. Yale University, MSL, Law. Oxford University, MSc, Comparative Social Research. Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MA, International Relations. (Qualified as hell) http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/qjmed/98/4/299.full.pdf |
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-Democratic institutions and practices can affect human development in multiple ways, including population health |
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-before it loses millions of its citizens to yet another public health tragedy. |
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-Diseases causes extinction |
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-DUJS 09, (Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, "Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate", http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate) |
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-RIP Homo sapiens A pandemic will kill off all humans. In the past, |
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-could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain (10). |
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-War |
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-Democracy is a critical impact filter - checks escalation for all wars |
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-Hamburg 10, (David A., President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, previously President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, previously chair of the department of psychiatry at Stanford, M.D. from Indiana University, "Recent advances in preventing mass violence") |
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-Democracies thrive by finding ways to deal fairly with conflicts and resolve them below the |
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-processes of mutual accommodation, offer the best chance for nonviolent conflict resolution. |
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-Economy |
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-Democracies lead in economic growth, development, crises management, political stability, and low inequality |
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-Karakaya et. al 15 (Ugur Karakaya, the Gaziosmanpasa University Hasan Bulent Kantarci, Kocaeli University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, department of economics, "The Relationship between Democracy, Freedom, and Economic Development", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic and Management Engineering Vol:9, No:6, 2015, http://www.waset.org/publications/10001565, al) |
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-Democracy happens to be one of the main features required for economic growth and |
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-our research results, democracy has a positive impact on economic development. |
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-Empirical studies prove that democracies have more environmental protection than nondemocracies |
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-Bernauer et al. 13 (Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich, Tobias Böhmelt, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, "National climate policies in international comparison: The Climate Change Cooperation Index", Environmental Science and Policy 25 (2013) 196 – 206, 1/13 |
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-To examine possible analytical implications of such differences, we revisit a rather well- |
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-et al., 2003; Ba¨ttig and Bernauer, 2009). |
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-Democratic consolidation is key to prevent nuclear war |
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-Muravchik, 2001 (Joshua, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, "Democracy and Nuclear Peace", http://www.npec-web.org/syllabi/muravchik.htm) |
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-That Freedom House could count 120 freely elected governments by early 2001 (out of |
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-yet exist but where the prospects for democracy may be still more remote. |
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-Ethnic War |
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-Democracy is the only system that can reduce ethnic conflict |
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-Timothy D. Sisk, 8-1-2003, "Democracy and Conflict Management," Beyond Intractability Project, The Conflict Information Consortium, University Of Colorado, http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/democ-con-manag MV |
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-Of the range of tools available to conflict resolution practitioners to manage intractable conflicts, |
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-democracy may contribute to or help exacerbate intractable conflict is a critical concern. |