William Greider Quotes
Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.
William Greider, Journalist & Editor, Who Will Tell The People, 1992
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This was his version of the governing body of a republican commonwealth. His assumption was that the ablest men would be the nobility, the educated and religious (Catholic) elite.
the power a ruler or a ruling class
In the Watergate crisis H. R. Haldeman had asked for a Presidential pardon. A discussion of the request was held by some White House staff members:
After the many years of the Cold War attacking of Democracy, for many Russians the word conveys a bad image of their old enemy. For others, using the word reminds them that the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russians lost the cold war—an unpleasant memory. Yet many of the leaders of the Russian Federation very much wanted to democratize Russia. Bushmin had this very practical, albeit humorous, solution.
Meiji the Great. “Public Opinion” had the same meaning for the Japanese of this time as modern Western democracies perceive it with one exception. The public did not include all; it included only landlords— who owned land and had peasants on it. However, even asking them was an incredible step forward. The Emperor even sent formal written surveys to the landlords and in that sense, Japanese methodology of ascertaining public opinion was far ahead of the West. These reforms were opposed by the nobility and later the military, and by the 1930s there was no semblance of democracy left in Japan.
William Harold Greider was an American journalist and author who wrote primarily about economics.
