We tend to understand democracy as a system in which ‘the people’ are allowed to vote to elect their government, but voting is only useful in a certain kind of society. So what else is needed? Democracy can be seen as a goal, but it can only be a to
In many discussions, we appear to treat the terms 'state', 'country' and 'nation' as being interchangeable. But on reading around the subject, there seems to be a large degree of agreement about the precise meanings. The terms 'state' and 'country'
