The movement of Soviet troops into Afghanistan.
In elitist theory power is seen as concentrated amongst a few groups or individuals, including the government. Elitist theory would suggest that only a few major pressure/interest groups, such as the NRA or AARP, actually have any influence, and that even they struggle to gain power because it is concentrated in the hands of a few members of government.
Democracy is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting. In a direct democracy, the citizens as a whole form a governing body and vote directly on each issue. In a representative democracy the citizens elect representatives from among themselves.
Defintion- a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
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The Dowager Empress Cixi supported the Boxers in their rebellion because the Boxers were willing to fight the foreigners and were successful to some extent.
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- Initially, the Chinese government did not approve of the Boxers and tried to suppress them. But as soon as the Dowager Empress Cixi realized that the Boxers were patriotic fighters, she declared her support to the Boxers.
- Later in time, the Chinese army started joining the Boxers in their missions and the rebillion of boxers turned into a mission directly supported by the government.
Around 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China under the Qin Dynasty, ordered that earlier fortifications between states be removed and a number of existing walls along the northern border be joined into a single system that would extend for more than 10,000 li (a li is about one-third of a mile) .
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