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Article: Challenges to democracy: reasons for counselor vigilance.
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- June 22, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Project Innovation (Alabama). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction
The main assumption of this statement is that democracy is being forced to adapt to the post-modern world culture and those adaptations have significant implications for counseling. Therefore, counselors can benefit from staying abreast of society's challenges stemming from the general press for potentially historic alterations of democracy.
According to the New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Democracy was created by Cleisthenes in Athens, Greece, at about 510 BC. It has endured as a powerful idea for more than two thousand years yet, it is being questioned seriously and fundamentally by some of today's responsible thinkers. Elshtain (1995) ...