MADRID For decades, critics of the European Union have spoken about a democratic deficit.

Yet Bolivia s current crisis does point to the democratic deficit that plagues Latin America today.

There was often a deficit of democratic oversight over both State military and private military capabilities.

According to a number of ministers, there was a democratic deficit in the Bretton Woods institutions.

Well before the crisis, the European Union was widely perceived to be suffering from a democratic deficit.

The reform treaty that is to be adopted in 2009 is aimed at overcoming the EU s supposed democratic deficit.

Political efficacy Allowing citizens to participate in government processes would increase the political efficacy and counteract the democratic deficit.

Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

This deficit reflects an underlying research deficit.

BERKELEY The United States is beset by four deficits a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in public investment, and an opportunity deficit.

(deficit) adjustment

SURPLUS (DEFICIT)

That restructuring will occur, deficit spending or no deficit spending.

There is both a knowledge deficit and an understanding deficit.

Figures like Senators Pete Domenici and Alan Simpson, who talked a good game about the long run deficit, never met a budget busting Republican program that they would oppose or a deficit reducing Democratic initiative that they could support.

The EU s supposed democratic deficit is a corollary of the technocratic imperative that has emerged as a favorite scapegoat in the ongoing European drama.

A credible solution to the eurozone s current crisis depends on addressing this democratic deficit, but the crisis also provides an opportunity to do so.

The dialogue clearly demonstrated that there is a need to address the democratic deficit in many of the international economic, financial and trade institutions.

Additional deficit spending

Europe s Trust Deficit

Europe s Vision Deficit

The Energy Deficit

The Skills Deficit

Gross surplus (deficit)

Net surplus (deficit)

Nature Deficit Disorder.

Despite some prominent women at the top of Latin American politics, the general absence of women from the region s political life causes a serious democratic deficit.

But their failings do pose a dilemma for Democratic deficit hawk economists trying to determine what good economic policies would be should Barack Obama become president.

Europe s Pointless Deficit Targets?

America s Misplaced Deficit Complacency

Closing Europe s Defense Deficit

Global Warming s Technology Deficit

Latin America s Education Deficit

Closing America s Jobs Deficit

The Global Trust Deficit

6. Projected operating deficit

6. Projected operating deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

Surplus (deficit ) for period

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.

long term deficit trajectory?

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

It perpetuates deficit spending.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder predominantly inattentive (ADHD PI), formerly attention deficit disorder (ADD), is one of the two types of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The counterargument hinges on the difference between the current account deficit and the trade deficit.