A more democratic Iraq has become a more violent Iraq.

The post communist record shows that the countries that reformed most successfully are also the most democratic indeed, as democratic as any in the West.

Though fragile and violent, Kyrgyzstan is the most democratic state in the region, and it could be America s natural ally.

India is a democracy, and Pakistan a wayward democracy.

We still hope that we can redress the aforementioned shortcomings and restore the General Assembly's role as the most democratic and universal policymaking organ of the United Nations.

The post communist record shows that the countries that reformed most successfully are also the most democratic indeed, as democratic as any in the West. The worst economic outcomes in the region are found in countries that have diverged from democracy.

Democratic Alliances

Despite this huge concentration of powers in the presidency, or perhaps because of it, the Fifth Republic has failed to perform better than more democratic Western regimes.

Ultimately, as I argue in greater detail in a paper for the Global Citizens Foundation, ordinary people are better off with global institutions, notwithstanding their weakness relative to their most powerful sovereign members and their lack of legitimacy relative to their democratic members.

India s Disrupted Democracy

The Myth of Khaki Democracy

First democratic election

Is it democracy with adjectives, such as managed democracy, illiberal democracy, or electoral democracy? Only a few pundits stubbornly adhere to this approach.

A New Democratic Agenda for Russia

Sri Lanka is a democracy.

The most likely scenario, however, looks something like Turkey in 1980 an undemocratic, military dominated outcome, but no serious bloodshed.

The process of protracted strikes could thwart positive political changes among the younger generation, thus reducing the chances of a more democratic and benign Iran emerging in the future.

Democracy in Tea Party America

There is no democracy to speak of.

India s Democracy at 60

Turkey is still a democracy.

Moreover, all of Europe needs a truly democratic Ukraine.

Malawi has a democratic, multi party government.

The Republic of Taiwan is a democratic, sovereign State.

There are lawless democracies and undemocratic states of law (Rechtsstaat).

Elections without liberty do not constitute genuine democracy, and here Egypt faces a serious challenge its best organized group, the Muslim Brotherhood, rejects religious liberty and individual rights, especially the rights of women.

In China, capitalism prospers without democracy.

This time, however, the politics will be democratic.

Will China s Capitalist Revolution Turn Democratic

There is no other way in which a democracy can function.

Bangladesh has been a parliamentary democracy since 1991.

India is the world's largest democracy.

Investors, of course, are hedging their bets. Having ventured successfully into emerging non democratic countries whose frailty they are starting to fear, some, out of prudence, are starting to rediscover Europe.

Rather, it is imperative to restore the powers of the Assembly derived from the Charter, particularly through leaving areas which are within its purview namely, law making and norm setting to this most democratic forum of the Organization.

Neither the most gracious, nor the most ingenious, but perhaps the nicest.

We in the developed world live in democracies.

What could be more democratic?

We must also make our own politics more democratic.

Managed transitions produce more stable democracies.

After all, Turkey is already a functioning democracy.

Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions.

In June 1990, Czechoslovakia held its first democratic elections since 1946.

Nevertheless, taking a decision by vote is a democratic process.

First priority has to be accorded to setting up local democratic governments.

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