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As one of his followers pointedly remarked today, in European democracies party leaders and prime ministers tend to be elected.

Almost until the moment Mr Ben Ali was forced to flee Tunis, the rich democracies took the side of "stability" against the street.

America, along with Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan, is one of just a handful of democracies that retain capital punishment.

Somehow half of the tin and a third of the rubber that the democracies used came out of this mess.

If something similar were to happen to its fellow democracies in Europe and America, the consequences would be far larger.

If democracies decide to ban certain types of speech or to protect their citizens' data, they must be able to enforce their rules.

Dictatorships and democracies alike seem to be dismissive of American leadership.

Yet the Middle East is an outlier: in spite of a fall in their number, it is now the only region in which autocracies outnumber democracies.

Only a decade ago, Thailand was one of Asia's strongest democracies.

What you may fail to understand is the speed with which democracies can shift their attitude from the open hand to the clenched fist.

The question of whether modern democracies can successfully resist populist tyranny is raised and then abandoned within two paragraphs.

Democracies, by contrast, seem to prefer more youthful leaders these days, though India and Italy are exceptions to this trend.

In the years of the American and French revolutions the fundamental principle guiding our democracies was established .

His audience was chosen by members of a private organization friendly to the White House: the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies .

Education systems in democracies do not preclude study of other political doctrines or systems of government.

If the worst is avoided, the healthy popular hostility to a strong state that normally pervades democracies should reassert itself.

The second was that new democracies would inevitably be more friendly and helpful toward the United States.

Perhaps more than most democracies, America is suffering a crisis of governance at a time of acute economic need.

Mr Assange enjoys the protection of several liberal democracies, but is not really accountable to any of them.

And even in established democracies like the United States, we've seen the power of these tools to change history.

But really serious public and political pressure seemed measured, at least by the standards in other democracies.

One significant difference between the United States and some other major democracies is the selection and role of the head of government.

Do not confuse the workings of our democracies with a lack of will.

Today, after years of expanding trade and rising incomes, both are multiparty democracies with full political and civil liberties.

Mr. Lukes also said the West has a spotty record providing assistance to emerging democracies.

The EU is a voluntary group of democracies. For all its faults, more states want to join and none wish to leave.

"ONE person, one vote" is an accepted principle, in Western democracies at least.

The relationship between the world's two largest democracies "will be indispensable in shaping the 21st century, " he said.

America is one of very few democracies (along with Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan) still to have the death penalty.

He should keep it open, but make it into a model of how democracies ought to handle suspected terrorists.

Targeted markets are democracies where arguably authoritarianism is no longer a "disease" that needs treatment.

Nevertheless, criminal libel laws have been justified as necessary to protect nascent democracies from damaging criticism.

Both democracies emerged from mid-century authoritarian rule marked by an orgy of judicial and extra-judicial killings.

Mali, which serves as chair of that coalition, will host a Community of Democracies Ministerial Conference in November.

Looking around the world today, we see that many of the most prosperous countries also boast the most dynamic democracies.

And without the backing of leading European democracies, an enhanced Palestinian status in the General Assembly would look empty.

At the beginning of World War II, this side of the Pacific had only two democracies: Australia and New Zealand.

The United States and other democracies cannot dictate the outcome but must invest maximum effort and creativity to help shape it.

Oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt. . . to align Germany with the western democracies.

Raw materials are usually found in troublespots, rather than liberal democracies (Canada and Norway being among the honourable exceptions).

Excuse me, but as our democracies work on this earth, they are by the rule of the uniformed mobs serving a few dictators.

He said Japan should build strong links with like-minded democracies in the region.

And in Sudan's Darfur region, Rice said, the world's democracies must "resolve to end the suffering and violence. "

The system of checks and balances is now cited as the prototype of limiting power in democracies.

United States is among the most inegalitarian society as far as the distribution of wealth of all the advanced democracies.

In that sense, Breivik is just one terrible extreme of a discontent with social change felt across all the Nordic social democracies.

MOST rich democracies spend a lot of time and money trying to convince more people to exercise their right to vote.

It also said the China should also launch a public opinion war by making an effective use of the free media in the US and other democracies.

In Italy, the powerful do not have to exercise their power with restraint, as they do in other Western democracies.

Whether on average democracies are more conducive than autocracies to economic growth is far from well established.

But it has shown no interest in formal membership, not least for fear of being in a room full of (mostly) rich democracies.

You think corruption in democracies is bad, you haven't seen anything yet!

Nato's eastwards expansion is seen not as young democracies' desire to join a protective alliance, but as "encirclement" of Russia.

And dictatorships are unlikely to be better than democracies.

In lieu of participatory democracies, republics have arisen as the actual form of government.

The Chinese leadership's crackdown no doubt chagrined those in democracies who advocated giving China the games.

Finally, Hadley said, a community of effective democracies is the best entity to address the regional and global challenges of our time.

This makes China relentlessly dynamic in ways that democracies, with all of their temporizing, cannot be.

In an environment of fa? ade democracies and authoritarian governments, fundamental institutional reform is needed.

Democracies tend to be more resilient, more able to absorb dissent and conflict.

He added that most democracies around the world remain free to adopt the punishment should they wish to.

In western democracies, voters endorse the short-term pain of radical reforms only amid an acute sense of crisis.

The free exercise of these rights is what separates, in many cases, democracies from dictatorships.

[font=Calibri][color=#000000]Yet democracies would be wrong to turn their back on nuclear power.

unexpected obstacles in the effort to revitalize America's alliances with its fellow democracies.

Even before the conflict in Georgia, he was arguing for throwing Russia out of the Group of Eight and forming a new League of Democracies.

These days political dynasties are usually associated with the young democracies of South Asia rather than mature republics.

Elsewhere, the food crisis of 2008 will test the assertion of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, that famines do not happen in democracies.

Democracies should have thought of that.

Yet democracies would be wrong to turn their back on nuclear power.

And that's good news for the United States, because democracies really do fight less often.

The trouble is that such a dirigiste design is not well suited to today's liberal democracies and their flexible labour markets.

It offers a variety of viewpoints on how democracies can be classified, and different opinions on how models of democracy diverge.

Hence the call among some of Mr McCain's advisers for a countervailing partnership of democracies.

Both arguments can be questioned, although I concentrate my discussion on whether democracies favor economic growth.

But we will not achieve that until we win our democracies back from overwhelming corporate influence, in pursuit of a bankrupt value system.

If you did business only with democracies much of the world would be closed to you.

Both are continent-sized countries in the western hemisphere with federal democracies in which state governments have considerable power.

Less noticed is the fact that new supplies come from a shrinking number of countries, few of which are stable democracies.

In theory, democracies like the United States should have a built-in advantage.

The clashes reveal a need for police to undergo crowd control training that adheres to the standards used in other democracies.

Some of President Barack Obama's senior advisers have also written enthusiastically about an international league of democracies.

The result is paralyzed democracies and economies. Instead they should lay the foundations for a shared identification first.

Liberal democracies will flourish, yet their purpose, patience and resolve will continue to be tested.

The poor countries, where many of the new democracies have flowered, are typically endowed with abundant labour but scarce capital.

Almost all big democracies have bicameral systems (an exception is New Zealand, which did away with its Legislative Council in 1951).

This seemed to back a proposal, put about by American think-tankers, for an "axis of democracies" to balance China.

Democracies are not all of a piece, and there are many ways in which India is not a very good one.

In a subsequent paper they demonstrate, also mathematically, that democracies would work better if they selected politicians at random.

As constitutionalists correctly argue, democracies can be managed and manipulated.

This story is of global interest, for California has inadvertently made itself a negative model for other democracies.

All these things coming together as they have is not likley to end well. at least for democracies.

In the long term aren't autocracies much more risky for investors than democracies?

We long for the day when Israel will be one of many real democracies in the Middle East.

Industrialised democracies no longer have the monopoly on exerting decisive influence on global affairs.

However, the actual number of liberal democracies that have elected dictators into power is low.

His aides promote the (almost certainly doomed) idea of a global league of democracies.

I am gratified that the United States and many other democracies around the world have taken up this challenge.

In other democracies, politicians might conclude that it was time for new blood in their leadership.

Washington rang with calls from pundits and policymakers for a global league of liberal democracies.

Democracies encourage students to develop reasonable arguments based on careful research and a clear understanding of history.

Some mature democracies, especially Britain and America, are seeing a new phenomenon: the rise of politics itself as a profession.

Thus democracies are usually filled with many voices expressing different or even contrary ideas and opinions.

Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe.

As democracies continue to grow and flourish throughout the Arab world, working with nations like Qatar will become ever more important.

Further down the track, it should hold out the offer of strategic partnerships with new democracies.

The prize could be a family of new democracies: not Poland or the Czech Republic, but Turkey, perhaps, or Indonesia.

China's rulers love to point out the shortcomings of Western-style democracies; the "Beijing model" by contrast gets difficult jobs done.

Democracies do appear to encourage broader investments in education, however, and education helps promote faster economic growth.

Many developing democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America include access provisions in their new constitutions.

It will also bring us into line with the way democracies all over the world elect their presidents.

Elections, of course, do not make democracies.

His League of Democracies and his overheated rhetoric about Iran are misguided, but they are consistent with his political history.

SPIEGEL: Democracies are very complicated, and compared to tightly ruled systems, they are at a disadvantage.

United by impressive economic growth rates, the Brics are divided by politics: two authoritarian regimes sit alongside two democracies.

Compared with other democracies, the United States has a very decentralized structure of government.

In the US and other democracies, their governments have made large, unfunded promises for the welfare of the elderly.

Mr. Bush is scheduled to deliver remarks today to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies at George Washington University in Washington.

He made specific mention of women who are playing a key role in emerging democracies, such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yet democracies, though they conceal less information and hold leaders more accountable, are hardly immune to similar pathologies.

In democracies with proportional representation (as in continental Europe), maps are not very important.

In mature democracies, obscenity laws usually raise no significant concerns for mainstream news organizations.

The larger problem of democracies' weakness has not been caused by the economic crisis, so much as revealed by it.

So the rich liberal democracies should snap out of their slump in self-esteem.

We're talking about democracies in Europe, dictatorships across much of North Africa.

To be sure, many long-term democracies, such as the United States and Great Britain, grew very wealthy.

Was it wrong to suppose that globalisation and economic growth would eventually mean that Russia and China would become liberal democracies?

Several of the former Soviet states that are now democracies are in serious financial trouble.

Of these, only Canada and Brazil have enduring democracies.

But in a world where established democracies are losing clout, can the OECD remain both virtuous and relevant?

Politically, the two nations are both democracies, believing in equality before the law and freedom of the individual.

Outsiders, especially Western democracies once so cocksure and outspoken on human rights, now fret that their power is ebbing eastward.

We have seen democracies outstripped by the markets, which have forced decisions on elected governments.

SLINGING mud at opponents is a staple of most democracies, even if voters might prefer a more sensible debate.

Freedom of thought, freedom inquiry, and freedom of expression are fundamental to all democracies .

The process of economic growth itself forces nations to change in ways that make them more like the western industrial democracies.

In rich, consensus-based democracies, such anomalies are often accepted.

China's press loves to point out the failings and hypocrisies of the "advanced democracies" .

Democracies err, but tyrannies, isolated and suspicious of their own citizens, value neither human rights nor individuals.

However, at their best, leaders in democracies govern in ways that advance the higher national interest, not just partisan interests.

In Latin America's democracies presidential relatives benefit, in part, simply from name recognition at the polls.

More fundamentally, the Turkish government is doing what democracies tend to do: reflecting its people's views.

Latin America's democracies have legitimate quarrels with Mr Bush and the United States.

In parliamentary democracies, heads of State and Government Summit of the segregation of duties.

Democracies with rules and procedures for settling disputes and compensating losers tend to do better.

But as the Legal Daily noted this week, democracies could tamper with property rights by imposing taxes.

In fact, it is not evident that authoritarian countries are more stable than democracies. Quite the contrary.

Democracies like Britain or the United States might formerly have adopted a hands-off policy on such matters.

Even in more established democracies, backlashes against the free market are not uncommon.

The death toll between two democracies dwarfs the number killed attempting to cross the inner German border during the cold war.

Surprisingly, democracies are not necessarily more hostile to the practice than non-democracies.

Yet all liberal democracies have to make compromises to balance freedom and security.

Bond investors don't care about the difficult and time-consuming struggles of representative democracies to coalesce around needed change.

Sure, political risk is lower in the developing world than it was, but still much higher than in developed democracies.

The latest shenanigans may be unpleasant, but are they not just teething pains in young democracies?

Mr. Das suggests that democracies inherently allow greater room for entrepreneurial activity.

Most Americans assume that fellow democracies will share their values and opinions on international affairs.

America wants Nato to develop military interoperability with leading Asian democracies.

In democracies political revolutions usually become obvious only in retrospect.

If western democracies want to extol the virtues of a rules-based trading system, they need to start playing by the rules.

and second, the openness policy would not lead to social unrest in liberal democracies.

Turkey, Pakistan and Thailand, as democracies with strong militaries, offer some parallels.

The experience of Latin America after the economic crisis of 1998 shows that new democracies can be reassuringly resilient.

Like Athens, the modern-day so-called liberal democracies are also "managed" by a ruling class.

Asian democracies like Indonesia and South Korea have put military rule behind them, yet Thailand is swimming the other way.

Nixon's visit was followed by comparable visits by the leaders of other Western democracies and Japan.

And though the democracies that have taken root in Asia are new, the dreams they express are ancient.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ----James Cooper.

In western liberal democracies, no one exhibits slogans calling on the workers to unite.

We are sure they need more support than they have been getting from the United States and other Western democracies.

During the second world war the democracies spied on their own citizens, imposed censorship and used torture to extract information.

Consensual politics and coalition-building is taken for granted in most other advanced democracies.

Even in democracies, the relentless demands of power are wearying, then coarsening then corrupting.

Democracies are diverse, reflecting each nation's unique political, social, and cultural life.

We thought we were tapping the idealistic tradition of the democracies when we put forward the Year of Europe.

Democracies have a safety valve-it allows the disgruntled to let off steam before slowly co-opting them.

All young democracies require multifaceted support to become "well-governed democratic states" that can sustain democracy, Rice emphasized.

DICTATORS and authoritarians will disagree, but democracies work better.

Hardly a day passes without public lamentation about the paucity of leadership in the western democracies.

It is no coincidence that our closest allies in the region are strong democracies.

[color=#000000]Latin America's democracies have legitimate quarrels with Mr Bush and the United States.

The equal protection of election is considered as the basis of modern democracies.

Autocracies can function perfectly well without news, but democracies cannot.

Democracies, after all, depend on compromise. And compromise requires trust.

Any such thing would be bitterly opposed by most of the world's democracies.

Modern, advanced democracies strive to deliver as much prosperity as possible to as many people as possible for as long as possible.

The United States attempted to maintain neutrality in spite of sympathy for the democracies arrayed against the Third Reich.

All three of China's close Asian neighbors, including Japan, became democracies at different times and in different circumstances.

But there is no evidence that autocracies, on average, grow faster than democracies.

Bush says the measure would build on the growing ties between the world's two largest democracies .

They would face an axis of democracies, consisting of the US, Europe, Japan and perhaps India.

Twenty years ago theorists feared that the newly emerging democracies might lack a taste for capitalism.

Those who think capitalist democracies have an unrivalled talent for generating dud loans should consider the Middle Kingdom.

So, with luck, a belt of countries across north Africa should now see democracies gradually entrenched.

Yet this is no ordinary slump of the type familiar to long-serving governments in other democracies.

Thus, it seems sure to weaken both the legitimacy and effectiveness of fragile democracies.

And Canada as a whole will have a surfeit of parliamentarians compared with many other democracies.

They cannot fairly be judged by the standards of long-established democracies.

Today, old adversaries are at peace, and emerging democracies are potential partners.

In some democracies, legislative committees provide lawmakers a forum for these public examinations of national issues.

It took the great democracies of the world centuries to develop.

In most Western democracies, fertility rates have plummeted as wealth has increased.

Great Britain also does not have the strong police culture that makes France perhaps the most muscular of Europe's democracies.

The link between political systems and growth is hard to establish. Yet there is some evidence that, on average, democracies do better.

As in many democracies, Brazil's liberals lack a party where their views are welcome.

Lastly, the US is nurturing a strategic community of democracies in the shadow of Chinese autocracy.

The Middle East, meanwhile, could soon develop a string of prosperous democracies.

But the assumption that the world's democracies will naturally stick together is proving unfounded.

This transformed capitalism and the role of government for half a century, even in the liberal democracies.

There are few democracies where city mayors can be removed at the whim of national leaders.

The most damning criticism of McCain's plan is that it would launch a new Cold War between states labelled democracies and autocracies.

He considered their military prowess an asset for the democracies.

eg. The democracies of the West may find it hard to shore up their defences.

After the Second World War the dominance of the industrial democracies of the west had looked unshakable.

Most democracies also forbid speech that incites racial or ethnic violence.

Democracies have only occasionally reduced inequalities between citizens, and they have certainly not produced morally better individuals.

Democracies are fragile systems that require deep historic roots.

In democracies, the authors say, assassinations didn't make a noticeable difference, so perhaps Oswald really didn't change history.

That, after all, is what a free press in democracies is supposed to be for.

The new League (or Concert) of Democracies would have clearer rules for ins and outs.

It intensified the growing economic and political crisis in the new democracies.

Whilst we are busy with implementing democracies, human rights issues and the world series, the chinese are quietly getting on with it.

The scholars who once imagined a world of shiny democracies have climbed on to other bandwagons.

But these leaders operate in democracies. If they take decisions that voters simply cannot accept, they will lose their jobs.

The real solution is to allow new democracies to be born.

Stable, mature democracies are blocking public and private investments from each other.

India, however, faces the same constraints as other democracies.

The Chinese age, however long it lasts, won't be good for the values and purposes of the industrialized democracies.

Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.

Dictators are falling. Democracies are failing.

Mature democracies do things differently.

Autocrats need not sneer at the troubles of Western democracies.

"Freedom" is the most critical issue facing democracies today, Lagos said.

Democracies always have a propensity towards ugly protectionism in a recession.

What do you think they are - Danish-style democracies?

Few other democracies combine the position of head of government and head of state.

It is in our strategic interest that we support democracies in our neighborhood.

Long live the true democracies of the world where the people elect their leaders for predetermined terms.

in some democracies they still are, reflecting the religious or sexual mores of the majority.

The United States needs to radically change the way it distributes aid to change non democracies' calculations.

In democracies, politics is the biggest cause of delay and financial upset.

Few other democracies combine the position of the head of the government and head of state.

In the past the suitability of referendums for large-scale democracies and democratic polities has been called into question.

Bryce, James. Modern Democracies. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921.

After World War II, Australia and New Zealand were this region's only democracies.

In the US and other democracies, they constitute large voting blocks heavily in favor of social programs.

In democracies, respecting rights isn't a choice leaders make day-by-day, it is the reason they govern.

But that is the way democracies work. The trick is to bind the fiddly immediate business of reform to a bolder vision.

However, China's choice is different with the Western democracies, another social pattern, that is, a socialist democratic policies.

The People's Democracies in Europe are consolidating themselves internally and are uniting with each other.