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As general manager of the Secretary of her staff is always to create a peaceful democracy, easy and pleasant office environment.

This was the culmination of years of debate, in many ways a tribute to Indonesia's vibrant new democracy.

Yet it came, and now it has ended, resolved, as it must be resolved, through the honored institutions of our democracy.

BIG, peaceful demonstrations in the run-up to a presidential election may look like signs of a healthy democracy. Not in Russia.

Sustainable democracy, she feels, is possible only after a strong middle class has emerged.

There was a time when African leaders used to argue against multi-party democracy on the ground that it would exacerbate tribal divisions.

He said the United States should change its neutral policy, because Britain was fighting a common enemy of democracy.

None of this changes the fact that democracy is useless without a decent number of voters.

Lincoln was a quiet man. Abe Lincoln was a quiet and a melancholy man. But when he spoke of democracy, this is what he said.

Zhang Tai-yan in learning the West, exploring the truth process. Have - degree of capitalism and democracy, said the aspirations and Zhuimu.

Just as conservatives appeared to have lost any sense that democracy must be more than what the majority insists upon.

Fact of the matter is you are able to write this much, is only possible because this great democracy gives you freedom of expression.

"Before the elections we had so much so-called democracy that it has made us nauseated, " he said.

"Democracy will avenge the death of my wife, and the thousands of other Pakistanis and citizens of the world, " he said.

Science advocates academic democracy and freedom, but Evolutionism is above suspicion. Evolutionism, just a theory, is described as a fact.

The emergence of these subtle indicators of incipient democracy has been a result of China's growing trade ties with the outside world.

The president said the constitution guarantees fundamental freedoms and lays the foundation for lasting democracy.

The author argues that this definition makes it difficult to determine what precisely constitutes a representative democracy.

He said the work of democracy promoters has been made more difficult by rapid economic growth in such countries as China and Russia.

The question is no longer whether economic growth stems from autocracy or democracy, but rather about the character of that growth.

This seems to be an admission that America's emphasis on spreading democracy has not gone exactly as planned.

Although the word "democracy" did not appear, the report argued for greater political participation by China's citizens.

In terms of the welfare policy, Japan has a strong state bureaucracy and a weak social democracy.

He considered the best state to be a polity, which he defined as a common wealth intermediate between oligarchy and democracy.

For the good of Japanese democracy, not to mention its own future, the DPJ must reject Mr Ozawa and all that he stands for.

Its aim is nothing less than to draw up an internationally agreed framework ofr decentralization and the practice of local democracy.

This official said the Pakistani leader has made clear he is prepared to go all the way in bringing true democracy to his country.

Global warming will define this century, just as the struggle between totalitarianism and democracy defined the last one.

For the sake of Turkish democracy, it would be better if it did not.

Idealists might frown that the best 11 years of democracy could throw up is a contest between the incumbent, his deputy and his predecessor.

Public support from Chinese politicians for democracy and human rights is often little more than lip service.

Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy.

Stone then lauded him with a rhetorical question: "Where would Russia be if it weren't reaping the benefits of a free democracy? "

In a healthy shareholder democracy, such a rule would not be controversial.

In the book Will the Boat Sink the Water? does it show the peasants really having the language to ask for democracy and political change?

He gave a troubling impression that his popularity justified limiting the checks and balances typical of a democracy.

But authoritarian nationalism, backed by massive foreign reserves, may turn out to be simply a phase on the long march to liberal democracy.

e-Government -- sometimes referred to ase-Democracy -- is one of today's more controversial subjects.

This week Congress got to work on a bill that would greatly extend shareholder democracy by giving investors a vote over executive pay.

Now, as you know, Russia is struggling to find its interpretation of democracy and also to get the economy in gear.

The transition to a functioning democracy could take under a year with help from international election monitors, Mr Abdel Jalil said.

Voters in a democracy may not know all or even any of the technicalities of running a government, but they surely can judge the results.

Second, if democracy is to work, it depends in theory, at least, upon a populace that will vote on issues.

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

Rural policymaking has been further complicated by operating within a political system more complex than that of any other modern democracy.

It is not easy to consolidate democracy in the East Asia countries, so it is worthy to observe this case of Japan.

In recording the conversation with him, the U. S. cable has no mention of the words democracy, human rights, or fair trials.

One of the doomed democracy activists, plotting against the regime, insists: "It is our obligation to call injustice by its name. "

"I grew up thinking that in Argentina there had been a war, and that our soldiers had gone to war to guarantee the democracy, " she said.

Legco, with its echo of the children's toy, sounds like a pretend parliament in which democracy is constructed one tiny brick at a time.

All this seems to point to a slow maturing of democracy in Latin America.

But a preliminary report from the Arab Democracy Foundation says those irregularities did not affect the election.

And he still says that it was right to invade, because it scared other would-be proliferators and turned Iraq into a peaceful democracy.

There was no affinity towards democracy as it was understood then well. . . to me this just sounds like historical revisionism .

Diamond argues that the United States must use more than vague encouragement if it wants to see real democracy in the Middle East.

Pakistan's president says his country, is ushering in a new era of democracy following years of his autocratic rule.

If calm is restored and genuine elections take place in the next few months, Tunisia may yet emerge as a pluralist and peaceful democracy.

He said the country had a "long and winding road towards full democracy" , but the US and other countries would stand behind Tripoli.

She had understood that the cost of democracy is the price the poor pay in the delay of their entry into the middle class.

Not care a continental, Chinese democracy is not the west democracy, but they have the great contact between them.

Less than a week after bowing to pressure to accept a second round, President Karzai said that not holding one round would insult democracy.

He has vowed to hold within the two years elections for which foreign governments have seemed ready to tolerate the suspension of democracy.

But the government seems to see the OSCE chairmanship as an international public-relations exercise rather than a way of boosting democracy.

That's why India has been a bit of an embarrassment for those of us who believe in democracy, especially when compared with China.

Direct democracy in California is thus an aberration. It has no safeguards against Madison's tyranny of the majority.

One can also read the book as a reminder of what would have to be the case for a genuine democracy to function.

It's by no means clear that the United States or any other welfare-state capitalist liberal democracy is the goal.

The point is simple, if extraordinarily difficult for those of us proud of our traditions to accept: this democracy no longer works.

He praised the appearance of a strong second political party as a step toward true democracy.

On the surface it appears to be in conflict with America's much touted democracy, but this is not the case.

"We did not come to be instructed about democracy, " Mei Zhaorong, China's former ambassador to Germany, icily declared.

But many of us hoped that Obama would put a gradual, bottom-up democracy-building initiative at the heart of his approach.

It only awaits a "Continental Army" of new winter patriots, willing to sacrifice just a little to defend American democracy so much.

For all its chaos, however, Ukraine is now a recognisable democracy with free media and a strong opposition.

Egypt has been a territorial state since the first pharaoh in 3150 BC, but it has never once in five millennia experimented with democracy.

If you were going to accept multiparty democracy after 10 years of war, why go about this in a roundabout way?

"Egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day, " he said.

Israel, as well as Arab countries, he said, should adopt Lebanon's government model of democracy, separating church and government.

To underline his point, he said it has taken the U. S. more than 200 years to get to its current state of democracy.

He told Yemen's embattled president to quit. And he asked Syria's president to "lead that transition [to democracy] or get out of the way. "

Mr. Bush tried to put the protests in the most positive light, saying they were a sign of a vibrant democracy.

In the market democracy the objective of the voting process is not a man, but a man's achievements, the products of his exertion.

Contemporaneous with muckraking in magazine journalism was the proliferation of a fictional literature dedicated to the cause of democracy.

Antonis Samaras, leader of the opposition New Democracy party, said he would vote against the austerity programme in parliament.

"The United States is pleased with this progress and will continue to work hard to strengthen U. N. democracy efforts, " she said.

Fourth, security and effective democracy can enable the pursuit of a smart economic and social development strategy, he said.

If so, Thailand may emerge from two years of political strife and regain its former status as a beacon of multi-party democracy in Asia.

Dewey set out to fulfill the American dream of a public school system that was the chief training ground for democracy.

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Actually, it is something of seeking private interest in the name of democracy, freedom and human rights.

Actually, it is something of seeking private interest in the name of democracy, freedom and human rights.

The gold standard was the world standard of the age of capitalism, increasing welfare, liberty, and democracy, both political and economic.

She said her "Chinese friends" should get used to dealing with the "vibrant. . . noisy, nature of our democracy" .

When I joined the democracy movement in Burma it never occurred to me that I might ever be the recipient of any prize or honour.

On the surface, none of these crises had much to do with profound questions of democracy.

There is talk, too, of restoring power and credibility to the legislature, the heart of any representative democracy.

Though only 50% of the city's eligible voters bothered to turn out, it was refreshing to see even a glimpse of democracy in action.

Messy, frustrating, and more often than not agonizingly slow, India's democracy would seem to be chaotic at the surface.

You are right to say that there cannot be any democracy in the Arab world without the participation of the Islamists.

As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions.

Quoting the chairman, Pun said his party would not copy any other model of democracy but would establish a unique system suitable to Nepal.

Through the two parts, question of "whether democracy can be looked on with liberty" is answered.

From the beginning to talk about democracy, citizenship and political participation will occupy an important position.

He says it is important that this summit occurred in a relatively young democracy - part of a post Cold War growth spurt in EU membership.

As a product of democracy, the Accountability Government has now become the general concept of modern governance around the world.

It has showed how much our leaders tried to built democracy into society years by years, but it doesn't work as they really want it.

And Tin Oo, vice chairman of her banned National League for Democracy party, said his sources told him her release order has been signed.

Indonesian democracy seems to have firmer foundations, but it would be a serious mistake to assume that they are fully built.

For a woman who claimed to be driven by a burning desire to bring democracy to Pakistan, it was a curious legacy.

To put it simply, democracy, more than any other form of government, delivers for our citizens.

Though theoretically a democracy, India's governance has resembled something of a feudal system in practice.

Indonesia has become a democracy but in Papua the army still seems to function as a state within the state.

For a member of the Communist Party who grew up in Mao's China, this was a pretty overwhelming taste of participatory democracy in action.

"Almost any other Western democracy would be a more useful comparator for us, " says one.

'Democracy can only move forward within the parliamentary system, ' he said.

The president is likely to ask other summit-goers to press Cuba on issues of democracy, including the release of political prisoners.

It had a functioning democracy, but ever-squabbling politicians seemed unable to get things done.

Mr Bakiyev disappointed many of his supporters by not living up to his promises of democracy and political reform.

Had he been less of a buffoon, South Africa's road to democracy might have been bloodier.

The Tunisian uprising has been a reminder of the power of political ideas; and of the popular pull of democracy.

It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy at a time when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance.

I'll admit that things like this can turn dangerous very quickly, but there was a buzz being a part of democracy in action.

Eliminating perceived threats to its (democracy) road map is right at the top of that.

But if they focus on the broader stuff - democracy, corruption, human rights - they risk trying to do everything and achieving nothing.

What strange twists of fate had caused a refuge from Nazi persecution to wind up in Arabia as the representative of American democracy.

"This seamless transfer of authority is one of the hallmarks of a true democracy, " he said.

His political philosophy, known as Jacksonian democracy, helped solidify a strong executive branch and expand the electorate.

Third, thanks to Qaddafi's obsession with a facade of direct democracy, Libya has no experience of party politics and competing interests.

"For past decades, the U. S. has supported the people of Taiwan, but now our democracy is being locked in a birdcage, " he said.

It sounds like the sort of constitutional fine-tuning to be expected in a young democracy.

Tshisekedi says dictatorship has no place in a democracy and the world should know that democracy is now in Congo.

He said the U. S. has also urged that Egypt's political transition be an "irreversible change" and a negotiated path toward democracy.

And with the fall of the Iron Curtain, elections indeed swept the world. Yet democracy doesn't seem to have delivered on its promise.

"I am not ready to lie to people claiming that we have a democracy, " she said.

In her first post- imprisonment speech last month, she said she's willing to work with Myanmar's leadership and fellow democracy advocates.

Unlike China and Russia it is a full-blooded democracy; unlike India it has no serious disputes with its neighbours.

The United States is not opposed to referenda ; Taiwan is as entitled to hold referenda as is any other democracy.

We stand ready to provide whatever assistance is necessary -- and asked for -- to pursue a credible transition to a democracy.

Rapprochement with pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be going well since she was released from prison almost a year ago.

His view seems to be that the world is caught between too little democracy in the east and too much in the west.

The lack of a credible reformist opposition has long been a weakness of Turkish democracy.

Democracy activists in Egypt, and throughout the Middle East, had to distance themselves from America, he said.

You still have no cows, but at least now you depart of a Democracy. . .

Secretary Kerry said the State Department and USAID have provided assistance to democracy and human rights programs in several countries.

Tunisia is in with a good chance of having a decent democracy and a perky economy by the end of next year.

The United States condemned the attack and said it would continue supporting Pakistan's efforts to combat extremism and bolster democracy.

"We're speaking about a democracy, and in a democracy you don't guarantee the results of the elections, " he said.

' Yet another tweeted: 'Due to the DPJ, democracy and the notion of a nation's sovereignty are about to be lost.

The system was given birth in modern western countries and was the product of western representative democracy.

If he is allowed to crush the opposition, it would chill pro-democracy movements across the Arab world.

Will it be keen to add a bit of democracy into its alias as many others choose to do?

In an interview published in the Washington Post (newspaper), the president acknowledged the path to democracy in Iraq has not been smooth.

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, we have pressed on with political restructuring and improved socialist democracy.

Fourth (probably a bit guilty), that the Greeks invented democracy in anything like the way that we recognise it now.

Believe it or not, the word "democracy" never appears in the Constitution.

Brazil's transition to democracy took place well before he took office.

For a modern reader of the Republic it is not necessary to summarize its author's discussions as an argument against democracy.

From America's point of view, what was supposed to be a showpiece of Arab democracy gifted by Uncle Sam is becoming a fiasco .

It bewitched the region's left, detaching large parts of it from a path of social democracy for a generation.

WHEN a great democracy such as the United States holds elections at a time of war, voters are torn between two instincts.

A democracy is always temporary in nature, it simply can't exist as a permanent form of government.

Early in the conflict, many had high hopes that this war would be a short and principled campaign to bring true freedom and democracy.

Could this take place in any seemingly stable democracy, or does the land of democracy's birth have special features?

Yet one prominent democracy seems to be escaping the trend toward base-rousing populism.

Rice said the Americas and Africa have "enshrined" within their regions a commitment to democracy through these two "visionary" charters.

Such a snapshot should not be misread: Germans are not about to ditch democracy.

This may sound strange to some, especially since democracy is often defined as rule by the majority.

More than any other action that we have taken, the power of America's example has helped spread freedom and democracy abroad.

Almost everyone agreed that democracy was the best form of government, though 30% would accept authoritarian rule in certain circumstances.

Britain is not a federal democracy, so the Lords would have no separate interest to balance against the will of the Commons.

In a democracy all this would have led to investigations and perhaps resignations.

The first great populist: he found America a republic and left it a democracy.

The United States standing as the foremost capitalist liberal democracy whilst the Soviet Union was the foremost communist state.

If anything, sad to say, the cause of democracy became tainted by association with a president most Arabs despised for invading Iraq.

Now, as an immigrant, I love the special and, yes, exceptional nature of American democracy.

But to say the demonstrations were to "demand democracy" is an oversimplification.

Above all, it is a rare example of a mainly Muslim country with a thriving, secular democracy and a liberal, free-market economy.

Zoning may have been necessary to get democracy going, but the dire state of the government is now undermining democracy's legitimacy.

Democracy activist Ramon Saul Sanchez said the announcement is good news for advocates of democratic change in Cuba.

He would stay as president until September, he promised, because the country needed him for a transition to democracy.

America's sex-offender laws are the strictest of any rich democracy. Convicted rapists and child-molesters are given long prison sentences.

But, overrun by its enemies, starving, and with the ideology of democracy itself in question, the Athenians took a more fundamentalist view.

Democracy is not, as some argue, an obstacle to India's progress, but a necessary condition for its existence as a state.

Finding something American to sell to the Chinese, whether democracy or widgets, has always been a problem.

I used to believe that the total reception of the western democracy, freedom and science can give China the way out.

And he said Pakistan is not a completely functional democracy.

It used to be the army that was the main threat to democracy. In Suharto's day it dominated politics.

This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.

Though it is a democracy and has easily the biggest economy and armed forces in South Asia, it has rarely been a force for good.

This increased the power of political parties, like the Democrats and Republicans, and strengthened the democracy of the process.

"The government has made it clear that in a democracy the only force that can exist is a government, " he said.

'I think of two words: democracy and freedom, ' he said when asked about the U. S.

To tell the truth, we don't believe that Israel can be a true democracy and an exclusivist Jewish state at the same time.

To that end the American government has earmarked scores of millions of dollars to help Iranian "civil society" and pro-democracy groups.

When UN-sponsored elections took place in 2006, the first in four decades, Congo seemed to have embraced democracy.

I said it was a good thing for the long-term prospects of democracy in China.

If it was a victory for democracy, it was also one for force over mediation and diplomacy.

Now, the debate in China is no longer about whether to have democracy, he said, but about when and how.

The freedom of press is the most distinct symbol of the democracy and an indispensable part of the concept of the constitutional.

Will liberal democracy be able to survive in a post-Christian world, particularly one in which internalized guilt is abandoned?

It was clever not to get dragged into politics as usual but instead to come up with new ideas using an idealistic form of direct democracy.

Since the adoption of the 1990 Constitution, Croatia has been a parliamentary democracy.

Spreading democracy around the world is no magic bullet, even if it is a laudable long-term goal.

A well-governed democracy "is the way for the Palestinian people to realize their goal of a Palestinian state, " he said.

The only movement that posed a potentially serious challenge to the regime was the short-lived China Democracy Party (CDP).

But if a solid peace and something resembling a democracy were entrenched, that at least would be a legacy worth leaving behind.

If electoral competitiveness were the only yardstick to judge a democracy, India today would qualify as a great success.

Innovation is a word like democracy. Everyone is in favour of it, but different people attach different meanings to it.

Even if it is technically a democracy, most nations are run by and for the benefit of the elites that control the institutions of power.

All extremists seem to believe that their brand of authoritarianism represents true democracy.

It has said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tired.

There is no soil where this notion cannot take root, just as every democracy reflects the uniqueness of a nation.

Now they've got to get some sympathetic folks elected to public office, because that's how this democracy thing works, when it does.

It gradually turned Chile into a proper democracy, in which dozens of the dictatorship's army officers are now in jail for murder.

The declaration called for a federal system based on equality and democracy to be established through a second Panglong conference.

The concept of the loyal opposition is central to any democracy.

"Our message is the United States believes in democracy and freedom, " he said.

I once heard a senior European official remark that the trouble with democracy was that George W. Bush was its cheerleader.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ---Abraham Lincoln.

"This is democracy at its most basic, where people are choosing how and by whom they wish to be governed, " he said.

'It was a different time, ' he said. 'We all thought we'd just wait 10 years and then we'd have democracy. '

But they were united by their commitment to turn Spain into a democracy.

Spartan empire replaced that of the Athenians , and it moved to suppress democracy throughout the Greek world.

As a 24-year-old American, I can testify that this rich democracy has plenty of those too.

Trying to restrain the Internet is a game of "whack-a-mole" that cannot be won, says John Morris of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

There are two ways of understanding democracy: the way of rationalism and idealism, and that of empiricism and realism.

Imagine you are a senior official of the Chinese Communist Party trying to figure out whether democracy is a good idea.

George Bush called it a landmark in Iraq's transition to democracy.

Direct democracy, which is the direct involvement and participation of every citizen, is democracy in its truest form.

But democracy activists have to be careful not to be labeled "pro-American, " because that would destroy their credibility.

Communist conservatives maintain that "democracy is hindering India's development, " he said.

Japan even managed, he said, to be a one-party democracy.

"We believe that the cause of freedom, democracy and human rights defenders around the globe requires our best effort, " he added.

Some would wish to install a new strongman and wait for him to create the conditions for a secular democracy.

Mr Surkov is quite right when he argues that democracy would not stimulate technical innovation.

It's been a weary few months, marked with strikes and demonstrations, and big questions: How will Tunisia's version of democracy play out?

acknowledging as well that democracy and constitutional liberalism cannot be imposed.

And I salute the Thai people on the restoration of democracy, which has proved that liberty and law reign here in the "Land of the Free. "

The market economy and the capitalistic system have been described as a consumers' democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

Considered from the point of the traditional parliamentary democracy, the import of EU's democracy is insufficient.

The chief of these was that Mr Bush wanted Arab democracy on the cheap.

The Middle East has indeed proved ripe for democracy, but not at the point of a cruise missile.

People tend to associate democracy with the United States, assuming that the U. S. system is the ideal democratic system.

Well, I still have to ask: whether there is no democracy in India without colonial rule?

If Africa's leaders want to be taken seriously on democracy and human rights, they simply must speak out in a case as clear as Zimbabwe's.

but some voters sensed it had rendered social democracy unaffordable for the foreseeable future.

Kremlin ideologues like to describe Russia as a "sovereign democracy" , whatever that means. Elsewhere it would be called an autocracy.

"Costa Rica is getting tangled up with regimes that are not exactly shining examples of democracy, " he said.

At present, with the acceleration of the construction of the socialist new countryside, farmers have increasingly strong sense of democracy.

On the other side of the Middle East divide stand the Sunni Arab countries, the US and its democracy interests, and, of course, Israel.