Democracy

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Ukraine to remake 'Yes, Minster' as democracy's downside becomes clear Jack Malvern First Ukraine imported liberal democracy from the West. Now it has turned to Britain for a satire...

In this article: Ukraine, Sir Humphrey, Yes, Minister, Jim Hacker, House of Commons, Nigel Hawthorne, and Paul Eddington

...the public. There is a general consensus that some form of news is more than desirable for conducting a democracy. Newspapers preceded modern democratic practice by 200 years, and set the stage for its broad propagation. While they have...

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...government has come up with proposals to try to reach a compromise but they have not gone far enough for advocates of democracy. Democrats knocked back similar plans in 2005, says our correspondent, and there is little in the new proposals...

In this article: Hong Kong, Beijing, Democratic Party, Emily Lau, Britain, China, and BBC

Chief Secretary Henry Tang, who announced the proposed blueprint to lawmakers in the city's historic domed legislature, said further democratizing Hong Kong's electoral system in 2012 was a "crucial step," but not a precondition, to realizing...

In this article: Hong Kong, Beijing, The Communist Party, Lee Cheuk-yan, Emily Lau, and China

In this article: Hong Kong, Beijing, and Communist Party

...remains angry at the slow pace of progress and skeptical about Beijing's intentions. WHEN WILL HONG KONG BE ALLOWED TO Realize FULL DEMOCRACY? Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, stipulates universal suffrage is the "ultimate...

In this article: Hong Kong, Beijing, Donald Tsang, China, Alan Leong, Chris Patten, and London

...attacks are more frequent and deadly today than before. These events betray uncomfortable truths about democracies at war. Peaceful toward each other, democracies are belligerent with nondemocracies - but inept at fighting them. Wary of...

In this article: Second World War, Duplicity, Separatism, Gulf War, University of Pennsylvania, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Georgia

...Kelly doesn't think so. As for the argument that it will allow Mohammed to spout his views: How insulting. Is our democracy so fragile that it can't withstand an extremist's rants? no better show of America's strength than a public trial -...

In this article: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, New York, Eric Holder, Ramzi Yousef, Zacarias Moussaoui, and World Trade Center

...were he alive today, might have said democracy is the best of all forms of government in countries that have the necessary institutions in place and are ready for it. All democracies need elections, but not all elections lead to democracy.

In this article: Winston Churchill, Iraq, Middle East, Connivance, Communism, Kleptocracy, Dog, and Africa

...has not been fazed by the news, mindful that more than a decade after Taiwan's transition from one-party dictatorship to freewheeling democracy, local politics remains heavily influenced by close connections between officials and thugs.

In this article: Taiwan, Allegation, Nationalist, Henry Liu, Chiang Kai-shek, and Ma Ying-jeou