The French have seldom been enamored of democracy.

In name, Guatemala is a fledgling democracy.

France, of course, is a presidential democracy.

Can Egypt Become a True Democracy?

Is Islam incompatible with multicultural democracy?

Such an outcome would make a mockery of democracy.

But human rights should not be conflated with democracy.

This means to make sure that political power is controlled and political processes transparent.

Such may not yet be democracy.

Turkey also shows that the supposed clash between democracy and security and, indeed, between democracy and Islam can be reconciled.

Moreover, mere elections should never be confused with democracy.

Pundits claim that Arabs cannot manage democracy.

In such circumstances, liberal democracy and security are in tension.

Without such changes, France will continue as a monarchical democracy riddled with underground intrigues.

The contrast between overregulated democracy and unregulated bankers did not go unnoticed.

African youth must be introduced to democracy and pacifism in the classroom.

Disapproval of Congress is growing, and people s satisfaction with representative democracy has decreased.

Democracy has, of course, degenerated into what is sometimes called managed democracy.

Germany is a well functioning democracy with an overwhelming majority for an open society.

Nepal s 15 year experiment with democracy now seems over.

Democracy must be encouraged, wherever possible, by the most powerful democracy on earth.

His rhetoric of class war suggests a complete break with mainstream social democracy.

Of course, taking democracy to the streets is never an easy choice.

Of course, the problem of Islam s compatibility with democracy may be analyzed from different points of view.

In such circumstances, liberal democracy and security are in tension.

danielvk Religious mafia manipulates democracy freedom to rob the freedom of others.

Today, what might be considered electoral democracies are found throughout the region.

Indeed, it may be that the framework for a state that can preside over a true democracy has yet to be created.

France is a stable democracy, and large majorities in Parliament often support its governments.

India is a glorious democracy with an economically literate government and pockets of real economic achievement.

In our globalized world, the potential divorce between elections and democracy has assumed a new dimension.

East Timor, now known as Timor Leste, is the world s newest democracy.

And I would add that bin Laden and his followers are consciously devoted to the goal of creating a conflict between democracy, or at least capitalist democracy, on the one hand, and the world of Islam as they see and define it.

Human rights will not co exist with dictatorship, or with any other non democracy, for long.

Corporate welfare capitalism substituted for what in Europe would have been government provided social democracy.

At last, Japan would become a fully functioning democracy, and not a de facto one party state run by bureaucrats.

MANILA East Timor, now known as Timor Leste, is the world s newest democracy.

None is without difficulties and risks, but only engagement is compatible with liberal democracy.

Merkel s kill to cure remedy has run up against reality and democracy.

The Chinese example certainly calls into question a strong correlation between multi party democracy and economic growth.

Younger generations rebel precisely because they have internalized the values of freedom and choice offered by democracy.

For the first time since the Kennedy administration, the US is one of the only liberal democracies in the world with a center left government.

In countries with corrupt and imperfect democracies, they have the wherewithal to resist change.

The best way to encourage openness is by strengthening commercial and economic ties while ceasing to treat Russia as a nascent democracy.

Only those who govern our democracies can do that, by shrinking our freedoms in freedom's name.