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Exactly what is the attraction of a city-state that has been variously described as an illiberal democracy, a liberal authoritarian state and Disneyland with the death penalty? (smh.com.au)
At the same time, authoritarian regimes and populist national movements have seized the opportunity to undermine democracy and the example of freedom it represents. (nylc.org)
Many scholars have regarded China's emergence as an economic force as a threat to democracy in Africa, presenting China as the exporter of an authoritarian model through its rising economic influence. (lu.se)
Like many other countries in Southeast Asia, Cambodia is formally a democracy but characterised by a regime with authoritarian traits. (lu.se)
Previously, democracies such as the US and countries in Europe could be seen as polar opposites to authoritarian regimes - they could also be an inspiration for the inhabitants of these countries, even if Western democracy needs to be defined and adapted to an Asian context. (lu.se)

The attacks on the individuals' devices spanned from Oct. 2020 to Nov. 2021, a timing "highly relevant to specific Thai political events" since they took place over the period of time when pro-democracy protests erupted across the country. (securityweek.com)
2020. "China as Exemplar: Justin Lin, New Structural Economics, and the Unorthodox Orthodoxy of the China Model. (lu.se)
2020. "China-The Champion of the Developing World: A Study of China's new Development Model and its Role in Changing Global Economic Governance. (lu.se)
2020. "The Political Economy of the Chinese Model in Ethiopia. (lu.se)

In F. Engelstad, Holst, Cathrine & Aakvaag, Gunnar C. (Ed.), Democratic State and Democratic Society: Institutional Change in the Nordic Model (pp. 232-254). (degruyter.com)
Alsos, Kristin and Trygstad, Sissel C.. "11 Workplace Democracy: Representation and Participation Gaps in the Norwegian Labour Market Model" In Democratic State and Democratic Society: Institutional Change in the Nordic Model edited by Fredrik Engelstad, Holst, Cathrine and Aakvaag, Gunnar C., 232-254. (degruyter.com)
Democracy's dependence on the democratic principle to animate institutions fatally undermines it because, paradoxically, democracy is eroded by the very politics it countenances. (greanvillepost.com)
Nor are the devastating effects of democracy limited to democratic states, for they wage war. (greanvillepost.com)
Make no mistake, we're at a moment of democratic reckoning," said Uzra Zeya, the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. (dawn.com)
Theories of epistemic democracy are therefore concerned with the ability of democratic institutions to do such things as communicate, produce, and utilise knowledge, engage in forms of experimentation, aggregate judgements and solve social problems. (wikipedia.org)
Theories of epistemic democracy see the value of democracy as based, at least in part, on the ability of democratic procedures to make good or correct decisions, where 'good' and 'correct' are normally defined in respect to some procedure-independent standard. (wikipedia.org)
Pure proceduralism refers to the view that the value and justification of democracy rests solely in the fairness or intrinsic value of democratic institutions. (wikipedia.org)
So, Applebaum's argument appears to be that since the global economy is outside the scope of democratic politics, any attempt to expand democracy to manage it will accelerate the decline of democracy. (lrb.co.uk)
Such things are left to processes outside the sphere of the political, and it is an illusion that one can change them by 'extending' democracy: say, by setting up 'democratic' banks under the people's control. (lrb.co.uk)
Badiou was right to say that the name of the ultimate enemy today is not capitalism, empire, exploitation or anything of the kind, but democracy: it is the 'democratic illusion', the acceptance of democratic mechanisms as the only legitimate means of change, which prevents a genuine transformation in capitalist relations. (lrb.co.uk)
On President Donald Trump's last full day in office, Democratic leaders who will soon take charge of the U.S. Senate announced Tuesday that the For the People Act--a far-reaching package of democracy reforms--will be the first bill introduced, a clear signal of the incoming majority's top priorities . (commondreams.org)
One persuasive explanation suggests that in those countries where democracy succeeded, there were strong democratic forces with sufficient power to impose hegemony on supporters of the moribund communist dictatorships. (ethiopianreview.com)
Many Egyptians openly question whether the military is window dressing democracy to whisk Egypt back to the old Mubarak-style dictatorship with a democratic façade. (ethiopianreview.com)
Here, it seems that the major issue is the disparity between the understanding of social democracy and democratic socialism. (project-syndicate.org)
In the essay "The Swedish Sonderweg in question: Democratization and inequality in comparative perspective" , recently published in the journal Past and Present , Erik Bengtsson also highlights another aspect as to why Sweden from the 1930s until the early 1980s became the model for a social democratic country. (lu.se)

D uring Mark Zuckerberg's April 2018 inaugural appearance before the U.S. Senate, a question from then-Senator Orrin Hatch stood out for its simplicity: "How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service? (journalofdemocracy.org)

Good governance in Africa is beset with challenges however term limits offer hope to young democracies. (alec.org)
How do donors assess whether their democracy and governance (D&G)-focused programs are progressing towards anticipated results? (umich.edu)
Democracy is a system of governance where people choose their representatives, by freely exercising their treasured franchise at elections. (island.lk)
For his merits in activities in the fields of local community, development of democracy and local governance, achievements in professional and social work undertaken for the benefit of the country, in 2010 he was awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Gold Cross of Merit. (who.int)

However, in Africa, there are signs that term limits on national leaders can strengthen democracy in countries that adopt them. (alec.org)
13. Ramankutty N. Croplands in West Africa: a geographically explicit dataset for use in models. (cdc.gov)

We examine conflicts, crises and uncertainties in political ideologies and policy processes relevant to the competing interpretations and conceptions of democracy. (lse.ac.uk)
Designers of diversity enhancing tools must thus be exposed to diverse conceptions of democracy. (springer.com)

She is forced to the conclusion that 'globalisation has clearly begun to undermine the legitimacy of Western democracies. (lrb.co.uk)

When the For the People Act (H.R. 1) was initially introduced in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House by Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) in early 2019, advocates hailed it as 'a no-brainer for anyone who actually cares about American democracy. (commondreams.org)

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-eighteenth century politicians technology could invent. (schneier.com)
That would be " representative democracy . (lewrockwell.com)
Political scientists draw an elementary distinction between two models of representative democracy, both first articulated by British political philosopher Edmund Burke. (stanforddaily.com)

The chaos that occurs on the transitional bridge from dictatorship to democracy creates the ideal conditions for the hijacking of political power, theft of democracy and the reinstitution of dictatorship in the name of democracy. (ethiopianreview.com)
Most societies that have sought to make a transition from tyranny and dictatorship to democracy have faced challenging and complex roadblocks. (ethiopianreview.com)
More recent history shows the extraordinary difficulties countries face in transitioning from dictatorship to democracy. (ethiopianreview.com)
Democracy and dictatorship revisited. (lu.se)

Lee Kuan Yew is a shrewd character who created the appearance of a Western-style liberal democracy where, in theory, power is contestable but, in fact, one-party rule is protected. (smh.com.au)
For China, it's a potential halfway house between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. (smh.com.au)
Popular support among Africans for term limits is well-founded as African nations that are able to enforce term limits exhibit many of the common hallmarks of liberal democracy. (alec.org)

The devastating impact of leaders for life provides the starkest evidence for the potential that term limits have to strengthen nascent democracies. (alec.org)
u201cHugely significant that the first bill introduced in the Senate this year, as in the House, will be the For the People Act, a sweeping set of democracy reforms to protect voting, strengthen government ethics, and reduce the influence of money in politics. (commondreams.org)

Zoellick explained that his country's interest on South American democracy does not focus on left or right wing political positions, but on whether leaders are committed with the country's democracy and development. (brazzil.com)
Yet these civil society organizations remain a backbone of Ukraine's democracy, and the international community will have to tread carefully to ensure its own increasing footprint supports, rather than hinders, their central role in the country's longer-term development. (justsecurity.org)
Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country's pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked with government-sponsored spyware. (securityweek.com)

The wave of democratization in the Eastern Bloc countries and the former Soviet states in the 1990s lifted only a few of them into the ranks of liberal democracies with free elections, multiparty democracy, independent media and judiciary and so on. (ethiopianreview.com)

For the first time, China is seeking to export its developmental model to other countries, using the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to finance its ambitious One Belt, One Road mega-project, argues Fukuyama, a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy , the Washington-based democracy assistance group. (demdigest.org)

Epistemic democracy as such does not recommend any particular form of democracy - whether it be direct, representative, participatory, or deliberative - and epistemic democrats themselves disagree over such questions. (wikipedia.org)
When considering different plurals of democracy and their descriptors it is important to isolate the descriptor and drill down into it in order to understand who is using it and for what purpose as each descriptor of democracy tells its own story of what that particular form of democracy is. (project-syndicate.org)

The United States keeps close track of the democracy consolidation process in Latin America and has a concern about the development of Latin American countries. (brazzil.com)

Epistemic democracy refers to a range of views in political science and philosophy which see the value of democracy as based, at least in part, on its ability to make good or correct decisions. (wikipedia.org)
Epistemic (or proto epistemic) arguments for democracy have a long history in political thought and can be found in the work of figures such as Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nicolas de Condorcet, and John Dewey. (wikipedia.org)
Epistemic democrats therefore claim that democracy is not valuable solely because it embodies or expresses certain intrinsic values. (wikipedia.org)
For epistemic democrats, then, democracy is analogous to a criminal trial but where the independent standards are not legal guilt or innocence, but truth, justice or the common good. (wikipedia.org)
The 5th installment of the Copenhagen Lund Workshops on Social Epistemology Speakers Aviezer Tucker (University of Austin, Texas): Modeling the generation of knowledge from multiple testimonies Bert Baumgärtner (UC Davis): An agent-based model of Millian mingling Carlo Proietti & Erik J. Olsson (Lund University): Pluralistic ignorance, informational cascades and higher order beliefs Chris J. Thompson (Cambridge University): An epistemic case for deliberative democracy Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern University): Why deliberate? (lu.se)

New models of local democracy - do different institutional settingsimpinge on different normative criteria? (ruc.dk)

This commitment to civic engagement by young people gives me hope that the state of democracy in our country will improve. (nylc.org)

While faith in democracy itself may be declining, here, young people are choosing involvement over disengagement. (aspeninstitute.org)
The most awkward element of the summit, however, was the fact that Biden is struggling to restore faith in democracy at home, let alone on the other side of the world. (dawn.com)

Our problems here are much worse than in any other Western democracy. (dawn.com)
Once you have reduced the Tahrir Square protests to a call for Western-style democracy, as Applebaum does, of course it becomes ridiculous to compare the Wall Street protests with the events in Egypt: how can protesters in the West demand what they already have? (lrb.co.uk)
The concept of civil society is largely a construct of liberal democracies, and Ukraine's has been shaped and sustained by Western democracy assistance since its independence. (justsecurity.org)
As 2016 begins, an historic contest is underway, largely hidden from public view, over competing Chinese and Western strategies to promote economic growth, notes Francis Fukuyama, a senior fellow at Stanford University and Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. (demdigest.org)
All other Western democracies are undermined, corrupt to the core and compliant vassals of the puppet masters of capital in the background. (goodreads.com)

A political scientist at China's Renmin University, Zhang Ming, says: ''The Singapore model has been admired by most Chinese leaders and Xi might see Singapore's success as the dreamed accomplishments of his rule in coming decade,'' according to the South China Morning Post . (smh.com.au)
In combination, they suggest that democracy is not fit for purpose, especially in developing nations, particularly since there is a clear alternative: China's political system. (greanvillepost.com)

In search of a European model of industrial democracy. (europa.eu)
Final Activity Report Summary - INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY (In search of a European model of industrial democracy. (europa.eu)

As an antidote to the most destructive aspects of free-market capitalism, the egalitarian social democracies of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland inspire progressive movements around the world. (defenddemocracy.press)
It was a method for organising people that proved to be successful and was the reason that Sweden became the world's strongest social democracy. (lu.se)

Modest progress in the muslim-majority countries is complemented by mass mobilization for democracy and freedom in Ukraine. (journalofdemocracy.org)
In emerging democracies and postconflict countries, improved policing is almost always urgently required. (journalofdemocracy.org)
Various explanations have been offered for the stillbirth of democracy in these countries. (ethiopianreview.com)
The "Arab Spring" that signaled the dawn of democracy in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries today faces formidable challenges. (ethiopianreview.com)
These shakey democracies include assumed-to-be extremely stable countries such as Chile , Spain (Catalonia), Venezuela, Lebanon , even Israel. (lewrockwell.com)

Such a model leaves no room, in short, for Lincolns - politicians who eschew the safe, easy choices in favor of what they know to be right and true. (stanforddaily.com)
Democracy and dichotomies: a pragmatic approach to choices about concepts. (lu.se)

Jana Morgan, director of the Declaration for American Democracy --a coalition of nearly 180 labor, racial justice, voting rights, faith, environmental, women's rights, good government, and other groups--welcomed Senate Democrats' decision to introduce the bill as S. 1 and called on lawmakers to urgently pass it to 'actualize the groundbreaking reforms put forth in this legislation. (commondreams.org)
American democracy has generally sought to strike a balance between these two models, with each historical era favoring one or the other to a degree conditioned by the needs and prevailing temperament of the people. (stanforddaily.com)
American democracy benefits most when our representatives are both directly beholden to the wishes of the people and free to exercise their own expert judgment on specific issues about which voters know little or have no clear opinion. (stanforddaily.com)

Claiming to engender equality, democracy actually succeeds by enhancing inequality. (greanvillepost.com)
What matters on these views is that democracy embodies or expresses important values - such as equality, freedom, or autonomy - rather than the quality of the outcomes they produce. (wikipedia.org)
It was very simple: If there is a strong organisation that wants to have an equality model, you get an equality model," says Erik Bengtsson. (lu.se)
We had a political world in which nearly the entire population was posited against a small elite, and when the people gained power it created a political dynamic with a strong popular alliance for democracy and equality," says Erik Bengtsson. (lu.se)

Over the course of three years, the interdisciplinary research team at Lund University will employ a variety of methods, including satellite imagery analysis, archival fieldwork, and elite interviews, to generate scientific knowledge and policy recommendations for sustainable development and environmental democracy in Rojava, and potential relevance and application to Syria at large. (lu.se)

An international workshop entitled 'Industrial democracy: European issues in historical and contemporary perspectives' has been organised as part of the project in May 2008, the proceedings of which will be published as a special issue of the journal 'Economic and Industrial Democracy' in 2009. (europa.eu)
The logical further conclusion is that we should start thinking about how to expand democracy beyond its current form, based on multi-party nation-states, which has proved incapable of managing the destructive consequences of economic life. (lrb.co.uk)
reflects on how the end of communism in Europe also ended the West's highly successful post-war economic model. (project-syndicate.org)
Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise. (goodreads.com)
In particular, the relationship between Chinese economic interactions with African states and democracy is explored. (lu.se)
I do not find a relationship between Chinese economic interaction with African states and democracy in these states. (lu.se)
The article thus contributes much important groundwork concerning the existence of patterns in Chinese economic relations and democracy, as well as some specific links between these economic relations and political change. (lu.se)

This may form a serious threat to our democracies. (springer.com)

Looking more closely, the targeted-advertising business model rests on three theoretical pillars. (journalofdemocracy.org)

Astrid Norén-Nilsson is interested in investigating perceptions of democracy and citizenship in a country where many political ideologies have left a profound impression, but the same party has been in power for four decades. (lu.se)
Through my research, I can contribute to identifying the political ambitions of various groups - and build up a theory about perceptions of democracy and citizenship in non-liberal states. (lu.se)

In the face of this clash between Russia's autocracy and Ukraine's democracy, civil society in Ukraine in the past year has undergone a large-scale shift from a primary focus on development, democracy, and advocacy for veterans and women's rights, to an understandable emphasis on humanitarian operations. (justsecurity.org)
Ella Lamakh, head of the Ukrainian organization The Democracy Development Center (DDC)), notes that her country, unlike Russia, has a deeply rooted culture of philanthropy that predates Soviet control of Ukraine. (justsecurity.org)

We are in particular interested in exploring how and why the idea of democracy has evolved and contested in various forms and patterns in the region, catalysing social and institutional changes and, in some cases, regime transformation. (lse.ac.uk)
In the future, the balance of power among competing regime types may be decided by the emerging-market democracies. (journalofdemocracy.org)

There's a third form of democracy which avoids that problem. (lewrockwell.com)

The financial crisis did not deal a fatal blow to any democracies, but it did hasten an erosion of the influence of the West. (journalofdemocracy.org)

Pro-coup forces continue to perpetuate frightening human rights abuses, including the repression of critical journalists and the abduction of prominent pro-democracy activists. (democracyuprising.com)

Youth Local Councils are exporting a model of civic engagement and democracy that is critically needed around the world," said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, chair of the McNulty Prize jury. (aspeninstitute.org)
and why democracy must be studied historically and critically. (lse.ac.uk)

The phenomenon has not spared the United States, where confidence in our governing institutions has been weakening over many years and key pillars of our democracy, including the rule of law and freedom of the press, are under strain. (nylc.org)

This workshop tries to answer such questions by bringing together scholars from the social sciences analysing social media, communication, and democracy, with scholars working with mathematical modeling of networks and dynamical systems, such as electric power networks. (lu.se)

The Nordic model stands as a clear and compelling contrast to the neoliberal ideology that has strafed the rest of the industrialised world with inequality, ill health and needless poverty. (defenddemocracy.press)
Simply put, it is neither a close approximation of the "Nordic model" that Sanders often invokes nor a solution to what ails the American economy. (project-syndicate.org)
If they say they are aligned with the Nordic model, then why should we think that they actually mean otherwise? (project-syndicate.org)

The hypothesis of a close link between union debates and EC/EU policy was confirmed: Until the early 1990s European trade unions' inability to overcome ideological disagreements in relation to concepts of 'industrial democracy', and their more general emphasis on subsidiary in social policy and industrial relations matters translated into defensive attitudes, which became a serious obstacle for European company law harmonisation. (europa.eu)

Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on recreating democracy . (schneier.com)

Under the limits of a pure delegate model, representatives are required to act as stupid as their constituents really are. (stanforddaily.com)

For instance, Views along these lines are helpfully contrasted with purely procedural theories of democracy. (wikipedia.org)
In this paper we will show that while there are many different democracy theories, only the diversity related norms of a few of them are implemented in the tools that are designed to fight filter bubbles. (springer.com)

Democracy, Conflict and Human Security: Pursuing Peace in the 21st Century. (lu.se)
What role could regional and national actors in post-conflict Syria play in fostering sustainable development and environmental democracy? (lu.se)

Regarding physical health, it has been shown on health and to develop a categorical model that overweight and obese adolescents had for adolescent health. (who.int)
Where and How Did Democracy Develop? (lu.se)

Fill out the required information and check the box for "Daily updates from NED's Democracy Digest blog" to get the latest news from Democracy Digest. (demdigest.org)
Democracy Digest is invaluable. (demdigest.org)

Despite current civic actions by young people, as a nation our democracy is weakening. (nylc.org)

The paper in conclusion argues that democracy itself is a contested concept and points to a variety of norms. (springer.com)

We look at how democracy as a dynamic political project has interacted with forces of market, nationalism, modernisation and globalisation, with class, gender, ethnic, religious, and spatial identities, and with diverse local and cultural traditions. (lse.ac.uk)
och "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require? (lu.se)

In the second, termed the "trustee model," voters elect the best candidate to office in the hopes that he will wisely exercise his own judgment in the service of the public interest, regardless of how his constituents may feel about each particular issue. (stanforddaily.com)

The conference, which is focusing on "strong democracy," comes as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is struggling with a corruption probe which has implicated former Cabinet ministers. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Newly mainstream, the idea that "it's the business model" forms the core of a reform proposal out of Stanford University that was recently detailed by Francis Fukuyama in these pages. (journalofdemocracy.org)
By designating the For The People Act as S.1, the Senate has made clear that democracy reform is a top priority,' Morgan said. (commondreams.org)

From a violent insurrection at the Capitol to the countless attempts to silence the vote of millions of Americans, attacks on our democracy have come in many forms,' said incoming Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. (commondreams.org)

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HHS' new Model Notices of Privacy Practice were designed so they could be quickly adopted by your doctor or hospital , and your insurer . (cdt.org)

In my last such commentary , I argued that "on the bridge to democracy, there is often a collision between individuals and groups doggedly pursuing power, the common people tired of those who abuse and misuse power and the dictators who want to cling to power. (ethiopianreview.com)
In this commentary, I focus on the need for constitutional "pre-dialogue" (preparatory conversations) in anticipation of some potential roadblocks on Ethiopia's inexorable march to a constitutional democracy. (ethiopianreview.com)

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