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29 Jul 2010, 7:03 am
The court, upholding a lower court decision, held that the Fifth Amendment to the Bangladeshi Constitution [text], which allowed the participation of religious political parties and legitimized military rule, violated the principle of secularism and representative democracy found in the Constitution's preamble. [read post]
10 May 2018, 7:05 am by Ilya Somin
Elsewhere too the weaknesses of liberal democracies are becoming increasingly apparent: from falling voter participation rates and the unhealthy power of those funding political parties to the decline of political freedoms. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 8:25 am by Edward Foley
The acute crisis confronting American democracy right now is caused by a movement within one of the nation's two major political parties. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 6:56 am by Lila Margalit
Israel’s “Defensive Democracy” Like Germany, Israel embraces some elements of “militant” or “defensive” democracy—the idea that fundamental democratic freedoms, including the right to run for office, should be subject to limits designed to protect constitutional norms from being subverted through democratic processes. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 9:59 am by Tom Smith
Is the popular uprising there a sign of democracy rising and a triumph of liberal values, or is it the beginning of another Islamic dictatorship. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 4:21 pm
  PROGRAMMEDay 1: 23 September 2022Introduction (8:55-9.00 am): Ngoc Son Bui (Oxford)Panel 1 (9:00-10.30 am): Chair - Timothy Endicott (Oxford)Larry Catá Backer (Penn State University), Linking People to Governing Institutions: 全过程民主 (Whole Process Democracy) Leninist Political Parties, Socialist Constitutional Democracy… [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 6:05 am by Maria J. Stephan
Perhaps the most infamous example involves the collaboration between the antisemitic America First Committee, which included 20 members of Congress, and Nazi party officials in Germany during the 1930s and early ‘40s. [read post]
It also establishes a “Multi-Party Democracy Fund” for funding represented political parties from private sources. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 12:01 pm by Dennis Aftergut
With the MAGA Republican base holding one of our two political parties captive, it can be hard to keep faith about preserving our democracy and the freedoms that depend upon it. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 10:03 am by Neil H. Buchanan
"Notwithstanding Democrats' obvious flaws, there is in fact exactly one party that gives us what little hope we have right now that democracy can survive. [read post]
13 Nov 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
Rather than a referendum on President Biden and the Democratic Party, it turned out to be a referendum on his predecessor and a victory for democracy. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 4:17 am by Florian Mueller
Article 13 (now Article 17) was a stupid concession, and Merkel may have underestimated how many people would be outraged and worried--and what damage this would do to the way many ordinary citizens perceive EU democracy. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The country might at that point be led by a strong man or perhaps by an internally fractious minority party that still maintains the appearances of free elections, but meaningful democracy would be a thing of the past.In my Verdict column on January 21 of this year, I offered a muted celebration of the fact that our system did not entirely break down after the 2020 election. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 8:37 am by Tom Smith
More specifically, center-right parties have long been crucial to the health of modern liberal democracies, according to the Harvard political scientist Daniel Ziblatt’s study of the emergence of democracy in Western Europe. [read post]
15 May 2023, 7:15 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Additionally, the survey explores the influence Christian nationalism has within our two primary political parties and major religious subgroups and what this reveals about the state of American democracy and the health of our society. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:03 pm by Ilya Somin
Opposition parties (including even left-wing socialist ones) were suppressed from the beginning, and there were never any free elections or any direct democracy of the kind Orwell depicts. [read post]