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11 Nov 2008, 1:45 pm
A former member of the detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, he was sentenced along with a poet, Saw Wai, who is accused of penning a secret anti-junta message in one of his works.Military censors in Burma - also known as Myanmar - launched an investigation in January after a poem by Saw Wai appeared in a newspaper. [read post]
6 Nov 2022, 9:05 am by Tom Smith
For a number of months now, large segments of the Democratic Party, along with the media and former Republicans radicalized by their defeat in the battle for control of the GOP, have been defining “democracy” and “legitimacy” solely in terms of electoral outcomes. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 7:19 am
Voter apathy is something political parties are constantly battling. [read post]
6 May 2018, 5:16 pm by Howard Bashman
“In Bennett’s Battle to Destroy the Supreme Court, Kahlon Won’t Play His Assigned Role; When Kahlon announced that he would force his party members to vote against the bill attacking the Supreme Court, he found himself — once again — the gatekeeper for democracy”: Yossi Verter has this essay online at Haaretz. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 1:43 pm by Geoffrey Mock
  After decades of attempts to muzzle civil society, the Egyptian government has effectively handcuffed most political parties and secular institutions. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 12:48 pm by Tom Smith
That’s what we pay corrupt party apparatchiks to do. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 10:25 am by Tom Smith
How can a political party that is opposed to freedom be trusted with our democracy? [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 8:58 am by Lovechilde
Many women involved with Ben Ali’s party, the Rally for Constitutional Democracy (RCD), were excluded from the transition processes, and massive structural impediments hindered the political mobilization of others. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 8:34 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Thus what separates Adam Smith from Deng Xiaoping could perhaps be summarized as differences in the way in which the state is used to overcome the contradictions of capitalism—one through free markets and democracy; the other through markets overseen by a vanguard party committed to eventual labor primacy. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 9:56 pm
Technocratic Decision Making and the Hollowing Out of Democracy Bernhard Weßels, Political Culture, Political Satisfaction and the Rollback of Democracy Jonathan White, When Parties Make Peoples Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Fixing Europe Is About Performance, Not Democracy Helmut K. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 2:59 am
If so, then it's not about the process but the policies to be put in place, and he may think — or intend to say — that only the policies of the Democratic Party constitute democracy. [read post]
Finally, a story of heightened geopolitical competition: In 2011 and 2012, academies in China, the United Kingdom, and the United States convened the “Six Party Symposia on Synthetic Biology” to share updates on their progress and plans for biotechnology. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 10:34 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
And based on Trump’s continuing hold over the Republican base, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that, at this point in American history, the centrist base of the Democratic party simply cares more about norms of liberal democracy than does its more extreme Republican counterpart. [read post]
16 May 2011, 12:59 pm by JB
Media positioning is ever more crucial, with unexpected effects on the party system. [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 4:20 am by SHG
And yet this is the War on Democracy. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 8:04 am by Tom Smith
Primarily by ignoring the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 3:48 pm
My thoughts on this aspect may be found here: Democracy Part 34: Brexit, Mass Democracy and the Contradictions of Voting in Globalization. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 10:45 am
Three of the detainees are Coalition for Unity and Democracy [party website] party officials, including the party's leader Hailu Shawel, and one is a human rights activist. [read post]