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24 Oct 2008, 7:20 am
In Bangladesh, the Election Commission has ordered political parties to register, or else they will be disqualified from running candidates in the December 18 election that will bring Parliamentary democracy back to the country. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 1:18 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] Tuesday denounced a recent Burundi [CIA backgrounder] Constitutional Court decision to dismiss 22 former members of the ruling party from the National Assembly, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (NCDD-FDD) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 4:02 am by jonathanturley
Members of both parties quickly reassembled to carry out their constitutional functions. [read post]
3 May 2011, 9:23 am by Gary Becker
These aspirations are not compatible with governments that censor what people read and hear, that try to suppress open discussions on politically sensitive subjects, and suppress challenges from political candidates outside of the officially recognized parties. [read post]
12 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
Mind you, it is still surprisingly high—4 percent of respondents indicated that it could be justified for members of their party to commit a violent felony “to advance their political goals. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 1:27 pm by Guest Author
” (203) Today, presidential elections generate extensive national attention, and the greater ideological cohesion of national political parties may well make them a better barometer of popular policy views than in the past. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 9:58 pm by Tom Smith
Today, that kind of social democracy—learned at home from my immigrant grandparents and from the late Michael Harrington, one time head of the American Socialist Party—is all but dead. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 3:33 am
Intra-party democracy, on the other hand, would see a group of candidates competing and subject to a more transparent vote - determined by the Standing Committee of the Politburo, the entire Politburo or the even the entire congress.Some see signs that intra-party democracy is on the rise: for example, the party now introduces more candidates than there are posts for party elections (In the politburo this year - 10% more!). [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 3:56 pm by Lovechilde
  The Republicans have launched an assault on Democracy not the Democratic Party. [read post]
29 May 2008, 10:40 am
[JURIST] The co-chair of Pakistan's governing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) [party website] pleaded for calm Thursday with members of the nation's vocal lawyers' movement, cautioning that "hidden forces" could seize on any perceived unrest to reimpose martial law and destroy democracy in Pakistan. [read post]
8 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
” The institutions of democracy are broken, destroyed by a party that is itself anti-democratic. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 4:23 pm by Lawrence Solum
Here is the abstract:Due to the collapse of the party system during the mid-nineties, Italy represents an interesting case study to test the effects of a moving from a consensual to a majoritarian democracy on judicial behavior at the level of the Constitutional Court. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 11:00 am by Chimène Keitner
They assess that, in multiple countries, younger people are attracted to authoritarian alternatives to democracy and to political parties and movements that are willing to disregard basic democratic rules and norms. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 9:13 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
By way of an analytically and theoretically sensitive introduction to and taste of the myriad kinds of issues the oppositions groups and parties in Egypt will face in the transition “from Tahrir Square to democracy,” see the following books: Jon Elster, Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004); Jon Elster, ed., The Roundtable Talks and the Breakdown of Communism (Chicago, IL: University of… [read post]