The Economic Uses of Democracy

The Washington Post;  March 12, 1999 ;     682 words ...The political blessings of democracy are manifest, but that leaves many poor countries still worrying whether democracy is a burden or a benefit to their...founding of a "World Movement for Democracy" by the U.S. National Endowment for...

Ely and the idea of democracy.

Stanford Law Review;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION I. ELY ON DEMOCRACY II. COMPETING CONCEPTIONS OF ELYIST DEMOCRACY A. Two Lines of Cases 1. Accountability reinforcement 2. Horizontal democracy B. Locating Ely III. SHORTCOMINGS IN ELY'S CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY INTRODUCTION It is a great...

Democracy: It takes effort, but it does work.

Seattle Times (Seattle, WA);  May 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Jerry Large It's an interesting time for democracy _ being celebrated in South Africa, trying...makes sense anymore. All over the world, democracy is being tested. It has been sold as...it usually want immediate results. But democracy is not a magic word. We ought to know...

Democracy: The Down Side

The Washington Post;  December 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Democracy was supposed to be the great American gift to the post-Cold War world. So it comes as no mean embarrassment that less than a decade later many find that democracy is not what it was cracked up to be. In many places, democracy is less the solution than the problem: the new problem of the illiberal ...

Democracy: It takes effort, but it does work.(The Seattle Times)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Jerry Large It's an interesting time for democracy _ being celebrated in South Africa, trying...makes sense anymore. All over the world, democracy is being tested. It has been sold as...it usually want immediate results. But democracy is not a magic word. We ought to know...

Best of a bad bunch? Given that it failed in both ancient Greece and...

Geographical;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Democracy was never intended to rule nations. At its first appearance, in the city-state...territory that straddled the known world. The republic lasted longer than any modern democracy has existed, but fell, in 44 BC, to its own ruler-turned-tyrant. Democracy then disappeared for 1,000 years. Can this ...

The Golden Calf of Democracy

Freeman;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Democracy," H. L. Mencken once said, "is the theory that the common...auction sale of stolen goods." Mencken was not opposed to democracy. He simply possessed a more sobering view of its limitations than today's conventional wisdom. Indeed, democracy may be the world's single most oversold concept of ...

Democracy is surging

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 28, 1987 ;     600 words ...Democracy is attempting to burst out of its chrysalis all over...enormous surge of the popular will to break free and embrace democracy. In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, plans have been announced to return the country to democracy. In the Philippines and throughout South America except...

The democratic minimum: is democracy a means to global justice?

Ethics & International Affairs;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Democracy can be justified for any number of reasons. Many such...historical term, numerous innovations have made contemporary democracy a better means to achieve the ends of justice than its...Jane Addams's old adage that the cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. At the same time, there ...

Democracy's Edges.(Review)

Melbourne Journal of Politics;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Democracy's edges. Cambridge University Press. We live in a time when liberal democracy dominates world wide, leading governments, supra-national...made, doubts arose. As Nicolo Bobbio has noted, while democracy's forms have waxed across Eastern Europe, Africa and...

Democracy's Value.(Review)

Melbourne Journal of Politics;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Democracy's value. Cambridge University Press, Ian Shapiro and...Hacker-Cordon (eds). 1999. We live in a time when liberal democracy dominates world wide, leading governments, supra-national...made, doubts arose. As Nicolo Bobbio has noted, while democracy's forms have waxed across Eastern Europe, Africa ...

Delhi picked to host democracy meeting

India Abroad;  September 25, 1998 ;     675 words ......Abroad 09-25-1998 Delhi picked to host democracy meeting The U.S. Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has selected New Delhi as the...conference of the World Alliance for Democracy - a new global initiative to establish...

Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy Holds First Annual Conference

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  June 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ...CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY HOLDS FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) held its first annual all-day conference, "The Theory and Practice of Democracy in Islam," April 30 at Georgetown University...

What's so good about democracy?

Ideas on Liberty;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...It was once said that "democracy is the most promiscuous word in the...socialize Chile under the aegis of democracy. A key to unraveling the problem...political words. This is true of democracy: If anybody confesses to being anti-democrat...

Democracy can be good servant, like fire, but bad master

New Straits Times;  July 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ...John Teo New Straits Times 07-19-2003 Democracy can be good servant, like fire, but bad...accepted to be in the larger interest of US democracy. The loser in this didn't cry foul although...politic. Which only goes to show that democracy, like fire, can be a good servant but...