Article: The democracy business: cliches of freedom disguise a corporatist reality.(Ideas)

Article: The Struggle for Democracy.
National Review;  September 15, 1989 ;     700+ words ...THE WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE for democracy, extending to the unlikeliest of...on one issue there is agreement: democracy is blossoming. In some quarters there...it accompanies) The Struggle for Democracy. As the authors contend, use of...

Article: Desperately seeking democracy: Pramila Aggarwal has been searching for the real thing since her youth in India and then her arrival in Canada.
New Internationalist;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...I feel I can say something about democracy, having been born and raised in the world's largest democracy -- a Socialist Republic, no less. As a...picnic -- a celebration, I reckon, of democracy! The buses would hum not just with the...

Article: From Fr. Cyril Robitaille with questions about democracy.(Letter to the editor)
Catholic Insight;  June 1, 2007 ;     312 words ......consider several fundamental questions: Can democracy be established by force of arms? The...definite no, followed by questions like: can democracy be established if there is no previous experience of democracy among the people? If a leader is educated...

Article: The struggle for democracy.
The National Interest;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...PRESIDENT GEORGE Bush's promotion of democracy has become the unifying and driving principle...Zimbabwe to Palestine. Enthusiasm for democracy is not limited to the corridors of 1600...Americans have come to see the spread of democracy around the world as part of their national...

Article: The democracy boosters.
National Review;  March 24, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Democracy, said Churchill is the worst form of governmentexcept...the flow of writing and rhetoric that today proclaims democracy as the salvation of the world. What brings the proverb...government is endorsed. A common theme is that a tide of democracy is sweeping the world and preparing the ground for ...

Article: Democracy's Edges.(Review)
Utopian Studies;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds. Democracy's Edges. Cambridge: Cambridge University...1997 conference at Yale on Rethinking Democracy for a New Century, and appear as part...scientists conferred together, considered what democracy means not only for a new century but...

Article: Democracy's Value.(Review)
Utopian Studies;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds. Democracy's Value. Cambridge: Cambridge University...1997 conference at Yale on Rethinking Democracy for a New Century, and appear as part...scientists conferred together, considered what democracy means not only for a new century but...

Article: Religion and democracy.(Editorial)
Quadrant;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......hundred years or so, and indeed ever since democracy in something like its modern form has...real possibility of a kind of Islamic democracy exists. The same is true of the other...proved that that religion can coexist with democracy. The same is true of Judaism, despite...

Article: Reflections on the future of parliament and democracy.
Canadian Parliamentary Review;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Parliament are related to larger concerns about the health of democracy and suggests what has to be done to revive both Parliament and democracy. Parliament is often confused with democracy. A democracy supposes the existence of a forum where we...

Article: democracy
A Dictionary of Sociology;      700+ words ...democracy So many political systems and ideologies claim the virtue of democracy that the word has become virtually meaningless in its...every kind of political power arrangement. The origins of democracy as an idea and a practice go back to the city-states...

Article: Elective surgery: democracy and freedom don't necessarily go hand in hand.(Book Review)
Washington Monthly;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria...assumption in the United States than that democracy is good and every other form of government...constitutional liberalism into the practice of democracy, rebuilding broken political institutions...

Article: KDHX cuts back "Democracy Now!".(off the record)
St. Louis Journalism Review;  September 1, 2008 ;     532 words ......month the dally public affairs radio show Democracy Now! broadcast an interview about how...The station cut back its broadcast of Democracy Now! to 10 minutes of headlines starting...KDHX explained in an e-mail: When we put Democracy Now! on air six years ago, the information...

Article: Why democracy is good for development.
UN Chronicle;  September 1, 2006 ;     595 words ...CAN DEMOCRACY DELIVER? The good news is, yes, it can...most of the poorest are autocracies. But democracy is not necessary for development. Singapore...dictatorship and economic progress, or between democracy and poverty reduction, why is democracy...

Article: Bohman, James. Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi.(Book review)
International Social Science Review;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Bohman, James. Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi...in which to redefine and reconstruct democracy and governance in a diverse transnational...the task of his book is to redefine democracy ... to make it appropriate for transnational...