This article places these challenges in the wider context of globalization and discusses the reasons why elections lack in democratic quality, corruption prevails, and political leaders manipulate constitutions to stay in power. Globalization helps lay bare these weaknesses, but the social forces on the...
Clerks are elected to four year terms in off year elections. The office is on the ballot in two places this year — Larminer and Summit counties — to fill vacant positions. The rest will be up for election in 2026, except in Denver, which will have its next election for clerk...
The people decide who will represent them in parliament, and who will head the government at the national and local levels.聽 They do so by choosing between competing parties in regular, free ...
The African Union: the African Governance Architecture and the Charter for Democracy, Elections and Good Governance - ECDPM Democracy, good governance and development are all interrelated. Democratic environment is as essential to good governance as it plays role in sustainable development. Bangladesh is...
Western democracy is not the ultimate definition and standard of democracy, and it is increasingly facing severe challenges. Marcio Pochmann, president of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, said that lack of rationality in elections, inefficiency in government affairs, immigration, and...
Whatever the reason for the delay in ratification, government renders itself liable to the accusation that it no longer subscribes to the ideals of democracy, free and fair elections and good governance embodied in the Charter.- Source - NewsDay Zimbabwe ...
process democracy involves more than just a matter of voting, rather, it is forged into every single link in the running of state power. This breaks from a solitary focus on voting and ensures the people's rights to democratic elections, consultations, decision-making, management, and oversight...
Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance: Evidence from Rural China This paper studies the impacts of village elections on the accountability of the village committee, local fiscal sharing, and state taxation in rural China... WY Yang - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 被引量: 140发表:...
2. By all means, more and more people in China have come to realize the significance of participatory democracy. 3. Hadi called on all political parties to abide by democracy as a means to move Yemen out of its crisis. 4. By putting too much weight on elections, people are buying the...
Democracy is not conceived only as a machine that takes expressions of individual preferences as inputs and produces decisions as its outputs. The problematic side of the deliberative view is that elections, voting, and the majority rule are often conceptualized merely as imperfections of the ...