How democracies grow up: countries with too many young people may not have a fighting chance at freedom.(ARGUMENT)Cincotta, Richard P
How Smart and Tough Are Democracies? Proponents of the selection effects argument claim that because democratic leaders run a higher risk of losing office than autocratic leaders if they fail ... Downes,Alexander,B. - 《International Security》 被引量: 29发表: 2009年 How economic growth becomes...
Scale was another theme. The size of modern governments reflects the technology at the time of their founding. European countries and the early American states are a particular size because that�s what was governable in the 18th and 19th centuries. Larger governments � the U.S. as a who...
In an attempt to enforce its hegemony, the U.S.has exported wars and upheavals under the guise of "safeguarding democracy," bringing turbulence and destruction to a number of other countries. Sovereign countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya have suffered numerous disasters due to U.S...
Gideon Lichfield:One of the things that you say in your essay is that there are actually two kinds of regulatory regimes in the world, for tech. There's the privatized one, in other words, in Western countries the tech companies are really the ones setting a lot of the rules for how ...
the Lib-Con coalition which ruled until 2015 may come to be remembered as the first of many. With other traditionally majority rule countries such as Spain moving in a similar direction (few expect eitherPSOEorPPto be able to govern by themselves after the next general election), coalition po...
. These organisations now carry out many functions previously done by Whitehall but do not count in the personnel numbers. In 2017 the UK government as a whole spent as much on contracting with firms for goods and services as it did on paying public sector...
“Flawed Democracy”. This places them solidly behind “Full Democracies” in central Europe, but also Costa Rica or Uruguay, and very far from e.g. leading Scandinavian countries or Switzerland. Instead, America is comparable to some countries with little democratic tradition like South Korea or...
In this case, they are equivalent to votes. In this last conceptualization, property-owning democracies may be socialist or not. When people’s shares of capital are widely but non-equally distributed or they are tradable, the system is not socialist. In any case, both approaches are ...
free for its citizens at all levels, subsidized housing, utilities, entertainment, and even subsidized food programs. Together, these social programs are meant to compensate for the low salaries of Cuban workers, making them better off than their international counterparts in many other count...