There are many types of democracies in the world, and some countries that are considered democracies don't truly meet the criteria of the term. A corporation in the United Kingdom has created a system called the ''Democracy Index'' to evaluate how many countries in the world are democratic...
In contrast to the checks and balance of power that frequently result in political stagnation in some Western countries, China's central government, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate answer to the NPC and are supervised by it. This vertical design has the advant...
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...
POLITICS, DEMOCRACY AND HEALTH: HOW RELEVANT IS IT TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?Saroj Jayasinghe
History and reality show that many of the U.S.-made tags for other countries are most suitable to the tag-maker itself. It is the United States that committed genocide when millions of Native Americans were slaughtered, expelled, assimilated and discriminated against for centuries. ...
JOE ROGAN: If I was going to do anything, I'd do it right now. It just seems like everything's so chaotic. TONY HINCHCLIFFE: We've got no border. We're giving money to whoever wants it, to already rich countries. JOE ROGAN: We've got men w...
The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a 'favored few' are born to rule and that the mass of mankind must be governed by force." Signer of the...
Carla de Sousa:China has won the battle against poverty, I think it's a miracle. I have been to many countries, both socialist and capitalist countries, but this trip to China has shown me China's unique development model that enables China to lift so many people out of poverty. ...
cooperation from other countries, economic priorities adopted by the country, etc. However, the difference in the rates of economic development between less developed countries with dictatorships and democracies is negligible. Overall, we cannot say that democracy is a guarantee of economic development....
In the Democracy Index published yearly by the reputable Economist, the US ranks only 25th, categorized as a “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 ...