Sortitionis a system of choosing political officials randomly to deliberate on a particular issue. We use it today when we pick juries, but both the ancient Greeks and some cities in Renaissance Italy used it to select major political officials. Today, several countries � largely in Europe ...
Worse still, the U.S. has increasingly resorted to unilateral sanctionsand“long-arm jurisdiction”against other countries such as Cuba and Iran, which have seriously damaged their economic development and people's livelihood in a systematic and massive violation of human rights. AsWilliam Blum, a ...
It was after the founding of the People's Republic of China that the country developed its own style of democracy. The first NPC was convened in 1954, marking the establishment of the people's congress system, the platform for democracy where the people exercise state power. This is a poli...
Military spending is essential for most countries and represents a significant aspect of the U.S. fiscal budget. The amount spent on the military is often a topic of debate, as it is a challenge for any government to determine where limited resources should be allocated. More spending on the...
POLITICS, DEMOCRACY AND HEALTH: HOW RELEVANT IS IT TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?Saroj Jayasinghe
poverty-stricken countries which bear the brunt in the aftershock of the global pandemic and economic downturn. For example, China is helping many African countries, such as Mozambique, develop modern agriculture with the help of the China-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System and unmanned ...
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. ...
The democracy-growth channels involve many of the ‘usual suspects’ studied in the empirical growth literature. These are variables directly or indirectly associated with the exercise of governmental power. It will become clear that we view democracy as a political system characterized by two main ...
Brahm, a senior fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, said that Chinese democracy, which is different from that in the West, is a system of consensus-building. "It is quiet, and in many ways, like Tai Chi." "DIRECT TRAINS" EN ROUTE TO EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING Luo Xiaoyou,...
There have been and will be many important elections all over the world this year, and what is questioned now is the future of democracy. In the general election in Bangladesh that was held in January while the opposition party was boycotting the poll, the ruling party, which is becoming ...