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The electoral process has been unable to guarantee decent democratic governance, rein in predatory practices among the political class, or make public officials follow established rules, keep them responsive to citizen preferences, and deter them from channeling public funds into private hands.
Political parties appear far removed from citizen demands, beset by internal divisions, incapable of addressing deep-rooted inequality and lawlessness, and prone to populist or authoritarian leadership that promises quick fixes to entrenched problems.
These can and must be changed before it will be possible to expand opportunities for everyone in Bolivia to become a dignified citizen, a respected worker, and a satisfied consumer.
The Democratization of DiplomacyHAMBURG: How does citizen protest and government action relate in modern democracies?
I have in mind the two countries of which I am a citizen (Italy and Malta), where the media situation is an absolute disaster.
If a country’s domestic politics are weak – no executive accountability, no genuine legislative oversight, and a poor relationship between citizen and state – its negotiator has a large win-set.
The French nineteenth-century statesman Alphonse de Lamartine wrote an ode to European unity along rationalist lines, entitled the Marseillaise of Peace: “In the course of enlightenment, the world rises to unity/I am the fellow citizen of every thinking person/Truth is my country.”
In the case of Yaser Hamdi, the court renounced the Administration's claim that military authorities could indefinitely hold a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant" without ever providing him with an opportunity to contest the basis for his detention before a neutral decision maker.
His parents came to Britain from Egypt, but he was not an Egyptian citizen.
If that were the case with the decisions made by the UK government in 2013, there would still be a high probability that an innocent naturalized citizen was made stateless.
One of the grounds for attacking Rajan was that he has permanent residency in the United States and, despite being a citizen, was “mentally not Indian.”
To be sure, I have been exposed to flimsy sources, and newspapers of the future should help readers learn what a good source is, and what good citizen journalism requires.
Their energies were hardly absorbed in distinctions between Macedonians, Serbs, and Bulgarians (“they are all cloned Slavs,” as one ethnic Albanian leader unhelpfully remarked to me); but nor did they want to live as a “national minority,” believing that to do so would be to live as a second-class citizen.
The collection and storage of people’s biometric data fundamentally changes the relationship between citizen and state.
The Assembly’s opening action had been to vote almost unanimously to abolish the 239-year-old monarchy, and in June former King Gyanendra Shah departed from the palace, remaining in the country as an ordinary citizen.
The key is to link a bold idea with a practical and powerful technology, and then to push the idea and technology forward through mass citizen action.
But I would gladly go back to my life as a private citizen once guaranteed a free and open election this fall.
It opposes necessary structural reforms in order to defend its clients’ rent-seeking practices; rejects citizen candidacies in favor of unaccountable party elites; recoils from union modernization, owing to the corporatist practices that it implemented; and refuses to dismantle the monopolies that it established.
Unfortunately, it continues to be a clientelist, corporatist, corrupt organization that does not believe in citizen participation, checks and balances, competition, accountability, or scrutiny of public-sector unions.
The end of government secrecy does not mean the birth of the informed citizen; nor does more control necessarily suggest more trust in public institutions.
The central proposal was ingenious: the Kremlin proposed to guarantee the election’s fairness by installing webcams at all polling stations; every citizen could personally monitor the voting process.
But might wholly transparent government imply a wholly transparent citizen?
In that case, one could imagine the replacement of representative democracy with political regimes that limit citizen control to the executive.
The average American still accounts for ten times the emissions of the average citizen of India, and India should not be deprived of the right to develop economically.
The French police arrested a German citizen with a Polish name in connection with the terrorist attack on the synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia.
Even today, the average citizen in the United States, France, or India knows little about what the WTO actually does.
But a senator is more than just another citizen.
As a citizen, I thank Flake for his service in Congress.
In their view, anyone who abides by a country’s laws can become a full-fledged citizen and contribute to the vitality of his or her adopted country.
Consider this: at any given moment, the average citizen in the developed world has billions of messages passing through his or her brain.
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