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Western democracy is not the only form that an open society could take.
Promotion of freedom and democracy in and around these alliances ought to become an important objective.
So is democracy in Moldova, a former Soviet republic that is now Europe’s poorest country.
Opposition leaders and democracy watchdogs say Moldova’s election process was fundamentally flawed.
That is why Africa’s bloggers and online activists must work more closely with investors and shareholders of communications firms to convince them to stand up for democracy and human rights by resisting illiberal government directives.
Indeed, even if there were no legal obstacles, it would be difficult to imagine voters in a democracy installing a foreigner in their government’s top job.
But cutting back on the country's vaunted social protection system seems to strike at the roots of German postwar democracy.
In the longer term, the end of the Castro era, together with improved relations with the US, is likely to bring about a repeat of Spain’s transition toward full-fledged liberal democracy after the fall of Francisco Franco.
Yet, six decades later, the India that emerged from the wreckage of the British Raj is the world’s largest democracy, poised after years of rapid economic growth to take its place as one of the giants of the twenty-first century.
A country whose very survival seemed in doubt at its founding offers striking lessons in constructing, against all odds, a working democracy.
Despite many stresses and strains, India has a remained a freewheeling multi-party democracy – corrupt and inefficient, perhaps, but nonetheless flourishing.
India’s first and longest-serving prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, spent his political career instilling in his people the habits of democracy: disdain for dictators, respect for parliamentary procedures, and abiding faith in the constitutional system.
Moreover, democracy in India is not an elite preoccupation, but matters most to the underprivileged masses.
By contrast, the world’s oldest democracy, the US, has yet to elect a president who is not white, male, and Christian.
Democracy has sustained an India that safeguards the common space available to each identity.
Democracy is great, but only in the interests of the working class.
Now Russia’s prime minister tells us that democracy is indeed great, but that public protests cannot take place in public places, say, around hospitals and the like.
Never mind that the Russian constitution does not list hospitals among places forbidden for public assembly, or that sick people need democracy, too.
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev does understand – with no “buts” – that “freedom is better than not freedom,” that “legal nihilism” is bad and democracy is good.
Such people cannot be dismissed as useless, since we need the innovation that they deliver, even if we think Russia doesn’t need democracy.
Similarly, in a country where the concepts of democracy and freedom are balanced by “but,” achievements in science, technology, and economy are not possible.
This was an important signal that those elected to the National Assembly understood that democracy does not mean merely the will of the majority.
In theory, this is what democracy is all about – policy responding to the needs of the people.
The election, staggered over five phases – involving five polling days over four weeks, rather than one “election day” – will determine who rules the world’s largest democracy.
That single moment captured much of what elections have meant for this diverse democracy.
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant – ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.
The elephant of Indian democracy will acquire a new set of mahouts before the month’s end.
In the past, Turkey was seen as a potential EU member state and a model for Islamic liberal democracy; today, it is mainly seen as a geopolitical buffer zone.
Already, democracy has lost legitimacy here and social protest movements grow increasingly violent.
Yet since our own vote makes such a tiny contribution to the outcome, each of us still faces the temptation to get a free ride, not bothering to vote while hoping that enough other people will vote to keep democracy robust and to elect a government that is responsive to the views of a majority of citizens.
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