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OSAKA – Yesterday’s landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.
NEW YORK – Tens of thousands of people have been “occupying” the tear-gas-filled streets of Hong Kong’s Central district to fight for their democratic rights.
Hong Kong was never a democracy, but it did have a relatively free press, a relatively honest government, and an independent judiciary – all backed by a democratic government in London.
They regard Hong Kongers’ democratic demands as a misguided effort to mimic Western politics, or even as a form of nostalgia for British imperialism.
This supportive context provided a roadmap for national policymakers, helping them to build democratic institutions and marginalize extremists.
Or they may be struggling to introduce democratic accountability while maintaining stability, as in Egypt.
No one in a more established democratic state is surprised if one’s own side does not win.
But what if an election’s winners have no intention of abiding by the rules that are part and parcel of the democratic process?
More recently, elections in the post-communist countries of Europe have brought groups to power whose democratic credentials are dubious, to say the least.
It is no accident that the democratic process has emerged most smoothly where there was some external power to back up the constitution.
Driven by these beliefs, a union of “liberals” attempted to bring about a kind of bureaucratic modernization, having convinced themselves that liberal political outcomes could somehow be orchestrated by corrupt bureaucracy through limited democratic institutions.
The destruction of democratic institutions was now being driven both by the desire for simplicity and by pure greed.
Perhaps the US is not as civilized as France, but it is more democratic.
Arabs, especially young Arabs, who comprise the majority of the region’s population, look up to America for its global power when it upholds democratic morals and values.
President Barack Obama’s election two years ago positively shocked Arabs and empowered Arab democrats, who saw it as proof of America’s true democratic nature.
While the US initially demonstrated prudence in word and deed, it quickly understood that the revolts truly reflected the will of the people and acted to align itself with the democratic cause.
Democracy at BayIs the democratic tide reversing?
Given the choice between a democratic government and a strong leader, 70% of Russians, 67% of Ukrainians, and 44% of Poles and Bulgarians opt for the latter.
Suicide bombers, the prolonged state of tension, and the overall weakening of the hope for peace have slashed support for democratic government.
The opposite is true, however, in democratic Indonesia, where 69% prefer a strong economy.
Even in a number of European countries with old democratic traditions, a wave of populist, radical political parties opposed to minorities and immigrants has achieved success, sometimes even winning elections.
In other European countries, which have only recently embarked on the democratic path, a truly stunning change of mood is visible.
In Russia's recent parliamentary elections, which were - regardless of various reservations - conducted according to democratic standards, parties advocating political and economic freedom suffered painful defeat, while parties proclaiming hostility to the rule of law and modern pluralist democracy were successful.
These results demonstrate the grave dangers that young democracies face, as well as the fragility of democratic culture.
They are also a failure of human beings: democratic values do not function without citizens; there can be no democracy without democrats.
This poses dramatic questions about the place of democratic values in international affairs, about the effectiveness of action in support of democracy, and about the way in which democracy is to be understood.
The creation of that body was an important step, because it introduced a set of criteria that must be fulfilled by countries that want to call themselves democratic.
The organization promised to monitor the behavior of members and thus create a chance for coordinated support of the democratic order.
Second, as the Pew poll suggests, today's weakening of democratic culture usually takes the form of nostalgia for strong leadership - a clear incitement to launching coups.
The weapons of shame and international opprobrium should be mustered to make it impossible for any democratic nation to legitimize a coup in another democratic country.
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