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In short, even when the Chinese tapestry featured a reformist weft, it was always woven into an authoritarian warp.
The government think tanks entrusted with this task heaped plenty of blame on Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist leader who was simply not ruthless enough to hold the Soviet Union together.
The success of a liberal reformist approach in Argentina matters far beyond the country’s borders.
The efforts of reformist governments in the region to integrate such movements into the public sphere have been dealt a severe blow.
For example, Clinton and the Republican Congress based landmark 1996 welfare reform on policies originated by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and successfully emulated by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, both reformist Republicans.
Back then, Mao’s Cultural Revolution had forced large numbers of his revolutionary comrades onto a reformist path.
It was this realization that spurred Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power, as well as support among the leadership for Gorbachev’s reformist policies of perestroika and glasnost.
Iran has tried two political approaches in the last ten years: a reformist model, under President Mohamed Khatami, and hardline radicalism, under Ahmadinejad.
There are plenty of serious intellectuals in Islamic societies who want to revive the reformist call for the embrace of some of the ideas of Western Enlightenment: the value of science, the importance of liberal tolerance, and the need for free and open discussion.
But a forthcoming report by two highly respected economists – Jean Pisani-Ferry, the French government’s Commissioner-General for Policy Planning, and Henrik Enderlein, a key leader of a reformist group of German economists – will propose a way forward.
Here he gets a helping hand from party politicians, because the reformist parties inspire little confidence.
The reformist "Union of Right Forces," led by Boris Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais, destroyed itself last December, failing to gain a seat in the Duma.
The call by the most important group of Iran’s clerics for the election results to be thrown out is but the latest sign of the fight back of both the reformist and pragmatic conservative factions.
But, while this was reflected in reformist trends in the country’s wider political life, a movement toward militant fundamentalism took shape within the regime’s power structure.
In the Czech Republic, a reformist government was elected in 2006, and in Hungary, political divisions rather than reform fatigue dominates electoral campaigns.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is no reformist like China’s Deng Xiaoping; but his regime is becoming more like China’s every day, owing to the irreversible expansion of market forces.
In Khamenei’s eyes, it was Ahmadinejad who kept Khamenei’s reformist opponents at bay and resisted President George W. Bush’s attempt to “dominate” Iran and the Middle East.
Gerashchenko sacked him as unsuitably competent, honest and reformist.
Both chambers of the parliament are reformist.
Mousavi ran as a reformist who said he would strive for greater freedom of the press, more rights for women, and fewer restrictions on the private lives of Iranians.
Although their options were limited, many of them had enough confidence that the reformist candidate would not only get elected, but also make life a little better.
This is also why 70% voted for Mohammed Khatami, the reformist president, in 1997.
The military and hardline mullahs, who believe that Iran should produce a nuclear weapon, faced off against the bulk of the business community and reformist mullahs, led by Rouhani and former President Mohammad Khatami, who believe that it should not.
Germany’s government boasts about how “globally competitive” the country is, and its officials lecture their EU peers on the need to emulate their supposed reformist zeal.
Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has repeatedly and publicly announced his reformist intentions.
Taking a stand against corruption is a crucial task for the reformist leadership of Mikheil Saakashvili, a Columbia University-educated lawyer, Nino Burjanadze, the acting head of state and speaker of parliament, and Zurab Zhvania, also a former parliamentary speaker.
For example, Hu has decided to honor the memory of his mentor, former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, in order to burnish his aura as a reformist.
Instead, Syria’s rulers are offering inducements to ensure that key constituencies remain in line – laptops for teachers, subsidies for public-sector workers, and empty reformist rhetoric.
While outgoing President Hu Jintao and PremierWen Jiabao struck reformist chords in public statements and in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, many inside China – including, reportedly, Jiang – are disappointed.
It is rare for a successor – in business or government – to usurp the current leader’s lame-duck status by tipping his hand, so no one can yet say with any certainty whether the new leadership will push for a reformist leap forward or seek to maintain the status quo.
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