Democracy takes a back seat
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The sound emanating from back-rooms at the Labour Party conference in the Brighton Centre yesterday was the unedifying one of backs being scratched.
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Saddam may be on trial, and polling day round the corner, but there is no end to the violence caution, compromise and a good deal of fear dog Iraqâs faltering steps toward what its American occupiers hope will become democracy after Iraqis vote six
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Â· Rightwing pressure wins commutation for ScooterÂ· Democrats say president has trampled on the law
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The decision on Friday to reinstate Pakistan's Supreme Court Chief Justice is a victory for democracy, but the euphoria around the decision may be premature.
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Back in power, the Democrats are discovering that role reversal in the House isn't all it's cracked up to be
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Comment is free: Andrew Rawnsley: His ideas for modernising our democracy are both exciting and risky. Politicians can never be sure where reform will take them.
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Japan's democracy may work smoothly, but its politics are still dominated by change-resistant dynasties that limit voter choice
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The Democratic Party's most powerful  weapon is heading back into battle.
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The government has hailed the vote as a democratic breakthrough, but opposition candidates are not allowed to run. Security is tight after an unprecedented year of anti-government protests
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Elections in Hong Kong on Sunday were a big disappointment as an exercise in democracy. Pro-democracy or independent-minded candidates won about 60 percent of the vote, a stunning victory by any measure except the one applied to this election.
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The government struggles to adapt its old methods of social control to the challenge of maintaining authority over a society seeking greater freedoms.
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A series of tactical errors, with peculiarities in the voting process, prevented democracy advocates here from winning as many seats as expected in Sunday&#39;s legislative
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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Outpolled, outmaneuvered and out of power, Democrats are suffering an identity crisis.
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If Tuesday&#39;s election returns were a bitter pill for Democrats nationally, they were pure poison for Democrats in the South. Five formerly Democratic US Senate seats were up for grabs.
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They lack solid political bases and support from ruling party elders. One felt the wrath of voters just four years ago when he lost his Diet seat.
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Ever so slowly, countries that once made up the former Yugoslavia are reorienting themselves toward the West and its democratic institutions.