The centrality of elections: a global review
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The number of democratic countries since the 1970s increased from 58 to 117 and skeptics doubt whether democracy would work at all in the developing nations. What these critics forget is that democracy is a work-in-progress, a dynamic process which evolves as the people who practice it evolve. It mainly provides a context in which people exercise the right to choose or, more important, replace those who run the system. Thus, elections are crucial to the system. The international community can do much to nurture these fledging democracies by neither undermining these nor condoning those who do.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1996
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Overthrowing Hollywood and the broadcast elites
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George Gilder believes that the motion picture industry is preocuppied with the depiction of evil while the news media are biased against capitalism and free enterprise. However, Gilder extols the advantages of cyberspace technology.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1995
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