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| | Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | An illiberal democracy is a political system where democratic elections exist, and the government is elected by a democratic majority, but is not restrained from encroaching on the liberty of individuals, or minorities. | | | Liberal democracy is, strictly speaking, a form of representative democracy where the political power of the government is moderated by a constitution which protects the rights and freedoms of individuals and minorities (also called constitutional liberalism). | | | Representative democracy is a political system where the people vote on government members, who are then expected to make decisions in accordance with the interests of their voters. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
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| | Foreign Affairs - Illiberal Illusions: Restoring Democracy's Good Name - Charles Kupchan |
| | Instead, participatory democracy is essential to nurturing the dignity and autonomy of the individual, which is in turn the foundation of constitutional liberalism. | | | This, though, is illiberalism as the violation of the separation of powers rather than of citizens' rights. | | | Classical liberalism -- the notion that the individual's autonomy is sacrosanct -- was born and bred in Britain and the United States. |
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19980501faresponse1396/charles-kupchan/illiberal-illusions-restoring-democracy-s-good-name.html
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| | PPP 11/14: The rise of Cambodia's illiberal democracy? |
| | But given the negligence of the rule of law where politicians flex their muscles and rule by the law, Cambodia's democratization will witness the rise of an illiberal democracy where basic liberties and the rule of law are constantly challenged by impunity and corruption. | | | I argue that without the rule of law, which upholds individual rights, consolidating democracy would be difficult; albeit, these rights are at the heart of democracy. | | | It states that the judiciary shall remain an independent power "which shall uphold impartiality and protect the rights and freedoms of the people." [Article 130 of the Constitution underpins this divide.] Currently, the Minister of Justice is a member of the Council which further emphasizes the deliberate violation of Constitutional provisions. |
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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/TXT/comments/rise.htm
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| | Seven new ideas for a democratic Iraq. By David Plotz |
| | The United States is raring to hold elections, declare democracy, and split. | | | This is a disaster since democracy can't flourish with a timid citizenry. | | | Liberal democracy requires independent sources of power to ensure that voted-in leaders don't use the excuse of elections to revoke rights and crush rivals. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2081984
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| | The Rise of Illiberal Democracy by Fareed Zakaria |
| | The tension between constitutional liberalism and democracy centers on the scope of governmental authority. | | | It is odd that the United States is so often the advocate of elections and plebiscitary democracy abroad. | | | THE AMERICAN diplomat Richard Holbrooke pondered a problem on the eve of the September 1996 elections in Bosnia, which were meant to restore civic life to that ravaged country. |
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http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/other/democracy.html
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| | Illiberal Democracy Five Years Later |
| | We have had democracy, but we have had other undemocratic elements that have always been part of the mix: constitutions, laws, but also Tocquevillian institutions like political parties. | | | Lawyers have no real independent role, as we have seen in the Enron scandal in the United States. | | | He previously taught in the Department of Government at Harvard University. |
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http://www.fareedzakaria.com/interviews/hir.html
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| | This is, indeed, the only legacy that could be expected from the expansion of illiberal states. | | | As a result, less than 15 percent of the population is eligible to vote, and the turnout for the last parliamentary elections fell to below 35 percent. | | | Without solid commitment to both, no state is worthy of the democratic label, and no state will manage to live at peace with itself or the world. |
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http://www.brook.edu/rios/data/sources/view/4cfdf41417b1ff3e45a22bdf0a1415cb.xml
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| | Philosophy, et cetera: Illiberal Democracy |
| | Democracy is not about making good decisions, it's about making our decisions. | | | But perhaps it should come as no surprise that incompetent voters would elect incompetent leaders. | | | Nobody is arguing that votes are not always cast with the same level of analysis, but we are all people, and are all subject to the decisions of the state. |
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http://pixnaps.blogspot.com/2004/09/illiberal-democracy.html
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| | Illiberal democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Illiberal democratic governments believe they have a mandate to act in any way they see fit, disregarding laws or the constitution if they desire, as long as they hold regular elections. | | | However, the term is almost always used to denote a particularly authoritarian kind of representative democracy, in which the leaders and lawmakers are elected by the people, but tend to be corrupt and often do not respect the law. | | | They often centralize powers both between branches of the national government (violating the separation of powers) and between different levels of government and private associations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy
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| | washingtonpost.com: Liberty and Justice for All |
| | More disappointing is Zakaria's decision to end his book with a condemnation of democratic excesses in the United States and the West. | | | For those of us accustomed to judging a government's legitimacy according to whether it's democratic, Zakaria's nonchalance about democracy is a little bit shocking. | | | If freedom is the prerequisite to democracy, wealth is the prerequisite to freedom, because it allows the bourgeoisie to establish power independent of the state, which in turn forces the state to govern according to predictable rules (i.e., laws) rather than caprice. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3049-2003May1?language=printer
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| | Re: [Assam] Liberal vs. illiberal democracy |
| | Re: [Assam] Liberal vs. illiberal democracy Chan Mahanta | | | Re: [Assam] Liberal vs. illiberal democracy mc mahant | | | It is also astounding to see that the right to marry (i.e., to be legally recognized as a couple) is being denied to gays and lesbians by people including those (e.g., some blacks) who until very recently had been discriminated against in their turn by a bigoted majority. |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/assam@assamnet.org/msg02414.html
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| | How to Save the World |
| | Women got suffrage there in 1920, and blacks in the South effectively only in the 1960s. | | | The US Senate is the most unrepresentative upper house in the world. | | | In fact he argues the opposite: that constitutional and economic liberalism (rule of law, separation of church and state, earned and reasonably distributed wealth, as calculated by the Gini index, defensible civil liberties and especially balance of power) are preconditions for the success of democracy. |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/06/27.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad: Books: Fareed Zakaria |
| | More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve. | | | While most Western governments are both democratic and liberal-i.e., characterized by the rule of law, a separation of powers, and the protection of basic rights-the two don't necessarily go hand in hand. | | | Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform by Michael McFaul |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393324877?v=glance
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| | Blogcritics.org: The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria |
| | Given this reality, Zakaria would be better off emphasizing the benefits of constitutional and republican democracy. | | | Democracy in this sense is just a format for elections: one man one vote; with 51% you win. | | | Instead of discussing the tensions and trade offs between order and freedom and justice, at time Zakaria seems to see them as a linear path: first order, then freedom, then justice. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/27/163235.php
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| | Dow Blog: The Bush Doctrine and Illiberal Democracy |
| | Bush, in an interview just prior to his inauguration. | | | In a "Foreign Affairs" essay several years ago, Fareed Zakaria identified a rising trend whereby democratically elected governments routinely deprived citizens of basic rights and liberties. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. |
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http://dowblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/bush-doctrine-and-illiberal-democracy.html
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| | People power illiberal strain of RP democracy - INQ7.net |
| | According to the Western example, it argues that liberalism should begin with the replacement of arbitrary or ill-defined state power with "constitutional liberalism," in particular the rule of law and due process, state protection of fundamental political, human and property rights, and the legal separation of Church and State. | | | While Catholic Church action "has protected both democracy and liberalism in terms of election security," it challenged the Western ideal of the separation of Church and State, the essay argues. | | | "Democracy, in turn, starts with civilian government, universal suffrage, and the election of public officials, especially the national executive and the legislature," says the essay. |
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http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=48454
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| | The Future Of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home And Abroad |
| | He substantiates his arguments by using historical evidence that England has flourished under aristocracy and Germany had elected the Nazis in 1933. | | | ABSTRACT: Democracy is generally viewed as an inherently positive political force, which strongly complements freedom and liberty. | | | He takes the example of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, and Venezuela under Chavez to show that elected leaders sometimes ignore constitutional limits and undermine the rights of the citizens. |
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http://www.fairness.com/resources/one?resource_id=5611
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| | Illiberal Democracy on the Rise? |
| | Almost half of today's "democratizing" countries can be classified as what Fareed Zakaria dubs "illiberal democracies": Although they hold regular elections, they also violate their citizens' human rights, political liberties, and religious freedom. | | | The first is that a democratic culture cannot be built overnight--especially not in a region which has such a long history of oppressive and authoritarian government. | | | As recent history shows, elections can be the continuation of autocracy by other means. |
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/check.asp?idArticle=12094&r=imyew
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| | Yale College Students for Democracy |
| | Yale College Students for Democracy hosted Zainab Al-Suwaij, former Iraqi Dissident and current president of the American Islamic Congress, on April 1st. | | | Al-Suwaij told a crowd of fifty students that the United States must finish what it started during the Gulf War. | | | See the article in the Yale Daily News. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ycsd
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| | lion&lamb: Back Issue |
| | Democracy in Northern Ireland is ethnic, tribal, illiberal. | | | The end is not simply the creation of local institutions that local people can vote for. | | | In institutionalising illiberal democracy in Northern Ireland perhaps the Assembly has reinforced the democratic deficit in our community rather than overcoming it. |
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http://www.econi.org/LionLamb/035/comment.html
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| | National Review: Fit for Export? - "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad" - book review |
| | The essential message of Zakaria's book is that, popular conflations notwithstanding, constitutional liberalism is not the same as democracy. | | | Rather, the former is ever the plinth of the latter: Without constitutional liberalism one cannot have, or at any rate have stably or for very long, anything remotely resembling genuine democracy. | | | It is impossible to pick up an American newspaper or magazine these days without reading some thinly veiled (and thinly reasoned) sermon on the imperative to democratize Iraq and, to listen to some, the rest of the Arab and Muslim worlds beyond. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_10_55/ai_101796899
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| | On Point : Overdosing on Democracy - 4/18/2003 |
| | The author joins us to talk about his belief that liberty is threatened by an excess of democracy, both in America and abroad. | | | At a time when America is attempting to export democracy to the Middle East, Zakaria's conclusion raises critical questions. | | | Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad" and editor of Newsweek International. |
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http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2003/04/20030418_a_main.asp
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