Before the cold war ended, only three small African countries were proper democracies: Botswana, Mauritius and Senegal.
In other industrialized democracies this divide is more muddled by regional interests or other factionalism.
Open data initiatives are happening in democracies around the world at all levels of government.
They have been tried and tested in other advanced democracies - and have worked.
Unlike in other democracies, power in Japan has rarely resided in the government of the day.
''America is one of the world's leading democracies and he will receive a fair trial there.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has called the Venezuelan electoral technology a model for other democracies.
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In the spring and summer of 1939, Stalin could have forged an alliance with Western democracies.
More fundamentally, the Turkish government is doing what democracies tend to do: reflecting its people's views.
But the Arab League, few of whose 22 members are democracies, was more accommodating.
In some cases, young democracies will be tested for the first time by economic hardship.
ASEAN, especially in its most open democracies, Thailand and the Philippines, have deeper worries.
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Now Thailand and the Philippines count themselves as South-East Asia's most open and thriving democracies.
President Bush has visited several Eastern European capitals to highlight countries that have recently become democracies.
She also said the United States must be vigilant about larger powers invading small democracies.
And even so, it took decades for stable western democracies to emerge from our revolutions.
It now consumes the entire saving in working hours by the western democracies since 1900.
Great democracies, he believed, are built on the strong foundation of consent and human dignity.
Now they seem likely to welcome Mauritania fully back into the community of democracies.
But nuclear power is about to become less and less a creature of democracies.
Moreover, in the real world, western democracies trade enthusiastically with countries like China and Indonesia.
In democracies with proportional representation (as in continental Europe), maps are not very important.
Three peculiarities make America's debate over abortion different from those in other western democracies.
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Americans are more interested in the new democracies that have sprung up round the world.
We partner with emerging democracies, like Indonesia, to help strengthen the institutions upon which good governance depends.
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As two vibrant democracies, we recognize that the liberties and freedoms we cherish must be constantly nurtured.
In some quarters this is seen as the US giving fledgling democracies like Georgia an easy ride.
At the regional level, sanctuaries can also pose a significant threat to the stability of nascent democracies.
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