Open data initiatives are happening in democracies around the world at all levels of government.
In fact, candidates in democracies across the globe will likely benefit from cloud strategies.
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In democracies with proportional representation (as in continental Europe), maps are not very important.
She has pointed out that "we live in democracies and have to operate according to fundamental rules".
For leaders in democracies, perhaps the most difficult decision is to change course.
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But there is a difference: Jews live predominantly in democracies, where history, like politics, is alive with bustle, debate, and disorder.
In democracies, incoming governments rarely reverse the commercial decisions of their predecessors.
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Foreign ownership of media has always been especially controversial: after all, in democracies, the media are the main channel between the governed and the government.
That makes the provision somewhat controversial not only in totalitarian states but also in democracies, including the United States, where some worry that it limits parental rights.
But in democracies, governments cannot force policies on resistant citizens.
But in democracies that bent can lead to silly policies such as the new government of Thailand's subsidized rice price, designed to aid farmers but imperiling a huge export market with artificially high supply costs.
Unlike in other democracies, power in Japan has rarely resided in the government of the day.
Some are already serving in government but spoke about a need for more women to serve and to lead in forming new democracies in the Middle East.
And in 10th place is "(The Other) 99", referring to the majority of those living in Western democracies who are left out of the dramatic rise in earnings associated with the top 1%.
He gives short shrift to the ways in which democracies encourage liberty, as well as harm it.
In a country like India, they may also prove more effective than their counterparts in older democracies.
In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
Yet voters in Malaysia also face fewer choices than those in developed democracies.
In many democracies, the country's public character is determined primarily by the culture and identity of the majority of its people.
They are also trying to influence policy in the way it is done in most democracies - through negotiations with the government.
After World War II homosexual rights movements made progress in Western democracies.
The importance of the judiciary in this context is that judges in constitutional democracies are set aside as the guardians of individual rights.
For in Britain as in other democracies, devolution is not a threat to the union, but a way of securing it for the future.
Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
Instead, the U.S. government should insist that Moscow use some of the billions in hard currency windfall profits it is accruing from the sharp increase in world oil prices to assist the fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe.
In fact, it is no exaggeration to point out that the Venezuelan drama should be as great a concern as the elections in the young democracies of the Middle East that emerged in the aftermath of the Arab spring.
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In a report this week, the World Bank says Indonesia faces many of the same problems encountered by transitional democracies in Eastern Europe, but fails to do much about it.
In other industrialized democracies this divide is more muddled by regional interests or other factionalism.
They have been tried and tested in other advanced democracies - and have worked.
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