Honest multi-party elections, a fair-handed judiciary and a press free to report without government censorship.
The presidents of Kenya and Ghana abandoned economic reform in order to win their first multi-party elections in 1992.
Neither Zambia nor Kenya would have held multi-party elections at all had events continued uninterrupted along their 1980s course.
As chequered as his record is, he is the only leader in Indochina to permit multi-party elections of any sort.
In fact, car sales have been rising since last July, the month after the country's first free multi-party elections in over four decades.
The party was later transformed into a political party and eventually ruled Malawi for 10 years after the first multi-party elections were organized.
But since the ascession to power of President Muluzi following Malawi's first multi-party elections in 1994, the profile of Muslims has been given more prominence.
Of the world's nearly 200 countries, 140 now hold multi-party elections.
In 1991, Secretary of State James A. Baker III addressed Mongolia's first legislature chosen in multi-party elections, applauding the rise of democracy and promising millions of dollars in aid.
President Hosni Mubarak promised multi-party elections there in 2005.
Mark Malloch-Brown, a former head of the UN Development Programme, is still a believer in democracy as a driver of economic advancement, but he thinks that in countries like Afghanistan, the West has focused too much on procedures like multi-party elections and is not open enough to the idea that other kinds of consensus might exist.
The move comes after a series of pay rises to civil servants in the run-up to the country's first multi-party presidential elections, due to be held before 10 October.
But blazing radical new trails such as allowing multi-candidate elections for top party posts would require extraordinary political daring for a leader still finding his feet.
Many countries now have multi-party systems and hold regular elections.
For the past two elections since multi-party voting began the ruling party, the CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi), has dominated - but there are considerable numbers in Zanzibar who feel this ruling elite has sidelined the wishes of the islanders.
The extent to which multi-party politics in Taiwan has matured is evident in the results of the November 1997 elections for mayors and magistrates.
Some Arab regimes represented at the summit floated the idea of delaying the elections perhaps because they feel queasy at the thought of a genuine multi-party election, especially one that will produce a Shia-led government.
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