Cynics think [Evan Bayh] was also worried about being beaten in November (though he was ahead in the polls). Yet the idea that America's democracy is broken, unable to fix the country's problems and condemned to impotent partisan warfare, has gained a lot of support lately. This dysfunctionality matters far beyond America's shores. A few years ago only Chinese bureaucrats dared suggest that Beijing's autocratic system of government was superior. Nowadays there is no shortage of leaders from emerging countries, or even prominent American businesspeople, who privately sing the praises of a system that can make decisions swiftly. So the basic system works; but that is no excuse for ignoring areas where it could be reformed. In the House the main outrage is gerrymandering. Tortuously shaped...
Admittedly, a few nettlesome issues remain. First, about one-fourth of the global labour force is in China. Opposing steps toward the formation of unions there suppresses the wages of so many workers that its effect is felt worldwide. Second, since authoritarian China remains an adversary of the United States and a backer of some genuinely dangerous authoritarian regimes, blocking even the most modest steps toward the development of a civil society and democratic rights there poses a threat to U.S. security interests. Third, since the Bush administration champions the spread of democracy globally, why hasn't it taken America's leading corporations to task for retarding democracy's growth in China? And fourth, since preserving America's national security should require executives at comp...
The only terror that Gen. [Pervez Musharraf]'s regime seems able to confront is the terror of his own illegitimacy. This is the second martial law Gen. Musharraf has imposed and the second sacking of the judges he has undertaken since taking over in a coup in 1999 when he promised "to bring true democracy. No attempt has been made to differentiate between terror suspects associated with militant groups and the public at large. Many believe these laws were passed to intimidate pro-democracy forces and not to try terror suspects. This is the "democracy" that Gen. Musharraf envisages. While living in America in the early 1970s when I attended Harvard, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous power of a people to change policy. And now I am seeing the power of the people coalescing ...
People love to mock the middle class. Its narrow-mindedness, complacency and conformism are the mother lode of material for sitcom writers and novelists. But Marx thought "the bourgeoisie has played a most revolutionary part" in history. On this Marx was right. For years, policy-makers have tied economic success to the rich ("trickle-down economics") and to the poor ("inclusive growth"). But it is the middle class that is the real motor of economic growth. History suggests middle-class people can behave in radically different ways. The rising middle class of 19th-century Britain agitated peacefully for the vote; in Latin America in the 1990s the same sorts of people backed democracy. Yet the middle class also supported fascist governments in Europe in the 1930s and initially backed mili...
Clearly, the pressure is on. Western leaders are finally beginning to recognize that [Pervez Musharraf]'s regime has been unsuccessful in taming the Taliban, which has regrouped in the tribal areas of Pakistan while the military regime has given up trying to establish order on the Afghan border. Indeed, Pakistan's return to democracy is essential to America's success in South and Central Asia, as well as in the Middle East, as democratization is an integral part of fighting terrorism. Wouldn't it therefore be prudent to tie aid money to genuine political reform? Of course Musharraf's regime, to legitimize its coup and divert attention from the institutionalized corruption of the military, accuses Pakistan's secular, democratic parties of corruption. But according to Transparency Interna...
... according to the actual level of democracy in Mexico . In De Leon v. Canada (Minister of Citi... a true democracy, as the United States of America as determined in Hinzman above, the presumption of...
Both Canada and the United States share an interest in seeing that their large numbers of immigrants are successfully settled in their new communities. This essay argues that immigrant settlement policy in both countries faces two important challenges in the post-9/11 world: (1) ensuring that the racialization of immigrants is avoided (especially in respect to Arabs and Muslims) in a period of preoccupation with security issues, and (2) the need to reorient understanding of immigrant settlement to come to terms with the increasingly transnational orientation of many international migrants. The essay sketches out the nature of these two challenges in both the United States and Canada, and offers some thoughts on what it will take to meet them in each country.
... is important because the future of democracy in North America depends upon it, because a growin...
... in Europe have also borrowed from the American model of establishing an independent (though state...
... policy founded on, and justified by, America's unique combination of power and righteousness. K..., whose book America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, singled ou...
... of measures by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the international community to re...
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