Why should a country of 62 million have a seat when another democracy of 1.25 billion people — India — does not have one?
Another democracy advocate, Nguyen Tien Trung, received a seven-year sentence, while Le Thang Long, who worked with Mr. Thuc, the blogger, was sentenced to five years.
And we should not forget that Gaza is another "democracy" in the Middle East: it was precisely because Hamas won free elections there in 2005 that both the Palestinian Authority and Israel reacted with such vehemence.
The other group of sceptics take a colder-eyed look at democracy itself, arguing that it is not as desirable a product as its admirers think.Few people now believe the crudest democracy-is-peace theory, so popular a few years ago, which said that a democracy has never fought another democracy, and therefore never will.
If this is another democracy, now is a chance to show it".
When a democracy builds a relationship with another democracy, it does so on an institution-to-institution and society-to-society basis.
It just isn't done that a democratic head of state or government expresses a political view on another democracy's upcoming election.
In fact, it would be hard to find another democracy anywhere else in the world where bureaucrats -- an unelected, unrepresentative and essentially unanswerable elite -- have amassed so much power, privileges and entrenched immortality while hiding under the banner of 'governance.'governance
In Australia, another Commonwealth parliamentary democracy, prorogation is explicitly meant to be a break for when discussion in the House is going nowhere.
Put another way, democracies do not appear to use their energy consumption anymore or less efficiently than non-democracies to improve well-being.
