Some argue democracy itself should reduce Bahun-Chhetri dominance over time.
He said this was a defining moment for Europe in which it could choose pluralism or, in rejecting its own progress, give support to those who argue democracy cannot work.
For those who would argue democracy has a price and absurdly inflated campaign finance is part of the cost of free and fair elections, consider this: the United Kingdom spent an estimated £113,225,271 (around $173 million in US dollars at the time) on parliamentary elections in 2010.
With those precedents in mind, a Syrian-German blogger, who writes on Twitter as @DSyrer, argued: "democracy and human rights in Italy and Romania look fine to me, despite the brutal execution of their own dictators".
But still, for the third covered by the community charge, Mrs. Thatcher argued, democracy would take its course; voters angered by high community charges would take it out on their local councils.
In a speech in Washington, the US president, George Bush, kept up the pressure, arguing democracy was beginning to spread across the Middle East and that authoritarian rule was "the last gasp of a discredited past".
At the level of the individual, Dewey argued democracy was the best, most complete form of human self-expression.
Also, these emerging countries are not democracies".To stay competitive, he argues, democracies have to adapt.
While no one would want to argue against democracy, Jennifer L. Windsor did not show any correlation between democracy and development ("Better Development Through Democracy," Op-Ed, July 19).
His book manuscript, Democracy Against Parties, draws on evidence from the Latin American left to argue that democracy impedes successful party-building.
