A governing structure that Mr. Knight describes as "so-called democracy," controlled by elected boards steeped in political and ethnic sectarianism, has threatened to extinguish what made the station unique.
Old-fashioned totalitarian societies control information by suppressing what they consider inconvenient for their people to hear, while the more sophisticated capitalist democracies control information by swamping the truth in a deluge of disinformation, through which it is virtually a full-time job to sift.
In addition to trade and democracy and control over body fluids, a key feature of modernity is rapid technological innovation.
They must prove that electoral democracy can control and channel the "furor and delirium" of Mexican politics, as Castaneda puts it, more effectively than the PRI.
We have changed regimes; there are no weapons of mass destruction; and we are told daily that most Iraqis want to move toward democracy and control their future.
Brexit means "restoring our democracy and control of our borders and our lives and a fair bit of cash", said the foreign secretary.
He took his majority as a mandate to squeeze the life out of Venezuelan democracy, seizing control of the courts and the electoral authority, and suppressing opposition media.
"They were the pioneers of French jihadiism," said Jacques Follorou, a journalist at Le Monde and author of the book Democracy under Control, the Posthumous Victory of Bin Laden, about security issues.
More specifically, we analyse the independent and interdependent effects of level of democracy and control of corruption on per capita household electricity consumption in SIDS, using data from 34 SIDS over the period 1996 2009.
The results show that although the independent effects of level of democracy and control of corruption are sensitive to model specification, these two factors do have an interdependent impact on per capita household electricity consumption: democratization has positive effects on provision of electricity to the general population only when there is a certain level of corruption control in place.
