When you have a President who lies as he breathes, for whom lying is simply the normal way of dealing with any difficulty, democratic governance becomes close to impossible.
Pakistan's plummeting economy, the fragility of its democratic institutions, and the difficulties of the civilian administration in re-establishing normal government functions in cleared-up areas like Swat, need the attention of its western allies.
And though he had gained considerable experience as acting monarch after his brother King Fahd's stroke, he was beset by numerous difficulties – dynastic, democratic, religious, ideological, regional and global – and, with only rising oil revenues in his favour, found himself unable to address them to any significant extent.
We know firsthand about the difficulties confronting democratic development in the country, as well as how the highly personalized nature of relations between the U.S. and Georgian leadership has contributed to bipartisan American reluctance to criticize the steps Georgia has made away from democracy in recent years.
Arrow's result clearly extends the scope of analysis beyond the traditional focus of welfare economics, and nicely illuminates the difficulties of democratic voting procedures such as the Condorcet paradox (consisting of the fact that majority rule may be intransitive).
One is its difficulty balancing democratic accountability against its institutional drive to further the cause of unity.
Whether the electoral commission can conduct the referendum smoothly – the country still has difficulty funding democratic exercises – is the burning question.
Describes Reagan's belief that government causes inflation, the appeal of the belief, and the difficulty the Democratic opposition so far is having in mobilizing against the President's programs.
But the scale and the persistence of the country's economic difficulties may cool Democratic ardor for addressing deficits.
