Some experts say that tailoring rates to creditworthiness may be a result of a welcome democratization of credit, in which consumers with black marks like garnishments or liens on their records are no longer necessarily rejected.
Historical sociologists have identified the ways in which democratization unfolded as part of the emergence of modern nation-states.
These popular demonstrations prompted the president to launch a system of democratization on 31 May, in which he authorised political pluralism and trade unions.
A careful examination will reveal how different digital innovations is ushering in an era of democratization of medical care in which patients have more control over their health care.
In contrast to elitist Old Kingdom attitudes towards the gods, the Middle Kingdom experienced an increase in expressions of personal piety and what could be called a democratization of the afterlife, in which all people possessed a soul and could be welcomed into the company of the gods after death.
'To master change,' he wrote in 1970, 'we shall therefore need a clarification of important long-term social goals and a democratization of the way in which we arrive at them.
Relatedly, democratization is also a process in which various social groups have made claims on the state through protests, riots, strikes, and lobbies.
Flight Simulator is a synecdoche of the personal-computer revolution and, more broadly, of the way in which the democratization of technology can be exploited by people who don't believe in technology.
Message: While all eyes are on the Arab-Israeli peace process, there is a whole other process -- democratization -- percolating in the Arab world, in which the Internet and globalization are acting like nutcrackers to open societies and empower Arab democrats with new tools.
Mr. Yang was elaborating on a recent hard-hitting article in the journal Foreign Affairs in which he argued that there was no alternative to greater democratization if the Communist Party wanted to encourage economic growth and maintain social stability.
