Russia is politically at its most fragile since October 1993, when the country divided between those, alongside Mr Yeltsin, who believed that a parliament of part-Soviet lineage should not be allowed to paralyse an elected, reform-minded presidency (and that bloody force was justified in subduing it) and those who thereafter believed Mr Yeltsin and the reformers to be devils.
Technocratic prime ministers in Greece and Italy have been popular; voters in Spain, Portugal and Ireland have elected reforming governments.
For the first time in forty years, Latin Americans have elected reform-minded, leftist governments seeking to combine market-led growth with innovative policymaking.
California's primary election on Tuesday was a big disappointment for the movement to elect reform-minded prosecutors.
ALBANY — The billionaire owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team, who has said he will spend $5 million to elect reform-minded candidates to the State Legislature, has released a list of the first 13 candidates that his political organization has decided to support.
Shaun King, a prominent black rights activist and writer, announced Thursday that he is co-founding a political action committee to help elect "reform-minded prosecutors" at the county and city levels.
He's won the endorsement of the Real Justice political action committee, a group focused on electing reform-minded district attorneys around the nation, and Color of Change political action committee, a progressive group helping to mobilize black voters to elect reform-minded candidates around the nation.
In California, on election day, an overwhelming 68% of voters elected to reform the state's notorious 3-strikes law when applied to nonviolent offenders.
One of 21 councilmen elected by reform wave to accompany J. Hampton Moore when latter made mayor.
In New York, of course, we elected a reform governor two years ago, and he was driven from office by some unpleasantness involving the Emperor's Club V.I.P. escort service.
Daniel Knapp Mill Valley, Calif., Aug. 16, 2009 To the Editor: Supposed bipartisanship is a poor excuse for the Democratic Party, elected to reform, to be folding like a lawn chair on the "public option" proposed by President Obama.
