Pippa Norris, at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, hails the advent of a new breed of "critical citizens" (in a book of that name, Oxford University Press, 1999) who see that existing channels of participation fall short of democratic ideals and want to reform them.There are some signs of this.
But Russia and other autocratic states have bristled lately under the monitors' post-election reports and news media conferences, which have routinely found that elections run by centralized governments in the old Soviet sphere fall short of democratic standards.
As revealed in a recent academic NBER paper, the pathway between state labor policies and the effective weakening of unions is through the rise and fall of the Democratic party.
Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poisonous gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, marks the rise and fall of our democratic faith". But the book goes far beyond the subject of law.
The plot climax of Star Wars is modeled after the fall of the democratic Roman Republic and the formation of an empire.
And it looked in December like ties between the strongman and both Washington and Doha were improving, with the arrival of the first U.S. ambassador to the country since the fall of the democratic government and an apparent reconciliation between Qatar and Sisi's anti-Brotherhood backers in the Gulf.
In the end, Nixon fell because of democratic opposition, especially from Republicans.
Poland has reacted angrily to suggestions it is falling short of democratic standards.
mission in 2007 was the first since Russia undertook to hold free elections in 1990, and followed reports that said the country was falling short of democratic standards.
Parliamentary elections over the weekend fell short of democratic standards because of "a high prevalence" of ballot box stuffing and other problems, the main Western observer mission to the election, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said Monday.
Released for public comment in May 2003, it was criticized for falling short of democratic reform, as it banned opposition political parties and allowed the king to retain absolute governing powers.
