Sentence examples for gradual democratization from inspiring English sources

In subordinating the House of Lords to the House of Commons, the 1911 Act was regarded as another step in the gradual democratization of the British Constitution.

Should that happen, the Arab world will end up stuck in option 3. The Arab peace process with Israel has always been part of a larger embrace of modernization, gradual democratization and integration with the West.

Because what the Arab world desperately needs is a model that works -- a progressive Arab regime that by its sheer existence would create pressure and inspiration for gradual democratization and modernization around the region.

The idea here is to direct the pace of change in a way that allows gradual democratization and avoids friction and violence that might emerge out of a sudden, uncontrolled change as happened elsewhere in the Arab world.

The end result is a gradual transition toward democratization in autocratic nations and more effective political representation in democratic nations (Inglehart and Welzel 2005).

We are not very good at understanding the win-or-die dynamic of these sorts of political systems: Not so long ago, everyone from the U.S. State Department, to Harvard, to the London School of Economics, to Vogue magazine, to blue-chip Wall Street money managers treated the Assads and the Qaddafis like rulers capable of gradual liberalization and even democratization.

Another has to do with process: Universal suffrage in developing countries is often implemented wholesale and abruptly a destabilizing approach that is quite removed from the gradual enfranchisement seen during Western democratization.

The government, for its part, has claimed that democratization must be a gradual process that cannot be allowed to destabilize or inhibit the processes of economic liberalization and social consolidation.

In fact, because Saudi Arabia is the most conservative of the Arab states, Riyadh's decision to start a process of democratization, no matter how gradual, is already beginning to force many Arabs to rethink where the tides of Middle Eastern history are headed.

And like all great (meaning successful) designers, he recognized a crucial shift in the market well before its impact had been fully realized, in this case how the democratization of fashion would also lead to a gradual devaluation of the concept of luxury.

A more democratic China may well emerge, but perhaps more as a result of gradual reform and greater prosperity, which have been facilitated by Deng Xiaoping's doctrine, than of radical democratization".