"The events of 1991 taught us that there was incomplete democracy," she said, alluding to the collapse of the Soviet Union that year.
From here on, there can be no pretense of democracy, semi-democracy, incomplete democracy or any of the other euphemisms deployed by sophisticated tolerators in the West.
The bulk of the contemporary scholarly literature tells us that these "incomplete" democracies are failing to become consolidated, or institutionalized.
This edited volume addresses the dynamics of the legal system of Myanmar/Burma in the context of the dramatic but incomplete transition to democracy that formally began in 2011.
In his second-term pronouncements so far, Mr Bush has given no sign of disavowing the neo-conservative view that the chief motor of terrorism is the incomplete spread of democracy in the world, and especially its absence among the Arabs of the Middle East.
In the EU's neighbourhood there are still major problems with democracy, incomplete transitions and economic nationalism.
As I discuss in a new book soon to be released by the Oxford University Press on secularism and its incomplete compatibility with democracy, France has always been one of the most secular, if not anti-religious, nations in Europe.
As Vicente Navarro, who has written for many years on Spain's incomplete transition to democracy, notes: the 1978 constitution was much more a product of the 36-year dictatorship than it was of the democracy that was struggling to be born.
The continent has seen an increasing number of incomplete transitions to democracy, resulting in a high vulnerability to outbreaks of conflict [1] [6].
But the judgment also denies the ex-dictator the chance to clear his name and means that, even if his health allows, he cannot return to Chile's Senate, in which he had awarded himself a seat for life.Despite its anti-climactic denouement, the Pinochet case has changed Chile, nudging forward a still-incomplete transition to democracy and breathing a new zeal for human rights into the judiciary.
Today, Mozambique's democracy remains incomplete, and the state weak, but the country is at peace.
