The government in Canberra has been so uncompromising and taken such strong public positions that it would be very hard for it to accept managed democracy in lieu of liberal democracy.
It's a specimen of managed democracy.
These establishment liberals, of whom Mr. Prokhorov is very much one, believe "the era of managed democracy is over".
Hassan Rohani is not a reformer or friend of the West no such man could rise to the top in Iran's system of managed democracy.
But he has also created what critics call a "heavily managed" democracy which has included taking control of most of the media and quieting political dissent.
Since then, however, it has become clear that Medvedev is not the liberal reformer that some had hoped but part of Russia's managed democracy construct, in which elections are stage-managed and dissent swiftly squashed.
And let Russia demonstrate to the world what sort of a Crimea it can help to build, a Crimea integrating its own residual Ukrainian population and indigenous Crimean Tatars into a new Crimea proudly demonstrating the benefits of Russia's managed democracy.
The establishment represents an attempt on behalf of these groups to "manage" democracy, to make sure that it does not threaten their own interests.
Its leader has mastered "managed democracy" and made Kazakhstan an indispensable partner of America, Russia and China.
