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Once more, democracy has interfered with the plan.
And on the whole more democracy has led to better governance: politicians who want to be re-elected need to show results.Ways to salvationWhere democracy has struggled to establish itself, African countries have taken three other paths to improving their citizens' lives.
But in California more democracy has produced not more attacks on the wealthy and big business but chronic chaos and even paralysis -- a kind of political catatonia perversely sanctified by neoconservative and libertarian dogmas that assert, as another former governor of California put it, that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".
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If that plan comes to pass, opposition figures who favor more democracy have little chance of making it onto the ballot.
Mr. Yudhoyono was resoundingly re-elected to a second five-year term in 2009, and changes aimed at introducing more democracy have seen power devolved to local governments, where elections have been largely peaceful, orderly affairs.
The African Union (AU), like its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity, frowns on the idea, since so many countries are artificial affairs where tribal loyalties often trump national ones.Separatist sentiment across the continent has also dwindled as governance has improved, federalism or decentralisation have been more widely accepted and democracy has become more entrenched.
Any fears that his degree subject, international studies, might be harder to study in China than in a more open democracy have proved unfounded, he says.
Although Mr Saakashvili likes to say that the best response to Russia's aggression is more democracy, he has yet to translate his words into action.
And liberal democracy has more of a stake in some form of American "hegemony", albeit one less swashbuckling and corrupt, than in anything likely to replace it.
For all of that, democracy has more chance of succeeding in Tunisia than almost anywhere in the Arab world because of its well-developed middle class, high literacy rate, civil society and relatively homogeneous population.
The electoral commission (unlike the courts) proved itself independent, which matters for parliamentary elections due in the spring.Another South Asian country stumbling towards full democracy has more to celebrate.
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