On one hand, the United States was nudging a undemocratic leader into accepting a more democratic model for governing.
It also advocated a more democratic model of church governance that favoured collegiality over strict notions of papal supremacy.
By marrying online social networks with finance, this model offers a more democratic model of finance, in which individuals can directly fund other individuals or businesses that they deem worthy, without going through a bank or Wall Street middleman.
Finally, senior national physicians who abandoned the public sector to embrace a more entrepreneurial medical activity said that they were the victims of the evolution of the healthcare system from a centralized NHS to a more democratic model integrating public and private services.
The ideological differences between the Blair version of New Labourism and the more social democratic model of Brown are coming into much starker relief.
The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty, providing services now sorely lacking, from clean water to electricity, and on a model that is more democratic and less centralized than the models of the past.
Although it acknowledged that inflation figures have improved "modestly", it kept its hawkish bias.Meanwhile, Wall Street is gradually getting used to the style of the Bernanke Fed, which seems to be more democratic than the Greenspan model.
A global study across industries by Booz Allen Hamilton, a consultancy, even concluded that "higher R&D spending doesn't ensure better performance in terms of growth, profitability or shareholder returns".Now the centrally planned approach is giving way to the more democratic, even joyously anarchic, new model of innovation.
A weakened European Union or U.S. also won't be able provide a model of a more democratic version of capitalism to counter Chinas ultra-authoritarian version.
