In most European democracies, including Germany and Italy, the office of the president is largely ceremonial, with broad political power located in the office of a chancellor or prime minister.
Still, twenty-one remains the traditional age of enfranchisement in most Western democracies, including forty-six of the United States….The local lobby for the eighteen-year-old vote is a polypartisan student group known as CALVA — Consolidated Association to Lower the Voting Age….
But here's the bigger issue: Can a truly democratic movement break the stranglehold of corrupt elites and powerful anti-democratic institutional forces that have come to characterize not just the politics of Greece, but most Western democracies, including our own?
In the United States, for example, the use of contract lobbyists those hired by contract specifically to lobby government is much more accepted than in most other Western democracies, including those of the European Union, where public officials usually prefer to deal directly with the members of the concerned group, organization, or business.
All 5 countries now have democratically elected governments, though most are relatively new multi-party democracies, including South Africa and Mozambique (1994) and Burundi (2005).
Closer relations with Asian democracies, including Australia and India, will follow.
Democracies, including the United States, can prove remarkably unpredictable.
In most democracies with serious armies, including Britain, there isn't anything quite like the Israeli veterans' organisation Breaking the Silence (BTS).
The extent of this disadvantage can vary a lot: from having to put up with political systems (including most democracies) that accord certain privileges to faith, to an immediate danger of death.
Including democracy, including civilization.
