Pleasant to note democracy in America, even if we must import aristocracy to demonstrate it.
They noted that democracy meant sloppiness, and that Mr. Yeltsin, however sloppy and sometimes drunk, was an indispensable midwife to Russian democracy's cataclysmic birthing, and needed leeway.
The Chinese ministry in charge of the project noted that "democracy sacrifices efficiency".
He noted that democracy is about constraints on power, pointing to his own limits as president.
Critics also noted that democracy was dramatically weakened under Chávez's rule.
While it was not exactly what administration officials had in mind, they noted that democracy can be a bit messy.
Thus, as political scientist Ian Budge has noted, direct democracy must not be unmediated, since governments and parties can also play an important mediating role.
A New Blend 7. (C) Asked if he felt USG assistance over the past seven years had been military heavy, Zardari noted that democracy promotion had been the smallest component of aid.
Earlier, we noted that democracy might increase environmental degradation because it allows citizens to express their preference for more economic growth and consumption, while others suggest that democracy allows citizens to mobilize to protect the environment.
John Dryzek (2000) has noted that democracy enables a wide-variety of perspectives to shape policy and thus increases the chances of making the 'correct' decision (see also Landemore 2013).
