It is sustained in part by the competition between two forces: the military, a broadly based, middle-class, undemocratic institution; and the People's Party, a broadly based, somewhat poorer, undemocratic institution (it has never held internal elections).
"They say that Turkey is too big, too Islamic, too poor, too undemocratic, too Asian to join Europe".
In rich countries and poorer ones, democratic and undemocratic, primarily Islamic and primarily Christian — everywhere, basically, except Europe — devotion to God has remained surprisingly robust.
Mr Vigil's accusations are a poor attempt at justifying the unjustifiable the undemocratic nature of the current Anglo-Spanish talks by tarnishing Gibraltar's reputation.Keith AzopardiDeputy-chief ministerGibraltarMuslims in EuropeSIR – Your article on Europe's Muslims falls into the "them and us" trap that stifles the progress of political thought on Islam ("Europe's Muslims", August 10th).
But although Keizer thinks privacy is a value enjoyed more, in practice, by the rich than the poor, he resists the claim that privacy should be considered elitist or undemocratic.
Do we want to be part of an undemocratic racket that spends more on rich French farmers than on poor African farmers, whose institutions are in hoc to corporate lobbies, and whose leaders tour Europe in private jets preaching austerity?
As a result, rich northern regions have become restless, whereas poorer southern ones such as Sicily abuse their autonomy in time-honoured undemocratic fashion by handing out favours and spending too much.
Now she has rebounded again, only two years after 11 top Women's League members quit its national executive in protest at her "autocratic and undemocratic" leadership.The party bosses may snub her, but she remains hugely popular among the poorest, the people of squatter camps and tin shacks.
Residents-only policies, redolent of gated communities, are disturbingly undemocratic and too often have the effect, if not the provable intent, of excluding minorities and the poor.
The only notable dissident is Daniel Libeskind of Ground Zero fame, who has questioned the seemliness of building for an authoritarian and undemocratic regime, under which construction workers endure the most primitive of conditions, with minimal safety provisions and poor wages.
