South Sudan is a country eager to retain its democracy and build a culture of sustained peace.
Despite Tunisia being a success story in terms of retaining the democracy it gained in the Arab Spring, it has become a recruiting ground for jihadis.
But if ordinary Greeks retain faith in democracy - their vote is all they have left, in the considered words of one struggling cafe-owner I met in Thessaloniki - they are rapidly losing trust in Europe.
Most states' execution rules do not take account of the way people of different sizes absorb anaesthetic.Apart from Japan, which carries out very few executions, the United States is the only big democracy to retain capital punishment.
Although he said he favoured 45p, Clegg went on: Of course if the party votes to take a decision, that's one of the joys of the Liberal Democrats is that we still retain this thing called democracy and I'm very proud of the fact that I'm in a sense just one voice amongst many and that this is decided democratically.
Today, responsible, progressive leaders and parties are only likely to preserve tolerant democracy and retain the public's support if they offer stronger narratives, which respond to the intense frustrations average voters feel worldwide.
Research suggests that, through partisan dealignment, the proportion of voters in Western democracies who retain their long-term partisan identities has been reduced.
Reprints Related items Capital punishment in America: Revenge begins to seem less sweetAug 30th 2007America, along with Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan, is one of just a handful of democracies that retain capital punishment.
Climbing back above that figure would be a welcome sign that American democracy retains some of its vigor.
To his many critics in Budapest, this means hollowing out democracy, retaining a semblance of pluralism while controlling all the key levers.
