The Economist's Democracy Index as published in December 2011, with greener colours representing more democratic countries and clearly authoritarian countries in dark red.

The following countries are categorized by the Democracy Index 2011 as Full democracy:

Democracy Index by The Economist, 2006.

No political parties or national elections are permitted and according to The Economist's 2010 Democracy Index, the Saudi government is the seventh most authoritarian regime from among the 167 countries rated.

The 2011 Democracy Index marked Tanzania as a " hybrid regime ", ranking it 90th out of 167, an improvement from 92nd the year before.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2008, Uruguay scored an 8. 08 in the Democracy Index and ranked 23rd amongst the 30 countries considered to be Full Democracies in the world.

The Economist's 2008 Democracy Index ranks Tunisia 141 out of 167 studied countries and 143 out of 173 regarding freedom of the press.

Cuba is the only " authoritarian regime " in the Americas, according to the 2010 Democracy Index.

In The Economists 2010 Democracy Index, Tunisia was classified as an authoritarian regime, ranking 144th out of 167 countries studied.

Examples of country-led assessments include the Indonesian Democracy Index, monitoring of the Millennium Development Goal 9 on Human Rights and Democratic Governance in Mongolia and the Gross National Happiness Index in Bhutan.

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Although South Africa's democracy is rated as flawed in the Democracy Index survey conducted by the Economist, its score for electoral process is the same as that of the United States and Japan.

In 2010, Cuba was deemed the only " authoritarian regime " in the Americas by The Economists 2010 Democracy Index.

The following lists Muslim-majority countries and shows the scores given by two frequently used indices: Freedom in the World ( 2012 ) by the US-based Freedom House and the 2011 Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

According to the " Democracy Index " ( published by the Economist, a British journal ), the country in the Middle East with the highest Democracy Index score is Israel, with a score of 7. 53, corresponding to the status of " flawed democracy "; the only one in the region.

The following table lists the Democracy Index rankings of countries in the Middle East and North Africa:

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

– video by Democracy Now!

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The party system is dominated by the Congress for Democracy and Progress.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

* Britain Acknowledges " Bloody Sunday " Killings Were Unjustified and Apologizes to Victims ’ Families – video report by Democracy Now!

Since October 1998, Chadian Movement for Justice and Democracy ( MDJT ) rebels, led by Youssuf Togoimi until his death in September 2002, have skirmished with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties, but little ground won or lost.

Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The conversion of the Conservative Party into a modern mass organisation was accelerated by the concept of Tory Democracy attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

* Teaching for Democracy in an Age of Corporatocracy by Christine E. Sleeter, Teachers College, Columbia University.

The first war which involved the Djiboutian armed forces, was the Djiboutian Civil War between the Djiboutian government, supported by France, and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ).

Politics of Eritrea takes place in a framework of a single-party presidential republic, whereby the Eritrean President is both head of state and head of government and a single-party state, led by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice.

They firmly believe that exposure of all citizens to the development of thought by those most responsible for the evolution of the Western tradition is integral to the survival of the freedoms, human rights and responsibilities inherent to a true Democracy.

The Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the European Parliament, typified by such parties as the United Kingdom Independence Party, is hard eurosceptic.

The ID group did reform, as the Europe of Freedom and Democracy ( EFD ) and is represented by 32 MEPs from nine countries.

Part of the information on Electoral Systems offered by the World Policy Institute ( WPI )' s Project for Global Democracy & Human Rights

* Florida International University's Wolfsonian museum hosted the Thoughts on Democracy exhibition that displayed posters created by sixty leading contemporary artists and designers, invited to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell ’ s “ Four Freedoms ” posters of 1943.

* How to Comiket, Part I: Intelligence, Part II: Strategy, and The Road to Comiket at Heisei Democracy via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

* Democracy Now, December 18, 2003 The Lie Factory-Neocons & the OSP Pushed Disinformation and Bogus Intelligence

Shortly afterwards he moved to that city, to carry out a position with then Premier Don Dunstan's Industrial Democracy Unit.

* During the May 2011 Greek protests, one of the most popular slogans was " Error 404: Democracy not found ".

The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century ( Princeton University Press ; 2011 ); 543 pages ; Traces the history of the Scandinavian social model as it developed after the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905.

In response to the Occupy Wall Street protests and the worldwide occupy movement calling for U. S. campaign finance reform eliminating corporate influence in politics, among other reforms, Representative Ted Deutch introduced the " Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy " ( OCCUPIED ) constitutional amendment on November 18, 2011.

The region's governor is, since 1 January 2011, Konstantinos Agorastos, who was elected in the November 2010 local administration elections for the New Democracy party.

The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century ( Princeton University Press ; 2011 ) 543 pages ; Traces the history of the Scandinavian social model as it developed after the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905.

Among his final publications were Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism ( 2007 ), On Empire ( 2008 ), and the collection of essays How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840 – 2011 ( 2011 ).

* Did Baby Doc Duvalier Return to Haiti to Pressure Préval in the Election ?, video report, Democracy Now !, January 19, 2011

* Martelle, Scott, The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial, Rutgers University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780813549385

This merger formed Unlock Democracy, which was involved in the campaign for a yes vote in the 2011 Alternate Vote referendum.

* David Ray Griffin-theologian, philosopher, author ; leading academic critic of federal government's explanation of 9-11 events ; author of " 9 / 11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed " ( 2011 )

Esping-Andersen ( 1990 ) constructed the welfare regime typology acknowledging the ideational importance and power of the three dominant political movements of the long 20th century in Western Europe and North America, that is Social Democracy, Christian Democracy ( conservatism ) and Liberalism ( Stephens 1979 ; Korpi 1983 ; Van Kersbergen 1995 ; Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser 2011 ).

The President of the National Endowment for Democracy, Carl Gershman ( pictured, second from the left ), presents an award to a Tunisian leader of the Arab Spring in November 2011.

* The Role of Courts in a Democracy: A Debate Video of Charles Clarke in a Public Debate, Oxford, February 2011

See Eugene H. Perry, A Socrates for all Seasons-Alexander Meiklejohn and Deliberative Democracy, ( Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse Press, 2011 ).

In August 2011, the United States Department of State ’ s Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, awarded MEMRI a $ 200, 000 grant.

On 25 May 2011 the Real Democracy Now!

Town Meeting: Practicing Democracy in Rural New England ( University of Massachusetts Press ; 2011 ) 344 pages ; analyzes the rocky but productive process of town-meeting democracy in Ashfield, Mass., a community of just under 2, 000 in the Berkshires.

His eighth book, Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama, was published in early 2011.

* Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama ( 2011 ) ISBN 978-1-56858-659-5