Reforms are not embraced as part of a general democratic progress but as an exercise of ticking boxes. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
A lot of the research on Africa has emphasized the extent to which democratic progress depends on whether individual leaders are willing to support reform or not. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
He pointed out that hate speech, if unchecked, was capable of derailing and truncating the nation's democratic progress achieved within the last 18 years. (inecnews.com)