Sentences with phrase «democratic transition»

Also, it must suffice to say that Ghana has reached a critical point in its democratic growth where it needs a coalescing force that will sustain the stability that this country has enjoyed for more than a decade of democratic transitions.

MONROVIA (Reuters)-- Former soccer star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential run - off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country's first democratic transition in over 70 years.

Liberians turned out in force on Tuesday to choose a successor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in a contest set to complete the country first democratic transition of power in more than 70 years.

Results of Tuesday's Turned in favour of Weah in what would be the West African country's first democratic transition since 1944, according to electoral officials.

It would be recalled that President Buhari played a major role in ensuring smooth democratic transition in The Gambia even when Jammeh refused to step aside.

Yet while it inspired hope for democratic transition across the Middle East and North Africa, the region continues to be embroiled in civil war, terrorist networks, and crises of political legitimacy.

While South Korea's democratic transition came with robust economic growth, Indonesia's took place on the throes of a severe economic downturn.

Growing religious intolerance, Clinton warned, threatened to undermine these fragile democratic transitions.

Unlike in most other Chilean social spheres, people in población contentious organisations spoke of the 1989 democratic transition as a defeat and a betrayal.

Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Burkina Faso (despite some stops and starts) all saw democratic transitions of power.

Parts of the Mexican media played a significant role in the country's democratic transition since the 1968 Tlateloco Massacre, resulting in a general shift among journalists away from a cozy and financially lucrative relationship with the government.

Tunisia's democratic transition was on the brink of turning to chaos, as had already happened to some other countries in the region.

Accordingly, for población dwellers, the creation of the Concertación during the 1980s and the democratic transition led to a separation between the grassroots and political parties — resulting in increasing neglect of the former's political role and ideological concerns.

For neighbourhood organisations, parties not only coordinated the democratic transition with the military, they agreed to implement an unequal economic system that strengthened class segregation.

Sadr's backers could have a number of possible motivations for sabotaging the democratic transition in Iraq.

Nevertheless the time has come where militias and local activist groups constitute the primary barrier to stability, reconstruction, and a democratic transition.

Rawlings originally came to power in a coup in 1981, but then successfully managed the democratic transition winning two contested elections in 1992 and 1996.

His books include Pakistan's Democratic Transition: Change and Persistence (Routledge, 2016) and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: An Afghan Trail from Jihad to Terrorism.

Since those countries are democracies on paper, and were much inspired from their western neighbours when they did their democratic transition, what prevents those countries from being fully democratic according to The Economist?

This discussion and the book provide alternative perspectives on a variety of important political debates beyond South Korea, including that of democratic transition, the nature of authoritarian governance, and the relevance of social policy as a method to analyse internal dynamics of political regimes.

It is important that INEC, the federal government, civil society and the international community rise up to reverse this negative trend before it subverts and discredits our democratic transition.

Abia state governor, Chief Theodore Orji has declared that the history of Nigeria's democratic transition and economic development have imposed on present governors in the country,...

Four experts examine the implications Tunisia's first free and fair local elections may have for political parties, security forces, decentralization, and the democratic transition.

His research areas of interests are: Europeanisation, political parties, democratic transition and consolidation and political elites.

She recalled that INEC played an important role in 2015 to achieve a democratic transition that the world witnessed and «we were also happy, as EU and was part of the team working on the ground.»

«Acting President Osinbajo recalls how in 1999 General Abubakar successfully chaperoned the democratic transition from military rule in Nigeria, and commends his determination and forthright resolve that ended 16 years of military dictatorship», it reads.

Chile seems to have a new setback, belatedly questioning the neoliberal consensus and the political logic of the democratic transition that allowed its perpetuation.

In K. Kanyinga, & D. Okello, Tension and Reversals in Democratic Transitions: The Kenya 2007 General Elections (pp. 1 - 30).

In K. Kanyinga, & D. Okello, Tensions and Reversals in Democratic Transitions: Th Kenya 2007 General Elections (pp. 490 - 564).

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It certainly seems reasonable to imagine we do lack the kind of self - control needed to use just enough of the shale oil, gas and tar to pay for the climate - and - democratic transition I describe, but I think this is a bit like the dieter who believes he must stop eating almost all food to lose weight at all.

Ms. Pratt's previous experiences include the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts in Washington, D.C., where she worked as the Policy Issues Coordinator, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA, where she researched post conflict reconstruction, state - building initiatives and democratic transitions, specifically in Eastern Europe.