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Some scholars consider Japan to have experienced mild democratic backsliding under the rule of Shinzo Abe, [126] [127] but on the other hand, many institutions such as the Brookings Institution and Chatham House consider Japan has been one of the most successful and stable democracies in an area of populist turbulence.
Yan also took the student's pleas to Li Peng the next day, asking Li to consider formally retracting the 26 April Editorial and rebranding the movement as "patriotic and democratic"; Li refused. [112] The students remained in the square during the Gorbachev visit; his welcoming ceremony was held at the airport.
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
The Students–People's uprising, [a] also known as the July Revolution, [b] was a pro-democracy mass uprising in Bangladesh. [ c ] It began as a quota reform movement in early June 2024, led by the Anti-discrimination Students Movement , after the Bangladesh Supreme Court invalidated the government's 2018 circular regarding job quotas in the ...
Daily Journal Chairman and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger weighs in on inflation and the dangers that it poses to democracy.
We must be aware of the fateful missteps that have wrecked other democracies. We must see how citizens have risen to meet the great democratic crisis of the past." [1] A proposed solution to the crisis is that "[w]e must not only restore democratic norms but extend them through the whole of increasingly diverse societies. This is a daunting ...
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
The first continent with a UN member state to have a female leader after WWII was Asia. In 1960, Sri Lanka – known then as Ceylon – elected its first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike.