The internal affairs in Egypt, after the 25th of January uprising, have been in a state of political and social turmoil. ... Nevertheless, the question of whether the army is fit to rule Egypt under a democratic state remains the issue three years after what has been described as the biggest revolution in Egypt's modern history. ... When the time of the first presidential elections in Egypt after the revolution finally came in may 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi emerged victorious, in an election that could be described as, among other things, democratic. ... Sisi ga...

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It is a political process that has started its third wave in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... All three entered the transition period after the fall of communism and moved towards constitutionalising democracy. ... A case that shows corruption embodied in the appointment of political actors in order to suit the personal good of the individual, is when president Zeman pushed for his protégé Livia Klausová, the wife of previous president Václav Klaus, to take the post of Czech ambass...

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The Weimar Republic was a democratic government that came into power after the First World War. ... The constitution although guaranteed basic political liberities such as freedom of speech, equality before the law and gave men and women over the age of twenty the right to vote, the constitution allowed the president to have the right to close parliament and issues decrees at any moment under Article 48. ... It is evident that Germany's attempt at being a democracy after WW1, the Weimar republic, was unavoidable of disaster from the beginning. ...

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An ambiguous, controversial concept, Jacksonian Democracy in the strictest sense refers simply to the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party after 1828. ... And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. ... His enthusiasm for nationalist programs had diminished after 1815, as foreign threats receded and economic difficulties mult...

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Article 35(1) of the Ghanaian constitution holds that "sovereignty resides in the people of Ghana from whom government derives all its power and authority through this constitution", this principle as evident in the constitution is upheld in Ghana, nonetheless ignorance has ameliorated its effect on the citizenry and so it is exceptionally and especially recognised during election periods after which the "elected" belittle and override the power of the electorate. ... This was done by the assembly to scrutinize the elected officials before, during and after holding office. ...

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This paper will aim to analyze the challenges that Cambodia has faced on its road towards democracy by giving a brief historical insight before focusing more specifically on issues dealing with corruption, civil liberties and political freedom, as well as the lack of rule of law within Cambodian society. History Before being able to focus on the problems Cambodia has faced on its road to establishing a democratic government, one must shed light on Cambodia's rich history. ...

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