Page 7 of Robert A Dahl's book "Polyarchy-Participation and Opposition" (1971), provides a figure conceptualizing liberalization, inclusiveness and democratization with the help of which countries can be termed as either inclusive or closed hegemonies, or competitive oligarchies or polyarchies. On t...
It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. ...
This principle was reaffirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples9 which states that "All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development" (...) and that "All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national terr...
