'India's role in Burma was below expectations'
Sunday, December 23, 2007
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HAVE WE HEARD THE LAST WORD ON DEMOCRACY OR ARE THERE MORE FORMS TO EVOLVE?
It's a vital question. The following are critical to democracy: regular, free and fair elections, adult franchise cutting across divides, participation of two or more political parties, an independent framework to supervise elections and free judiciary and press. Anything less than that or any experiment without them is a fraud. But democracy is also evolving fast trying to keep up with the technology race.
Prof Larry Diamond wants India to be politically more proactive and spread democracy far and wide
Larry Diamond is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University, and coordinates the Democracy Program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Diamond was invited by Condoleezza Rice to be an advisor to Coalition Provisional Authority on Iraq to advice on ways to bring democracy in the distressed country. He spoke to Sayandeb Chowdhury about Iraq, India's neighbourhood and why India must play a much bigger role in exporting it's democratic ethic than it is doing now.
SOURCE: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1141003
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