Eksempler på democracy

• Advocates of market liberalization commonly worry that democracies will eschew economically rational policies because voters cannot tolerate short-term pain on the promise of long-term gain.

• The demand for redistribution is fairly inelastic across industrialized democracies.

• Further, while the number of new parties decreases gradually as democracies age, the support for new entrants follows no clear unidirectional pattern across time.

• Establishing whether democracies adopt similar growth strategies is important : the economic strategies chosen by governments can have serious implications for income distribution and human welfare.

• Moreover, my calculations of consensus democracies from the late 1960s to 1990 are not closely associated with neo-corporatism.

• Such developing democracies clearly represent promising territory for research on the political impact of television.

• To date, this coding procedure has been applied to over 1,500 programmes, in about thirty democracies, during the post-war period.

• We tested this assertion on 113 elections in thirteen democracies.