Direct Democracy
The modern, mainstream democratic ideal has been republican or representative democracy, but the original Greek ideal was direct democratic participation in all major decisions by all...
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Oct 19 (Reuters) - Following are five facts about the Swiss
electoral system and the four main parties fielding candidates
for a parliamentary election on Oct. 21. * Switzerland, or the Helvetic C...
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Moammar Gadhafi said in an unusual debate Friday it was time for his long-isolated nation to open up to the world and that one day Libya won't need him as leader. Still, he insisted that the ruling...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
CALIFORNIA VOTES...ON IRAQ? (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
CALIFORNIA'S FORM of direct democracy - its propensity for
voting on matters...
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A crowd big enough to fill a pro sports arena is expected here Saturday for that quintessential rural New England event, the Town Meeting.Generally no more than a few hundred people attend such mee...
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Riyadh (dpa) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Tuesday approved a
system that supposedly creates an independent judiciary - but critics
stayed sceptical about what they regard ...
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Berne (dpa) - The Swiss, who go to the polls Sunday, know, whoever
they vote for, the ordinary citizen is entitled to the final say on
any policy to be made law.
...
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ZURICH, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The right-wing People's Party
(SVP) is set to strengthen its position as Switzerland's biggest
party in a parliamentary election on Sunday after a provocative
campaign c...
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Oct 21 (Reuters) - Following are some facts about
Switzerland which is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday. GEOGRAPHY: Area is 41,285 sq km (15,940 sq miles).
Switzerland is bordered by Germ...
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Big gains on the right and left in Swiss elections point to some of the bizarre contradictions in this Alpine nation that takes pride in being a cradle of humanitarian work, yet whose famed neutral...
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Buenos Aires/Quito (dpa) - Ecuador's chronically weak democracy
stands yet again on the brink of a precipice.
On Sunday, some 9 million voters are called upon to ele...
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Direct Democracy
FACTBOX-Five facts about the Swiss political system
