Monthly Archives: January 2011

Events currently unfolding in Egypt and Tunisia are momentous.  After decades of authoritarian rule and closed government, established landscapes of political power and control are rupturing.  It isn’t yet clear what long term effects the protests in Egypt will have; … Continue reading →

A wide range of analysts and democracy practitioners in different academic and professional spheres are working to diagnose the problems and weaknesses of contemporary democracies and to propose solutions to address them.  Three broad approaches are of particular relevance from a … Continue reading →

Over the past century, democracy has emerged at the international level as the most widely accepted system for managing politics and allocating power over the state.  This is as true for the international development community as for other spheres of … Continue reading →