consolidated democracy

A major difference is that political reform was not an issue because all these countries were already consolidated democracies.

It has consolidated democracy, human rights and stability across the continent.

He said "History tells us that there has never been a consolidated democracy without a robust and large middle class."

The deeper conditions for a stable and consolidated democracy have not yet been fulfilled.

But Arias said those were only "some small incidents, which you see even in the most consolidated democracies."

So much for the vaunted color revolutions, not one of which has produced a consolidated democracy.

I wish the Maldives would have a consolidated democracy.

The first Sanguinetti administration implemented economic reforms and consolidated democracy following the country's years under military rule.

Taiwan continues to move towards a consolidated democracy.

Mexico likewise consolidated democracy by delivering on economic opportunity for a broader cross-section of citizens.

Despite the prison scandal and evidence of high-level corruption, however, Georgia still has a genuine shot at becoming a consolidated democracy.

Overall, prospects for consolidated democracies look somewhat bleak.

Of the countries that lie between confirmed dictatorship and consolidated democracy, 50 percent do better on political liberties than on civil ones.

However, without the stability of a clear authoritarian rule or a consolidated democracy, anocracies are more open and susceptible to terrorist attacks.

"Now we have consolidated democracy so that it is not only representative but also participative," Morales said as he began a two-hour speech.

"We have consolidated democracy in Nicaragua."

Political reform has consolidated democracy; and this commitment to human rights and democratic principles has delivered a more peaceful Europe.

In 2004 he saw two possibilities for the Putin regime: either transformation into a consolidated democracy, either bureaucratic authoritarianism.

The voting of the election laws by a large cross-party majority and their generally effective implementation by the authorities have consolidated democracy in the country.

Self-regulation has been a slow and open-ended process even in consolidated democracies and some journalists believe that it threatens media freedom.

Now it can become the first consolidated democracy among all Muslim countries, if Mr. Erdogan begins to respect the will of his people.

Some scholars, like Merkel, take a maximalist approach to defining consolidated democracy by specifying the partial regimes of consolidation.

Yet Spain, India, Belgium, and Switzerland are all consolidated democracies that do not fit the classic model of the nation state.

Political scientists debate the definition of democratic consolidation, but at minimum, a consolidated democracy is entrenched so that democracy is considered "the only game in town."

An embedded democracy can be considered a type of consolidated democracy, meaning that the democratic regime in an embedded democracy is seen as legitimate and stable.