Mr. Fujimori has gone so far as to characterize Peru's system as "an imperfect democracy."

And no democracy, however imperfect, came near Communism for distribution of poverty, or stultification.

Russia's young, imperfect democracy has no system of checks and balances.

In India's vibrant, if imperfect, democracy, political power is so fractured that no party can put together a national government without allies.

Although resistance to democratic reforms was anticipated, the dream of even imperfect democracy is fast recoiling from the people's grasp.

Nevertheless, an imperfect democracy is better than none, and it is right that we should engage with Iranian parliamentarians.

The authors describe its transition so far as the transition between a perfect dictatorship and an imperfect democracy, but troubling questions remain.

Either it is the world's most imperfect democracy or its most ingenious dictatorship.

The wonder of TOTP was it was an imperfect democracy based entirely on sales.

South Africa is going to become not a Western style democracy but a wobbly, imperfect third-world democracy.