The new democratic constitutionalism was really a great pioneering undertaking dong by the Communist party of China in the democratic political building during the new democratic revolution.
In the illustration of "democratic political thought", the author analyses the concrete content of the New Moon School's political thought and probes into the modern meanings contained in the thought for the references of today.
It made great efforts to consolidate the newly - born bourgeois regime, that is, the Provisional Nanjing Government of the Republic of China, to defend the achievement of democratic republic, and to ensure the final establishment of the bourgeois democratic political system in China.
It was the historical mission of the revolution of 1911 that the traditional system was ended and the practice of modernizaiton based on the democratic political system started.
It is shown that Meyer's analysis of the structural conflicts between a globalized capitalist economy and democratic politics is unintendedly convergent with Marx' theory of revolution.
In addition, debates over cloning and stem cell research raise exceptionally important challenges to bioethics and a democratic politics of communication.
In general, the study of Third World political development suggest that rapid regime transition with low mass participation is unlikely to result in sustainable democratic politics, especially where severe economic dislocations are present.
The country's experience with democratic politics and a multiparty system made a significant contribution to the resumption of electoral politics and redemocratization following three years of military rule in the early 1980s.
As a result modern democracies are faced with growing tensions between the functional requirements of the "negotiating democracy" on the one hand and the demands of the "media democracy" on the other hand.
The final part contains a hypothesis about determinants causing different cycles of social movements as well as assessments of their impact on the process of consolidating democracy in Latin America.
The German-American Ernst Fraenkel became in West-Germany a founding father of political science, he also helped to re-orientate the political culture towards Western democracy.
The article first outlines the basic patterns of patrimonial and authoritarian rule in this region and then explains by five theses why democracy is rejected.
The final section presents suggestions of how weaknesses in political party functioning could be addressed without placing limits on the ability of parties to play their legitimate role in a democratic political process.
The principal conclusion is that decision-making for complex environmental problems must be synthetic in nature, and must ultimately rely on well functioning democratic political processes, since political decisions are inherently synthetic.
Linking social stability to economic development, we conclude that a democratic political system is not the cause but rather a result of economic development which makes the society stable.
It relies on democratic political processes and institutions to provide the means by which citizens determine the identity of their community-its moral character and aspirations-and match appropriate rules to recognized situations.