The making or breaking of democracy - Stabroek News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Like academic freedom, it plays an indispensable role in ensuring government accountability and preventing the kind of agglomeration of power that undermines democracy.
50% : NEW YORK - On September 24, 20 democratic countries from the Global North and South - including Brazil, Chile, Norway, and Spain - came together at the United Nations not just to reaffirm their commitment to democracy, but to develop an agenda which would sustain and enrich it.
44% : Checks and balances inevitably break down in the face of yawning economic inequality, because political inequality follows, with oligarchic interests using their resources to bend rules in their favor.
24% : This is particularly true in the country that has often claimed to be the oldest and strongest democracy: the United States, where Donald Trump has waged a sustained attack on the constitutional order since returning to the White House in January.

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