The Weekly Five: Democracy in the News for the Week March 15, 2015

Bill Brantley Discussion

A selected round-up of democracy in the news. All opinions are those of their respective owners and do not reflect the opinions of H-Democracy.

Can Israel remain a democracy?

How to re-energise democracy

PM vows to uphold democracy, with Thai features

Oregon's Radical Innovation: Make Democracy Easy

Memo to Keith Baldrey: democracy is already imperilled

 
 
 

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First article starts with distortion. Israel does not care by law if mother is Jewish. Enough to have one Jewish grandparent from either side. Having said that the problem is not a democracy, the problem is how to deal with the fact that Israeli electorate is leaning toward right. Demography has changed, and democracy only reflects it. I wrote an op_ed on cnn, on thttp://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/middleeast/bagno-netanyahu-surprise-victor the topic .