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Deutsche Welle has joined the debate on democracy. Click here: Deutsche Welle — Democracy Kills
Hawksley though, goes a couple of steps further. He suggests replacing the word democracy, by now intrinsically linked to an ideological form of government opposed by countries such as Russia and China, and replacing it with something along the lines of “good governance.”
“If you got together with the UN and said ‘we want to give these people in this African country good governance and we want to build them schools and so on,’ then you would take away the friction that many places see as the West trying to export their own ideology in order to get business contracts.”
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February 23rd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Would that not also be a lie, however? The “good governance” of Henri IV wasn’t democratic, nor does democracy necessarily correspond with good governance.
Certainly, I’d back a less doctrinal attitude in which actual good governance is valued above ‘mere’ democracy, but to re-brand democracy as good governance is an appalling notion!
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Not so much re-branding as redefining what actually needs to be achieved. Good governance and democracy are two very different things.