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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: American troops in Turkey, S. Korea
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 23:09:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 23:09:16 1986
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In article <11000118@uiucdcsb> cdp@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
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>Mr Cramer, there is not "much" or "little" democracy. Either there is democracy
>somewhere or there isn't.

Of course there is such a thing. You just can't divide all the governments
in the world into either 0% democracy or 100% democracy. There are distinct
degrees of democracy, measured, among other things, by the freedoms present
or absent in that society (freedom of the press, of media access, of speech,
of assembly, of travel (inside the country or outside), of being able to
work in whatever you want and live where you choose to, labor unions, etc.).

Some countries have none of these freedoms, some countries have all of
these freedoms and some have a fraction thereof. I would call that different
degrees of democracy.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell