Given these conditions, democracy occurs when regime
liberalizers who prefer democracy to a narrowed dictatorship interact with a civil society that will honor democratic principles." Ibid., 112.
group, who might be called "trade
liberalizers," asserts that
In 1985, Reagan's own cia director William Casey told the president that Gorbachev and his allies in the Soviet system "are not reformers and
liberalizers, either in Soviet domestic or foreign policy." Both Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Robert Gates, then the cia's senior Soviet specialist, expressed similar opinions.
Given the reality of what consumers can and can't do, market
liberalizers' enduring fantasy--that the collective power of tens of millions of conscientious shoppers will force suppliers to correct their bad practices--has been replaced by a grimmer understanding: Until we can make the market see all the costs of unsustainable farming, and until we learn how to temper its obsessive focus on ever greater efficiencies, market-driven sustainability will fail.
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Liberalizers' versus 'Scientific Men' in the Antebellum Patent Office," by Robert C.
(4.) Scholars pointed to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, and Yemen as Arab
liberalizers. See, for instance, Rex Brynen, Bahgat Korany, and Paul Noble, eds., Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World, 2 vols.
Most of Bourguiba's advisers were political and economic reformers and
liberalizers; the military, seen by Tunisia's reformers as a potential bastion of political and social conservatism, remained relegated to the political sidelines.
This has been strongly advocated by
liberalizers like the UK and the European Commission 10 as well as industry giants Nokia.
Nowhere is this malaise clearer than in Mexico where
liberalizers promised the most and where democracy is still asked to prove its worth.
Using a sample of 41 trade
liberalizers, Braun and Raddatz conduct an event study and show that the change in the strength of promoters vis-a-vis opponents is a very good predictor of subsequent financial development.
There, such trade
liberalizers as Roy MacLaren exulted for having won the day over nationalists like Lloyd Axworthy.
The
liberalizers have captured Parliament and have a friend in the elected President, Muhammad Khatami.
Free trade may benefit everyone in the long run, but in the short run it can pose political costs for
liberalizers, which discourages trade liberalization.
Murray illustrates how the intellectuals involved in the campaign began by identifying themselves as
liberalizers, but gradually became more overtly anti-Leninist and also more Russian nationalist.
