quasi-democracy

It is a Constitutional Republic, not an authoritarian quasi-democracy where leaders get to kill and torture people outside the rule of law whenever Thomas is frightened by scary bad people and decides that living the plot of a Tarantino movie vicariously through agents of the state would cheer him up.

Matthew Yglesias » GOP Members of Congress Have Never Watched Television, Movies 2010

And it is with this in mind that we wait to hear more from David Mellor, who took to the BBC at the outset of the protests to applaud Bahrain as "a stalwart friend" and "a liberal and tolerant quasi-democracy".

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

There will be no way to appease the region's rival sects, ethnicities and other interest groups except through some form of democratic representation, but anarchic quasi-democracy will satisfy no one.

The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun Robert D. Kaplan 2011

But a stable, quasi-democracy, which, like Saudi Arabia, practices the Sharia law, and like Iraq shares power with former combatants, is far better than an internationally created polity which by its nature provokes resistance and precipitates its own downfall.

Negotiate, Negotiate, Negotiate 2010

But a stable, quasi-democracy, which, like Saudi Arabia, practices the Sharia law, and like Iraq shares power with former combatants, is far better than an internationally created polity which by its nature provokes resistance and precipitates its own downfall.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

But a stable, quasi-democracy, which, like Saudi Arabia, practices the Sharia law, and like Iraq shares power with former combatants, is far better than an internationally created polity which by its nature provokes resistance and precipitates its own downfall.

Negotiate, Negotiate, Negotiate 2010

But a stable, quasi-democracy, which, like Saudi Arabia, practices the Sharia law, and like Iraq shares power with former combatants, is far better than an internationally created polity which by its nature provokes resistance and precipitates its own downfall.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2010

His brazen practice of strongman quasi-democracy has been openly condoned by American politicians on the one hand and - at best, timidly discouraged on the other.

Dimming the light: what Bhutto said to us 2007

This is a quasi-democracy run on fear, privilege, and political advantage.

Congress: Government of Which People? 2007

Recently, Danielle Pletka, Vice-President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute characterized Pakistan as a Nation that “has teetered between quasi-democracy and autocracy for decades, is home to a significant stock of nuclear weapons, has gone to war three times with its nuclear armed neighbor, and has a small but committed minority of extremists bent on killing the Pakistani President and taking over the country.”

Funding Pakistans Future 2007