republics

Even democratically elected female heads of state/female heads of state in republics is too broad an answer - that description would also have to include this lady, currently in her second term and looking a bit uncomfortable in her ceremonial uniform:

Who those people are miteque 2008

First of all the horse, for at that time the strength and excellence of the army depended on the horse, for as to the heavy-armed foot they were useless without proper discipline; but the art of tactics was not known to the ancients, for which reason their strength lay in their horse: but when cities grew larger, and they depended more on their foot, greater numbers partook of the freedom of the city; for which reason what we call republics were formerly called democracies.

Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Some historians claim that Napoleon believed he could sweep aside the other fledgling Latin American republics and establish an empire stretching as far south as Tierra del Fuego.

Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated in USA than Mexico 2009

Some historians claim that Napoleon believed he could sweep aside the other fledgling Latin American republics and establish an empire stretching as far south as Tierra del Fuego.

Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated in USA than Mexico 2009

Some historians claim that Napoleon believed he could sweep aside the other fledgling Latin American republics and establish an empire stretching as far south as Tierra del Fuego.

Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated in USA than Mexico 2009

My favorite absurdity of Civilization II (besides the fact that the “technology” of polytheism allows you to build war elephants as a unit): wartime unhappiness in democracies and republics is based on extant units in the field away from home cities or fortresses within three squares of cities.

Matthew Yglesias » The Fine Art of Negotiating 2010

Caudillos first arose in the difficult birth of Latin American republics from Spanish colonies.

The Cult of the Caudillo David Luhnow, José de Córdoba AND Nicholas Casey 2009

If the dollar tumbles, so does the Yen (Japan is not directly tied – but is tied to the same underlying fundamentals), so do the currencies of the Bahamas, Belize, a dozen African replublics, a dozen Latin American republics … there would be widespread hardship and suffering on a massive scale.

Waldo Jaquith - China threatens to liquidate U.S. bonds. 2007

Interest group politics are hardly more prevalent in republics than in democracies.

Balkinization 2006

In all 16 Latin American republics, he wrote, Washington "by its recent policies has allowed a dislike and mistrust of long-standing to grow into positive hate and fear."

THE PERILS OF INTERVENTIONISM 2007