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Easy Listening - very  common - but beautiful
 

aus gegebenem anlass...
 

 

 

zum Demokratieindex, auf den ich mich oben beziehe. Die Daten sind von 2014. Die nächste Erhebung sollte nun 2016 erfolgen. Es wird sicher interessant sein, sich die Veränderungen gegenüber 2014 genauer anzusehen.

Dabei wurden 2014 einige negative Entwicklungen identifiziert, die sich in weiten Teilen leider weiter fortgesetzt haben:

"Setbacks, stagnation, populism
Important recent developments include:

- With the positive exception of Tunisia, the Arab Spring has given way to a wave of reaction and a descent into violent chaos.

- Popular confidence in political institutions and parties continues to decline in many developed countries.

- Poor economic performance, weak political leadership and the growing gap between traditional political parties and the electorate have given rise to populist movements in Europe.

- US democracy has been adversely affected since 2008 by the increasing polarisation of the political scene and political brinkmanship; popular faith in political institutions and elites has collapsed.

- In eastern Europe, where democracy was restored only recently, there is a mood of deep popular disappointment with democracy and the regional score has declined since 2006.

- Rampant crime in some countries—in particular, violence and drug-trafficking—as well as corruption, are having a corrosive impact on democracy in Latin America."

http://www.sudestada.com.uy/Content/Articles/...ocracy-index-2014.pdf


"Longer-term trends

The pace of democratisation accelerated after the start of its so-called third wave in 1974 and especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. According to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s measure of democracy, one-half of the world’s population now lives in a democracy of some sort.
However, in recent years, there has been backsliding on previously attained progress and there has also been a burgeoning of popular disappointment with the fruits of democracy. This is the case not only in the new democracies of eastern Europe, but also in some of the oldest democracies in the world, in western Europe.
The fallout from the global financial crisis that started in 2008 has led
to a heightened mood of popular disenchantment and accentuated some existing negative trends in political development.
Indeed, the start of the third wave of democratisation coincided with the beginnings of a political-legitimacy problem in the developed world that has assumed larger dimensions in the decades since."


Die Großkrisen der heutigen Zeit haben schon eine besondere Brisanz, Komplexität und Dichte. Einfache Lösungen kann und wird es nicht geben und wir werden natürlich auch noch lange Zeit mit diesen Krisen zu tun haben. Deswegen bergen sie ja auch so ein erhebliches Frustrations- und Radikalisierungspotenzial. Man kann nicht nur bei uns nur immer wieder zur Vernunft und Besonnenheit mahnen und im allgemeinen Diskurs um Maß und Ausgleich bemüht sein und unsere demokratischen freiheitlichen und marktwirtschaftlichen Prinzipien entschieden hochhhalten und affirmieren....