My impression of our democracy is that democracy is yet to come. What we are having are attempts towards democracy. So, we are like people who want to study medicine and they are doing pre- med ...

The Standard can today reveal the genesis of proposal for a pure presidential system of government adopted by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review. We established the system, ...

The ongoing debate in South Asia is part of a larger conversation about what type of democratic governance is best. With the notable exception of China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and a handful of ...

All former British colonies had a parliamentary system just before they secured independence. Some chose to continue being dependent on Mother Britain and so they ran a parliamentary system of ...

Raila Odinga wants to see a parliamentary system reintroduced. It has been pointed out many times that ODM were at least complicit in the shift to a presidential system, when MPs met in Naivasha to ...

I will come back to the matter in some detail shortly. But let me preface my comments by asserting that the subliminal issue behind this request is the ongoing conversation about restructuring Nigeria ...

TOMES have been written about the superiority of a federal-parliamentary system to the unitary-presidential form that we have now. We advocate federal-parliamentary as an alternative. All Filipino ...