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• n  the action of making something democratic

• He vowed to promote the rule of law, democratization and greater openness, seeking to restore the balance between Islamic and civil democratic rule .
• You can argue that's the democratization of credit, but it's in the interest of credit-card companies to keep people under the yoke.
• A moderate cleric and veteran of the revolution, Khatami promises to work for human rights, the rule of law and greater democratization, as well as to normalize .

• democratisation

News & Articles

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• More Americans Are Becoming Entrepreneurs Than Ever Before
  And they're getting more optimistic. The democratization of big data is here.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Insider
• Egyptian Academic: Is Syria heading towards majoritarian rule?
  OXFORD, England, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mariz Tadros, an Egyptian academic based at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, spoke of worrisome processes of democratization in Syria and Egypt in a talk at Oxford University on June 8. Evidence reveals that Syria may mirror Egypt and head towards an exclusionary majoritarian rule, Dr. Tadros said.In her ...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
• AB SCIEX Advances the ‘Democratization’ of Mass Spectrometry for Applied Sciences
  FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AB SCIEX Advances the ‘Democratization’ of Mass Spectrometry for Applied Sciences
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC News
  Obama told CNN's Larry King Monday night that "in some ways, it's the democratization of the campaign process. But it's not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of, and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the...
• Morgan Tsvangirai in International Herald Tribune
  Now is the time for us to put aside our political differences, to prioritize the welfare of the people in both our policies and our actions and to focus on stabilization, development, progress and democratization,Tsvangirai said Friday.
• Jennifer Cooke in Kansas City Star
  Although the economy has been doing very well and efforts on HIV have been remarkable, the political space and the democratization process has not gone forward,said Jennifer Cooke, an authority on Africa for the Center for International and...