Comparative Democracy And The History Of Women's Suffrage

Aristotle On Democracy: "Rule By The Needy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/aristotle-on-democracy-rule-by-needy.html

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Dear Arthur,

Thanks for your company at lunch.

As always, your company was thoroughly enjoyable.

Here is a pertinent passage concerning the history of women's suffrage followed by a Wikipedia link that contains a list of nations and the year that women got the vote. 

In 1893, New Zealand, then a self-governing British colony, granted adult women the right to vote and the self-governing British colony of South Australia did the same in 1895, the latter also permitting women to stand for office. Australia federated in 1901, and women acquired the right to vote and stand in federal elections from 1902, but discriminatory restrictions against Aboriginal women (and men) voting in national elections were not completely removed until 1962.^[4][5][6]

The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire, which elected the world's first female members of parliament in the 1907 parliamentary elections. Norway followed, granting full women's suffrage in 1913. Most European, Asian and African countries did not pass women's suffrage until after World War I. Late adopters were France in 1944, Italy in 1946, Greece in 1952,^[7] Switzerland in 1971,^[8] and Liechtenstein in 1984.^[9]The nations of North America and most nations in Central and South America passed women's suffrage before World War II (see table in Summary below).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage

During the last decade of his life, Alistair Cooke  insisted that the most important function of the world's universities would be the institution of Departments of Comparative Democracy to insure that individual democracies not suffer the hubris of construing their own experience as "the only way" to manage a commonwealth. According to Cook's vision, no nation would be limited to the tunnel vision of its own experience, but instead, each would remain conscious of evolving democratic process in Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Costa Rica, Uruguay, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.

Currently, the study of Comparative Democracy would be illustrative by pointing out that American "Democracy" is not how it's done.

Paz contigo

Alan