It strikes a blow for democracy and human rights at the heart of the present US Administration. |
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The option of democracy may not be what a theocratically minded nation wants. |
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Our tour guide was exceptional, explaining the economic and political changes that had swept over Honduras since democracy took root. |
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His increasingly authoritarian style of leadership has provoked some concern about the future of democracy in the country. |
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The weak hold of the international rule of law over the world's greatest democracy is worrisome. |
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They thought socialism as an economic system was the necessary analog to democracy as a political system. |
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Good citizens participate responsibly in the debates over public issues upon which democracy depends. |
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Instead, he seeks to change it by promoting liberty, freedom, and eventual democracy in countries ruled by autocrats. |
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As I have pointed out before, we have hundreds of years of experience with democracy and limited government. |
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Because I'm a believer in democracy and I prefer a contested vote to an uncontested filling of a vacant position. |
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We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter. |
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They voted out the reformists who talked of democracy and human rights but brought no real improvement to the lives of the poor. |
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The aim of creating a democracy in the heart of the Middle East is a just cause. |
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A global democracy where most of the world is excluded by their own autocratic rulers is scarcely worth having. |
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Articles about democracy appeared in learned journals, books and other academic writings. |
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The Poles' victory at Warsaw was seen at the time as the salvation of European democracy in the face of communism. |
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The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect majoritarian preferences. |
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It has also brought about a greater understanding of different cultures and it allowed democracy to triumph over autocracy. |
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It would be foolish to expect democracy to sweep across the Middle East, transforming the political landscape in a matter of years. |
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Informed dissent is what makes a democracy function and is as American as apple pie. |
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This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy. |
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These kinds of events demonstrated that democracy and racial equality are skin-deep in America. |
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That is why democracy is superior to autocracy, and art and literature are valued more than mere sense enjoyment. |
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Even the Quarterly Review, no great lover of democracy and popular causes, considered that he was excessive in his appreciation of tyrants. |
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Marx himself was reinterpreted by German social democracy and transformed into an advocate of reformism. |
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In the US, which never embraced the tenets of post-war social democracy anyway, the idea of a third way is even murkier than in Britain. |
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I hope that the council will now return to democracy rather than autocracy. |
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The mushrooming of political parties, syndicates, and newspapers signals a nascent political pluralism upon which democracy can be built. |
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First, the dominant principle of American democracy is not unconstrained majoritarianism. |
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We know that democracy is a jewel that must be polished constantly to maintain its luster. |
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I think direct democracy or anarchy may in fact be more subject to abuse than the representative type of democracies held up as the ideal now. |
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The country to show that it has embraced democracy should be a torch-bearer in promoting dialogue. |
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Many delegates were concerned about the implications for democracy of the new rule book. |
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As ways of organising a society go, I can only justify democracy and anarchy. |
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What meaning can democracy have if it is unaccompanied by self-determination and sovereignty? |
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Get rid of the new-labour new-tory dictatorships and let's have good old democracy back again! |
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One thing democracy does best is mobilizing a whole society toward a transcendently important goal. |
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Second, was liberal democracy or autocracy the future for the governance of mankind's common affairs? |
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They also base themselves on a model of democracy half a step above mob rule. |
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Elected tribune in 123, Gaius wanted to transform Rome into a democracy along Hellenic lines. |
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No, it's because the power concentrated in this maze has, over time, replaced democracy with its own self-referencing mediocracy. |
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But so far no way has been found to make democracy and government work with independents. |
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You undermine minimal democracy itself, and are left with a mockery of political rights. |
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But he also argued it would throw Myanmar into confusion similar to that in Indonesia now if democracy movements were pushed for too hastily. |
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Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, majoritarian democracy could hardly have been said to be in play. |
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Freedom of religion in a multi-faith, multicultural democracy must also necessarily entail freedom from religion. |
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Yet in practice, liberal democracy should also allow for checks on government and limits to majority rule. |
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Our economic order claims to spread democracy by imposing its own self-interested rules on poorer nations. |
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Progress towards democracy and towards freedom of press are the standard Western yardsticks to judge how China is developing politically. |
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I'm still going through the motions and pretending that this is a democracy in which my opinions matter. |
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The second mechanism by which ethnic pluralism theoretically limits democracy is by tyranny of the majority. |
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They acquiesced in the Assembly's dissolution, testifying to the thinness of a culture of democracy and law. |
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The representative democracy of our Constitution is not confined to a ceremonial visit of electors to the ballot box each triennium. |
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After all, what a crime against democracy it would be if the Beloved Great Leader was turfed out of office by mere ordinary people! |
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In any event, this scenario is simply not possible with this democracy and civil society will not accept it. |
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In the first place, democracy cannot be imposed by military force from above. |
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Taiwan is a full democracy and North Korea, like the PRC, is a communist totalitarian regime. |
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When nobody can be held accountable for decisions like this, democracy is dead. |
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Yet the German nation did not succeed in shaking off the yoke of absolutism and in establishing democracy and parliamentary government. |
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The lesson is, undo communism slowly, bit by bit, and don't expect democracy overnight. |
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By avoiding the messiness of debate that a real democracy requires, we have given license to the excesses we now bemoan. |
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Hello and welcome to the anatomy of democracy, the perils of democracy and the truth about democracy. |
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Can there be true secularism and democracy in Kashmir without giving the Pandit minority a political space? |
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That duty falls to us, the citizens, by the oath we have sworn, to uphold the principles of democracy and good government. |
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Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people. |
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Can democracy survive a system in which politicians and political parties are dependent on the support of big business? |
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This provided an element of democracy and a basic structure of organisation. |
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Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob. |
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They react antagonistically to any demand from the rank-and-file for democracy and accountability. |
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The early adoption of the institutions of representative democracy included the secret ballot. |
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Such behaviour can only receive short shrift to the fruit of democracy Zambians have only just started enjoying. |
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But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry. |
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The idea that Strauss was a great defender of liberal democracy is laughable. |
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The Fascist Party openly avowed its aversion to democracy and the liberal state. |
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The end of the twentieth century, with the collapse of the Stalinist states, seemed to usher in an era where democracy would rule supreme. |
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I know she wanted to make democracy more representative, but were there certain pieces of legislation that she worked on to achieve that end? |
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Barry and his comrades were seeking to establish and uphold a republican democracy on this island. |
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They would do better to remind their friends that there can be no democracy without genuine sovereignty and self-determination. |
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There is one group that wants to use democracy as an excuse for political payback and create a theocracy not a democracy. |
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Now they have an opportunity to underscore that atonement with a few well-placed phone calls in defense of democracy and the rule of law. |
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And as for politicians not having changed anything, are you suggesting we just give up democracy and go for mob rule? |
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Perhaps you don't understand this, but mob rule and democracy are different things. |
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But on close examination the scene looks less like a victory for democracy than a case of mob rule. |
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For democracy without the rule of law is mob rule, and the rule of law is not built by democratic means. |
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One need not trivialize the fears of religious parents to recognize that this is at bottom a complaint against democracy itself. |
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We can now, with some assurance and confidence, claim that our democracy is firmly established. |
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We can never sacrifice democracy and the values of liberty in favour of social change. |
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This cannot be reconciled with democracy and prosperity for the mass of the population. |
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The principle and spirit of democracy could be thrown into garbage when confronting the lure of economical interests. |
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As a refusal to abstract, the lyric voice is crucial to democracy and crucial to life. |
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To conclude, the April 30th referendum is a mockery of democracy and an encore of long-established patterns of political deceit in this country. |
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Many share her belief that the path to democracy lies in improving human rights. |
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Perhaps we should ask them if they understand the difference between democracy and mob rule. |
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In some respects the title of the book is misleading, because it seems to suggest that autocracy has ended and democracy has been enabled. |
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And when Strauss is mentioned in the press, he is typically described as a great defender of liberal democracy against totalitarian tyranny. |
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The acid test of social democracy is unemployment, because if you are out of work you are far more likely to be poor and marginalised. |
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Previous claims that the restoration of capitalism in the former USSR would bring democracy in its wake now look increasingly threadbare. |
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Does democracy have to be an elite club in which only a few select people can participate? |
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A democracy can't exist if one political side continually denies the ability and the rightfulness of the other side to take charge of affairs. |
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Principles generally accepted as basic to democracy are those of political equality and popular control of government. |
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You can't twin democracy and occupation, you can't twin freedom and occupation. |
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Since then, I have noticed that democracy isn't always pretty and capitalism can be downright ugly. |
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By placing himself above everyone else, he demolished the democracy in the Roman Empire and the equality of all Romans. |
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To begin with, the objective of liberal democracy is not limitless freedom. |
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The country's dictators remain so terrified of the lure of democracy and its defenders that they ordered a total blackout on the news. |
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It was roughly another 90 years until democracy took hold in the mother country. |
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In this way, the physical gulfs of a segmented democracy reinforce the empathy gulfs already discussed. |
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A democracy requires both a range of common experiences and unanticipated, unchosen exposures to diverse topics and ideas. |
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We have a layer of stewards under the branch secretaries who also filter this democracy down. |
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Parliament has voted and we all know that when parliament votes that is democracy in action isn't it? |
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America is also a democracy where individual rights are safeguarded in the Bill of Rights and the whole Constitution. |
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Despite the Greek Republic being described as a democracy and idealised, it was an androcracy. |
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Because we had a Constitution guaranteeing some form of democracy and a Bill of Rights, the new rules were subject to public debate. |
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The local elections in England show how limited democracy is under capitalism. |
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And since when does having a democracy excuse any country from legitimate, reasoned criticism? |
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I want to write a treatise on democracy and the difference between what exists and what the intent of the idea was. |
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The entire issue goes far and beyond the issue of democracy through the ballot box. |
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Our democracy is crumbling with the politics of fear and prejudice ruling the roost, an electoral system which is corrupt and unrepresentative. |
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This idea was imposed by Western nations' heavy accent on democracy as the almighty and foremost value. |
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Today, there are stirrings of a national movement for democracy in American higher education. |
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It's vital we reform local democracy so people regard local taxation as money well spent. |
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If, as the adage goes, education is wasted on the young, it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters. |
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The final point to note about the elections is that democracy is meant to be about self-government. |
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A nation, he argues, can move toward democracy and, at the same time, diminish liberality generally and human rights particularly. |
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The focus of the literature is upon the beneficent impact of democracy on the relations between liberal states. |
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The United States government and democracy has been in peril many times in its history. |
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Once again, the people proved all the skeptics, all the doubters, all the detractors, wrong, that democracy can work in this part of the world. |
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Even after the Meiji rulers imposed military rule in the 1930s, belief in democracy endured for many Japanese. |
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Zambia's democracy thrives on the ballot box and we call on all registered voters to collect their cards without fail. |
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Golkar, he said, had shucked off its authoritarian past and now stood for democracy and the rule of the law. |
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If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating. |
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Rousseau laid the basis for modern ideas of democracy and the legitimacy of majority rule. |
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Against this backdrop of anarchy and violence, politicians attempting to frame the country's new democracy are floundering. |
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Nothing would make me happier than if the most powerful state in the world was committed to spreading democracy and toppling vicious governments. |
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In its more moderated and diffused form it blamed the absence of democracy in totalitarian regimes not on the dictators but on the democracies. |
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First, it challenges the traditional narrow equation of democracy with majority rule. |
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Our democracy was forged in rebellion, crafted by mavericks and risk-takers who refused to salute authority. |
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The end of the Cold War brought a measure of freedom and a movement toward democracy in much of the former Soviet domains. |
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His arrest is political and I fear we are in transition from democracy to dictatorship. |
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In a civilisation which boasts of panchayati raj in 5000 BC, democracy is still in its infancy. |
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Living in a country in transition, I always believe democracy is a good thing to fight for. |
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These tactics not only violate democracy and majority rule, but arguably offend the Constitution as well. |
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In Russia, thinking of democracy as a sham may be understandable considering recent events, but it misidentifies the problem. |
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More than mere testimonials, these comments underline Zinn's unsentimental dedication to the democracy he believes in. |
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Gramsci saw them as potential Soviets, offering a new form of workers' democracy suited to a modern industrial economy. |
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Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American democracy activist and academic, was jailed in July for tarnishing Egypt's image abroad and misappropriating funds. |
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When a journalist misinforms readers on their way to the ballot box democracy is sacrificed. |
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The Ethiopian governmental structure is a parliamentary democracy consisting of a bicameral legislature, a prime minister, and a president. |
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He drew comparisons between democracy and the Yasig laws of the Tartars as being man-made laws that were overshadowing God's laws. |
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I explained to the people who didn't like me that this was democracy in action. |
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Slovakia is a parliamentary democracy with legislative, judicial, and executive branches. |
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The executive wing have no intention of going back to the old days of social democracy and welfarism. |
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I add that Canada also eschews bipartisan democracy in favor of a number of well-known parties and a handful of lesser known ones. |
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Why does the left in Ireland have no problem siding objectively with those determined to strangle democracy at birth in Iraq? |
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When force secured partition, the UUP emerged to ensure that democracy in the North was smothered at birth. |
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If representative democracy worked properly there would be little to complain about if parliament chose to deliver on social and economic rights. |
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Alongside these menacing words is a call for self-sacrifice, in order that democracy should prevail. |
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Every Western democracy is signed up to the 1951 United Nations convention on refugees. |
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It may not be the political renewal most devolutionists were looking for, but democracy is a two-way street. |
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Yes, we do need democracy in Africa, but let us not use that as an excuse to deny life saving resources. |
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The raucous, inscrutable essence of democracy could almost be glimpsed in this maelstrom. |
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His concern that members will lose faith in liberal democracy is affected and false. |
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He also pointed to his advocacy of democracy and the end of the regime there. |
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The epitaph of ancient democracy was a bitter legacy that should have served as a salutary lesson to all. |
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In the model of ethnic democracy minorities are disadvantaged but can improve their position through politics of wheeling and dealing. |
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I have a piece on how technology can be a bar to democracy on National Review Online. |
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Let me also take refuge in it and say that without genuine democracy this nation will always remain a banana republic. |
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It was a reversion to type not unknown from the leader of a party that, from the start, set itself firmly against democracy and inclusivity. |
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An opportunity will be lost, and proper democracy will remain just that bit further out of reach. |
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Putting God in the public square runs the risk of turning our democracy into a theocracy. |
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All that liberal democracy requires is a rational attitude, that is, a readiness to listen to critical arguments and to learn from experience. |
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The promotion of democracy and human rights serves American interests in ways that realpolitik can never accomplish alone. |
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Both democracy and the free market will not survive long in the absence of an informed, alert, intellectually agile public. |
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Likewise, democracy empowers disaffected minorities to speak out and assert themselves along ethnic, religious, or tribal lines. |
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Second is the fact that liberal democracy could not flourish without modern science and technology. |
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We must recommit ourselves to building a world where democracy and rights prevail. |
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Widespread fears loomed about the efficacy of the young democracy and the dangers of rearming a recently created German state. |
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The idea is developed using Gramsci to show how parliamentary democracy in the west is an ideological barrier to socialism. |
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There are more than a half a dozen candidates for the presidency, so there is democracy of a kind. |
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According to this theory there was no difference between social democracy and fascism. |
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. |
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The principle of democracy is sacrosanct, but it will always be interpreted through cultural filters. |
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The first is the centrality of liberal democracy to contemporary political philosophy. |
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Madison and the other Founders attempted to forestall democracy by devising a republic, the hallmark of which was the preservation of individual liberty. |
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There was a tendency to cede too much of our democracy to these leaders, elected or not, and trust them to do the right thing. |
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By curtailing the autonomy of the self-determining individual, authoritarian public health policies infantilise society, weaken democracy and diminish humanity. |
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She was chatty and casual, and expressed her abstract concern that American democracy is on a cannibalistic downward slide. |
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That said, the problem still exists that self-government will not guarantee democracy or an openness that will take on board the wishes of ordinary people. |
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Once in office, they are always going to centralize power and undermine the democracy that elevated them. |
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Funding and direction are said to come from a Lao exile living in the United States who claims to be fighting for democracy and the return of monarchy to Laos. |
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The audience laps it up as further confirmation of how awful the war is and that the real threat to democracy is the Americans' abuse of human rights. |
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Putin has taken off the flimsy mask of democracy to reveal himself in full as the would-be KGB dictator he has always been. |
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The vote on Sunday could take Ukraine toward a modern functioning democracy or plunge it back into a cesspool of corruption. |
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In the great democracy of self-devotion private and general stand side by side. |
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If it becomes a democracy and political pluralism would flourish, the economy would flourish in the region, and then we can go about having regional peace and stability. |
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The main prerequisite of representative democracy is based on an assumption that an average citizen enjoys free and equal access to any political debate. |
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On the positive side, it has paved the way for the universal aspiration for democracy as the only form of acceptable government because of its vital self-correcting capacity. |
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His view of democracy and multilateralism seems remarkably uncomplicated. |
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To be a truly advanced, sophisticated democracy you need an opposition party that knows how to react to good news by sounding whiny and grudging and moving the goalposts. |
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I suppose he thinks that they would rather be stranded in the middle of the road to democracy than have to walk that road with the ugly Americans. |
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The Sikh Coalition would like to thank the Hate Free Zone for helping to protect the pillars of our democracy by exercising the voice of the people. |
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Previously campaigners have put forward worthy-but-dull arguments about decentralising democracy and developing regionalism along the European model. |
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Journalists are, if you like, the last bastion of democracy and freedom. |
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Despite recent attempts at democracy and modernization, sark is full of quirks befitting its history. |
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However, democracy can default into anarchy, autocracy, liberalism, plutocracy, republic, just about anything, if the majority desires a leader who is representative of that. |
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Until this is corrected, a president and secretary of state bloviating about freedom and democracy is received by the rest of the world as mere window-dressing. |
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The question of democracy is in a number of respects analogous to slavery. |
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The Rwandan Constitution sets forth the basic tenets of democracy and provides for a multiparty system. |
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Strong and self-confident middle classes are usually considered to be the most important prerequisite for democracy to work well. |
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The idea is one which every Iraqi seems keen to endorse, though each has his own idea of what democracy means, depending on whether he is a Shia, Kurd or Sunni. |
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As tourists pour in from around the world, the newly-formed democracy is trying to balance growth and modernization with heritage. |
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The thriving democracy conjured up by prophets of unification can quickly disintegrate into tribal war. |
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And all of us in a democracy should be more hesitant before resorting to name-calling and slurs. |
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If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom. |
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Sometimes democracy and liberalism are about speaking up about the great issues, like a massive foreign war. |
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Some will undoubtedly start blaming the people and repeat the worn out excuse that the talk of freedom and democracy is futile for such a people as ours. |
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Despite the lack of an immediate impact, the mock vote infused the practice of democracy into the lives of Hongkongers. |
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Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery. |
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Ali Farah and Assad Ibrahim have both embraced democracy and are registered Democrats. |
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Let us remember first and foremost that a very close election result that even necessitated a recount of the votes is the sign of democracy rather than the contrary. |
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But the terrible events this month only reconfirmed my belief that the protection of our democracy must be rooted in the reinvigoration of democratic engagement itself. |
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Both ideas are admirable, and quite possibly necessary to save American democracy from the auction block. |
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As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth. |
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When hegemony breaks down, as it did for liberal democracy in late Weimar, there will be a recourse to extreme measures to preserve the status quo. |
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So just why are the media wimping out exactly when tough, critical reporting is not only crucial for the functioning of democracy but is also being demanded by their audience? |
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In other words, the Supreme Court has defined democracy as a branch of capitalism, right up to the point of actual vote-buying. |
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Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception. |
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We are lucky to live in a democracy and should not waste this opportunity. |
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But democracy is a set of mechanisms to guarantee freedom of thought and assembly and peaceful competition for governmental authority through ballot boxes. |
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Thomas Piketty raised the Big Questions this year about democracy and inequality. |
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For a while, all this democracy seemed to be asphyxiating democracy. |
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And he says that those who accuse Napoleon of killing off democracy misunderstand politics in 19th century Europe. |
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From 2001 to 2009, Ambassador Dobriansky served as undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs. |
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Gbowee inspired us with her unbowed faith in the coming victory of a democracy firmly based in our collective humanity. |
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After decades of drought, it seems it is raining democracy in this region. |
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That fact challenges the fundamental assumptions not only of democracy but of a truly open market with equitable opportunities. |
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It puts the Republicans in a strange position, because they are in favor of local control and local rule, and here it is on television, local democracy in action. |
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Thailand has had a lousy track record with functioning democracy for many decades. |
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The cornerstone of our democracy is that justice is to be colorblind in its administration. |
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Similarly, Bartley locates Pankhurst's militancy within the context of a commitment to parliamentary democracy rather than revolutionary politics. |
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He has sold us down the river and made our democracy a joke. |
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One day there will be a statue in honor of democracy in Cuba, she said, and the statue will be of a Memory Stick. |
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The family remain close to the democracy icon, who earlier this month sent a letter of condolences to Than Dar. |
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The problem, of course, is that democracy can itself become an impediment to peace. |
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By the way, why in a democracy is the word liberal a term of abuse? |
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First, Americans have to understand that they should not enthrone democracy as an end in itself. |
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Look through that PDF I just linked to and feast on the meager amounts earmarked for democracy and assistance programs. |
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In addition, in one important respect the president has misconceived the relation between the promotion of democracy and America's national security interests. |
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By restricting aid to only registered groups, the State Department is colluding with repressive regimes, fear democracy advocates. |
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I see democracy as the political manifestation of our cultural evolution. |
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One of the first things the British did in their zone of Germany was to sponsor a new trade union confederation, the sheet anchor of democracy in the years to come. |
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I do believe direct representation should be the defining aspect of democracy and what you find in Europe is more a ruling technocracy than a democracy. |
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Putin is also, for obvious reasons, not a great fan of people-power democracy movements that overthrow corrupt, thieving elites. |
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Only the advancement of liberal democracy could serve as an antidote to the noxious strains of Islamism emanating from the region. |
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This new democracy puts Australia to shame in showing how little real accountability there is under our system with Government appointments to key positions. |
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A functioning democracy has to understand that sometimes the short-run and long-run needs are different. |
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The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out. |
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Eight years after the first all-race elections that saw the advent of democracy in South Africa, Suzman is no longer on the benches of Parliament. |
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Furthermore, he provides ample historical illustration of how the transformation from monarchy to democracy changed the conduct of war from limited warfare to total war. |
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The broader goal was to oust Saddam in order to build a beautiful democracy in the Middle East and thereby transform the region. |
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When the Berlin Wall fell, he did not crow but allowed democracy to take root on its own merits in the former Soviet republics. |
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He is a representative of the Free Russia Foundation, an organization which aims to rebuild freedom and democracy in Russia. |
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We all have views about how our fellow creatures should be treated but it is in the nature of our democracy that the House of Commons decides the law. |
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In his time, in the ashes of world war, another critical part of the world was torn between democracy and despotism. |
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To be one's own master and to control one's own destiny are the eternal desires of human beings, and democracy is the most significant system to help us realize this desire. |
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The absence of democracy only strengthened the self-proclaimed fanatics. |
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Americans, on the other hand, believe that democracy requires self-rule. |
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You don't have to agree with any of their viewpoints to realise that it is unhealthy for democracy to have such voices absent from the House of Commons. |
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For Powell to try and lecture on democracy is the height of hypocrisy. |
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Who runs a democracy this way, limiting polling places and hours to ensure that nominees are crowned by a narrow band of fanatics? |
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By the 1920s, social democracy and communism had become the two dominant political tendencies within the international socialist movement. |
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It is therefore a fundamental tenet of republican government and democracy as well as nationalism. |
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Even more important than the liberal development of the Netherlands was the rise of modern democracy in England and North America. |
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The roots of democracy were present, although deference was typically shown to social elites in colonial elections. |
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Czechoslovakia remained the only democracy in this part of Europe in the interwar period. |
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The Quebec frontier showed little of the individualism or democracy that Turner ascribed to the American zone to the south. |
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Some critics of representative democracy think of the United States as an oligarchy. |
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An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things. |
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After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. |
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It is a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism. |
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal democracy has become an even more prevalent form of government. |
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Historically prevalent forms of government include aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. |
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Conrad's distrust of democracy sprang from his doubts whether the propagation of democracy as an aim in itself could solve any problems. |
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This is said to add to democracy by protecting the rights of religious minorities. |
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The country's constitution establishes a representative democracy as the political system. |
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The OSCE claims to promote democracy and assist the participating states in building democratic institutions. |
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This debate between social democracy and nationalism was to persist for the first decade of the party's existence. |
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The Pitcairn Islands has the smallest population of any democracy in the world. |
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Occupation will never bring liberation, and it is impossible to bring democracy by war. |
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It has remained a democracy with civil liberties, an active Supreme Court, and a largely independent press. |
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During the era between the World Wars, Czechoslovak democracy and liberalism facilitated conditions for free publication. |
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After 1933, Czechoslovakia remained the only democracy in central and eastern Europe. |
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During the period between the two world wars, democracy thrived in Czechoslovakia. |
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Several historians credit the Reform Act 1832 with launching modern democracy in Britain. |
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Proponents of a codified constitution argue it would strengthen the legal protection of democracy and freedom. |
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However Acton opposed democracy and was trying to defend the pope from Italian nationalism. |
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The seamy side of British democracy was appropriately symbolized. |
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Aruba, with its own constitution, is a representative parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. |
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The Netherlands is a representative parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. |
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This is what the East's election-winning, unchecked, unaudited, unrestricted and majoritarian democracy can do at best. |
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