Not exact matches
The Public Policy Forum's report on the future of journalism and
democracy was designed to convince the
Liberal government to enact a number of changes to help Canada's media industry, including amending the Income Tax Act and the Copyright Act to
provide new streams of revenue for the media.
He traces our unease to the father of
liberal democracy, John Locke, and to his claim that what nature
provides for us is «virtually worthless,» becoming valuable only when mixed with our labor.
In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor
provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern
liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional
democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not
provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional
democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate
liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
However, its form of governance has clearly
provided a quality of life surpassing that of many
liberal democracies and an environment where citizens enjoy conditions for a dignified life.
The history of the 20th century tells us that socialism has totally failed in this respect and all of those things have been
provided by
liberal capitalist
democracy.