Sentences with phrase «the global democracy»

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

The research firm's annual study of global democracy, released on Wednesday, showed the U.S. ranking 21st in 2017 — the same as the previous year and tying with Italy.

We need to create an alternative society based on gender justice, ecological sustainability and local - global democracy.

If the third wave is to lead to global democracy, comparable changes will have to occur in Confucianism and Islam.

Plus economist Dambisa Moyo on how to fix the crises in global democracy and Libby Brooks on the SNP's deputy leadership election

Distributed networks are the future, the virtual monopolization of «owned» networks is an affront to democracy on - line, in virtual space but also to a global democracy.

«Planned Parenthood commends Senators Barbara Boxer and Frank R. Lautenberg for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act in the Senate.

Senator Lautenberg's amendment to repeal the gag rule mirrors language in the Global Democracy Promotion Act recently introduced in both the House and the Senate.

«Planned Parenthood commends Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - NY) and her 114 cosponsors for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today commended Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - NY) for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2010 to bar future administrations from reinstituting the so - called Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which blocked access to basic health care for women worldwide.

Introduced today in the House by Representative Nita Lowey and earlier this year by Senator Barbara Boxer in the Senate, the Global Democracy Promotion Act would prohibit restrictions on US.

Statement of Latanya Mapp Frett, Vice President — Global, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, on the introduction of the Global Democracy Promotion Act in the Senate:

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Associated with the hardline policy of containment, Kennan was nevertheless a critic of democracy and a noninterventionist who said that American power was the source, not the solution, to global disorder, and that America had much to apologize for.

Encompassing 167 countries, Wednesday's report found that 44.8 percent of the global population resides in flawed democracies.

«Now is not the time to get on with our lives, but to take an appropriate response in line with the ongoing threat that Russia poses to our democracy and global security interests,» Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin said in a statement.

Promoting other paradigms of fighting global jihad or making the world safe for democracy ignores the reality that no military strategy has succeed in that far - away land.

We're living in an age where we will choose between democracy and global totalitarianism.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, healthy democracies like Canada's responded as they should to global warming.

Adam Segal, who researches China's internet policy at the Council of Foreign Relations, compares the conference as an ideological counterpart to ones like the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS), an annual gathering that draws policymakers worldwide to discuss internet governance within the framework of Western - style democracy.

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Now in its third year, the annual event is being held for key global influencers in technology, civil society, democracy promotion, and innovation.

a universalistic millennial civil religion, the meddlesome vision of democracy, peace, and human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil religion.»

It was historians with a feeble grasp of the fragility of political democracy that most concerned her, not global issues or diplomatic maneuvering.

It threatens democracy - within single countries and on global scale.

The Commission on Global Governance (CGG) is a major player, and its cochairman Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary General of the British Commonwealth, puts its goal this way: «When we talk about «governance» and «democracy,» we have to look beyond governance within countries and democracy within states.

Of course great inequities and injustices will persist, but they are a lesser evil than «Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State,» which is a formula for the despotism of a self - appointed elite.

We have to look to Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State.»

Political democracy can be manipulated in the unipolar world to make whatever party that comes to power dependent on the global economic powers.

The «civil society» as a form of participatory democracy is a framework in which the life, the people and their communities directly participate and multilaterally and multi-dimensionally form solidarity linkages to make creative interventions in the global market process.

One of the most important tasks is to achieve true participatory democracy in order to force nation - states to accept more accountability vis - à - vis global forces for the interests of their people.

Even Friedman's argument for democracy is based on the view that it eases the nation's integration into the global market.

Global governance then took a Copernican turn, away from the paradigms of western modernity (such as national sovereignty and interest, the primacy of reason, growth, progress, representative democracy, the authority of government, western universal values, hierarchies), towards a new postmodern ethic.

More generally, the goals are: to reconquer space lost by democracy to the sphere of finance, to oppose any new abandonment of national sovereignty on the pretext of the «rights» of investors and merchants, to create a democratic space at the global level.

Women are likely to be excluded from the global electronic democracy unless current female disadvantages in computer access, use and skills are drastically changed.

Huntington, Samuel P., «Democracy's Third Wave», in Diamond, Larry, Platner, Marc F., eds., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993) at 3.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

Going by what is happening at the global stage, there is again, a telling proof that «for democracy to succeed, a relative level of literacy, a growing middle class, and political institutions that support free speech and human rights is desirable.

As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.

Others favour the model set out most credibly by American foreign policy expert John Hulsman, who advocates an ambitious global free trade area with a security element — effectively tying the world's liberal democracies together, with Britain playing a significant new role within this new structure.

The attempt to know everything about everybody on a global level is a totalitarian power, whether or not you think that power is being exercised in order to reduce or to limit democracy.

He has argued that in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», former president Kufuor criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.

These questions are addressed in the recent report «Deepening Democracy: a Strategy for Improving the Integrity of Elections Worldwide», published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, chaired by Kofi Annan.

In its mission statement the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security points out that while elections are vital to democracy, on their own they are not suDemocracy and Security points out that while elections are vital to democracy, on their own they are not sudemocracy, on their own they are not sufficient.

Abdelwahab El - Affendi is Reader in Politics, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, and ESRC / AHRC Fellow in RCUK's Global Uncertainties Programme.

While the Global Commission report on Deepening Democracy provides insightful recommendations on strategies for improving electoral integrity, we must remember that elections are just one step in the democratic process.

SDN is a global network of researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

This post is part of our Deepening Democracy series, responding to a September 2012 report by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, on improving the integrity of elections.

(The latter can be regarded as an ideal system of global governance, as well as a dystopia for national democracies).