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Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

Even though Harper is pursuing an economic agenda to build trade and investment with the Chinese, he won't shy away from raising concerns about the rule of law, good governance and democracy, said the source, saying the prime minister would represent «values that define us as Canadians.»

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

As usual, the people most agitated about this are the governance mavens with a knee - jerk reaction against anything that undermines shareholder democracy.

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

Equating censorship with attacks on the funding of artists by the NEA, she warned that Congress is about «to weaken the very foundation of democracy.»

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

What would throwing the democratic Taiwanese over the side for the sake of a deal with communist Beijing say about the Vatican's commitment to human rights and democracy?

To a late 20th - century church that speaks about «economic democracy» and «solidarity with the poor,» these may seem like modest goals, morally speaking.

Tocqueville provides us with five guideposts for thinking about the future relation of democracy and religion.

Well, if Christianity (or even one of those other religions) is correct, then the «correct religion» isn't decided by a Democracy... so the fact that 2/3 of the world doesn't care about Christianity doesn't matter, except that it means we still have 2/3 of the world to reach with the Gospel.

A complex modern democracy is at a serious disadvantage in dealing with autocratic states as well as in expeditiously conducting its own internal affairs, unless it possesses strong executive powers which are not hedged about in matters of detailed policy and administration by legislative and judicial agencies.

Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

U.S. support for dictators in Cuba, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Brazil, South Korea, Argentina, and numerous other places did not prevent our leaders from talking with a straight face about «freedom and democracy.»

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

But the traditionalist view again lost the day, with the result that the new religious orientation included the separation of church and state (Jefferson and Madison), a democratic faith in the common person (Jacksonian democracy), and acceptance of a new romanticism which brought about a flourishing of the first truly national literature, art, and architecture.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

Progressivism hasn't really been about democracy, but the supplanting of relational institutions and traditions with the schoolmarmish discipline of enlightened experts.

If the scandal is chiefly about priests fiddling with boys, why would more democracy in church government be the solution?

One can, of course, differ with the thesis of Donald Kagan's Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, but to suggest (as the April editorial, «How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained,» does) that the work has anything in common with «deconstructionism»» «made up,» «fabricated,» the product of «myths» and «creative misinterpretations»» is totally unwarranted and patently unjust to Kagan, who is a distinguished historian in the classic, traditional mode.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

This imbues him with deep convictions about democracy and compassion for those who are suffering and oppressed.

Implicit biblical support for democracy does not come from happy idealism about every man's worth or his capacity for sound judgment, rather, it flows from sober realism about every man's tendency to sin against his neighbor if he can get away with it.

Talking about values is cheap, sticking out your political neck to try and construct these values in the actual world is expensive - saying no to corporations rather than finger - waving, creating strong laws rather than voluntary codes, recognising and defending unions as a legitimate defence of those with limited power and the strikes which go with it, being prepared to replace internal markets with internal democracies and so forth.

In this it succeeds brilliantly, presenting us with compelling reasons to remain ambivalent about both patronage and democracy.

«I am worried about the future of our country with foreign influence in our elections — it goes to the very wellspring of our democracy,» Schumer said in a statement.

As we've seen from the recent debates about US Supreme Court judges, in a well - functioning democracy one doesn't debate new Penal Codes with judges.

As Mr. Hague rightly pointed out, Sweden is a vibrant democracy, with a strong human rights record; this fact should provide some assurances to Assange and his supporters about the kind of treatment he might face.

For better or for worse, this protest has brought Israel up to speed with its neighbours, rethinking and deliberating about what democracy as a system or an ethos may entail for their everyday life.

As part of our exploration of these issues, Politics in Spires partnered with Open Democracy in 2012 to run a series on «democratic wealth» which explored debates about how we can build an economy that serves the public good which has now been converted into an e-book which will be launched today.

I'm sceptical about the possibilities of trying to replace a capitalist labour market with worker's co-operatives, property owning democracy, mutualism or workplace democracy, in contemporary globalization.

Even if they are wrong, the idea that a court can declare that someone's public statements about a controversial political issue are lies and punish them with criminal penalties strikes at the very heart of democracy.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

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.

The only advocates of the view that devolution in England is not just about reviving economies but also about improving democracy are the regionalist parties based precisely in the areas that the mainstream parties are trying to «put back on track» with their devolution proposals.

Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.

With the electorate increasingly consulted directly on a broad range of issues you would be forgiven for thinking that the use of the referendum had brought about a golden age of democracy.

I was just he was able to communicate with the outside world, and if Facebook is a better spot than MySpace in Lebanon to reach out to young voters talk about democracy, and perhaps fight radicals, so be it.

The Labour leader offers an innovative politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.

It's one thing to talk about the «Arab Spring» and democracy, but what if the people vote in the «wrong guy», as happened with Hamas in Palestine?

I'd agree completely with you about the necessity for social democrats to embrace a more participatory democracy - I'd go further and argue that the * only * thing that social democrats need to do is to argue for a more effective expression of democracy - everything else follows from that.

Another featured a union jack on fire with the EU flag behind it, full of dire warnings about the end of British democracy.

A conversation with Ashish Ghadiali, film - maker, party activist, autonomous individual, about reinventing politics through culture and democracy.

Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): As someone who watches the debate about our electoral system with a keen (if not nerdish) interest and tries to read the tea leaves of what it means for our future, two things are becoming clear.

Whatever the outcome, the left needs to listen to that message and think about how we can reconnect voters with a rejuvenated democracy.

Some more thoughts based on Revious» comment about how democracy ends up with sub optimal laws and about long time periods for change.

Obama himself challenged Republicans to offer a plausible rationale for refusing to consider a replacement for Scalia, and he pledged to nominate someone with an «outstanding legal mind» who cares about democracy and the rule of law.